Chrissie Walsh Books in Order

After her mother's death, Cally is left with a grieving father and a cruel aunt who becomes her stepmother. Finding refuge among the colliery ash pits, she clings to books, imagination, and the hope of escaping her oppressive home.

Outspoken weaver Lacey falls for the mill owner's son while campaigning for better working conditions in prewar Yorkshire. Their romance must cross entrenched class divisions, then survive a war that threatens both their shared future and the community around them.

Amy visits her husband Jude after four years of war and finds he no longer recognizes her. Their story returns to the love of books that first united a librarian's assistant and a collier, before family secrets and trauma intervened.

Raised among travelers after her mother's flight ends in tragedy, Rosie Nobody grows up burdened by unanswered questions and family resentment. As war approaches, her search for her origins must compete with the immediate struggle to survive.

Kitty and Tom Conlon leave troubled Dublin for an inherited house in Liverpool in 1916. When Tom is conscripted into the navy, Kitty must rely on the women of Weaver Street to face the uncertainties of wartime life.

Liverpool's Weaver Street residents rebuild their lives after the First World War, finding new relationships amid familiar family troubles. As economic hardship deepens and conflict threatens again, their fragile happiness depends increasingly on the support of their neighbors.

Midwife Grace Murphy delivers babies and tends wounded airmen in wartime Doncaster alongside her closest friends. Falling in love with pilot Richard Carmichael brings hope, but each flying mission threatens the future they dream of sharing.

Abandoned after a family tragedy, Lissie grows up in a Bradford workhouse with a secret about her missing father. A new life in Scarborough offers friendship and love, but peace remains elusive until she discovers what became of him.

The women of Weaver Street endure Liverpool's bombing raids while their loved ones serve elsewhere. Kitty worries about her pilot son, Maggie fears for her daughter's air-raid work, and an unexploded bomb brings the war frighteningly close to home.

In Yorkshire in 1897, Verity Lockwood faces the consequences of her father's drinking and her family's indebted mill. Taking responsibility means challenging expectations about women's roles while trying to protect her home and the workers who depend on it.

As Yorkshire moves toward the First World War, Verity Hardcastle balances raising very different twin daughters with life around Lockwood Mill. Political change, a new mill girl's secrets and growing family tensions threaten the security she has worked to build.

In 1939, Lockwood Mill's women work to supply uniform cloth while husbands and sons leave for war. Weaver Jessie Booth finds purpose in voluntary service as the owners' children enter dangerous military and secret work at home and abroad.