Jean Fullerton Books in Order

In the third East End Girls novel, Jean Fullerton returns to wartime East London as Effie, Alice, Nell and George face fresh orders, family pressures and a promise that pulls the friends in different directions while the war enters its most dangerous phase.

War widow Alice Starling pours herself into WAAF duties until a rare night out introduces her to irreverent American lieutenant Brogan Rafferty. As they plan a Christmas party for bombed out families, air raids and old grief threaten the fragile hope growing between them.

In 1942 Corporal Effie Weston joins the Women's Auxiliary Air Force to defend the East End, forming fierce friendships with fellow recruits Alice, Nell and George. A chance meeting with pilot Nathan Fitzgerald brings love and conflict, especially when he is reported missing in action.

Queenie Brogan was once Philomena Dooley, a Traveller girl in love with Patrick Mahone. Now, in the final months of the war, she must face him again as her parish priest and decide whether revealing a lifelong secret will destroy the Brogan family.

This memoir looks back on growing up in post war Stepney and Wapping, where cramped flats, shortages and petty crime sat alongside humour and neighbourly loyalty, and follows Jean into her years as a district nurse and local police officer.

In the middle of the Blitz, Cathy Brogan is trapped in a brutal marriage to Stanley, a fascist supporter. When he is reported missing and kind bomb disposal sergeant Archie lodges with her, she dares to hope for love, though the past will not disappear.

In December 1944, BBC assistant Grace Meredith must quickly find a real East End family for a Christmas radio show. Welcomed into the boisterous Brogan household, she unexpectedly falls for Giovanni Fabrino, risking her heart as well as her career before Christmas Eve.

Francesca Fabrino has always loved Charlie Brogan, but he is married and fighting overseas. After she starts translating for the BBC and meets elegant Count Leo D'Angelo, Francesca is torn between long held passion and the chance of a different, safer future.

When his bombed out boys' school is merged with a nearby girls' school in 1942, twelve year old Michael Brogan falls instantly for Jane. Determined to invite her to the church Christmas dance, he finds his plans threatened by parents, raids and bad luck.

As nightly raids pound London's East End, Ida Brogan fights to keep her large family safe and fed. When a sick childhood friend returns with a shattering secret and a small boy who needs a home, Ida must choose between old wounds and a new beginning.

Charlotte Hatton expects to marry respectable Captain Nicolas Paget, until she meets Josiah Martyn, a driven Cornish engineer working on the first tunnel under the Thames. As they are thrown together by crisis and gossip, both must defy expectations to reach a future together.

In 1940 the Brogan family faces blackouts, ration queues and sons away at war while trying to salvage a traditional Christmas. Young ambulance driver Jo relishes her new freedom and falls for charming risk taker Tommy Sweete, testing her courage and her family's patience.

In 1939 the Brogan family brace for war as rationing, evacuation and air raids reach their East End street. Eldest daughter Mattie is captivated by a mysterious newcomer at the parish church, only to learn that love and secret wartime work carry real danger.

In 1948 district nurse Connie Byrne thinks life is finally settling down. She is engaged to steady Malcolm and the new NHS keeps Fry House busy, yet stalled wedding plans, interfering families and an intriguing newcomer make her question what future she truly wants.

As victory crowds fill London's streets, nurse Connie Byrne dreams of her own celebration, a long promised wedding to soldier Charlie Ross. His troubled homecoming, and the dramas of her East End patients, soon show her that peace can be every bit as complicated as war.

As spring brightens post war London, Nurse Millie turns matchmaker for student nurse Daphne Villiers, still grieving the fiance she lost. A newcomer to the East End offers Daphne a second chance at love, if she can learn to trust her heart again.

By 1948 Millie Smith is juggling life as both district nurse and wife to an ambitious new MP. With the NHS transforming her work and old secrets resurfacing, she must decide how much of herself she is willing to sacrifice for duty, ambition and love.

Christmas is coming, but for Nurse Millie and her colleague Annie the work never slows. Amid rationing and icy streets they visit cramped flats and crowded tenements, bringing new babies safely into the world and reminding their East End patients that hope still survives.

In 1945, as victory nears, twenty five year old nurse and midwife Millie Sullivan cycles through bomb scarred East London delivering babies and tending the sick. Her patients' struggles, her fellow nurses and family troubles test her resilience and quietly reshape her future.

Kate Ellis has spent nine years raising her children and running a modest cafe while her charming but criminal husband serves time. When Freddie walks back into her life just as disgraced army officer Jonathan Quinn offers kindness, Kate must fight for her family's safety and her own happiness.

Widowed at twenty six, Mattie Maguire is determined to keep her East End coal yard and care for her young son and difficult mother in law. When ruthless businessman Amos Stebbins targets the yard for a new railway, she must resist his pressure and decide whom she can trust.

After twelve years in America, Josie O'Casey returns to London and finds her childhood sweetheart Patrick Nolan alive, but promised to another woman. Torn between new respectability and the old streets ruled by Ma Tugman, Josie must decide what she will risk for love.

In 1830s East London, Irish widow Ellen O'Casey washes clothes by day and sings in rough pubs by night to feed her family. When principled doctor Robert Munroe challenges brutal landlord Danny Donovan's grip on the district, Ellen is caught between hope, fear and desire.