Liz Trenow Books in Order

Lily Verner's family silk mill becomes essential to wartime parachute production, while her attachment to German Jewish refugee Stefan complicates her future. As war threatens their community, personal loyalties collide with the demands of keeping the factory working.

Decades after seamstress Maria's confinement in an asylum, Caroline discovers a quilt carrying traces of her past. Investigating its embroidered clues draws Caroline into a story involving royal service, disbelieved testimony, and a woman's struggle to preserve her history.

Army medic Jess struggles to readjust after serving in Afghanistan. Her great-grandmother Rose's diaries reveal the difficulties faced by a family after the First World War, connecting their experiences of trauma with the work of the Poppy Factory.

Anna Butterfield arrives in eighteenth-century London, where her family's plans for marriage conflict with her artistic ambitions. Meeting French silk weaver Henri introduces another possible future, amid tensions surrounding the silk trade and the barriers of social class.

In 1919, three women travel to the former battlefields of Flanders seeking news of men they have lost. An English widow, an American sister, and a German mother bring different hopes and loyalties to their shared search.

At a secret research establishment on the Suffolk coast, shy physicist Vic meets local woman Kathleen. Their developing relationship unfolds alongside Britain's emerging radar technology, as scientific work and the approaching war reshape their lives and responsibilities.

After her mother's death, Molly helps care for her younger brother in their father's village parish. His disappearance leaves unanswered questions that resurface decades later, when a discovery beneath a lake threatens to reopen the family's grief.

After surviving a concentration camp, Miriam searches for the daughter she sent to England before the war. A British intelligence officer offers help, while his own memories connect their lives and complicate a journey through Europe's wartime losses.

When her traumatized twin brother flees his wartime call-up, a young woman takes his identity to protect him. Assigned to dangerous mining work, she forms a bond with Peter while fearing exposure could cost them both dearly.

In eighteenth-century London, successful dressmaker Charlotte has built a life far from her childhood as a foundling. Relationships with clients, friends, and family draw her toward questions about her origins, revealing connections concealed beneath fashionable society.