Lizzie Lane Books in Order

Three Bristol women greet the end of war with changed lovers, painful absences and secrets of their own. As injured and traumatised servicemen return, they must discover whether the relationships they remembered can survive peacetime.

In coronation-year Bristol, Charlotte helps refugees while struggling with her marriage, Edna faces a threat to her family, and Polly still longs for a better life. Peace brings challenges their wartime endurance has not prepared them for.

Blanche travels from Barbados to Bristol hoping to learn which member of the wealthy Strong family is her father. Treated as a servant instead of a daughter, she finds kindness from Tom while the family guards its secrets.

Blanche turns to childhood sweetheart Tom after cholera takes her daughter in Bristol. But ambitious Horatia wants Tom for herself, entangling grief and renewed love with the Strong family's struggle to preserve its wealth and position.

Horatia's newborn son promises security for the Strong dynasty, but secrets surrounding his birth threaten that future. Tom remains drawn to Blanche, leaving him caught between enduring love and the marriage supporting his family's fortunes.

Canal-born Beth marries after a violent assault, then finds purpose in a campaign to organise boatmen. Her attraction to the campaign's leader brings her into conflict with a wealthy young woman who also loves him.

After her mother's death in a Bristol workhouse, ten-year-old Magda watches her siblings sent away to different homes. Living with a resentful aunt, she holds onto the hope of finding them and rebuilding her family.

Having left her abusive husband, Mary Anne Randall faces disapproval from her Bristol neighbours while Michael serves overseas. With bombing bringing danger closer, she must protect her children and defend the happiness she has fought to find.

Mary Anne Randall supports her children by running a pawnbroking business while her abusive husband drinks away his wages. When war offers a chance to escape her marriage, she must decide whether to pursue happiness for herself.

Nurse Lydia Miller falls for an aspiring aviator before the First World War sends them both to France. Her romance brings unexpected consequences, while her British and German heritage makes her vulnerable on either side of the conflict.

Raised alongside her cousins, Frances Sweet longs to find the mother who abandoned her. As war keeps the family apart and an American soldier catches her eye, she searches for a place and a future of her own.

The Sweet family struggles with Charlie's disappearance at sea and the bombs falling near Bristol. Mary's approaching wedding offers little comfort to her grieving father, until a baby rescued from a bombed London house brings unexpected hope.

Twins Ruby and Mary help their widowed father run a village bakery, though they dream of different futures. War threatens to scatter their family just as their baking skills attract the attention of the Ministry of Food.

Left with an uncaring stepmother while her father fights, Joanna rescues an abandoned puppy and secretly shares her rations. As bombs fall on Bristol and evacuation approaches, she struggles to keep her only companion safe.

A girl who escaped a train bound for a death camp loses her memory and finds refuge with an RAF pilot's family. Her reunion with a protective German Shepherd in Somerset brings comfort, but also danger.

War brings separation and uncertainty to three Bristol tobacco workers in 1940. Bridget faces family upheaval, Maisie loses her refuge from danger, and Phyllis struggles through tragedy as their friendship becomes more important than ever.

Maisie and Bridget volunteer as ambulance drivers while Bristol endures air raids, and Phyllis serves overseas with the WAAF. Behind reassuring letters from Malta lie shortages and danger, testing the friends' hopes and loyalties.

Young Maisie starts work at a Bristol tobacco factory and befriends Phyllis and Bridget, each hiding worries behind a cheerful exterior. As war approaches, romance, family secrets and difficult choices threaten their growing friendship.

Bridget balances nursing, family obligations and love, while Phyllis encounters the casualties of war in Malta. Back in Bristol, Maisie faces bereavement and new responsibilities as all three friends search for hope amid uncertainty.

As D-Day brings hope, Carole considers giving up her baby, Phyllis prepares to marry in Malta, and Bridget nurses wounded soldiers. Their dreams of peace remain shadowed by the personal costs and continuing dangers of war.

Victory in Europe leaves the tobacco workers facing uncertain futures. Maisie hopes for Sid's return and a child's security, Bridget struggles over joining her husband in America, and Phyllis must reconsider plans for a new life abroad.

After losing her mother in Portugal, Catherine grows up blaming her estranged father, a Bristol wine merchant. When he eventually summons her to England, he encounters a determined daughter whose grief has hardened into a desire for revenge.

A council house offers Jenny Crawford and her children an escape from Bristol's slums in 1936. But her husband's growing involvement with fascists and her own renewed hopes for love threaten the fresh start she longs for.

As Bristol prepares to celebrate George VI's coronation in 1937, Jenny, Thelma and their neighbours plan street festivities. Behind the cheerful preparations, private scandals and carefully concealed secrets threaten to disrupt life on Coronation Close.

Banished from India by her father, Nadine marries a plantation owner near Singapore. War leaves her imprisoned in Sumatra, where an unexpected relationship with a Japanese American officer offers companionship amid captivity and divided loyalties.

Dismissed from her London job and left without a home, doctor Frances Brakespeare takes a post in rural Somerset. She must overcome suspicion of female doctors while uncovering the secrets beneath her apparently quiet new community.

Jenny notices a stranger watching Thelma's house as the threat of war grows in 1938. Unbeknown to her mother, Thelma's teenage daughter befriends an older man whose interest may put her in danger.

Frances Brakespeare wants to introduce family planning advice at her Somerset hospital, but progress may provoke resistance. Meanwhile, a difficult relative and a mysterious stranger draw her into questions about the family name she inherited.

An unidentified young woman dies after being abandoned outside Orchard Cottage Hospital, leaving Frances determined to discover what happened. A prestigious London job offer complicates her loyalties as illness and impending marriage unsettle those around her.

After surviving the Bristol Blitz, Coronation Close faces shortages, conscription and a policeman who reports his neighbours. Thelma fears for her missing son while her daughter's new romance adds to the family's wartime worries.

Widowed Margaret's new freedom takes her into Bristol's seedier nightlife, where she spots Jenny's teenage daughter with a dangerous man. As wartime strains deepen, the women of Coronation Close face troubling choices about family and love.

During Norton Dene's May Day celebrations, Sister Edith receives a prediction of romance before mysterious Ben Tyler arrives. His hidden purpose stirs old secrets, while Frances faces an ultimatum that pits love against duty.

Doreen's new teashop brings old tensions back to Coronation Close in 1943. Jenny considers a former lover's return, Thelma worries about Peter's dangerous duties, and Gloria discovers that attention from American servicemen can carry risks.