Margaret Dickinson Books in Order

Louella Lloyd arrives at Courtney Hall to face hostility and troubling secrets about her mother's past. Accused of theft and frightened by the family's domineering heir, she relies on a few friendships to withstand mounting suspicion.

After his successful twin dies in a mysterious car crash, Ben Winwood discovers the life he envied concealed dangerous secrets. His involvement with his brother's widow and associates draws him into a criminal world.

As landowners threaten village commons, Sarah Miller becomes a maid at Abbeyford Grange and falls for the squire's son. Her mistress pursues a forbidden romance of her own, putting both women at odds with family expectations.

During a busy holiday weekend, lifeboat coxswain Iain Macready contends with hoax calls and genuine emergencies. When a storm leaves his own daughter missing at sea, duty sends him elsewhere to answer another vessel's distress call.

In 1910 Lincolnshire, rejected by her family, Esther Everatt finds work and belonging on an elderly farmer's land. His death threatens her home, forcing her to consider marriage as a means of securing the farm.

Raised in a Puritan household, Charmian Radley is promised to her cousin but cannot forget an exiled Royalist. As royal power returns and her wedding approaches, the man she loves appears among her family's enemies.

Kate Hilton's mother tries to separate her from her childhood sweetheart, hiding a painful family history. After revelations shatter Kate's plans, wartime service with the WAAF offers independence and the possibility of a different love.

After the devastating floods of 1953, Ella Hilton moves to her grandmother's Lincolnshire farm. As she uncovers secrets linking three generations of women, her own first love threatens to repeat the family's painful history.

Reserved Viscount Eldon devotes himself to building a steamship while trying to restrain his impulsive younger brother. His influence also transforms the life of Lavinia Kelvin, whose unreturned love keeps her bound to his memory.

Emma Forrest's reunion with her soldier sweetheart is threatened by a bitter feud between their families. Forced into an unhappy marriage, she resolves to preserve the mill her grandfather built despite her father's ambitions and schemes.

Orphaned Adelina Cole arrives from America seeking her grandfather and an inheritance at Abbeyford. Her resemblance to her disgraced mother unsettles the family, while competing heirs and old grievances threaten her hopes of belonging.

Sixteen-year-old maid Kitty Clegg dreams of advancement and falls for a charming threshing-machine operator. Rival affections and warnings about his intentions threaten her hopes as war and its aftermath transform life on a Lincolnshire estate.

After her father's trawler disappears, Scottish fish worker Jeannie Buchanan must make her way alone. Her independence attracts enemies within a powerful family, while pride threatens a chance at love amid the upheavals between the wars.

Orphan Maddie March finds work and affection on a Lincolnshire farm, falling for the farmer's son. When the severe winter of 1947 threatens their livelihood, she devises a rescue plan, only to discover she is pregnant.

Rescued from an abusive home, Mary Ann marries a river skipper but struggles with life aboard his boat. After she disappears, their daughter Lizzie supports her father while facing choices that echo her mother's troubled path.

Eveleen Hardcastle's secret romance with her employer's son exposes bitter tensions within her family. After tragedy and eviction destroy their life on a Lincolnshire farm, she must build a new future while uncovering her mother's past.

A village distrusts Katharine Harvey when she arrives to take over its medical practice. With an influential quarry owner leading opposition to a woman doctor, she must establish her authority as a tragedy puts the community in need.

As the First World War begins, Eveleen manages the family factory while her husband fights abroad. Meanwhile, her daughter Bridie enters nursing, where caring for wounded soldiers challenges youthful romantic dreams and brings unexpected maturity.

A Lincolnshire farmer takes in a frightened girl shortly before Christmas in 1946, angering his wife. Anna's arrival divides the household, and the secrets of her past gradually reshape the lives of her reluctant new family.

Abandoned at a workhouse, Meg Kirkland struggles to protect her mother and brother under a coercive master. Hardship transforms her fierce independence into ruthless determination, threatening the loyalties of those who have tried to help her.

Sent away from her mother to work in a Derbyshire cotton mill, Hannah Francis tries to protect younger apprentices. Friendship and first love offer comfort, but dangerous labour and the predatory mill owner threaten their fragile happiness.

Wartime airfield workers Fleur and Robbie fall in love, despite friends' misgivings and her mother's fierce objections. As dangerous bombing missions separate them, buried family secrets threaten the future they hope to share.

Kathy Burton leaves farm work for city life and falls for a handsome manager whose possessive mother opposes them. War separates the couple, and Kathy joins an entertainment troupe while struggling with loneliness and an uncertain future.

Defying an arranged marriage, Florrie Maltby joins the suffragettes and endures imprisonment and a hunger strike. The Great War then takes her to a frontline hospital, where love and her brother's peril confront her with new choices.

Charlotte grows up under a father embittered by having a daughter instead of a son. Her work teaching Sunday school brings hope, and a widower raising three boys offers the possibility of understanding and family.

Typhoid forces thirteen-year-old Polly Longden to abandon her teaching ambitions and care for her family. Her love for a young policeman sustains her until her father's involvement in railway riots places the two men in conflict.

Evacuated from London to Lincolnshire, young Jenny Mercer finds comfort with a welcoming family and their RAF pilot son. When he goes missing and her mother takes her away, Jenny clings to the hope of returning to the place she loves.

Three Sheffield sisters face the upheaval of the Second World War, from work on the trams to interrupted ambitions. When Peggy falls in love with a soldier and becomes pregnant after he is posted abroad, the consequences touch the whole family.

Pushed by her ambitious father toward an aristocratic marriage, Annabel accepts an earl after losing her first love. Life at Fairfield Hall exposes hidden motives behind the match, while a contested inheritance carries family conflict toward the First World War.

Two Grimsby women have shared decades of friendship, strengthened when their children marry. War scatters their families and brings loss and uncertainty, but a daughter-in-law's return during the victory celebrations threatens the bond that has sustained them.

After the First World War, Emily and Josh help keep their family business alive while their father struggles. Their mother moves them to Sheffield in pursuit of opportunity, where Emily discovers a talent for work amid disrupted romances and unexpected dangers.

Emily and Trip are building a life around their Sheffield businesses when a friend's daughter disappears. As the Depression threatens their livelihood and another war approaches, Emily must protect the family and friendships on which their future depends.

Denied the chance to become a doctor, Pips Maitland joins a flying ambulance corps during the First World War. With her maid, brother and the man she loves, she faces the wounds and dangers of service close to the front.

After nursing near the front, Pips Maitland struggles to find purpose in peacetime and seeks distraction in London society. Her family carries its own war wounds, while returning figures from her past force her to reconsider whether love can be trusted.

Inspired by her aunt's wartime courage, Daisy Maitland learns to fly and joins the Air Transport Auxiliary when war returns. As her cousin serves in the RAF, their generation faces the danger and separation their families had hoped never to relive.

Mattie grows up amid poverty in Sheffield, while Victoria experiences a lonely privileged childhood. Their paths meet at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, where friendship and secret work bind two women already accustomed to hiding parts of themselves.

Carolyn leaves a difficult home to join the ATS and forms a lasting friendship with Beryl. Posted together to gather signals intelligence, they support one another through demanding wartime work and fears for the people they have left behind.

Rosie, a poacher's daughter, forms a secret bond with the heir to the estate where she lives. His father intervenes to keep them apart, and the approaching First World War brings further upheaval to her hopes of happiness.

When pregnant Mary Ellen is cast out by her father, her sister Flora leaves with her. Their search for security connects two Sheffield families whose friendships, romances and growing children must weather hardship and the First World War.

After tragedy and a broken engagement, Lady Elizabeth trains as a nanny and conceals her title. Caring for a deeply troubled child gives her purpose and new love, but the coming war threatens the happiness she begins to find.

After she and her friend fall for the same man, Molly throws herself into the suffragette movement. Wartime rumors accuse her of shaming men with white feathers, turning her community against her and forcing her to fight for the truth.

Carrie Smithson falls in love with Jamie Trent, but her father's feud with his own family stands between them. His interference drives her toward another marriage, while her feelings for Jamie endure across years and continents.