Bøker av Rosie Hendry

ANOTHER WARTIME CHRISTMAS IS ALMOST HERE AND PREPARATIONS ARE IN FULL SWING FOR THE FESTIVE CELEBRATIONS. October 1941Marianne Fordham has a lot to cope with. As well as taking care of her young daughter Emily and working on dressmaking commissions, she is desperately worried about her pilot-officer husband, Alex, who is flying ops over enemy territory. And added to everything, Marianne has a new baby almost due...Thea welcomes her best friend, Violet Steele, to Rookery House. Violet has been in charge of an ambulance station in London's East End during the horrors of the Blitz and is in need of a holiday. Will a week in the countryside give her the much-needed rest she deserves?VAD nurse Evie Jones receives unwelcome news that stirs up her past and forces her to make an uncomfortable decision. Though she has a surprise when her friend and former patient at Great Plumstead Hall hospital, Ned Blythe, returns to start a new job in the hospital gardens. Can Evie let go of the past and give her future happiness a chance?Rookery House's family of strong, caring women are always there for each other, no matter what challenges wartime brings them.An emotional and heart-warming novel following the much-loved characters from the Rookery House series by award winning author Rosie Hendry.

Spring has arrived and it's time to Dig for Victory... March 1941After Flo Butterworth loses everything in Manchester's Christmas Blitz, she decides to leave the area and join the Women's Land Army. Putting the past firmly behind her, she arrives at Rookery House in Norfolk hoping for a new start and a chance to do the gardening work she loves. The grip of war has intensified and growing more food is vital to keep the nation going. Thea buys an extra field to grow crops, and in the village, her sister Prue leads members of The Mother's Day Club and Women's Institute as they take on a derelict allotment. Meanwhile the construction of a nearby aerodrome disrupts village life and brings even more new residents to Rookery House, including Hettie's difficult sister, Ada. With Rookery House now bursting at the seams, will it still be the happy home it's always been?When an enemy plane crashes nearby, Flo must help German airmen who might have been directly responsible for her family loss. She quickly finds that her heart-breaking past cannot so easily be forgotten. Can she do the right thing? And will her new friends help her move on towards a brighter future?A heart-warming and uplifting novel following the much-loved characters from the award winning Mother's Day Club.

Follow the much-loved characters from the award winning MOTHER'S DAY CLUB in a brand-new World War Two saga series.October 1940When VAD nurse Evie narrowly escapes being killed in an air raid during the London Blitz, it propels her to make a life-changing decision to break free of her troubled and unhappy life. She escapes to the Norfolk countryside to start afresh, with a job at the newly opened Great Plumstead Hall hospital, and a wonderful new home at Rookery House.The community of Great Plumstead welcomes more evacuees to the village - mothers and children bombed out of their London homes. Sisters Prue and Thea, along with members of The Mother's Day Club, help the new arrivals settle in, while continuing their work for the war effort by holding knitting bees, socials and doing WVS work.Evie is happy in her new life - she loves living at Rookery House and enjoys her job at the hospital, despite working for the difficult Matron Reed. But when a patient arrives who knew her in her former life, Evie's new-found freedom and happiness is in danger. Will the secrets of Evie's past be revealed, and the problems from her old life return to trouble her once more?Book 1 in the brand new Rookery House series by award winning author Rosie Hendry.Readers absolutely love Rosie Hendry's books: "I enjoy the fabulous communities that Rosie creates within her stories, they are so uplifting and inspiring... Rosie Hendry's gorgeous books are historical fiction at it's very best." - Susanne B Net Galley Reviewer "Rosie has the knack of being able to make the Second World War come alive. Rosie has clearly done a lot of research into Wartime Britain and this shines through in the quality of her writing." - Gingerbookgeek book blog "the writing is wonderful, very descriptive and emotive." - The Comfy Chair Blog Good Reads "Rosie Hendry's style is effortless to read making for a heartwarming and feel good reading experience." - Linda Hill - Good Reads "Such a lovely read, that I read it within one day!" - Literacy Indulgence blog "Call the Midwife fans are going to love Rosie Hendry's delightful, dramatic and engrossing new saga that sparkles with so much warmth and heart." - Bookish Jottings blog

The first book in the brand new heart-warming and nostalgic WWII saga series WOMEN ON THE HOME FRONT, from reader favourite Rosie Hendry. The perfect Mother's Day saga!

The second book in the brand new heart-warming and nostalgic WWII saga series WOMEN ON THE HOME FRONT, from reader favourite Rosie Hendry. The perfect Mother's Day saga!

A friendship that would last a lifetime . . . The fourth novel in the East End Angel series, following Bella, Winnie and Frankie and their lives as members of Station Seventy-Five's ambulance crew.

Theirs was a friendship that would last a lifetime . . . The second novel in the East End Angel series, following Bella, Winnie and Frankie and their lives as members of Station Seventy-Five's ambulance crew.