Known for her adventurous, fast-moving plots that feature strong female protagonists, Dilly Court is a Sunday Times bestselling author. This set comprises six novels, each one rich with period details that create an evocative picture of life in London’s slums in the early 20th century. The six titles included in this set are: The Dollmaker's Daughters (Read more...) The Cockney Sparrow (Read more...) Mermaids Singing (Read more...) The Best of Sisters (Read more...) The Constant Heart (Read more...) Tilly True (Read more...)

Dismissed from service under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True reluctantly returns home to her poverty-stricken family. Her desperation to secure new employment leads her down a treacherous path, made more dangerous by her dalliance with the charming but ruthless Barnaby Palgrave.

When mudlark Kitty Cox secures a position with a wealthy Mayfair family, she starts to believe a better life is within her grasp. However, her beloved mistress Lady Arabella is harbouring a dark secret – the repercussions of which may see Kitty forced back to the slums she worked so hard to escape.

Gentle Ruby dreams of escaping the sweatshop by training as a nurse, while her flamboyant twin Rosetta craves the bright lights of the music hall. When the twins meet handsome Jonas Crowe, a toxic combination of love, ambition and jealously threatens to fracture their fragile bond.

Compelled to marry the son of a wealthy merchant to settle a feud, bargeman's daughter Rosina must set aside her secret feelings for a dashing river pirate. After she falls on hard times, she finds it impossible to put him out of her mind.

Gifted young soprano Clemency is forced by her feckless mother to work as a pickpocket to support her ailing sibling. Just as she seems on the cusp of operatic stardom, a chance meeting with a mysterious man named Jared Stone casts a shadow over her ambition.

Banished to a dank sail loft above a Wapping chandlery, twelve-year-old Eliza has grown accustomed to a life of penury. Beaten and disowned by her cruel uncle, it seems her future happiness rests on her unlikely new friendship with a flamboyant medical man.

This set comprises ten novels by Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court. Each story paints an evocative picture of London life in the early 20th century, and features a strong female protagonist, well-researched period detail and adventurous, fast-moving plots. The ten titles included in this set are: A Mother's Trust (Read more...) The Beggar Maid (Read more...) Cinderella Sister (Read more...) A Loving Family (Read more...) The Workhouse Girl (Read more...) The Ragged Heiress (Read more...) The Best of Daughters (Read more...) A Place Called Home (Read more...) The Orphan's Dream (Read more...) The Lady's Maid (Read more...)

Orphan Sarah is left at the mercy of the callous master and mistress of a notorious London workhouse until a kindly mill owner takes her in. Thwarted, the couple decide to seek revenge.

Lucy Pocket spends her life dodging from one cheap lodging house to another, until a surprise intervention from her wealthy paternal grandfather changes her life – but not necessarily for the better.

Kitchen maid Stella Barry makes a rare visit home to London to discover her family has disappeared. Years later, homeless and jobless, she is compelled to try to uncover their fate.

A young girl with amnesia is claimed from the hospital by two rough men who insist she is their sister Lucy, but as time passes and her memory returns, she realizes that she has been kidnapped.

Motherless Mirabel Cutler is raised by her well-to-do father until his untimely death. Thrown out by her stepmother, and ill-suited to life on the streets, she is tricked into entering a house of ill-repute.

Two desperate young mothers give up their babies on the same day, and while Kate grows up in poverty, Josie lives a privileged life. Twenty years later, a chance meeting turns their respective worlds upside down.

Affluent Daisy Lennox is drawn to the Suffragette movement but when her father faces ruin, her first duty is to her family. She becomes engaged to a childhood friend but before they can marry, war is declared.

Charity Crosse is rescued from a life on the streets by the enigmatic bookseller Jethro Dawkins. After he dies unexpectedly, Charity prepares to run the bookshop herself, but the unscrupulous landlord has other plans.

When a fire threatens to destroy the docks near her home, Lily Larkin’s well-meaning actions set off a disastrous chain of events that could end in tragedy for her whole family.

As Phoebe Giamatti and her family prepare to leave London to spend the winter in Italy, she discovers her mother is in terrible trouble – and that the feared Paxman brothers are involved.