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.