Titles in This Set. The Paper Mill Girl. The Tuppenny Child. The Miner's Lass. The Toffee Factory Girls. The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon. Pearl of Pit Lane. Belle of the Back Streets. Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls. Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. Publisher: Headline. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Step into the hard-working, close-knit communities of County Durham and North East England with this collection of eight emotional sagas from bestselling author Glenda Young. Spanning paper mills, pit villages and toffee factories, each story follows a determined young woman fighting poverty and hardship to build a better life. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Catherine Cookson, this set is a wonderful gift for any saga reader.. About the Books. This eight-book collection brings together some of Glenda Young's most loved historical sagas, set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century industrial England. In The Paper Mill Girl, seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works gruelling shifts at Grange Paper Works while caring for her ailing parents, only for a dangerous secret to threaten everything she holds dear. The Tuppenny Child follows Ruby Dinsdale, seeking work and a home in a County Durham pit village after a life of hardship. The Miner's Lass and Pearl of Pit Lane continue the mining-village thread, exploring women whose fathers, husbands and brothers risk their lives underground. The Toffee Factory Girls and its sequel, Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls, take readers to a Chester-le-Street toffee factory during the First World War, where sugar rationing threatens jobs. The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon opens with a newborn abandoned with only a scarlet ribbon for identification, and Belle of the Back Streets rounds out the set with another feisty heroine navigating poverty and romance. Together, these sagas offer absorbing, heartfelt storytelling rooted in working-class history, each a standalone read enjoyed in any order.. Eigh

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