A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19) (The Cliffehaven Series, 19)

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Ellie Dean is a huge lover of wide-ranging multi-generational historical fiction in addition to thrillers and detective fiction. As such, she can often be found reading the likes of Kate Mosse, Edward Rutherford, and Ken Follett. Following the death of her husband, Ellie Dean was devastated since he had been her friend and companion for decades. She would ultimately retire in 2021 as she asserted that it was finally time to say goodbye to her fans and fiction writing. Meanwhile evacuee Ruby Clark has much to contend with when her estranged mother turns up, having completed a long prison sentence. There is huge heartache still to come for Ruby, and she will need her Beach View family more than ever. Ellie Dean’s novel “There’ll Be Blue Skies” introduces Sally, a sixteen-year-old who moves to the south coast of England. She is uncertain about what will happen to her as all she is used to are the sounds and sights of East End London. Soon enough, Sally finds a job working at a uniforms factory so that she can contribute to household bills and buy medicine for her brother.

Saga fans will love The Waiting Hours and I would definitely recommend buying it as soon as possible’ Shaz’s Book Blog The tension is rising for Peggy Reilly and the inhabitants of Cliffehaven as the planes continue to roar above the town and there is still no news of the long-awaited Allied invasion into France. There seems to be no end in sight of this war which has scattered her family and brought conflict right to the door of Beach View Boarding House, but Peggy cannot work miracles and the toll of the war is beginning to weigh on her slender shoulders. Meanwhile, Ron Reilly has landed himself in hot water with his sweetheart, Rosie – and this time, his Irish charm will not be enough to get him out of trouble.

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With the war raging across the continent, Rita is determined to make her contribution. But she is denied her lifelong dream of becoming a member of the WAAF and has to downgrade to fire warden. The THIRTEENTH fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).

She said that in the months after the loss of her husband, she had been in a lot of pain and just could no longer find the motivation to write.As the fighter planes leave RAF Cliffe every evening all anyone can hope is that the war, like the night, will soon be over. It is thus not surprising that she writes in those genres. She prefers to pen her works during the winter since she can hardly stay indoors in summertime good weather.

War has not been kind to Carol Porter. It took her husband and baby, and with them her heart. At last she’s found some peace, working as a land girl at Coombe Farm. But Carol’s sanctuary, the whole local area in fact, is about to be disrupted. Still, while it pains her to leave behind the familiar sights of London, she knows she has to grow up and take care of Ernie her six-year-old brother that needs her. In Cliffehaven, she befriends Danuta, a Polish woman who is still grieving as she lost all her family when the Germans invaded her country.Dean’s Cliffehaven series of novels has sold more than a million copies over the years and has been translated into more than 15 languages across the world. But honestly the book was a very easy read, I loved the family dynamics, connections, friends knitting together through the tough times and that there is support systems continually being built, .. I love Peggy’s heart in wanting to bring everyone under her wings, hard working and yet always there for her family, friends and for those she has adopted. Peggy Reilly’s fearsome sister, Doris. When warm-hearted Peggy befriends Mary, she discovers the young woman’s secret. But she begins to regret getting involved, for there can only be trouble ahead . . . But then Italy joins Germany and her closest neighbors and friends find themselves declared enemies of the state and are sent to prison.