An Onerous Duty Av Beryl (author) Matthews

When Jane Roberts' husband, Bert, deserts her and their three children, the future looks bleak. With a helping hand and some fresh opportunities she manages to turn things around, but is Bert truly out of the picture?

October 1943. While working at an RAF base in Lincolnshire, Nancy Dalton has been holding a vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots, whose missions seem endless and whose chances of survival are slim. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own pilot...

1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father''s death, penniless but armed with an iron will. Determined to put London behind her and find a place to call home, her search takes her to the New Forest where she stumbles upon Lord Frenshaw''s...

London, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the court declares her attacker ''not guilty'', and the room erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as if he were a hero, but she has seen the madness in...