Lindhope Limited: 23 books

For more than twenty years Denise Robertson has appeared on television alongside the likes of Richard and Judy, Fern Britton and Phillip Schofield, Paul O’Grady and John Culshaw, working with Princess Diana and even nightclubbing in Chicago with Jerry Springer. George Michael has called her a diamond....

Fran's happy marriage to David has always been the centre of her life in the close-knit mining village of Belgate in County Durham. Suddenly, at 32 she finds herself a widow. Her whole world has fallen apart. The author also wrote "Remember the Moment" and "The Second Wife".

As newly widowed Fran struggles to rebuild her life in a mining village where she is still a stranger, the fury of the 1984-5 miners’ strike erupts around her. Passions run high as families are torn apart by their beliefs. Will Treesa, bereaved by death in the pit, survive? Will the Malone family rift ever be mended? Above all, can Fran find new love amid so much turmoil?

Claire Griffin is shattered when her husband, a Tory MP, is found dead in another woman's bed. Hounded by the press, her family and friends, Claire takes herself away to her old university town. The isolation seems to heal her but she is determined to find out the identity of the other woman.

Reeling from the collapse of his marriage and the loss of his business, Ben Webster embarks on a mission... to find a baby adopted in 1945 and reunite him with his birth mother. He is aided in this by Barbara, a young barrister, but she has her own mission, to find out who really committed a murder...

Buffeted by the winds of war. Now they face the tempestuous tides of peace... The story of three women linked by fate and war and the men who loved or hated them. It is 1945 and men and women prepare to return to the lives they left behind in 1939. But the world, for most of them, has changed beyond...

In the early hours of New Year's Day 1980, eight young people race one another to the summit of a northern hill. "Where will we all be in ten years' time?", wonders one. This novel answers that question.

Ellie has gone missing. Why? She is haunted by thoughts of Julia, Richard's dead first wife, and by another spectre - this time from her own past. In a desperate bid to find Ellie, Richard enlists the help of Paul, a psychiatrist, and Terri, Ellie's best friend. Terri too is a second wife but her...

In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the legacy of World War I affects rich and poor, socialist and aristocrat, Jew and gentile alike. Howard Brenton, heir to the colliery, back from the trenches with a social conscience but lacking the confidence to implement it… Diana, his beautiful, aristocratic...

When middle class Cathy falls in love with working class Joseph, a soldier, she dare not tell her family, who want her to marry into the wealthy Callingham family. Class and the war loom between them and happiness. When Joseph is killed in France and Cathy discovers she is pregnant, she has little...

As single mum Fran embarks on her new career tragedy strikes. Can love grow out of heartbreak? Two women must find out for themselves.

It is 1939 and the threat of war looms ever closer as Hitler unleashes terror across Europe. In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the inhabitants brace themselves for the conflict ahead. As the war deepens, the people of Belgate are swept up in a struggle for survival that will eclipse personal differences and draw rich and poor together.

As London licks its wounds in the immediate aftermath of war, four orphaned sisters must learn not only how to survive but how to succeed. Life will take them from a London tenement to the four corners of the UK and beyond but wherever they are, in Paris nightspots or rural Scotland, in the corridors...

Peace may have come to Britain, but for Frank Maguire, miner and union leader, his wife Anne and their family, poverty and rationing are still making life hard. To add to Anne's sorrow, her daughter has married a GI, and is taking Anne's grandchild to the United States, leaving her with a grieving heart and a guilty secret.