Dilly Court

From the age of eight, 16-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets....

On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital....

Motherless since she was five, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her stepmother....

When 17-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry....

Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers....

When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage....

Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah and her widowed mother to enter the notorious St Giles and St George’s Workhouse....

Lottie Lane is all alone in the world, a chambermaid at one of London's busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady....

Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces....

Despite living by the side of the Thames, with its noise, disease and dirt, 18-year-old Rosina May has wanted for little in life. Until her father's feud with a fellow bargeman threatens to destroy everything....

Phoebe Giamatti lives with her boisterous Italian family in the heart of London's East End....

She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of The Workhouse Girl....

The wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times top-ten best-selling author of The Beggar Maid....

Since the untimely death of her husband, young mother Effie Grey has been forced to live on a narrowboat owned by her tyrannical father-in-law Jacob....

Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life....

Lily Larkin is the youngest of six and the least important member of her family. With their father dead and their mother a stranger to them, she must stay at home and keep house whilst her elder siblings go out to work....