The Glory

From the turn of the century, through two world wars and a depression, the Neyler family face heartbreak and tragedy together.

The Glory continues Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn's compelling story of an unforgettable family whose zest for life carries them through the tragedy of WWI

This is a heart warming but at the same time heart breaking story. Once again through fiction you learn about the effects of a terrible war. So much sorrow in one family but with happy endings too. You laugh and cry as the story unfolds. I loved the characters in this book. The Author, Katie Flynn – what a great storyteller. Her books are never a disappointment. I found this one very hard to put down. Well done!

Katie Flynn’s historical fiction does a brilliant job of capturing broad wartime themes.

A compelling story…in her inimitable style

Katie Flynn was born and brought up in Norfolk. She published over ninety books in her lifetime under several names, one of which is Judith Saxton. Her books have sold more than eight million copies. She passed away in January 2019, aged 82.

As WWI begins, no family, including the Neylers, will be left untouched, and by the time the war finally finishes, nothing will ever be the same again 
 
Ted and Tina Neyler's children are growing up, doomed to be drawn into the Great War: Frank will be scarred forever by one terrible day in the trenches, while Louis, the charming optimist, returns unscathed from the war to find that his wife and mistress have met up and that his misdemeanours are inexorably catching up with him. 
 
But despite the tragedy they face, the Neylers realise that even war can't break the bonds that keep them together.

The Pride

Book One in the Neyler Quartet

From the bestselling Katie Flynn, Book One in the compelling Neyler Quartet, following the triumphs and tragedies of a wealthy family through the first fifty tumultuous years of the twentieth century

Book One in the compelling Neyler Quartet, following the triumphs and tragedies of a wealthy family through the first fifty tumultuous years of the twentieth century 
 
Book One in the compelling Neyler Quartet 
 
1901 
 
Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, while Edward grew up with an abusive father in the wilds of New Zealand. 
 
Despite their differences, the two fall madly in love when Edward arrives in England, looking for a better future. 
 
However, the consequences of their love affair are terrible for Tina as she is shamed by the father she adores, and Edward is sent away. 
 
Against all the odds, Tina and Edward find each other again, and despite great hardship and tragedy, together they build a dynasty strong enough to withstand some of the worst catastrophes Britain has ever known. 
 
The Pride is a magnificent start to a stunning family saga.

We'll Meet Again

From the bestselling Katie Flynn; four very different girls join the WAAF during World War II where they encounter love and tragedy

stockings, lisle . . . shoes, black clumpy . . . The list went on and on. And to think that she'd chosen the WAAF because the blue uniform looked so smart! When war broke out, seventeen-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk, where she was wanted and needed. So why had she joined up? Come to that, why had Meg from Cheshire, and Sue, very much the big city girl from Liverpool, and Shanna, the life-toughened product of a broken home in Glasgow? Mixed reasons. Very mixed backgrounds. But no time to think now. Not with the sergeant shouting and the station air-raid siren beginning to wail . . .

Harvest Moon

It is 1926. In the Birmingham slums, Foxy Lockett, a sharp-witted orphan girl, has a burning desire to better herself. So when she helps with the hop-picking at Bees-wing Farm in Herefordshire one summer, she finds herself in paradise. And as she becomes friendly with John Hoverton, the farmers son, and Laurie Clifton, the son of the local squire, her dream to live there becomes an obsession. 
 
As John and Foxy fall in love it seems a fairy-tale has come true. Until both boys leave to fight in the Spanish Civil War, and Foxy is left to struggle on alone, running the Clifton estate in Laurie's absence. And when the two men return, she if faced with the most difficult dilemma of all - which of these strangers does she really love and which loves her? 
 
A story of passion, old hatreds and true, tender love.

The Blue And Distant Hills

A young girl's search for her identity and for a love that can overcome her past. 
 
Questa Adamson is stranded in Italy for the duration of the Second World War. When she finally returns to England she is haunted by terrible memories. She finds that the safe childhood world she remembers has disappeared and that she is as alone in her home country as she has been in Italy. 
 
She also finds that she has inherited a tumbledown manor house in Shropshire and is determined to restore the estate to its former glory, despite rationing and post-war austerity. And when she meets her mysterious neighbor, Marcus, it seems as if she might, at last, begin to drop her guard and learn to love. 
 
But loving Marcus brings its own special difficulties and Questa soon finds herself faced with an extraordinary and painful choice.

Family Feeling

Moving from a fairytale castle in the foothills of North Wales to a slate-roofed cottage in a mining village to a farmhouse in the Norfolk marshes, Family Feeling is the story of three young people whose fates are bound together in strange and unfathomable ways.

Judith Saxton was born and brought up in Norfolk, and now lives in North Wales with her husband, family and several cats, dogs and horses.  She has had over fifty books published, and writes under several different names.

Dot Tegydd is the third daughter of propertied parents who longed for a son.  Hywel Fletcher was born the day his father was killed in the pit, and is bitterly resented by his mother.  And Huw Pettigrew is the much-loved and hard-working eldest child in a respected working family. Dot and Hywel dream of a contented future caring for their land, while Huw's dreams are more like nightmare . . . Yet when tragedy strikes it is Huw's vision which brings the three together and gives each of them, in the end, their heart's desire.

Someone Special

On 21 April 1926, three baby girls are born. In North Wales, Hester Coburn, a farm labourer's wife, gives birth to Nell, while in Norwich, in an exclusive nursing home, Anna is born to rich and pampered Constance Radwell. And in London, Elizabeth, Duchess of York, has her first child, Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. 
 
The future looks straightforward for all three girls, yet before Nell is eight she and Hester are forced to leave home, finding work with a travelling fair. Anna's happy security is threatened by her father's infidelities and her mother's jealousy, and the Princess's life is irrevocably altered by her uncle's abdication. 
 
Set in the hills of Wales and the rolling Norfolk countryside, the story follows Nell and Anna through their wartime adolescence into young womanhood as they struggle to overcome their problems, while watching 'their' Princess move towards her great destiny. Only when they finally meet do the two girls understand that each of them is 'someone special'.

This Royal Breed

'A sensitive handling of the difference between loving and being in love. . . . Judith Saxton brings home her readers the personal agony of war and its aftermath' Helen Forrester. 'Truly delightful' - ANNABEL Second World War setting during the Nazi occupation of the Channel Isles. Previously published by Grafton, and long unavailable in paperback.

Judith Saxton was born and brought up in Norfolk and now lives in North Wales with her husband and family. She has always been keenly interested in country pursuits - the family owns cats, dogs and horses - and enjoys cooking and swimming. She has had over fifty books published, under several names.

A SAGA OF A YOUNG GIRL'S STRUGGLE FOR SURVIVAL ON THE ISLAND OF JERSEY DURING THE NAZI SECOND WORLD WAR OCCUPATION. After the death of Rochelle Dubois's parents, she is adopted by their employer, Charles Laurient, and together she and Charles work to rear his treasured rare orchids. But when war breaks out, Rochelle is left to do her best for herself and her precious seedlings, for Charles is taken away by the Germans. The arrival of his son Laurie from America could be her salvation.

Judith Saxton

Book three in the stunning Neyler family saga. 
 
It is 1931, and once again Europe is heading towards disaster. Life must go on however, and a new generation of the Neyler family are making their way in this turbulent world. 
 
 Louis Rose, the self-confessed black sheep of the family, returns to England for his father's funeral and is greeted with more bad news: he has lost his mistress to his young nephew. Louis' son Simon, meanwhile, has matured and is embarking on his first love affair. The family hope he’ll have more luck in love that his father. 
 
 Valentine Neyler, Simon's cousin, visits Berlin for the Olympics, but finds herself experiencing first-hand the prejudice which is gripping Germany. Before she knows it she is caught up in the tragedy of a Jewish family struggling to escape the Nazi horror. 
 
 Dramas, joys and sorrows intertwine and unfold in this inspiring and moving saga, set against the poignant background of a world hurtling towards war, from the Sunday Times bestselling author Katie Flynn.

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