WW2 stories of love, loss, tragedy and bravery.
Meet Rosie, Vivian, Norma, Peggy, Ida & Phyllis
the biscuit tin secrets girls...
After going through an acrimonious divorce, Faith decides to use her generous divorce settlement to renovate a run-down cottage on the Cornish coast left to her by her Grandmother. When the builders raise the floorboards, they find an old biscuit tin which reveals the secrets behind Vivian's forbidden love for a German prisoner of war and the consequences that rippled through the whole family. The new home and the secrets she finds stir up emotion - and the mysterious woman who appears on the beach every day makes a revelation that changes everything...
Jean Wallis has always known she's an adopted child - she's raised by loving parents and it isn't until her adoptive mother dies that she decides to track down her birth mother, Norma. She finds her living in Kent with her husband George. When she visits, Norma gives her an old biscuit tin filled with her memories and information about her real father, Oscar, an American GI she fell in love with during the war. It's the start of a new journey for Jean, one that reveals her real mother's heartache and the chance to find a family she never knew...
The Biscuit Tin Secrets Club is a 6-book WW2 romance series featuring the stories of six women who meet working in a parachute factory as the war is coming to an end.
As a bloodied chute is brought in for examination having killed the soldier it failed, the women are shocked by the reality of death that faces them - and Rosie in particular is reminded of her own loss. As the women comfort her, one of them brings out a rare and very special treat - a tin of biscuits.
From then on, the women agree they will keep their secrets, memories and photos tucked away in their own tin - and The Biscuit Tin Secrets Club is born
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Even a world war cannot keep the irrepressible Peggy down. She's a big hearted girl who loves a party and she makes the most of her time because she knows that life is for living.
Peggy loves her husband Donald, but when he is away at war, Peggy finds she misses his love and when she meets an American GI who loves a good time as much as she does, she can't resist his charms. But what will Donald do when he comes back from war and finds his adored wife is pregnant? And how will Peggy's secret affect the lives of her children and grandchildren? The biscuit tin she keeps will reveal all...
Ida lives in her sister's attic. She's a loner, secretive and shy. But Ida has a secret and one day, her nephews, who have always teased her, find an old biscuit tin in her room and find out about her a story during the war - and all of a sudden, Ida is very cool indeed. After Ida leaves the parachute factory, she goes to work for a senior Naval Commander - and is approached by the Secret Service to help them with a mission...
How come Phyllis got to meet the Queen? Phyllis is the matriarch of the girls in the parachute factory and she looks out for all the others. She's dependable and sensible - though it hasn't always been that way. After the war, she faces the loss of her husband, who never returns from the front. This forces her to deal with her son, who has been in care. Phyllis realises he needs a better environment to thrive - and she embarks on a lifelong journey that will help hundreds of children...
First of all, thank you for visiting my site and finding out all about my new series of novellas! I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy researching and writing them.
I guess you could say I have writing in my blood - my Mum is Kitty Neale, who has been a Sunday Times bestselling author for many years and so I've been around books and writing all my life. My mum writes wartime family sagas and so this new romance series for me takes me closer to my mum's work - and in fact we're now writing Kitty Neale stories together!
The Biscuit Tin Secrets Club has been fascinating and emotional to research - what amazing stories of love and loss and of such bravery from both men and women during such a devastating time. I'm sure that many of you will recall similar stories from your family and recognise some of these experiences.
It's a really exciting project and I'm super proud of working with the team at Book to Screen to develop it. There will be lots more to come so please do sign up for my news and get yourself a little teatime read about the dark love secrets of Miss Munro!
A fabulous gift of reading - all 6 books in this wonderful WW2 Romance series for just £33 + p&p* - saving £9 on the full price.
Look forward to 6 x 5 star reads to keep you enthralled with memories of the bravery, heroism, heartache and hardship - and how the power of love and human spirit got people through the darkest time in British history.
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