Books by Elvi Rhodes

As she prepares to welcome them all, her mind goes back over her life - to her tough childhood in Yorkshire, to her mother, who scrimped and saved to bring her up decently, to her three husbands and to Alun, the great love of her life who was taken from her by the war. Yes, she has had a full life - a lot fuller than her family realises.

Young, attractive, a widow with a ten-year-old daughter - Venus Stanton was certainly not the vicar that the traditional parish of Thurston had been expecting.

She was born plain Dora, in a bleak northern town where her future seemed all too predictable. But from the moment she first walked, pursuing a coloured ball across the floor, she went after what she wanted, and got it. At the age of eighteen she wanted freedom and a new life - and a new name, Chloe.

Molly O'Connor's life was not an easy one. With six children and a husband who earned what he could as casual farmhand, fisherman, or drover, it was a constant struggle to keep her family fed and raised to be respectable. Of all her children, Breda - the Bright One - was closest to her heart.

But by the time the 20s came, Edgar was on the dole, and Opal was pregnant for the second time. She started with a 'house shop', just sweets and cotton reels sold from the top of her sideboard, and from then on she didn't stop - for Opal's dream was her own department store and a grand life for all of them...

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Petra came into the close village community of Mindon when she was unexpectedly left a cottage there by an old friend of her mother's. She was made welcome by the members of the Mindon Amateur Dramatic Society. A mystery from her past began to haunt her.

The day came when she was so hungry, so tired and worried, that she was reduced to going to Akersfield market and asking Dick Fletcher for help - Dick who had loved her years ago, who was now running his own successful market garden - and who was engaged to someone else.

At twelve she stood by her mother's grave on a bleak Yorkshire moor. Life, as the daughter of a Victorian mill hand, had never been easy, but now she was mother and housekeeper both to the little family left behind.

When Frances changed her unsettled life in Brighton and bought an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales to run as a guesthouse, she was going into uncharted territory. The villagers were very friendly and talked about the previous owners of Beck Farm but there seemed to be some mystery about them.

A beautiful coming of age saga by multi-million copy seller Elvi Rhodes, perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin. READERS ARE LOVING MADELEINE!"Nostalgia at its best" - 5 STARS.

This is a collection of stories to suit the reader's every mood - tender, funny, romantic, ironic, bitter-sweet, nostalgic. Model of Beauty is set in a painting class, where the temporary illness of the generously endowed model brings about surprising consequences.

It was in Yorkshire, that Jake's mother bought the picture of the mountain at Whernside, and when she died it was the one thing he took with him. Jake was drawn to Whernside when they needed men to work on the railway. There he met Beth - and Will. From the author of "The Bright One".