Books by Liz Harris

A illustrated picture book for all ages about understanding grief and coming to terms with loss. Designed to help bereaved children and families

When Dorothy Linford marries former German internee, Franz Hartmann, at the end of WWI, she's cast out by her father, Joseph, patriarch of the successful Linford family.Dorothy and Franz go to live in a village in south-west Germany, where they have a daughter and son. Throughout the early years of the marriage, which are happy ones, Dorothy is secretly in contact with her sister, Nellie, in England.Back in England, Louisa Linford, Dorothy's cousin, is growing into an insolent teenager, forever at odds with her parents, Charles and Sarah, and with her wider family, until she faces a dramatic moment of truth.Life in Germany in the early 1930s darkens, and to Dorothy's concern, what had initially seemed harmless, gradually assumes a threatening undertone.Brought together by love, but endangered by acts beyond their control, Dorothy and Franz struggle to get through the changing times without being torn apart.

London, 1923.Alice Linford stands on the pavement and stares up at the large Victorian house set back from the road-the house that is to be her new home.But it isn't her house. It belongs to someone else-to a Mrs Violet Osborne. A woman who was no more than a name at the end of an advertisement for a companion that had caught her eye three weeks earlier.More precisely, it wasn't Mrs Osborne's name that had caught her eye-it was seeing that Mrs Osborne lived in Belsize Park, a short distance only from Kentish Town. Kentish Town, the place where Alice had lived when she'd been Mrs Thomas Linford.Thomas Linford-the man she still loves, but through her own stupidity, has lost. The man for whom she's left the small Lancashire town in which she was born to come down to London again. The man she's determined to fight for