Bøker av Faye Godwin

In the wake of losing both her parents, young Joanna believed Bernard Woods was the solution to all her problems. It's only after her baby, Della, is born that Joanna discovers Bernard is a scoundrel and a drunkard, more interested in gambling than in caring for his little family. When Bernard's past catches up to him and Joanna finds him dead, police suspect she was the one who drove the knife into his heart. She has no choice but to take her baby and flee into the perilous streets of Victorian London, where children are a commodity and women a convenience... Joanna feels anything is possible as long as she has Della. But when the baby is torn from her arms, everything falls apart. Only her new friend, handsome street peddler Riley, offers her any hope. Can she survive the prejudice and chaos of the most notorious city of its time?

Alice Thorton is only five years old when her parents are killed in an accident. Together with her two little sisters, she is sent to live in a dismal part of London near the docks. Her grandfather loves them, but Christmas is a quiet, lonely affair in his little cottage. As the streets surrounding them turn dangerous, the girls are confined to the cottage. Alice's only friend is Charlie Tillman, a cheerful young dockworker who is always looking out for her and her sisters. But Alice's entire world crumbles one Christmas when her grandfather has no choice but to send them away to their aunt-an aunt who dotes on the two littlest ones but wants nothing to do with Alice. Alice's quest is to return home to her grandfather and Charlie, but with every passing Christmas, it becomes more and more impossible. She struggles though devastating jobs, deceitful masters, and eventual homelessness. It will take one last great miracle to bring both Charlie and Alice home in time for Christmas.

On a cold, lonely Christmas Eve, 15-year-old Dovie Ellis gives birth to a baby girl she names Christmas. Lost and afraid in the world, Dovie flees, abandoning her child that very same night. Raised by kindly great-grandparents, Chrissie spends her childhood frolicking in the countryside, blind to their relative poverty and falling in love with sweet, handsome Jonah Costigan. But when her great-grandparents die, everything goes wrong. Chrissie finds herself shipped off to London to work in a cotton mill, and from there, it's not long before she is cast out on the frozen streets at Christmastime. Chrissie must fight to survive the brutal reality of a London Christmas on the streets. She searches for her mother and yearns for Jonah, but with every Christmas that passes, hope seems to grow more and more distant. Until one Christmas, everything changes...

Daisy Parker's life is imperfect, but it's better than she could ever have imagined. Born in a Victorian workhouse, Daisy grew up knowing little other than discipline and desperate need. It is sweet and kind Bart Parker who changes her life by marrying her, giving her everything she holds most dear: a cozy home, a beautiful baby girl named Fannie, and a husband who truly loves her. But smallpox takes everything from Daisy in one terrible instant. She finds herself on the streets, dragging Bart's handcart with Fannie inside, embarking on a desperate struggle for survival - not only for herself, but for her daughter. Allies are few and far between on London's brutal streets. Daisy will need every scrap of her love and courage to survive-but maybe the love of a mysterious peddler with soft gray eyes can turn things back around for her...