WAIT TILL SUMMER

A NEW BEGINNING

As the Second World War ends, Sophie Daniels quits the WAAF with nowhere to go. Eventually she finds Badgers Brook, where she meets and befriends nine-year-old Bertie, neglected and running wild. Friendly local Ryan Treweather is a welcome distraction, and potentially more, if she can just trust him with one big guilty secret. But if Sophie grows closer to Ryan, what will it mean for poor young Bertie?

PITY THE LONELY DREAMERS

Valentina's mother had always made it clear to her that her brother, Michael, was the favourite child. So when the opportunity comes for Valentina to leave South Wales behind, and head to London, she grasps it with both hands. 1970s London is still thoroughly a man's world, but with new friends and big ambitions Valentina learns to stand on her own, and make for herself the life of which she dreams