The Gypsy Bride
The Gypsy Bride is my first novel writing as Katie Hutton, in Zaffre’s ‘Memory Lane’ imprint. In the aftermath of the Great War, a lonely girl in a close-knit Evangelical community falls in love with a Gypsy who has come to work on the harvest. Opposed on all sides, they risk everything – including the noose – to be together…
The Gypsy’s Daughter
In The Gypsy’s Daughter, the sequel to The Gypsy Bride, a girl growing up on a Kent hop farm in the aftermath of World War Two longs to expand her horizons with a scholarship to Nottingham University. Then on the last night of the hopping, something happens that threatens to destroy all her dreams…
Annie of Ainsworth’s Mill
Annie of Ainsworth’s Mill is set in County Down and Cleator Moor before World War I. Annie Maguire leaves her native County Down to work in a flax mill in Cleator Moor. But the sectarian fault lines of Ulster are perpetuated in ‘Little Ireland,’ and the man she loves is on the opposite side…
The Maid of Lindal Hall
The days of the Barrow Union at Roose are numbered and it is due be closed, along with all the other workhouses. Instead ‘Cottage Homes’ have been set up for pauper children, where they live under the care of a resident mother and father. Robert and Annie McClure are tasked with taking care of several children. A skilled tailor, Robert trains boys to his profession whilst his wife prepares the girls to go into service.
Molly Dubber has been at the Home since the age of three, though she has never been told the truth about the terrible event that brought her there. When a request comes in for a new girl to work at Lindal Hall, Annie decides to put Molly forward…
The history is meticulous and fascinating and the character of Sam Loveridge is absolutely captivating – I can still hear his voice perfectly, months after finishing.
Julie Cohen, bestselling author of The Two Lives of Louis and Louise
Katherine Mezzacappa 