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Katie Flynn
Katie Flynn has lived for many years in the northwest. A compulsive writer, she started with short stories and articles, and many of her early stories were broadcast on Radio Merseyside. She decided to write her Liverpool series after hearing the reminiscences of family members about life in the city in the early years of the century. She also writes as Judith Saxton.
Katie Flynn Books
Biddy O'Shaughnessy is left destitute in pre-war Liverpool when her widowed mother dies. At first she works as a live-in help for old Ma Kettle at the sweet-shop, but then runs away, living with an old schoolmate until she becomes homeless once more.Liverpool Taffy
Biddy O'Shaughnessy is left destitute in pre-war Liverpool when her widowed mother dies. At first she works as a live-in help for old Ma Kettle at the sweet-shop.
Read more....		 Set against the grim backdrop of World War I, moving from the slums and tenements of Liverpool to the valleys of North Wales and the tragic fields of Flanders, this is a saga of love and loss, betrayal and reconciliation.A Liverpool Lass
Set against the grim backdrop of World War I, moving from the slums of Liverpool to the valleys of North Wales, this is a saga of love and loss, betrayal and reconciliation.
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On Christmas Day 1924, Sara Cordwainer rides to church in Liverpool with her parents in their Rolls Royce. As they pass the ragged children outside the gates, she gives them her collection money, unwittingly precipitating a tragedy that will haunt her for years. Strawberry Fields
On Christmas Day 1924, Sara Cordwainer rides to church in Liverpool with her parents in their Rolls Royce. As they pass the ragged children outside the gates.... 
Read more....		 Dympna Byrne's family live on the West Coast of Ireland, her father Michael working hard in his boat. When he loses his fishing partner, the family rows about whether Dympna's brother should give up his place to study law and work in the boat. No silver spoon
Dympna Byrne's family live on the West Coast of Ireland, her father Michael working hard in his boat. When he loses his fishing partner, the family rows.... 
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Lizzie Devlin is orphaned and living in Liverpool with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Rupe and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the canal. Lizzie loves her aunt but is hated by her uncle and escapes whenever she can to play by the canal.The Liverpool Rose
Lizzie Devlin is orphaned and living in Liverpool with her Aunt Annie, Uncle Rupe and two boy cousins in Cranberry Court, within a stone's throw of the canal. 
Read more....		 This is one of the ever popular Liverpool sagas.... It had warmth, a good mix of characters and a real heroine in Amy.The girl from Seaforth Sands
This is one of the ever popular Liverpool sagas.... It had warmth, a good mix of characters and a real heroine in Amy.
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The year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tram-driver. She nurses a secret dream of driving trams too, even though it's not considered a job for women.Rose of Tralee
The year is 1925, and in Liverpool, Rose Ryder worships her father, a tram-driver. She nurses a secret dream of driving trams, even though it's not considered a job for women.
Read more....		 When war is declared in 1939, Polly O'Brady is working in a shop in Liverpool. Polly's Angel
When war is declared in 1939, Polly O'Brady is working in a shop in Liverpool. 
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Judith Saxton Books
When World War II broke out, 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk, where she was wanted and needed. But she joined the WAAFs instead, together with a very mixed company of girls - all of whom had joined for very mixed reasons.We'll meet again
When World War II broke out, 17-year-old Christie could have stayed down on the family farm in Norfolk, where she was wanted and needed. 
Read more....		 Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father, the only ripple in Tess Delamere's calm life is the disturbing dream about her dead mother which haunts her. Still waters
Living on the edge of the beautiful Norfolk Broads with her father, the only ripple in Tess Delamere's calm life is the disturbing dream about her dead mother which haunts her. 
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Judith Saxton's colourful family saga spans two continents, as the Neylor family's zest for living carries them through joy and suffering alike. This is the second in the linked quartet of novels about the Neylor family.The Glory
Judith Saxton's colourful family saga spans two continents, as the Neylor family's zest for living carries them through joy and suffering alike. 
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