A Place Called Home: (The Cliffehaven Series Book 19)

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Soon enough, Sally finds a job working at a uniforms factory so that she can contribute to household bills and buy medicine for her brother. But the posting means she will have to leave behind Alice her five-year-old daughter who has to be sent to Canada where she will be safer. Her heart is torn as she heads out to take the train to Cliffehaven and has to say her goodbyes to her daughter. It is thus not surprising that she writes in those genres. She prefers to pen her works during the winter since she can hardly stay indoors in summertime good weather. The THIRTEENTH fabulous, heart-warming Second World War novel in Ellie Dean's bestselling Cliffehaven series (previously called the Beach View Boarding House series).

As Tamara, Ellie Dean is the patron of Andredida Writers, where she has been praised for her contribution to Saga and historical romance fiction. The tension is rising for Peggy Reilly and the inhabitants of Cliffehaven as the planes continue to roar above the town and there is still no news of the long-awaited Allied invasion into France. There seems to be no end in sight of this war which has scattered her family and brought conflict right to the door of Beach View Boarding House, but Peggy cannot work miracles and the toll of the war is beginning to weigh on her slender shoulders.

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While Danuta happens to be a well-trained and qualified nursing practitioner, the Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital’s matron does not believe her. Since she desperately wants a job, she decides to become a skivvy. She now makes her home in the East Sussex town of Jevington, where she lived with Geoffrey Oliver her husband until his demise in 2020. Ever since she lost her husband she has actively been visiting her children and grandchildren spread across several states in the US.

She always has a cup of coffee and a jolly good heater to keep herself warm. On the walls of her office are all manner of Aboriginal artifacts and pictures from Australia which is her birthplace.Ellie Dean’s novel “There’ll Be Blue Skies” introduces Sally, a sixteen-year-old who moves to the south coast of England. She is uncertain about what will happen to her as all she is used to are the sounds and sights of East End London. Will the sanctuary of home give them each the strength they need to face the challenges ahead? Read more Look Inside Details As the fighter planes leave RAF Cliffe every evening all anyone can hope is that the war, like the night, will soon be over. Jim is home from the war but he's not finding it easy. The things he's endured in Burma are making life difficult for him, also he's feels at times that he's surplus to requirements at home because Peggy has become so independent and his family grown up. With the help of his father, Ron, he gets himself on the right road. Still, while it pains her to leave behind the familiar sights of London, she knows she has to grow up and take care of Ernie her six-year-old brother that needs her.

While it for the most part looks so messy, she has a system and usually can get almost anything she needs to write. With the war raging across the continent, Rita is determined to make her contribution. But she is denied her lifelong dream of becoming a member of the WAAF and has to downgrade to fire warden.Ruby now runs the pub and her mother Ethel appears again. She's as miserable as ever but needs Ruby's help. I have no sympathy for her at all. She's an appalling person and I wanted Ruby to close the door in her face. Cliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home. Meanwhile, Ron Reilly has landed himself in hot water with his sweetheart, Rosie – and this time, his Irish charm will not be enough to get him out of trouble. But Ernie who has been a cripple since he was afflicted by polio at a young age has learned to depend on his sister Sally.