All sixteen-year-old Grace Granville has ever wanted is to become a successful dress designer. She dreams of owning her own fashion house and spends her spare time sketching outfits. Her father, Lord Granville, sees this as a frivolous activity and arranges suitors for a marriage of his choosing.Grace is about to leave Greenemere, a boarding school in Brighton. She's blissfully unaware of her father's plans when embarking on a new adventure. The quest includes a trip to Bolton's Palais where she meets coal miner, Jack Gilmore and Grace's life is never the same again. Is Grace strong enough to defy Lord Granville's wishes and find true love? Will she become a successful fashion designer? Where will she turn for help?House of Grace is the first book in the historical fiction family saga trilogy.If you like Mr Selfridge and House of Eliott then you'll love this riches to rags 1950s/60s saga. Delve into House of Grace and follow Grace Granville as she struggles with family conflict, poverty and tragedy.

House of Grace: A Family Saga

Literature & Fiction

Osborne, Patricia M

Genre Fiction

White Wings Books

After tragedy hits the small coal mining village of Wintermore, nine-year-old miner's son, George, is sent to Granville Hall to live with his titled grandparents. Caught up in a web of treachery and deceit, George grows up believing his mother sold him. He's determined to make her pay, but at what cost? Is he strong enough to rebel? Will George ever learn to forgive? Step back into the 60s and follow George as he struggles with bereavement, rejection and a kidnapping that changes his life forever. Resistance is George's only hope.

The Coal Miner's Son: A Family Saga (House of Grace)

Can George step into his grandfather’s shoes?Assuming his title as Lord Granville is no easy task for coal miner’s son, George Gilmore.George doesn’t possess the late Lord Granville’s ruthless streak but what happens if his loved ones are threatened?How can he support his mother, Grace, through her devasting loss? Will the family rally round? Journey through the 80s in this family saga unravelling heartbreak, family conflict, romance, fashion, and much more. 'The Granville Legacy' is the final book in the House of Grace trilogy.

The Granville Legacy: A Family Saga (House of Grace)

Literary

"Reading the poems together is like stepping into a forest where each tree has a highly individual character. Patricia M Osborne does really well to conjure up such a playful range of voices that feel different yet enhance one another, and her shifts in stanza length add brilliant disruption." <ul> <li>John McCullough - Poet (Shortlisted for the Poetry Costa Award 2019)</li> </ul> "Patricia M Osborne writes of the natural world with keen observation and a sensitivity for the trees and flowers, birds and animals that fill it. In this collection we learn of traditions, mythology and lore, factual information and fantasy, mingling in one glorious cornucopia. Patricia casts her true poet's eye over it all, and clothes it in images to enchant the reader." <ul> <li>Alison Chisholm - Poet and Poetry Columnist on Writing Magazine</li> </ul>

Taxus Baccata

Poetry

Hedgehog Poetry Press

The Montefiore Bride