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

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Meanwhile evacuee Ruby Clark has much to contend with when her estranged mother turns up, having completed a long prison sentence. There is huge heartache still to come for Ruby, and she will need her Beach View family more than ever. 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. 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. 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 I confess I found Ruby’s story a continual sad spot in the book and kept hoping there would be light for her and I certainly see potential… maybe with the current attention 🤭 … but hopefully she can see the light at the end of the healing tunnel she’s travelling through. War has not been kind to Carol Porter. It took her husband and baby, and with them her heart. At last she’s found some peace, working as a land girl at Coombe Farm. But Carol’s sanctuary, the whole local area in fact, is about to be disrupted. 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. As Tamara, Ellie Dean is the patron of Andredida Writers, where she has been praised for her contribution to Saga and historical romance fiction. Dean’s Cliffehaven series of novels has sold more than a million copies over the years and has been translated into more than 15 languages across the world.

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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.

Following the death of her husband, Ellie Dean was devastated since he had been her friend and companion for decades. She would ultimately retire in 2021 as she asserted that it was finally time to say goodbye to her fans and fiction writing. Peggy Reilly’s fearsome sister, Doris. When warm-hearted Peggy befriends Mary, she discovers the young woman’s secret. But she begins to regret getting involved, for there can only be trouble ahead . . . She said that in the months after the loss of her husband, she had been in a lot of pain and just could no longer find the motivation to write. 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.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. 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 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. Cliffehaven, 1946. The war is over and those who have spent years fighting behind enemy lines are finally coming home.

As the fighter planes leave RAF Cliffe every evening all anyone can hope is that the war, like the night, will soon be over.But honestly the book was a very easy read, I loved the family dynamics, connections, friends knitting together through the tough times and that there is support systems continually being built, .. I love Peggy’s heart in wanting to bring everyone under her wings, hard working and yet always there for her family, friends and for those she has adopted. Upon arriving in Cliffehaven, they are taken in by the Reilly family that make their home in Beach View Boarding House. They are an open-hearted and loving family and it is not long before Sally and her brother are loving life with them. 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. Will the sanctuary of home give them each the strength they need to face the challenges ahead? Read more Look Inside Details

Ron and Rosie have moved into their new house but things are not easy for them and they need a good heart to heart. But then their mother arrives in town and in her wake is chaos and disaster. Sally will have to decide where her true loyalties lie. Dean thanked her readers and friends for giving her a career that spanned more than twenty-five years and resulted in more than 30 titles that were popular all over the globe.

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It is not the first time she is playing mother as Florrie her real mother has never been there for her children. She has not even come to wave them off despite promising to do so. 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. In Cliffehaven, she befriends Danuta, a Polish woman who is still grieving as she lost all her family when the Germans invaded her country.