Potteries Girls Series

The Girl From the Workhouse (Book 1)

Staffordshire, 1911. Ginnie Jones's childhood is spent in the shadow of the famous Potteries, living with her mother, father and older sister Mabel. But with Father's eyesight failing, money is in short supply, and too often the family find their bellies aching with hunger. With no hope in sight, Ginnie is sent to Haddon Workhouse.

Separated from everything she has known, Ginnie has to grow up fast, earning her keep by looking after the other children with no families of their own. When she meets Clara and Sam, she hopes that she has made friends for life until tragedy strikes, snatching away her newfound happiness.

Wartime with the Tram Girls (Book 2)

The Potteries Girls on the Home Front (Book 3)

March 1911: Betty Dean needs a job and somewhere to live, and eventually, a husband according to her mother. Sent into service at Stowford House in Cheshire, where the days are long and the work is gruelling, Betty's dreams of making something of herself seem even further away.

But soon she is forced to return to The Potteries, carrying with her a dreadful secret which could leave her reputation in tatters.

Could WW1 bring new opportunities or will Betty run out of options?

A new job on the trams throws her a lifeline. Meeting fellow tram girls Connie and Jean brings the joy of friendship, even if Betty struggles with having to keep secrets from her new pals.

A New Day at Paradise Pottery (Book 4)

Martha Owen has not had an easy start in life. Her abusive father dominates the family and she has lost her only friend after a painful falling-out.

Her father's reliance on the bottle, and his increasingly violent temper, brings turmoil for Martha, her mother and her three siblings and with World War One causing more strain on the home front, her prospects look bleak.

With no money or qualifications to speak of, starting a job at the Potteries feels like a lifeline, but Martha finds herself wanting more than the production line job she works on.

Her one talent is her artistic flair, but will this be enough to help her rise the ranks at Paradise Pottery and make a future for herself? And can she ever escape her father's dark shadow over her?

Heartache for the Tram Girls (Book 5)

After the death of her mother, whom she had spent her life caring for, Ruth Latham is lucky to find work as a typist at the Potteries Tramway Company in Stoke.

While conscription forces more men to leave for the battlefields, Ruth finds herself growing closer to shy, but kind, mechanic, Stan Bristow even if their courtship makes her enemies in the office.

But the Great War causes scars at home and abroad and when trouble comes to The Potteries, tearing families apart and causing heartache for her greatest friends, Ruth must play her part in the difficult times ahead.

And when Stan is called up to fight, Ruth fears her chance at happiness may never arrive. Is she strong enough for the battle ahead?

• Author  -  Lynn Johnson
• Series / Key Character  -  The Potteries Girls
• Illustrated  -  No
• Age -  Adult
• ISBN  -  various
• Publisher  -  Hera
• Date  -  n/a
• Format  -  Paperback
• Pages - n/a
• Size  -  20 x 13 cm
• Weight - 285g