Beryl Matthews

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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    September 2002
  • Latest Book:
    June 2023
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Book List in Order: 24 titles

  • The Open Door

    All her short life, eleven-year-old Rose Webster has encountered closed doors. Growing up in the slums of London with her siblings, trying to avoid their violent, drunken father, Rose still has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and is sure she and ...

  • Wings of the Morning

  • A Time of Peace

    In this third and last part of the Webster family trilogy, Kate goes to London to follow her dream of becoming a photographer. Kate has a long journey to make before she is able to realise her dream and a lot of growing up to do on the way....

  • A Change of Fortune

    Can a girl hide from her destiny? When Eugenie Winford is removed suddenly from her boarding school, she has no idea of the horrors awaiting her at home. For her beloved father has killed himself having lost his fortune in the Wall Street Crash. And ...

  • Fighting with Shadows

    London, 1949. In the aftermath of the war, Angie Westwood thinks the hard times are behind her. But when her cousin, Jane, dies of heart failure at the tender age of twenty, leaving a three-year-old son and an unresolved mystery over his father's ide...

  • A Flight of Golden Wings

    September, 1938.Britain is at war and Ruth Aspinall, a gifted pilot, is determined to join the Air Transport Auxiliary, an organisation of civilian pilots who ferry aircraft to wherever they're needed. Meanwhile over in America, siblings Jack and Luc...

  • The Forgotten Family

    A brand new, never before published, saga from Beryl Matthews Whitechapel, London 1890. Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in the country. She is frightened and confused, begging to be taken...

  • Diamonds in the Dust

    London, 1920. The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced to take a night job at Grant's clothing factory, and sees them only at breakfast and on Sundays. But at nearly eighteen, and with a job ...

  • Hold on to Your Dreams

    London 1899Gertrude Melrose is preparing for a New Year party when her brother enters her room. She knows he wants money from her and refuses at once. She loves her brother but he is in with a disreputable crowd and losing heavily at the gaming table...



  • The Uncertain Years

    Four London friends face hardship, drama and tragedy during WWII As World War II breaks out, four friends consider the changes that war will mean. Tomboyish Becky plans to join the ATS, her neighbours Bob and Jim the navy and army respectively. O...

  • Battles Lost and Won

    1919, London’s East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper’s family are also preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. After five years of separation and anxiety--...

  • A New Day

    After a traumatic past, life finally seems to be looking up for Hanna Foster. But war is on its way . . . London, 1938. Hanna and Jack Foster had been sent to an orphanage when their parents were killed in a train crash, but were separated when a co...

  • A Debt from the Past

    Hampshire 1850. Beth Langton has been running her large family estate for nine months now, after the death of her father. Under the watchful eyes of her godfather and guardian, Lord Edward Sharland, and an excellent estate manager, Henry Greenway, sh...

  • Day Will Come

    London, 1940. The war is raging across Europe and twenty-three-year-old Grace is devastated by the loss of her husband, Brian, at Dunkirk after only a year of marriage. Her secretary job at a law firm keeps her mind from dwelling on her sorrow but wh...

  • When the Music Stopped

    London, 1910. Lester Holdsworth is a brilliant pianist and his twin, Lillia, is a magnificent singer: they are destined for the stage. But their cruel father has other ideas for their future. Lester is sent to a military academy, while Lillia must ma...

  • When Midnight Comes

    1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father's death, penniless but armed with an iron will. Determined to put London behind her and find a place to call home, her search takes her to the New Forest where she stumbles upon Lord Frenshaw's estate....

  • Moving on

    1856. Christine Banner is alone after her father’s death, penniless but armed with an iron will. Determined to put London behind her and find a place to call home, her search takes her to the New Forest where she stumbles upon Lord Frenshaw’s est...

  • Friends and Enemies

    1941, London. Sirens warn of danger as German bomber planes approach the city. Ever cautious, Kathy and her mother head immediately for the nearest public air raid shelter but are separated in the desperate scramble to safety. When the building is de...

  • The Winter Child

    A HEARTWARMING AND UPLIFTING TALE FOR FANS OF CATHERINE COOKSON AND LESLEY PEARSE On the dark, rough streets of London in 1913, can one girl find the courage to open the door to her destiny? Little Rose Webster's life has never been easy. Born in th...



  • From this Day Forward

    As if everyday life in London's slums wasn't hard enough for Jane Roberts and her three children, the day that ne'er-do-well husband Bert walks out on his family as rent day draws near is a particularly dark time. In the wake of his desertion, the fa...

  • The Spitfire Sweetheart

  • Together Under the Stars

    October 1943. Nancy Dalton, working at the RAF base at Scampton in Lincolnshire, has been holding vigil for the Lancaster bomber pilots whose missions seem endless. But her watchfulness has not prevented her own pilot brother from failing to return. ...

  • Beautiful Innocence

    The heart-warming Victorian saga of triumph over adversityLondon, 1900. Hester Stanmore watches in disbelief as the jury declares her attacker 'not guilty', and the courtroom erupts into chaos. The man in the dock is being congratulated as if he were...

  • An Onerous Duty

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    'A heart-warming and uplifting tale' Sunday ExpressLondon, 1802. Major Harry Sterling has left behind his regiment following the death of his father and, in quick succession, his older brother. The responsibilities that come with being Duke of Ranlie...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Beryl Matthews has published 24 books.

Beryl Matthews does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Beautiful Innocence, was published in June 2023.

The first book by Beryl Matthews, The Open Door, was published in September 2002.

No. Beryl Matthews does not write books in series.
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