Dilly Court

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  • Bibliography:
    43 Books (3 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 2001
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Full Series List in Order

The River Maid

1 - The River Maid (Jan-2018)
2 - The Summer Maiden (Jun-2018)
3 - The Christmas Rose (Nov-2018)

The Rockwood Chronicles

1 - Fortune's Daughter (Oct-2021)
2 - Winter Wedding (Jan-2022)
3 - Runaway Widow (May-2022)
4 - Sunday's Child (Aug-2022)

The Village Secrets

1 - The Christmas Wedding (Oct-2019)
2 - A Village Scandal (Mar-2020)
3 - The Country Bride (Jun-2020)

Book List in Order: 43 titles

  • A Place Called Home

  • Mermaids Singing

    A desperate childhood. An uncertain past. One chance at happiness ... Born into poverty and living under the roof of her violent and abusive brother-in-law, young Kitty Cox dreams of working in a women's dress shop in the West End - a million mile...

  • Tilly True

    'I ain't always going to be poor, I made me mind up to that.' Dismissed from her position as housemaid under a cloud of misunderstanding, Tilly True is forced to return home. But Tilly is determined to make something of her life and, rather than a...

  • The Best Of Sisters

    The Thames carried him away from her, but would it bring him home...? Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold, comfortless banks of the Thames. Living above her uncle's chandlery she has grown accustomed to a life of penu...

  • A Mother's Courage

    The captivating new saga set in turn-of-the-century London by the author of The Best of Sisters; The Cockney Sparrow; and Mermaids Singing.


    From the Hardcover edition....

  • The Constant Heart

    Dilly Court is a major talent in saga writing. Her new novel, The Constant Heart, set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London, follows many previous bestsellers including Mermaids Singing and A Mother’s Courage.


    From the Hardcover editio...

  • A Mother's Promise

    When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. But despite the threat of being turned out onto the streets by the unscrupulous tallyman...

  • The Cockney Angel

    Eighteen-year-old Irene Angel lives with her parents in a tiny room above the shop where her crippled mother ekes out a living selling pickles and sauces, whilst her charming but feckless father Billy gambles away what little money they do manage to ...

  • A Mother's Wish

    From this major talent in saga-writing, author of Mermaids Singing; The Cockney Sparrow; A Mother's Courage and The Constant Heart comes this compelling new story set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London.

    Since the untimely death of her hu...



  • The Ragged Heiress

    On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse, rough-speaking individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing of the events that brought her to her present state, not even her name. According to t...

  • A Mother's Secret

    When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facin...

  • The Cockney Sparrow

    She sang with the voice of a nightingale... Gifted with a beautiful soprano voice, young Clemency Skinner is forced to work as a pickpocket in order to support her crippled brother, Jack. Their feckless mother, Edith, has fallen into the clutches ...

  • The Dollmaker's Daughters

    Two sisters, tragically divided by love, jealousy and ambition ... For Ruby and Rosetta Capretti life in the slums of the East End holds little promise. Although very similar in looks they dream of very different futures. Coquettish, flamboyant Ro...

  • Cinderella Sister

    Lily Larkin is the youngest of six and the least important member of her family. With their father dead and their mother a stranger to them, she must stay at home and keep house whilst her elder siblings go out to work. As she goes about her daily ch...

  • A Mother's Trust

    Phoebe Giamatti lives with her boisterous Italian family in the heart of London's East End. Phoebe's father was killed in gang warfare and she and her family share a deep hatred for the Paxman brothers - whose lawless ways strike terror into the whol...

  • The Lady's Maid

    In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, ...

  • The Best of Daughters

    Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She is drawn to the suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are forced to move to the country and Daisy's first duty is to her family. ...

  • The Workhouse Girl

    Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter St Giles and St George's Workhouse in Bloomsbury. When Ellen dies in childbirth, an independent-minded, spirited Sarah falls foul of the workhouse master Trigg and ...

  • The Begaar Maid



  • The Orphan's Dream

  • Ragged Rose

    A heartwarming novel from Dilly Court, the No.1 Sunday Times bestseller. With the fate of her family in her hands, Rose has to make a terrible choice. Be thrown onto the streets without a penny to her name, or watch her loved ones fall into ruin . . ...

  • The Swan Maid

    A gripping and heartwarming novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court.Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London’s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, L...

  • The Christmas Card

    The perfect heartwarming romance for Christmas, rich in historical detail. She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands, a pretty picture of a family gathering at Yuletide. How different from her own life; stiff with cold o...

  • The Button Box

    The new heartwarming novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Dilly Court.Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London’s notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family… but who was going to...

  • The Mistletoe Seller

    The heartwarming historical novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtIt’s Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . .Named...

  • The River Maid

    The River Maid - 1

    London, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father’s beck and call. Then...

  • The Summer Maiden

    The River Maid - 2

    1873. When Carrie Manning’s father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father...

  • The Christmas Rose

    The River Maid - 3

    Standing on London’s Victoria docks with the wind biting through her shawl, Rose Munday realises she’s been abandoned by her sweetheart. She had risked everything to get to London but, stumbling through the peasoup fog, she has nowhere to go, ...

  • Nettie's Secret

    The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run for their lives…London, 1875. Thanks to her hapless father, Nettie Carroll has h...



  • The Christmas Wedding

    The Village Secrets - 1

    Holding the letter in trembling hands, Daisy’s future crumbled before her -- the words engraved on her heart forever. The village of Little Creek, the long winter of 1867 The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall, secretly e...

  • A Village Scandal

    The Village Secrets - 2

    It was her wedding day… the roses and bluebells were blooming and their sweet-scent was filling the air, so why did Daisy feel the cold fingers of fear run down her spine? Spring in the village, April 1869 It’s spring in Little Creek and ...

  • The Country Bride

    The Village Secrets - 3

    The time had come to leave Creek Manor. Their relationship was doomed from the start, he was the master of the house and she the servant… Summer, Little Creek 1879 For most of her life, Judy Begg has been a loyal servant at Creek Manor and to ...

  • Rag-and-Bone Christmas

    Don’t miss the brand-new festive saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!Paradise Row, London. December 1865.Snow is falling fast and Sally Suggs is working tirelessly to bring in enough money to keep bread on the table. Her ...

  • The Reluctant Heiress

    The brand-new unforgettable romance saga from the No.1 bestselling author London was her home. It seemed impossible that she had grown up in the city without ever noticing the huge differences between those who had money and those who had next to not...

  • A Loving Family

  • Fortune's Daughter

    The Rockwood Chronicles - 1

    Don’t miss the heartwarming, moving novel from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!Rockwood was home and she would do anything she could to stop it being stolen from them.Abandoned by their parents and left to fight for themselves,...

  • Winter Wedding

    The Rockwood Chronicles - 2

    Don’t miss the brand-new Christmas read from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!As the first Christmas snowflakes fall, Rosalind finds herself pregnant and alone…Christmas is coming to the village of Rockwood. But the happiest t...

  • Runaway Widow

    The Rockwood Chronicles - 3

    Don’t miss the third book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!After the sudden death of her husband, Patricia Greystone is left with nothing, and at twenty-four, she finds herself a penniles...

  • Sunday's Child

    The Rockwood Chronicles - 4

    Don’t miss the fourth book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!Left on the steps of an orphanage when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship â€" until the kindly Rosa...



  • Snow Bride

  • Dolly's Dream

  • Untitled Book 2

    Step into the world of Dilly Court and uncover her utterly heartwarming and emotional historical romance!Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora’s fortune was about to change…Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescu...

  • A Thimble for Christmas

    Don’t miss the next utterly romantic historical saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!She ran along the snow-covered cobbles, gripping her sewing box â€" fate in her hands…Living hand to mouth ever since her mother’s tr...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Dilly Court has published 43 books.

The next book by Dilly Court, A Thimble for Christmas, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Dilly Court, A Place Called Home, was published in January 2001.

Yes. Dilly Court has 3 series.
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