Vivienne Dockerty

• May-2008
• / General Fiction
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The year is 1993, four years since the end of Communist rule in Poland. Five students come to a language school in Bolton in order to improve their English. They are all from different backgrounds, but are of the same opinion that Dorothy, their tuto...

• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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A nineteenth-century family saga set during the Irish potato famine, in which a young woman must marry and emigrate to England to make a new life.   Maggie is sixteen years old and barely keeping her family alive in the throes of the Irish famin...

• Mar-2011
• / Romance
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Events of the past can undo a lifetime of hopes and dreams… Twenty years have passed since Maggie settled with Jack in north west England after escaping the Irish Famine. They have overcome hardships to raise a family, but not without heartache alo...

• Sep-2011
• / General Fiction
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This is based on the story of Vivienne Dockerty's life. Her childhood moulded her into the teenager she became, looking for love in the wrong places, facing challenges through situations brought upon her and the choices she made that affected her adu...

• Jun-2012
• / General Fiction
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Shattered Dreams is the continuing saga of the Dockerty family. Based on a manuscript left by Vivienne’s mother, the story tells of a young couple’s dreams for their future together, only to have them shattered because of the 1930s Depression and...

• Jul-2013
• / Historical Romance
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Her Heart's Desire is another Dockerty saga based on Vivienne's family tree, set in Victorian Merseyside in 1893. Eighteen year old Lily is spoilt and petted by her father. She spurns the love of Charlie, a twenty-one year old shipyard worker. A cour...

• May-2014
• / General Fiction
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The year is 1847 during the time of the Irish Potato Famine. Three years old Molly is snatched from her cot whilst her family are attending a funeral. Maggie, her sister, who has left her homeland, thinks that Molly is being cared for, but the Filbey...

• Mar-2016
• / Historical
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Nora was a poor Irish girl in the 19th century who was destined to live as the dutiful wife to a domineering husband. Unable to speak much English and without her own money, she remained unhappily in Beggarman's Cottage, so-called by later generation...

• Nov-2016
• / General Fiction
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Ada Moscrop, a thirty something Ward Sister from Cumbria, nursed a secret dream. It is 1922 and most of the eligible men who could have been a suitor, have either died in the recent war or succumbed to the influenza epidemic if they did make it home....