Novels

Please Don't Go
Bodley Head h/b,1972. ISBN 0-370-01243
p/b Transworld 1987 ISBN 0-552-52457-3
Back-to-Front 2007 ISBN 1904529321
A love story to break your heart, set in 1960s sea-side Brittany.
NEW EDITION PUBLISHED JAN 2007

Backwater War
Bodley Head, 1974 ISBN 0-370-10936-8
A teenaged Guernsey girl helps a slave worker to escape the Germans during the 2nd World War Occupation of the Channel Islands.
NEW EDITION IN PREPARATION

See You Tomorrow
Bodley Head 1979 ISNB 0-370-30204-4
Julia’s happy family is torn apart by her father’s attempted suicide, and she finds help in an unexpected and heartwarming way.

The Girl with a Voice
Bodley Head, 1984 ISBN 0-370-30804-2
Love Me, Love Rome
Bodley Head, 1981 ISBN 0-370-30423-3
Two novels about Claudia, born with a fine voice. She’s encouraged to train as an opera singer by her new boyfriend, Rod. She goes to Rome to study singing and learn Italian, where she meets someone else…

Monster in our Midst
Macmillan, 1984 ISBN 0-333-47442-2
Transworld p/b 1989 ISBN 0552-52491-3
Two teenagers, feisty Kathy and lanky, shy Alan, fight to save their village from becoming the site of a nuclear waste dump.

Out of the Sun
Macmillan, p/b 1990 ISBN 0-333-497288-9
Life in postwar Guernsey ravaged by the postwar German Occupation is bleak for Nancy after being brought up in India. But as she comes to terms with her new life, she makes a discovery that transforms everything.

Blood and Mortar
p/b Transworld 1994 ISBN 0-552-5277-2
Nick finds himself caught up in a nightmare, arrested by the police, locked in a cell, and charged with murder…
Short Stories
As commissioning editor and contributor
The Real Thing
Bodley Head, 1977, h/b ISBN 0-370-30018-1
Penguin 1979 p/b ISBN 0-140 -47149-9
Collins Educational 1983 ISBN 0- 00 330002-1
Seven stories of Love. By A L Barker, Rumer Godden, Lynne Reid Banks,, Emma Smith, Rosemary Sutcliff, William Trevor, Peggy Woodford
You Can't Keep out the Darkness
Bodley Head 1980 ISBN 0370302931
8 short stories by A L Barker, R M Lamming, Penelope Lively, Jan Mark, Wiiliam Sansom, John Wain, Robert Westall, Peggy Woodford
Misfits
Bodley Head, 1984, ISBN 0-370-30824-7
Methuen Teens 1985 ISBN 0-416-094672-7
8 stories by Jon Blake, Jane Gardem, R M Lamming, Penelope Lively, Emma Smith, Frances Thomas, John Wain, Peggy Woodford.
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