Always I'll Remember: A gritty and touching Northern saga - Tapa blanda

Praise for Rita Bradshaw: 'Catherine Cookson fans will enjoy discovering a new author who writes in a similar vein (Home and Family)

If you like gritty, rags-to-riches Northern sagas, you'll enjoy this (Family Circle)

What an emotional rollercoaster ride of a book! It grabs your attention from page one and does not let go until the end (Sunderland Echo)

Displaying an uncanny ability to spin a good yarn (Sunderland Echo)

All published writers have skill and creativity, but a few have more. It's called magic. I'm beginning to believe Bradshaw has it! (Historical Novels Review)

It's 1939 and Abigail Vickers, enjoying her promising new job in an office, is overjoyed when she meets James Benson there and they both fall completely in love. But life for Abby is a constant struggle against her dominant and selfish mother, Nora, who is jealous of Abby's beauty and success. When war breaks out, all their lives change forever. In the furore of patriotism that follows, James signs up and Abby swears to wait for him, joining the land army to do her bit. But when Abby's father is involved in a dreadful accident, a terrible secret that Nora has been carrying for years is revealed, tearing the family apart. After receiving heartbreaking news of James, Abby begins to wonder if she will ever find happiness. Only time will tell if there are better days ahead...