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2 primary works

The Fisher Lass

by Margaret Dickinson

Published 13 August 1999

Arriving with the herring girls who follow the shoals down the coast, the orphaned Jeannie Buchanan rescues Gracie from a stag-night mob and is welcomed into her family. The groom marries the girl his parents chose, but Jeannie cannot forget him, even after she marries Gracie's brother.

The Tulip Girl

by Margaret Dickinson

Published 11 August 2000

Abandoned outside an orphange as a newborn baby, spirited Maddie March has had to fight her way through life. So when she finds a home at Few Farm with Frank Brackenbury and his household, she welcomes the chance for a fresh start.

Work on the farm is hard, but believing herself truly loved for the first time in her young life by the farmer's son, Michael, even the animosity of the housekeeper Mrs Trowbridge cannot mar Maddie's newfound happiness.

1947 brings harsh winter, sweeping devastion over the farm and threatening the Brackenburys' livelihood. All seems lost, until Maddie has an idea that might save them all from poverty.

But then she discovers she is pregnant.....

The Tulip Girl is Margaret Dickinson's captivating new Lincolnshire saga about the endurance of true love in the face of adversity.