Book 1

Taking Heart

by Rowena Summers

Published 24 November 2000
i>But at least we still have each other. As long as we still have the family, we’ll be all right.


Imogen and her sisters are fighting to save their childhood home and remain in Bristol. Their father has announced the sale of the family business and everything is about to change.


But when a terrible tragedy tears the family apart, the Caldwell girls must forge their own paths in life. And with the Second World War looming over England, their lives begin to change more drastically than they could have imagined.


Through love and heartbreak, fear and loss, can the Caldwell girls make it out unscathed? Or will they be swept up in the chaos of the changing times?





Taking Heart was first published in 2000.

Book 2

Daisy's War

by Rowena Summers

Published 31 August 2001
There was more than one kind of war. There was the one that threatened so much of the world now, and there was the inner war within a person.


A terrible tragedy has torn the Caldwell family apart and the Caldwell girls have split up: Imogen has joined the war effort, Elsie has married, and Daisy? Daisy has lost her way.


Living away from home and missing her sisters, Daisy isn’t sure who she is anymore. She’s making new friends, dancing with new beaus, but everywhere she turns, she finds death. Working as a nurse and confronted with new horrors daily, Daisy finds herself wondering what the point of it all is anymore.


As the chaos of the Second World War rages on and her own life falls to pieces, Daisy dreams of real love, of lasting friendship, and of hope for a different life… but she must look for light where she can find it.


This uplifting coming of age story is the second in The Caldwell Girls saga.





Daisy’s War was first published in 2001.