ANNA’S HOME FRONT

WW2 SEPTEMBER 1940

Book 1 — Home Front Series

September 1940. London is burning. And one phone call is about to change everything.

In the middle of a Blitz raid on wartime London, Journalist, Anna Forrester, is recalled from Fleet Street to her dying mother’s bedside in Yorkshire. What her mother leaves her is not what she expected, a diary belonging to Elizabeth Leyac, an aristocratic heiress who died decades before.

Who was Elizabeth? Why did Anna’s mother have her diary? And what is the connection to the famous mystery of the missing Leyac twin — stolen from his crib just hours after birth, twenty-five years earlier?

As Anna follows Elizabeth’s story through the diary’s pages, she begins to unravel a family secret that has been carefully buried for generations. But there are those who would rather it stayed buried. And Anna’s own past holds more questions than she ever realised.

Two women. Two wars. One secret that was never meant to be found.

Anna’s Home Front moves between 1908 and 1940, following two protagonists whose lives are separated by time but bound together by the truth neither of them fully understands.

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Choose Anna if you love:

Multiple timelines and dual protagonists
WWII fiction rooted in the lives of women
First and Second World War setting
Stories about women’s lives during wartime

Mystery books full of twists
Family secrets and generational mystery
Layered plots with hidden clues
Stories that stay with you

Reviews

The main character, Anna Forrester, is a likeable, independent sort who tries to do everything herself. Being the only child of a single mother she has never had to rely on a man and therefore is determined to succeed in the male-dominated world of journalism, which was virtually unheard of during the 1940s. Anna is recalled from Fleet Street, London in the middle of the Blitz, to Yorkshire, to be at her dying mother’s bedside. Anna is given a strange, old diary by her mother which sets her on an investigation into one of Yorkshire’s most prominent families, the Leyacs. A 25 year old mystery about the death of an heiress and the disappearance of a child is reopened, and Anna has to follow the clues before she finally finds the shocking and most unexpected answer. A good read with lots of interesting events and clues. A very good debut novel from a new North East Writer.
J.O.
A really well written book which has many twists and turns. It’s captivating and makes you read more. Fabulous story and I can’t wait for the next.
T.C.

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About Leyac House

The fictional Leyac House at the heart of Anna’s story was inspired by Ham House in London, a real seventeenth century house on the banks of the Thames with a history as layered and atmospheric as anything I could have invented. I visited Ham House while researching the novel and these are a few of the photographs I took.