A Dream to Share

Victoria Crescent Sagas #2

by June Francis

The Edwardian era is ending and in Chester a young maid, Emma, strives to keep her head above water, as poverty threatens to engulf her and her family. A chance meeting with another young servant, Alice, who is struggling to escape her violent and unhappy past, introduces Emma to the Waters household and the demanding young Victoria who is passionately involved in the embryonic Suffragette Movement. As Emma and Alice become closer, Emma learns of Alice’s destructive and deranged ex-fiancé Bert, and it soon becomes apparent that the two girls lives may be linked in more ways than one. Just as she has found a love of her own, Emma is drawn into a dangerous situation, which threatens her newfound happiness.

288 pages, Paperback

First published May 24, 2005

About the author

Although, June was born in the seaside resort of Blackpool, she has lived all her life in the port of Liverpool, home of the Beatles. One of four children, her love of stories began when her father told her 'The Little Match Girl', which left her in floods of tears, but also with a desire to make up stories, herself. As soon as she could read she was doing a three mile walk to the local library. She passed the scholarship to Liverpool Girls' College where her English teacher told her that she had a great imagination. Despite this, June did not believe she could ever be an author, so on leaving school, she became a cash clerk. She married at twenty-two, has three sons, ran a church playgroup for ten years and it wasn't until her youngest started school that she joined a Writers' Club and turned her hand to writing articles about What She Knew for a woman's magazine. But her first love had always been books and eventually she wrote her first two medieval romances for Mills & Boon. After doing another two, she had an urge to write a family story set in Liverpool during WWII. This was bought by another publisher. Since then she has had thirty-three books published.

Reviews

[MrsJean B Lloyd · Rating 5 out of 5]

great series

Really enjoying this series , I found it by accident only to discover it is set in my home town of Chester so I could picture it albeit long before I was born but so many places are the same and I thoroughly enjoyed books 1 & 2 so now onto book 3 . Cant wait to start it

[Emma · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was an alright book with repeated description and reactions from the characters that were either one extreme or the other. Even though this is the second book in the Saga I would read the 3rd one before this because otherwise you will literally ruin 90% of the entire plot of the 3rd one.

[chlorinda naish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Caught!

At last Bert was caught........but he still went on, pushing and disabling people. But lots of good also happened, while the family thought Bert was in Australia, his Mother could see no wrong in him.

[Kathleen Motteler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plenty Of Plot Twists

A glimpse into the Suffragettes fight for women's right to vote, the hardships of the working classes, especially women, and life in England in the early 1900s.

[Sammi Heslop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant with a surprising ending.

[Tracy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am so enjoying this series and can’t wait to start the next one by June Francis When the clouds go rolling by the first 2 books are so enjoyable
I can’t wait to follow their lives into the future

[Chery · Rating 5 out of 5]

Book review is for all 5 Saga books.

I loved all the characters. Alice had me a little crazy on the last 2 books but the story had me wanting to know what happened to the next character introduced which kept me intrigued until the fifth book.

I personally would of liked more of the hocus-pocus but that's just my 5c.

Definitely reading more of June Francis