Reviews
THE NEW NEIGHBOURS
“Diney Costeloe writes with great style. A compelling storyteller, she draws you inexorably from page to page. [The New Neighbours] is an excellent read, I enjoyed the story enormously and escaping into it was a wonderful way to relax.”
Sally Alford, former HTV presenter
THE THROWAWAY CHILDREN
‘Enlightening, compelling and emotional.’
Living North
‘A great success.’
The Weston, Worle and Somerset Mercury
About Diney Costeloe
DINEY COSTELOE published several successful sagas in the 1980s, before family life intervened. She lives in Somerset.
Visit her website: dineycosteloe.co.uk
Or follow her on Twitter: @Dineycost
Also by Diney Costeloe
The Lost Soldier
(previously published as The Ashgrove)
In 1921, eight ash trees were planted in the Dorset village of Charlton Ambrose as a timeless memorial to the men killed in World War One. Overnight a ninth appeared, marked only as for ‘the unknown soldier’.
But now the village’s ashgrove is under threat from developers.
Rachel Elliot, a local reporter, sets out to save the memorial and solve the mystery of the ninth tree. In so doing, she uncovers the story of Tom Carter and Molly Day: two young people thrown together by the war, their love for each other, their fears for the present and their hopes for the future. Embroiled in events beyond their control, Tom and Molly have to face up to the harsh realities of the continuing war, the injustices it allows and the sacrifices it demands.
The Lost Soldier is available here.
The Sisters of St. Croix
(previously published as Death’s Dark Vale)
A gripping story of love, death and danger in Nazi Occupied France.
When Adelaide Anson-Gravetty finds out her father is not the man who raised her, she is both shocked and intrigued. Determined to find out more about her new family, she travels to the convent of Our Lady of Mercy in France to meet her aunt, the Reverend Mother.
But when France falls to the German army, Adelaide and the nuns are soon in the thick of a war that threatens both their beliefs and their lives. Collaborating with the resistance, sheltering Jewish orphans, defying the rulings of Vichy France: these are dangerous activities in dangerous times.
These courageous women must give all they’ve got in order to protect the innocent from the evil menace of the Nazi war machine.
The Sisters of St. Croix is available here.
The Runaway Family
(previously published as Evil on the Wind)
Germany 1937: Fear and betrayal stalk the streets. People disappear. Persecution of the Jews has become a national pastime.
When Ruth Friedman’s husband is arrested by the SS, she is left to fend for herself and her four children. She alone stands as their shield against the Nazis. But where can she go? Where will her family be safe?
Ruth must overcome the indifference, hatred and cruelty that surrounds her as she and her family race to escape the advancing Nazi army’s final solution…
The Runaway Family is available here.
COMING SOON…
The Girl With No Name
Lise is thirteen when she arrives in England in August 1939, with just one precious letter from the mother she will never see again. Bullied at school for being German, worse is to come when the Blitz blows her new home apart and she wakes up in hospital, with no memory of who she is or where she came from. Only the letter in her pocket gives a clue as to her identity, so the authorities give Lise a new name, make her a ward of court and despatch her to a children’s home.
But one person is sure that she is still alive – Harry, the trouble-prone boy who protected her at school is determined to find and rescue Lise again if he can.
The Girl With No Name is coming in April 2016
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First published in 2001 by Castlehaven Books
This eBook edition first published in the UK in 2015 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Copyright © Diney Costeloe, 2001
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ISBN (E) 9781784972653
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