Royal Station Master's Daughters

The second heartwarming book in The Royal Station Master's Daughters series. For readers of Maisie Thomas and Daisy Styles. It is 1917 and Maria has adapted well to her new life on the royal Sandringham estate where she works as a maid in the Big House for Queen Alexandra and is in awe of the many treasures around her. It is two years since she turned up at the royal station master's house to escape her secret past, destitute and with nowhere else to turn. Having proven herself to Harry Saward and his daughters, she is now welcomed by them as one of the family. But when Nellie, a mysterious relative turns up, on the run from the law, Maria's new-found happiness could be under threat. Meanwhile, the impact of World War I is felt deeply in the community as the fate of missing men from the Sandringham Company, who fought in Gallipoli, is still unknown. Harry's daughters pull together to support each other and women on the royal estate as they face their sorrows and challenges. Ada's husband, Alfie, is away fighting on the front line while Beatrice is now a VAD nurse at a cottage hospital. Jessie has become a land army girl, proudly doing a man's job, while pining for her sweetheart Jack. In a community torn apart by loss and tragedy, how will the station master's family survive and find the happiness they're all searching for? The Royal Station Master's Daughters at War is the second book in the WWI saga series, inspired by the Saward family, who ran the station at Wolferton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through this family we get a glimpse into all walks of life - from royalty to the humblest of soldiers. Ellee Seymour is a former journalist and PR professional living near Cambridge. The Royal Station Master's Daughters is her debut saga novel, the first in a three book series. Ellee knows the great grandson of Harry Saward, who was the royal station master at Wolferton from 1884-1924, on which the series is based. A dramatic WWI saga The second book in a dramatic and heartwarming WWI saga series. There is a clear market for a saga which features the royals in a small way, yet stays true to the heart of the genre, with a focus on strong women taking charge of their lives in a rapidly changing world. The first book has been very well received by saga fans, particularly in the Memory Lane community. Ellee Seymour was ghost writer for Being the Soham Psychic, published by Headline in 2009, and published The Shop Girls, under her own name with Sphere in 2014. This history of the lives of the women who worked in Cambridge's flagship department store in the 1940s and 1950s was a Sunday Times best read in 2014 and reached #13 in Nielsen's non-fiction paperback chart, and Ellee is still being invited to talk about the book at events across the country. Ellee knows the current Station Master at Wolferton and the great grandson of Harry Saward, both of whom are keen to support the book.