Belle Of The Back Streets & The Tuppenny Child 5 Books Collection Set By Glenda Young - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set:
Belle of the Back Streets
The Tuppenny Child
Pearl of Pit Lane
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
The Paper Mill Girl

Condition: BRAND NEW
Format: Paperback

Overview:
This five-book paperback collection brings together Glenda Young’s interconnected historical sagas set in the pit villages and industrial streets of early twentieth-century North East England. Each title follows ordinary women navigating poverty, family duty, and community ties while working in traditional trades such as rag-and-bone collection, pit labour support, paper mills and domestic service. The stories are linked by recurring locations around Ryhope and Sunderland, allowing readers to follow separate yet neighbouring lives across the same tightly knit world. Buying the set together provides immediate access to the full sequence without hunting for individual volumes, creating an unbroken reading experience that captures the rhythm of daily survival and small triumphs in the region’s industrial past.

What Makes This Collection Special:
The books share a consistent regional voice and social detail that builds a vivid portrait of working-class endurance. Characters reappear in the background of later stories, giving the collection the feel of an extended neighbourhood chronicle rather than five isolated plots. Readers gain a layered understanding of how one person’s choices ripple through the community, from the back streets where Meg Sutcliffe calls her wares to the paper works where Ruth Hardy spends her days. The uniform paperback format also makes the set practical for display or gifting, while the shared setting rewards sequential reading. Together the volumes deliver sustained immersion in a single historical landscape without the usual need to track down missing instalments.

Books Included in This Collection:
Belle of the Back Streets
Meg Sutcliffe’s familiar cry echoes along Ryhope’s back streets as she sells from her rag-and-bone cart, a trade she inherited from her father after the First World War. The novel follows her daily rounds, the sharp-eyed customers she meets and the quiet resilience required to keep the family business alive in changing times.

The Tuppenny Child
Seventeen-year-old Sadie Linthorpe arrives in Ryhope alone, looking for work and a place to belong in the pit village. Her arrival draws immediate attention, and the story traces how she builds a life among suspicious neighbours while carrying the weight of the phrase that has followed her from childhood.

Pearl of Pit Lane
After her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is raised by her aunt Annie Grafton. The two struggle to pay rent and put food on the table, yet their bond remains strong as Pearl learns the realities of pit-lane life and the limited choices available to women of her generation.

The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
A newborn baby is found abandoned with only a scarlet ribbon in her basket. Housekeeper Ada Davidson takes the child into the wealthy McNally household, where the discovery sets in motion questions of belonging, class boundaries and quiet acts of protection within the grand house known as the Uplands.

The Paper Mill Girl
Seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works long shifts at Grange Paper Works alongside her younger sister Bea, then returns home to care for their ailing parents. The novel captures the grind of mill labour, the comfort of sisterly solidarity and the small hopes that sustain Ruth through exhausting days.

Who This Set Is Perfect For:
The collection suits readers who enjoy historical family sagas rooted in specific regional settings, particularly those who like stories of women’s work and community life in the early twentieth century. It appeals to fans of North East England settings and to anyone seeking a multi-volume sequence that can be read straight through. Parents and gift buyers looking for an immersive yet accessible present will find the uniform paperbacks convenient, while collectors of industrial-era fiction will appreciate the shared geography and recurring social themes across all five titles.

Key Benefits:

• Five complete novels in one purchase, removing the need to source missing volumes later
• Consistent regional detail that rewards reading the books in order
• Strong female protagonists facing recognisable challenges of work, family and reputation
• Uniform paperback format ideal for gifting or shelf display
• Historical accuracy grounded in real North East locations and trades
• Self-contained yet interconnected stories suitable for binge reading
• Brand-new copies delivered together in matching condition

About the Author:
Glenda Young writes historical fiction set in the industrial communities of the