Foxden Hotel (The Dudley Sisters Saga Book 5) by Madalyn Morgan (ebook reader ink txt) 📕

Bess picked up the empty boxes that the decorations had come in and Frank and Nancy joined her to admire the tree.

‘You made a good job of putting the fairy on top, Nancy,’ Frank said.

‘She’s an angel,’ Nancy replied, wearing her serious face. ‘Her name is Goldie.’

Frank looked at Bess and winked. Bess returned the wink and bending down to Nancy said, ‘I think Goldie is a perfect name for an angel.’

THE END

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Madalyn Morgan has been an actress for more than thirty years working in Repertory theatre, the West End, film and television. She is a radio presenter and journalist, writing articles for newspapers and magazines.

Madalyn was brought up in Lutterworth, at the Fox Inn. The pub was a great place for an aspiring actress and writer to live, as there were so many different characters to study and accents to learn. At twenty-four Madalyn gave up a successful hairdressing salon and wig-hire business for a place at E15 Drama College, and a career as an actress.

In 2000, with fewer parts available for older actresses, Madalyn taught herself to touch type, completed a two-year correspondence course with The Writer’s Bureau, and started writing. After living in London for thirty-six years, she has returned to her home town of Lutterworth, swapping two window boxes and a mortgage, for a garden and the freedom to write.

Proud to be an Indie Author, Madalyn has successfully published four novels in The Dudley Sisters Saga. Foxden Acres, Applause, China Blue, and The 9:45 To Bletchley. Set in WW2, the novels tell the wartime stories of Bess, Margot, Claire, and Ena Dudley. Foxden Hotel is the fifth book in the series, but not the last.

FUTURE BOOKS

Madalyn is currently making plot notes for the next novel. It doesn’t have a working title yet because Foxden Hotel was going to be the last in the Dudley Sisters Saga. It was going to have a happy ending with every member of the Dudley family together at the Foxden Hotel celebrating Christmas. However, that was not to be. I wrote three endings, but not one of them rang true. They each felt contrived, forced, and unnatural.

Because you have reached the end of Foxden Hotel, you know that Bess is waiting for her sisters to come home for Christmas. Ena is coming up from London, Margot from Coventry - and Claire, after a distressing time with her husband Mitch who is suffering from shellshock, is flying home for Christmas from Canada. No spoilers, but there is much more for Claire and Mitch to go through. And, with the cold war round the corner, there is more to come from Ena and her husband Henry, who both work for MI5.

Outline of earlier books in the Dudley Sisters Saga.

FOXDEN ACRES:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00BCX59LE/

Foxden Acres, the first book in the saga, begins on the eve of 1939 when twenty-year-old Bess Dudley, the daughter of a Foxden groom, bumps into James Foxden the heir to Foxden Estate. Bess, a scholarship girl, lodges at Mrs McAllister’s boarding house in London while studying to be a teacher.

With offers of a teaching job in London and Foxden, Bess opts for Foxden, to be near James. However, when she is told that James is betrothed to the socially acceptable Annabel Hadleigh, Bess accepts the teaching post in London.

When war breaks out and London’s schoolchildren are evacuated, Bess returns to Foxden to organise a team of Land Girls, and turn the Foxden Estate into arable land. James, having joined the RAF, is training to be a bomber pilot at nearby Bitteswell Aerodrome.

German bombs fall on London and Mrs McAllister’s house is blitzed to rubble. South Leicestershire is scarred too, when an RAF plane carrying Polish airmen crash lands in a Foxden field. Traditional social barriers come crashing down when Flying Officer James Foxden, falls in love with Bess, but is it too late? During the time Bess has been back at Foxden she has grown to like and respect Annabel Hadleigh. How can Bess be with James knowing it would break her friend’s heart? Besides, Bess has a shameful secret that she has vowed to keep from James at any cost.

APPLAUSE:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00J7Y5LCW/

Applause is the second book in the saga. In the early years of World War Two, Margot (Margaret) Dudley works her way up from usherette to leading lady in a West End show. Driven by blind ambition Margot becomes immersed in the heady world of nightclubs, drink, drugs and fascist thugs – all set against a background of the London Blitz.

To achieve her dream, Margot risks losing everything she holds dear.

CHINA BLUE:  http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00XD85NQW/

China Blue, the third book, is Claire Dudley’s story. At the beginning of World War II Claire joins the WAAF. She excels in languages and is recruited by the Special Operations Executive to work in Occupied France. Against SOE rules, Claire falls in love. The affair has to be kept secret. Even after her lover falls into the hands of the Gestapo, Claire cannot tell anyone they are more than comrades.

As the war reaches its climax, Claire fears she will never again see the man she loves.

THE 9:45 TO BLETCHLEY: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01GEVW3Z8/

The 9:45 To Bletchley is the fourth book in the Dudley Sisters Saga. In the midst of the Second World War, and charged with taking vital surveillance equipment via the 9:45 train, Ena Dudley makes regular trips to Bletchley Park, until on one occasion she is robbed. When those she cares about are accused of being involved, she investigates, not knowing whom she can trust.

While trying to clear her name, Ena falls in love.