August 7th, 2026
Home | Log in!
Welcome to FreshFiction

Are you a reader
or an author?

Help us personalize your experience. Choose your role below.
You can always change this later using the switcher button.

or

You can switch anytime using the floating button.

Limited Time Fresh Fiction Access

Exclusive Marketing Opportunities for Authors

Curious about how Fresh Access helps authors gain more visibility and connect with active readers?

Discover premium promotional opportunities, enhanced exposure, and author-focused services designed to help your books stand out.

Read More →
On Top Shelf
📚 New Books This Week 📰 Latest News 🎪 Reader Games

Fresh Fiction for August Is Here

Cowboys, castles, and shiftersβ€”this month has it all.

Slideshow image


slideshow image
Hotter than a Tuscan summer.


slideshow image
Some promises cost you the one you love.


slideshow image
Only she can pull him back from the darkness.


slideshow image
One golden retriever knows this is love.


slideshow image
Trust is the fiercest transformation of all.


slideshow image
From Himalayan stargazing to the London Blitzβ€”one love endures.

Lavender Road by Helen Carey

Purchase

Add to Wish List


Also by Helen Carey:

On a Wing and a Prayer, December 2011
e-Book
Some Sunny Day, December 2011
e-Book (reprint)
Lavender Road, November 2011
e-Book

LAVENDER ROAD
By: Helen Carey

Lavender Road #1
Self Published
November 2011
On Sale: November 8, 2011
Featuring: Greville Rutherford; Louise Rutherford; Pam Nelson; Mrs. D'Arcy Billiere; Katy Parsons; Joyce Carter; Jen Carter
384 pages
ISBN: 0750511257
EAN: 2940032872658
Kindle: B0066DLQGM
e-Book
Add to Wish List

Historical

Opening in September 1939 at the beginning of the Second World War, Lavender Road follows the lives of a number of people who live in one South London street through the first year of hostilities.

Lavender Road, set between Lavender Hill and Clapham Common, boasts a pub, two rows of terraced working class homes and overlooking the common at the top end of the road, two big houses, one owned by the local brewer Greville Rutherford and the other by the glamorous eccentric Mrs D’Arcy BilliΓ¨re. Everyone in the road suspects that their courage will be tested and that the war will change their lives, perhaps for ever …

For Joyce Carter, care-worn but resilient, the outbreak of war means a struggle to keep food on the family table. For her daughter, wild, sexy Jen, it may mean an end of her dream to become an actress. For shy asthmatic Katy Parsons, the pub landlord’s daughter, it offers a chance to break free from the life of an invalid if only she can summon the courage to defy her parents and enrol as a nurse. For Pam Nelson, a sickening see-saw of emotions as she fights attraction to her handsome Irish lodger, and for her husband Alan, the demoralising discovery that despite his desperate desire to do his bit, he is considered unfit to enlist. For seventeen year old Louise Rutherford, rich pretty and naΓ―ve, it offers grand illusions of romance.

This compelling novel creates a rich tapestry of life which depicts in all its vivid detail the story of London at War.

Lavender Road

Lavender Road
LAVENDER ROAD
#1.0 β€’ November 2011
Some Sunny Day
SOME SUNNY DAY
#2.0 β€’ December 2011
On a Wing and a Prayer
ON A WING AND A PRAYER
#3.0 β€’ December 2011

© 2003-2026 off-the-edge.net  all rights reserved Privacy Policy