Books like The wedding dress by Virginia Ellis

Alice Walker's 1982 novel, The Color Purple, won the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, exploring the lives of black women in the South and their experiences of abuse and struggle for independence.

Sisters Vianne and Isabelle are pulled into the turmoil of World War II, each forging a path of courage and resistance against the Nazi occupation of France.

A heartbreaking, Pacific‑Northwest summer reunites estranged sisters Meghann, a divorce attorney, and Claire, who falls in love, as they confront past betrayals and discover the healing power of family.

In Salem, Massachusetts, a woman with psychic gifts investigates the disappearance of a beloved innocent while struggling with her family’s legacy of lace-making.

Three sisters, adopted after a wartime romance, are reunited across Paris, New York, and Appalachia, where secrets and tragic truths challenge family bonds.

An Oxford student interviews a 93‑year‑old London Blitz survivor, 93‑year‑old artist Isabel MacFarland, who reveals long‑kept secrets about her wartime experiences and identity.

Loraine and her father had never been very close, and it was therefore astonishing to discover after his death that he had been greatly concerned about her and had appointed a guardian for herself and her affairs. She wished he had chosen someone a little less problematical than a remote sort of cousin living in Paris and had little doubt the cousin wished that too. Since he could not come to England himself, her guardian summoned Loraine to Paris, and she found herself abruptly transferred from the relative seclusion of an English boarding-school to the heady atmosphere of Paris in May. At the age of eighteen she was not likely to resent that, and from the moment she stepped off the train at the Gare du Nord, she was tinglingly aware of a subtle excitement in the air which belongs solely to Paris. Her only concern was her unknown guardian and his plans for her, but it was through him she found a dazzling career in the world of fashion -and also the love of her life.

The illustrious Harte family saga continues as Emma Harte’s great-granddaughter, Evan Hughes, navigates love, loyalty, and a looming family rival while uncovering secrets that reshape her future.

When a summer tragedy shatters a beloved lakeside family retreat, one sister strives to heal old wounds and restore the ties that once bound her sisters and nieces together.

The story of Isabel and Anne Neville, daughters of the Earl of Warwick who fought for both York and Lancaster, and Anne's unexpected marriage to Richard III and York's rise to power.