Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bid Time Return | 1993 | Lilian Harry | Buy |
| 2 | An Endless Song | 1994 | Lilian Harry | Buy |
The Cumbrian Saga draws on the twelve years Lilian Harry spent living in the Lake District after remarrying. Bid Time Return (1993) and An Endless Song (1994) are set in a Cumbrian community and follow the lives of local families through a period of change. The Lake District setting distinguishes these books from her better-known Portsmouth and Devon novels, and the landscape plays a strong role in both stories.
The two books were written during the period when Harry was transitioning from publishing romance novels as Donna Baker to writing longer historical fiction under her own pen name. The Cumbrian Saga sits between those two phases of her career, combining the romantic elements of her earlier work with the community-focused storytelling that would define her later series.