When lovely Laura Chapman wakes up to find herself destitute in a London workhouse with all her belongings stolen, she cannot imagine how she will ever get over the shame. An orphan newly arrived from India, Laura is at the mercy of Jack Plant, the workhouse overseer,...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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When Hannah Fox's younger brother Sam is ridden down in the street by Thomas Truswell, the spoilt son of the most powerful industrialists in Sheffield, she sets off to the Truswell's estate to complain. Lady Truswell is taken with the hot-tempered young girl who has...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts her aunts, and is...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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The evening Rose Bentley takes a short-cut home across the marsh proves a fateful one. Panicked by the rising tide and struggling on a sprained ankle, it is no wonder she imagines seeing a dead body in a mud-drowned gully. Her rescuer Michael Dowland, the brusque but...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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After the death of her mother, Mollie Barnes is sent to live in her aunt and uncle's house and forced to endure her aunt's simmering resentment. One day, the tension explodes, leading to a shocking revelation about Mollie's parentage. Every day, Mollie had been working...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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When Ginny Appleyard's childhood sweetheart returns home after his racing season aboard the yacht Aurora, her hopes that he is bringing her an engagement ring are shattered, as Nathan disembarks with Isobel Armitage; the daughter of Aurora's owner. Instead of the...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-08-07

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The men of the North Wales slate quarries lived dangerous, unhealthy and underpaid lives; as a boy Toby Davies joined them.The quarries taught himprecious truths about poverty and exploitation, but Toby also learned of love from the two beautiful women in his life -...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-08-07

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The acclaimed author ofThe Borrower returns with a dazzlingly original, mordantly witty novel about the secrets of an old-money family and their turn-of-the-century estate, Laurelfield.Meet the Devohrs: Zee, a Marxist literary scholar who detests her parents’ wealth but...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-07-31

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Orphaned by a tidal wave which claims her parents and her home, Ming Pei Sha is at the mercy of a world of human squalor and degradation. Destitute, she sells her body in a loveless match with an old businessman desperate for a son. Pei Sha witnesses first-hand the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-07-24

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Born into the appalling deprivation of Nineteenth Century Ireland, Jess O'Hara and his high-spirited sister, Karen, flee their impoverished homeland to seek a new life in America. Exhausted after a nine-week crossing in an overcrowded, disease-ridden 'coffin ship', they...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-07-24

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Will she ever be her soldier’s sweetheart?Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was sixteen. Only she was too shy to make her feelings known.When Matthew joins the army Jenny is also determined to do her bit for the war effort...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-07-17

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A compelling wartime novel of love, loss and remembrance from the bestselling author of The Shopkeeper's Daughter.August 1914. With the approach of war about to bring tragedy and heartache to families all over England, Elsie longs to do her duty for King and country.She...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-07-10

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A richly detailed historical saga from the bestselling author of Katherine and Green Darkness. 'Anya Seton takes us into other worlds, making us live for a few hours on a grand scale' (Women's Journal)Beginning in 1630, this is the story of the sleepy New England...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-06-19

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The wonderfully nostalgic, vivid and compelling new novel from the Sunday Times top five bestselling author of A Loving Family.From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets.When he...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-06-19

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Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris has written such an immediate and beautiful novel, you'll feel you are...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2014-05-31

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She is a servant girl... When her father becomes ill, Emily Carter finds herself sent into service at Priorsfield Manor in order to provide the family with an income. He will be the Lord of the Manor... Emily strikes up an unlikely friendship with the daughters of the...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-05-22

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1914: Lady Beaufort already has three boys and she certainly doesn't want another child. But her husband Aubrey has always dreamed of a daughter to fill the gap his sister left when she died tragically young. In contrast Harold and Copper Varney are expecting their...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2014-05-15

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A family pulled apart.A love silenced . . . For as long as Briony Valentine can remember she has been soft on Eddie, the boy next door. But their chance of romance is stifled when the Luftwaffe begin dropping bombs on the midlands. Eddie is called up to serve, as is...

Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2014-05-15

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Sadie Raine has a bad reputation...When she runs off with a Canadian airman, her two young daughters are left behind to pick up the pieces.But Cath Raine is determined to rise above the local gossips. Only, when she meets the upper-class Jack on the grounds of his...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2014-05-08

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For the Oaks family at Aumery Park Farm in Sleightholmedale, life and death follow the rhythms of the seasons. As the children grow to adulthood, Jonadab Oaks finds his patriarchal authority diminishing. Joseph is already far away in Canada: now George and Elizabeth...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2014-05-01

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