In working-class Leeds in the 1920s, Jess is starting on her journey through life. Growing up in the aftermath of the Great War, she is torn between her downtrodden father and her cantankerous, ambitious mother. After a disastrous spell as housekeeper to the local...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-04-07

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The Sight of the Stars chronicles four generations of the remarkable Anring family as they journey across a teeming canvas of history, through world wars and the close of a century, through years of love, loss, sacrifice and unimaginable betrayal. It is about what...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-03-24

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Hyacinthe has always been the quiet one: gentle, artistic, never glamorous. Swept off her feet by an ambitious young doctor, she is happy to put her own ambitions as a designer to one side, to become the mother of two lovely children.Until the day she must face the...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-03-24

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January, 1920. Young Englishwoman Margaret Dalton is full of excitement as she arrives in Sydney to begin a new life in the warm, golden land of Australia. She leaves behind the horrors of WWI and can't wait to see her husband, Frank, after two years of separation.But...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-03-22

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They are the most unlikely friends: rich, kind, Cecile; brave, talented Norma; and Amanda, the poor girl they met at college. Now Cecile has married her talented architect, Amanda has married Norma's brother and Norma has found a niche with her work as a teacher and...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-02-25

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**Don't miss Jenny Holmes's latest wartime series, The Air Raid Girls. Part 3 - The Air Raid Girls: Wartime Brides - is available now!**----------------------------Orphaned young, Violet Wheeler has been brought up by her aunt - but after Winnie's death, she feels like...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2016-02-25

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In the small mining village of Meryen, a dark secret lurks…Amy Lewarne finds her life changed forever when she finds her brother, Toby, dead – and trouble follows when Titus Kivell, the head of a powerful yet belligerent family, puts his son Sol in Toby's place. Despite...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2016-02-25

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Once he had been Farin of Hawkcrest Hold. Then he had been known as Farin Harper, Knight of Westria. Now he is simply Silverhair the Wanderer. Protected only by his sword, his harp and his songs, pursued by a powerful enemy, the path he must tread leads among goddesses...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-02-18
Collection : The Chronicles of Westria
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At the age of eighteen, Alice Ware is pretty, charming and impetuous. Back home in Yorkshire at the start of a new century, she is determined to seize any fresh opportunities and experiences that come her way. The arrival of a new neighbour, the elegant and scandalous...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-02-04

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THE TENTH CLIFFEHAVEN NOVEL BY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR ELLIE DEAN‘I’m not working on a factory floor or digging for victory, but in my own small way I do what I can for those I love.’ It’s 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2016-01-28
Collection : The Cliffehaven Series
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There’s no escape from the effects of war...It’s June 1914 and young Connie Lovell should be helping with the war effort. Instead, she applies for a job at the London Herald, where she meets the handsome editor Stephen Clayton.Nine years her senior, she knows her family...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2016-01-28

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On an ordinary day in 1941, a letter arrives on the doormats of five young women, a letter which will change everything.Lillian is distraught. And whether she tears, hides or burns the letter the words remain the same - she must register for compulsory war work. Many...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2016-01-28
Collection : The Bomb Girls
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The four jewels of power had been created by a priestess in the days when the Covenant between the people and the Guardian of the land had been threatened.The heirs of her line held the Jewels - one of each of the sovereign elements - and through them, ruled Westria. ...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2016-01-21
Collection : The Chronicles of Westria
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In the final months of 1945, victory ceases to be a distant dream and for Rhoda Harding and many others, a feeling of hope is in the air. Rhoda is hoping for a change. Married to Alec for more than twenty-five years, she now finds herself reluctant to settle into...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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When Tim and Sue Marshall take in a local boarding school boy on their farm, they watch as the shy, bespectacled Quentin changes beyond recognition. As the years go by there are big changes for everyone, Sue sees her family growing up and realizes that things can never...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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Cynny Barlow is just eighteen when she falls helplessly in love with the dashing Ralph Clinton, an ambitious and talented actor visiting her home town for the summer. However, when Ralph is talent-spotted by a film producer, he puts everything behind him and leaves for...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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Sophie and Lydia Westlake have always been close, and think of each other as sisters, despite the fact that they are really cousins. Sophie has always been the prettier, more light-hearted younger sister, whilst Lydia has grown up in her shadow, and is more serious and...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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In the halcyon days of the 1930s Sebastian Kilbride, a screen idol, and Nick Kennedy, his accountant and financial adviser are close friends, enjoying an almost idyllic lifestyle. The lives of their wives and families are intertwined. Tessa Kilbride, in contrast to her...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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When Jane Bradley elopes with one of her father's employees, she soon realizes that she had a romantisized view of married life.When Ian is disappointed with her in more ways than one, Jane finds comfort with the local doctor, who is drawn to her, but has to conquer his...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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Since the death of her parents when she was three years old, Anna Bartlett has lived with her grandfather and his housekeeper at Dunsford House. Growing up in the remote countryside of the Berkshire Downs, Anna leads a sheltered life and has few friends her own age. So...

Editeur : Piatkus
Parution : 2016-01-14

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