Two penn'orth of sky is all you can see from dirty, cramped Nightingale Court where Emmy lives with her widowed mother. Her main aim in life is to escape and she sees marriage as her best way out. When Peter Wesley, First Officer aboard a cruise ship, proposes, she...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Liverpool, 1935. Kathy Kelling is coming home to Daisy Street from her first day at the High School, longing to tell her friend, Jane, all about it. Then her brother, Billy, has a serious accident and Kathy's schooling is in jeopardy. The Kellings' life becomes a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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Set in Liverpool in the 1920s, this is a heartwarming tale of triumph over adversity, from the Sunday Times bestselling saga author, Katie Flynn.Dympna Byrnes lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Micheál, and does her best to...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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It takes courage to overcome the odds...Liverpool 1928: abandoned by her mother at a very young age, Dot McCann lives a lonely life with her distant aunt and uncle. A cuckoo in the nest, she spends her days trying to keep out of trouble. When Dot overhears a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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A family divided by war but united by love.Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer, Neil Sheridan, commander of a corvette. They have a daughter, Libby, and a beautiful home near Prince's Park in Liverpool.When war comes, Marianne...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-12-23

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The war might be over but the hardship remains in this setting and story expertly portrayed by the million copy and Sunday Times bestselling author Charlotte Bingham, for fans of Louise Douglas and Dinah Jefferies.'Heartwarming and full of period charm... One of...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Would she ever find somewhere she truly belonged?__When Polly Anna's mother died when she was just three years old, it seemed the workhouse was the only place for her to go. But with the help of Jonty - a young misfit who soon became her best friend - she managed to...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-12-15

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Little Sarah is found in the snow: an orphaned new-born baby. She is taken in at Meadow Hall in South Riding, Yorkshire, to be trained as a scullery maid. Feisty and headstrong, at fourteen Sarah decides to run away. Dressed as a boy, she meets good-hearted Aidan and...

Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-12-02

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Hull, 1874. The beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to her origins far away from the streets of Hull. Even at her cousin Elizabeth's wedding, she is the belle of the ball. But as she looks on at...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-11-30

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Fern Jenkins' life is changed for ever when her brother is killed in action and her father dies in a mining explosion. Turned out of their home by the ruthless pit owner,Fern and her mother Wynne are forced to seek a new life in Cardiff. Whilst Wynne finds work in a...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-11-25

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With all the grit and glitz of the 1970s East End, the new Sally Worboyes is simply compellingAnna has everything to make her happy - a husband, a lovely little house in Bethnal Green, two much-longed-for twin baby boys. But recently her husband Frank has been acting...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-18

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An enchanting story of life and love in 1950s Ireland from one of the best saga writers around.Kate Flowers has spent all her young life by the banks of the Grand Canal in Ballygrace. Her dreams of becoming a nurse and leaving the quiet countryside of her home have been...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-18

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‘As always Dilly keeps you absorbed right to the end’ Choice‘A rollicking, fast-paced adventure with a hint of romance!’ My Weekly---When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-11-04

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Dark, erudite and like An Instance of the Fingerpost, utterly compelling, The Dream of Scipio confirms Iain Pears as one of Britain's most imaginative novelistsSet in Provence at three different critical moments of Western Civilisation - the collapse of the Roman Empire...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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A classic story from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Dilly Court.London, 1874When Lucetta Froy wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers nothing of the events that brought her to her present state.She's taken home by two rough-speaking individuals who claim to be her...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-16

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He claimed to be a man of God. But he did the devil's work.Thomas Thorpe hides his carnal desires under the mask of a pious lay preacher. When Ann Spencer rejects his advances, he evicts her from her home, claiming she is living in sin with a young man not her blood...

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-09-12

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Since Susannah Cates's husband was sent to prison three years ago, life has been a constant struggle to provide for herself and their teenage daughter. Nothing ever seems to go right and the most she hopes for now is that nothing more will go wrong. Worried by her...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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Nest and Mina still live at Ottercombe, their beautiful old rambling childhood home in the depths of Devon. They came to the house before the war, when as small children they played with their sisters and brothers in the gardens and the woods and the nearby beach while...

Editeur : Transworld Digital
Parution : 2010-08-31

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There's nowhere quite like Burracombe - a village full of warmth and intrigue...It's a summer's day in 1953 that turns Hilary Napier's life upside down. When Marianne, a beautiful French woman, knocks on her door, Hilary can't help but be struck by Robert, the young boy...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-08-19
Collection : Burracombe Village
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