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Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Evie loved the house. The bright, sunny rooms looking across the river. The terraced gardens with fruit trees growing against the high stone walls. The scent of lavender at the end of a hot day. It was a family house. As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their...
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Language
English
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A compelling new series for fans of }Downton Abbey{ and }The Village{, set in County Durham just before WW1. As an assistant cook Evie is determined to better herself and dreams of running a small hotel, until the declaration of war throws her life into turmoil.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
THE JOURNEY Three strangers are thrown together by chance. It?s an encounter which is destined to change all of their lives for ever. When Ben Morris comes to the aid of Lucy Baker and her daughter Mary, he is intrigued by the story behind their frequent visits to the local graveyard. Later, invited into their home, an old Edwardian place suffused with secrets of the past, Ben hears Lucy?s remarkable tale - one she must tell before it?s too late....
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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'It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon'. This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she and Red fell in love that day in July 1959. The whole family on the porch, relaxed, half-listening as their mother tells the same tale they have heard so many times before. And yet this gathering is different. Abby and Red are getting older, and decisions must be made about how best to look after them and their beloved family...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
What do you do when the man in you life lets you down? Show him the door? Chuck his clothes out of the window? If only it was that easy - especially when you've got an eight year old to think about and a part-time job that barely pays the milk bill.
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merrion have enjoyed a blissfully, uncomplicated relationship in stolen moments in Merrion's flat, and to the rest of the world, Guy has played the part of model husband, father and grandfather. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Gemma Garvey's marriage has been over for ages. And it was Gemma's choice to end it; her decision to go it alone with two kids, rather than pretend the marriage to career-obsessed David was working. So why is she so upset when he marries that flame-haired bimbo, Orla O'Neill? Is it that Orla's nearer in age to Gemma's teenage daughter than to herself? But for Orla, being wife number two isn't all she'd imagined. And the trouble has only just begun....
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Language
English
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Hypnotherapist Ellen has fallen in love with Patrick, and the fact that he has a stalker doesn't faze her in the slightest. If anything it intrigues her, and the more she hears about Saskia, the more she wants to meet this woman. But what Ellen doesn't know is that they've already met.
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged ed.
Language
English
Description
Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: Paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family. Frail and elderly Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an old black and white photograph of a double wedding and looking for a long-lost relation. Her children Bruno and Emma, granddaughter...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Petra's romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she's still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she's been betraying so spectacularly. Meanwhile,...
11) The Forrests
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013 Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish...
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Language
English
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Thirty-eight year old Cassandra is lost, alone and grieving. Her much loved grandmother, Nell, has just died and Cassandra, her life already shaken by a tragic accident ten years ago, feels like she has lost everything known and dear to her. But an unexpected and mysterious bequest from Nell turns Cassandra's life upside down and ends up challenging everything she thought she knew about herself and her family. Inheriting a book of dark and intriguing...
13) A loving family
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Language
English
Description
Stella Barry is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies at sea and the family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister in the slums of London's docklands, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. A year later, having not seen them in all that time, Stella walks to London with a cake for her mother for mothering Sunday. But she discovers the family has disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
When she discovers that she is adopted, Elizabeth Monkton revolts against her affluent surroundings in 1930s Glasgow and throws herself into a teaching career. But still she retains an obsessive desire to be reunited with her real mother.
17) The snapper
Author
Series
The Barrytown trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
This story introduces the Rabbitte family, a motley bunch of loveable ne'er-do-wells. When the older sister announces her pregnancy, the family are forced to rally round and discover the strangeness of intimacy.
Author
Publisher
Black & White
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
When war threatens, Jerry Rae has to leave the security of The Sycamores nursing home where he has worked all his days, to face the horrors of the trenches. At training camp in England he meets the girl of his dreams and falls in love. But before he can even tell his parents he is sent to the trenches.
19) A family secret
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The new novel from bestselling author Josephine Cox. She gets straight to the heartbreak and hope of family drama.
Author
Series
Dilly's Story volume 1
Publisher
Corsair
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Dilly is devastated. With her husband unable to work and four children already at home, they cannot afford to feed their new-born baby. Heartbroken, she heads into the night to deliver her baby girl to the Farthing family at the big house. Having just lost their own daughter to measles, the Farthings adopt the baby and offer Dilly a lifeline: a job as a maid. This act of desperation will change the lives of both families irrevocably - and the onset...
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