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Yet, living in her ancient and beautiful home, Owlscote, she is haunted by the loss of her baby cousin.
As the years pass, and as the world descends into the horrors of war once more, the question remains: A terrible tragedy alters three girls' friendship forever Set in the late s and s, Judith Lennox's The Dark-Eyed Girls tells the story of three friends, Liv, Katherine and Rachel, and their changing relationships over the years.
Perfect for fans of Lucinda Riley and Lulu Taylor. Cynical, pragmatic Katherine, who throws herself into her career in order to avoid domesticity, embarks upon a risky affair and is suffocated by the very dependence she has fought to avoid. And Rachel, dearly loved Rachel who wants for nothing throughout her young life, marries against her parents' will, and then meets tragedy The bond between Liv and Katherine weakens over time, but as Katherine uncovers the awful truth about Rachel, and Liv begins to put together the pieces of her shattered life, their friendship is reaffirmed and their lives go forward with dark-eyed girls of their own.
What readers are saying about The Dark-Eyed Girls: I could not put this book down''A tremendous read''Lovely, lovely book that I couldn't put down'. Can anything break the ties that bind? Two families are torn apart by love, secrets and betrayal in the aftermath of the Second World War in Judith Lennox's spellbinding novel Written on Glass.
Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Lucinda Riley. It is and the old families of the Temperleys and the Chancellors have been neighbours on the South Coast of England for many years. Now the younger generation has been touched by the Second World War.
A Song At Sunset has 90 ratings and 9 reviews. Ann said: This is a relationship tale about three women in three generations of the same family: Carrie th. SONG AT SUNSET. SPLENDOR of ended day floating and filling me,. Hour prophetic, hour resuming the past,. Inflating my throat, you divine average.
Reserved, principled and cool-headed Marius Temperley has left the army and is struggling to fit into civilian life. His twenty-one year old sister, Julia, is quick-tempered, proud and passionate and, since her father's recent death, has been running the family business, fiercely independent in her ambitions.
Handsome, but emotionally distant Jack Chancellor has been demobbed and has another problem to face. Both he and his younger, more naive and impetuous brother Will, are in love with Julia. Jack doesn't want to lose her, but his sweet, slightly gawky cousin, Topaz, lets slip that their imperious Aunt Carrie has a plan for him: As the years go by, the family secrets come out, and it seems that the ties that bind can change relationships for ever What readers are saying about Written on Glass: When a family is forced to leave its beloved home, the sense of injustice never dies Middlemere is a compelling tale of one family and their quest for independence from acclaimed author Judith Lennox.
Perfect for fans of Dinah Jefferies and Kate Morton. The Coles have lived in Middlemere for half a century.
When, in , they are threatened with eviction, they flee the house. But not before eight-year-old Romy, hiding in a cupboard, sees her father shot dead.
Missing her best friend terribly, she throws herself into helping Ollie, neglecting her own imminent wedding. Three women must find their way through a world changed by war What readers are saying about The Secret She Kept: Alison Wood rated it it was amazing Jun 23, A wartime love affair tears a family apart. Marine archaeologist Jack Howard returns to the lost island of Atlantis in the Black Sea to answer questions about the Atlantis priests that have plagued him. Skinner revisits his nightmares:
Years later Romy, now almost nineteen, is quick, clever and single-minded. She schemes to restore the family fortunes, to rescue her mother from drudgery and to protect her brother, Jem, a charming scoundrel who is always in trouble. Most of all, she longs to escape the poverty and narrowness of her surroundings.
A chance meeting with Mirabel Plummer, owner of the exclusive London hotel, The Trelawney, is about to change Romy's life for ever What readers are saying about Judith Lennox: A desperate fight for her birthright and freedom Spiced with the colour and sensuous splendour of the sixteenth-century silk trade, Judith Lennox's The Glittering Strand is the triumphant story of a young woman's fight for independence.
Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore and Kate Morton. Serafina Guardi and her father, a wealthy silk merchant from Marseilles, are sailing to Italy to celebrate her betrothal when their ship is captured by Barbary corsairs. Serafina finds herself plunged into the unknown, brutal world of the North African slave states.
From there, she begins the long struggle to free herself from servitude. Serafina's wit and beauty are tempered by her ruthlessness - a ruthlessness which eventually threatens to lose her both her lover and her child. Embattled by the prejudices of the age and by the ambitions of her treacherous cousin Angelo, Serafina fights against poverty, loneliness and despair, vowing to regain her lost inheritance - the Guardi silk house - at whatever cost.
Three women must find their way through a world changed by war Set against a backdrop of London, Paris and the unchanging English countryside, The Winter House by Judith Lennox is a novel of rare warmth and beauty. Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore and Santa Montefiore. Winter or summer, they would meet at the old wooden house by the waterside to confide all the secrets and heartaches of childhood and adolescence.
There was Robin, idealistic and clever, destined for Cambridge; Maia, the most beautiful and ambitious of the three, looking for a rich husband; and quiet Helen, living under the seemingly benevolent tyranny of her widower father, the local vicar. Adulthood separates the three girls, and Robin, abandoning ideas of university, goes to London to work amongst the poor, meeting there her first great love, the handsome but brittle Francis. Maia's ideal marriage to a wealthy man ends in tragedy and Helen, meanwhile, kept in near-imprisonment by her obsessively protective father, has her very sanity threatened.
Amid political and social upheaval, these three women must find their way in a world changed for ever. What readers are saying about The Winter House: The past takes action on the present in A Song At Sunset, as secret lovers torn apart in World War Two separates a mother and daughter by guilt and shame forty years later. When the Second World War breaks out, Carrie Chapman rebels against her controlling husband to work at a local hospital. Amidst the chaos of the Brist…. Legg eboken i handlekurven - 59,- 59,-.
Undertittel A moving World War Two love story of family, heartbreak and guilt. Forfattere Amelia Carr forfatter. Utgitt 10 desember A Woman of Secrets Amelia Carr 39,-. Dronen Unni Lindell ,- ,-. En grav for to Anne Holt ,- ,-. Amidst the chaos of the Bristol blitz, Carrie finds herself falling in love with a young doctor, Dev.
Carrie's willing to defy convention and leave her stifling marriage for Dev, but one summer evening, horrific events change Carrie's life for ever.