How many women can you fit into one body? A novel of split personalities. A marriage, its breakdown, and a perforated heroine: one woman, many faces, many personalities, and more emerging: a crumbling house, and the rooms of that house (which in our dreams are aspects of the self). Any more trauma and it's all over! Sir Edwin Rice has decided to divorce Lady Angelica, ex-rock star. She has behaved intolerably. He petitions the Court to set him free. Angelica fights back. She...
A Ration Book Childhood (East End Ration Book, #3) (Ration Book)
by Jean Fullerton
In the darkest days of the Blitz, family is more important than ever.With her family struggling amidst the nightly bombing raids in London's East End, Ida Brogan is doing her very best to keep their spirits up. The Blitz has hit the Brogans hard, and rationing is more challenging than ever, but they are doing all they can to help the war effort. When Ida's oldest friend Ellen returns to town, sick and in dire need of help, it is to Ida that she turns. But Ellen carries a secret, one that threate...
A HEARTWARMING WARTIME TALE FEATURING THE NURSES OF THE NIGHTINGALE HOSPITALBY SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS________________________________________FOR THE NIGHTINGALE NURSES, THE WEDDING BELLS ARE RINGING...East London, 1917. Anna is over the moon when her sweetheart Edward returns from the front line. As he recovers from injuries sustained in war, they make plans to be married. But the horrors of the trenches cast a long shadow.Caring for shell-shocked soldiers brings untold ch...
When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother, she is forced to leave London to go to live with her estranged father in the wilds of Dartmoor. Accustomed to the bright lights of a big city, she is unprepared for the hardships of living in a remote, primitive cottage in an all-but-deserted village. And her newly found father isn't quite what she had expected, either. The dour Sidney Latham takes a little getting used to; he can be sullen and quiet, and he has a temper on him, but Lily is dete...
"1952. Orphaned as a young child, Emma Booth was raised by her grandparents in a Lancashire village. Following the death of her grandfather she assumes she is now without family, until she finds a letter from her widowed father written in 1940 revealing that Emma has a half sister. Leaving the countryside to post-war Liverpool Emma is reunited with her sister Betty and they get along well until Betty's cousin Dorothy reveals secrets from the past that may disrupt their newfound relationship and...
With a handsome police officer for a husband and a brand new house in a quiet street bordering Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Mae Kelly appears to have it all. Glasgow in the 1970s is proving to be a challenging place to live for some of her neighbours. All Paul Brownlee and Clive Westley want to do is live together but spiteful Reverend Denby is determined to make sure that won't happen. Meantime, Charlotte Arlington-Jones and her friend Gemma Ford are bitterly opposed to the Asian family on the stre...
Emily Dennistoun lives alone with her elderly tyrannical father at Borriston Hall in the south of Scotland. She has few companions since her much loved governess was dismissed, and lives mainly through her writing. But on the night of a terrible storm when a fishing-boat from the village is lost, she meets Kitty, widowed in the tragedy, and forms a closer bond with her brother Charles. Charles introduces her to a bohemian couple and their friend Francis, to whom Emily is irresistably attracte...
A mother must fight to protect all she holds dear... Thirteen years have passed since Kevin Dolby was sent to prison for robbery with violence. In the meantime, his ex wife Pearl Button has divorced him and remarried, determined to protect her son from knowing who his real father is. Then she hears two pieces of terrifying news - Kevin Dolby is up for parole and that her dear friend Bessie is gravely ill. Bessie has taken on Nora Dobbs, a young woman and s...
London's Most Wanted Rake (Rakes Who Make Husbands Jealous, #4) (Mills & Boon Historical)
by Bronwyn Scott
'CHANNING DEVERIL: A NEW WOMAN EVERY NIGHT. YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT SCANDALS? YOU ARE A SCANDAL!' Rumour has it that Channing Deveril, founder of The League of Discreet Gentlemen, is tired of warming women's beds. But when he encounters the alluring Alina Marliss the stage is set for his most ambitious assignment yet... Alina is accustomed to teetering on the edge of scandal, so Channing's skilful seduction is a complication she definitely doesn't need! She might crave his expert touch but she has...
Pregnant By The Sheikh (The Billionaires of Black Castle, #3)
by Olivia Gates
At first sight, Sheikh Numair Al Aswad's lethal sensuality overwhelms Princess Jenan Aal Ghamdi. And when he rescues her from an arranged marriage, he has a shocking price...an heir! Though logic screams no, her body and soul burn for him. Numair has come from the darkest of pasts to exact revenge - and to claim his throne. Jenan is vital to his plans. But his cold-blooded scheme melts under the heat of their passion. Now he must choose: his lifelong ambitions or the woman who carries his unbo...
A Debt Paid In Marriage (The Business of Marriage, #1)
by Georgie Lee
Laura Townsend's plan to reclaim her family's merchandise backfires when she creeps into moneylender Philip Rathbone's house and threatens him with a pistol - only to find him reclining naked in his bath! The last thing she expects to see is this guarded widower on her doorstep a couple of days later, armed with a very surprising proposal! A marriage of convenience might be Laura's chance to reclaim her future, but she won't settle for anything less than true passion. Can she hope to find it in...
The third in a series of books featuring four young women whose lives will be forever changed by WWII. Perfect for fans of Katie Flynn. As the daughter of the local cinema manager, Sally Brewer has always dreamed of stardom. When she gets offered a theatre job in London, any fancy notions she has are quickly dashed when faced with the reality of long hours with no prospect of a speaking part. But all of this goes out of Sally's mind once the nightly hail of German bombs start...
The Cavendon Women (Cavendon Hall, #2) (Cavendon Chronicles, #2)
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
A stately home. The roaring twenties. And four spirited girls who must forge a new future for themselves - and for the estate. On a summer weekend in 1926 the Ingham family gathers at Cavendon Hall, the great house in Yorkshire that has been their family home for centuries, summoned by the Earl. With them are the Swanns who have served the house for generations - and know all their secrets. The estate is under threat: the aftermath of the Great War has left Cavendon facing ru...
Is it a baby trap or will the boss become a dad? Only from USA TODAY bestselling author Maureen Child! When Jenny Marshall meets gaming tycoon Mike Ryan, she thinks she's met The One. But when he realizes she's his competitor's niece he believes she's spying on him! Jenny thinks she's done with Mike until she gets a new joband he's her boss! His angelic-looking employee is more temptation than Mike can resisteven if he still can't trust her. Now, she's pregnant with his baby. Is she playing th...
He knows she's coming for him... And he's ready to turn the tables! When tabloid columnist Elena Rollins shows up uninvited to a private, star-studded party at Mesa Falls, Gage Striker sees red. Though it's been six years since their abrupt breakup, the scars - and attraction - are still fresh. Certain his ex has a score to settle, the playboy banker vows to protect his ranch's scandalous secrets. Protecting his heart is a different story.
The fourth novel in a stunning series set in eighteenth-century Cornwall, perfect for fans of Poldark.Educated, beautiful and the daughter of a prosperous merchant, Angelica Lilly has been invited to spend the summer in high society. Her father's wealth is opening doors, and attracting marriage proposals, but Angelica still feels like an imposter among the aristocrats of Cornwall. When her brother returns home, ill and under the influence of a dangerous man, Angelica's loyalties are tested to th...
Nothing Ventured is the incredible and thrilling novel by the master storyteller and bestselling author of the Clifton Chronicles and Kane and Abel, Jeffrey Archer. This is not a detective story, this is a story about a detective William Warwick has always wanted to be a detective, and decides, much to his father's dismay, that rather than become a barrister like his father, Sir Julian Warwick QC, and his sister Grace, he will join London's Metropolitan Police Force. After graduating from uni...
The Teashop Girls is a warm and moving tale of friendship and love in wartime, by the bestselling author of the Woolworths series, Elaine Everest.It is early 1940 and World War Two has already taken a hold on the country. Rose Neville works as a Lyon's Teashop Nippy on the Kent coast alongside her childhood friends, the ambitious Lily and Katie, whose fiance is about to be posted overseas in the navy. As war creates havoc in Europe, Rose relies on the close friendship of her friends and her fami...
All they ever wanted was somewhere to call home... Beaten When Jenny's mother abandons her and her younger siblings, Jenny is left at the mercy of her abusive father Henry. And when Henry beats his eldest daughter so badly that she ends up in the hospital, it seems like there's nowhere left for them all to go. Broken But carpenter Craig has fallen head over heels for Jenny, and he offe...