Secrets Of The Riverview Inn (The Riverview Inn, #2)
by Molly O'Keefe
Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a world full of magical possibilities for Justin, teaching her valuable lessons of love and loyalty, and encouraging her to change, to learn, to grow. But the lessons of the finishing school have their dark side as well, as...
Winter Hunger (Wheatheart Legacy) (Wheatheart Chronicles)
by Dr Cliff Schimmels
'She tried to cut out the reality of her life, but it was no use; nothing had changed and she doubted if it ever would. Her marriage had been like a fragile cliff that was constantly being hit and ravaged by huge devastating waves, each one destroying a little more of the love that had been its true foundation.' Jennifer and Peter Redmond have been married for 25 years. It has been a wonderful marriage - until their 24th wedding anniversary, when everything starts to change. Peter becomes absorb...
The Countess And The Miner (Ulverscroft Large Print)
by Olga Sinclair
Countess Anastasia and Irena, an illiterate peasant girl, were worlds apart, but when Duncan MacReith learned Lord Eveson had raped Irena he rushed to the big house intent on revenge. But with Eveson having hurriedly departed, MacReith is confronted by the Countess. Now, as a welcome diversion in her unhappy, childless marriage, she does not turn him away. The pair talk, drink vodka and lose all inhibitions. When both the Countess and Irena find themselves pregnant, Anastasia's announcement is m...
Against the backdrop of the Preston docks, with the looming warehouses and great ships preparing for war, Katherine Shaw faces many an ordeal and crosses many a hurdle before she can find for herself and her little brother Micky security and contentment in a challenging world.
Quintessential Tyler, yet full of surprises - a perfectly pitched, enchanting and affecting novel about a man adrift in his own life, "Noah's Compass" chimes gently, heartbreakingly with our times. With the humour and poignancy of her classic "The Accidental Tourist" (though with a protagonist who doesn't venture far from home) Anne Tyler's new novel tells the story of a year in the life of Liam Pennywell, a man in his sixty-first year. A classical pedant, he's just been 'let go' from his school...
Ismay Deagan has one wish in the world - to leave Ireland and join her brother, Bram, in Australia. However, her father has other ideas and orders her to marry their vicious neighbour Rory Flynn, even though she loathes him. But after Rory brutally attacks her Ismay realises she has to escape. So, disguising herself as an impoverished young widow, she sets sail for Australia, hoping to be reunited with her brother. When she meets Adam Treagar on the ship, she finally starts to believe her dreams...
Thirty years ago, Abel Truman found himself on the wrong side in the Battle of the Wilderness, one of the bloodiest clashes of the American Civil War. Its aftermath took him to the edge of the continent, the rugged coast of Washington State, where he has made his home in a driftwood shack with his beloved dog, waiting for the scars of war to heal. Now an old and ailing man, Abel must make one heroic final journey over the snowbound Olympic Mountains. It's a quest he has little hope of complet...
A life-affirming and romantic novel from one of the world's best loved writers__Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers.First arrives Eileen - a young, attractive...
Born into terrible poverty, Millie Ash's hopes for a better life are threatened by a fatal accident in Dee Williams' heartrending new saga Millie Ash, born into terrible poverty in the backstreets of the East End, has always wanted to better herself. She gets her chance when she lands a position as a lady's companion, her charge the disabled daughter of a well-to-do London family. Millie adores her work, and even starts to develop feelings for the son of the house. But years later a tragic accid...
A Winter Love Song is a heartwarming and moving story of survival and love from bestselling author Rita Bradshaw.Bonnie Lindsay is born into a travelling fair community in the north-east in 1918, and when her mother dies just months later Bonnie's beloved father becomes everything to her. Then, at the tender age of ten years old, disaster strikes. Heartbroken, Bonnie's left at the mercy of her embittered grandmother and her lecherous step-grandfather.Five years later, the events of one terrible...
For fans of Daisy Styles, a heart-warming wartime saga about a group of women who work in an armaments factory. No matter how hard the times, despite bombing, short rations, cruel men, unwanted pregnancy, through thick and thin friendship will pull you through. Autumn, 1944. Doodlebugs are the latest threat to war-battered southern England. At Priddy's Hard munitions factory though, Em Earle is about to suffer a threat to her livelihood from much nearer home. Local crook Samuel Golden is back...
It's January 1955 and for the residents of Meadow Lane, a small community of seven terraced houses, each household has its own story ...But when Sadie returns to Meadow Lane from Canada with her son and no husband, she throws the small community into turmoil. She tries to rekindle an old flame, despite him now being married with two children. Then Sadie's son, unhappy with his mother, runs away, desperate to get back to Canada to be with his father.Depressed by how life is turning out, Sadie sta...