From the outside, they look like a perfect couple: beautiful, intelligent and cultured, Vanessa seems an ideal wife for Roland Antrobus, a man fifteen years her senior who runs a small art gallery in Wolverhampton. Yet both have their secrets. And the facade starts to crumble when Vanessa meets the persuasive, charming Larret Fitzgerald, fiance of her spoilt half-sister Sybil. Vanessa finds she has placed her happiness in jeopardy and started a chain of events which dramatically alters her futu...
Winter Song is the fourth book in the five novel Furys sequence. All five novels have been reissued by Faber Finds. Self-contained, as all the others are, it can be read with satisfaction on its own but if read as part of the continuum an even richer enjoyment is gained.
At the turn of the century, the North of England was a hard, bleak world, where joy and love were words in someone else's book; where men were resigned and women oppressed. Rebellious and beautiful Maggie flew in the face of that harshness, and found that her passion was to cost her dearly.
Seaside Embrace (Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers) (Love in Bloom: Seaside Summers, #6)
by Melissa Foster
SEASIDE EMBRACE is a USA Today Bestseller! IN SEASIDE EMBRACE... After working hard all day, creating his beautiful metal sculptures, sinfully sexy Hunter Lacroux likes to unwind with a hot, sexy babe--or two. But after spending a handful of naughty nights with seductive and beautiful Jana Garner, the woman who challenges everything he does and says, Hunter wants more. As a dancer, boxer, actress, and waitress, Jana is tough, organized, and as dedicated as she is committed. She has to be...
In the small town of Eden, Virginia, 16-year-old Tallie is sweeping up cut hair at the Klip 'N' Kurl, plotting ways to get the attention of the local heart throb, taking care of her daddy, and considering how things might have been different if her mother, Dinah Mae, hadn't died four years before. Focused on the secrets, dreams and love that bind a mother and a daughter even after death, the novel alternates between the summer of 1992, when the Glamour Company comes to Eden, seducing the townsw...
First appearing in the novel Billy Phelan's Greatest Game, and again in Ironweed--which won the Pulitzer Prize--members of the Phelan clan moveew novel. Three generations of the family are played out in ambitious and brilliant fashion, making for a sparkling literary experience.
`You looked for a moment as if you might be going to smile at me,' he remarked. `But I see I was mistaken; I suspect your smiles are precious and you hoard them so they are seen only by very special people.' Anna is a child living in a remote Hebridean community when she meets the enigmatic and romantic Jimmy Pearl. She carries the memory of their meeting through to adult life - a life that is full of hardships. Anna's parents die and her brother and his wife sell the family croft, forcing Ann...
Pierre was not to know that his action set off a chain of events which would involve his family and their offspring in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, World War I and World War II. Which side would they be fighting on?'
17-year-old Liza is happy working as a lady's maid, until her employers decide to emigrate and her father decides that she is to marry an older widower whom she detests. Determined to avoid a loveless marriage, Liza plans to run away to Australia with her employer's family.
Saga Six Pack 6 (Saga Six Pack, #6)
by Henry Rider Haggard, Snorri Sturluson, and Charles W Whistler
Lesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past. Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: 'Forgive Me'. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be comfortable and secure - but Flora's suicide changes everything. And when Eva discov...