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Above the Bright Blue Sky
Margaret Thornton
Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years - ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father's death, and her new stepfather and stepbrother moved into their small terraced house in Armley, Leeds. Suffering abuse at her cruel stepbrother's hand, and mer...
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Ripples on a Pond
Madge Swindells
The well-heeled village of Temple Minnis, placid and picturesque, presents a façade as smooth and calm as its deep, dark lake. But all is not as it seems. Simon Shepherd's marriage is a sham, his daughter running wild. When he awakes one night to the smell of woodsmoke, his fur...
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A Fatal Reunion
Penelope Evans
Hey you! After all these years?
'Only one person used to write to her like this. And she fell for it. And kept on falling, deeper and deeper, until there was nothing there to catch her. Except me. I picked her up and put her together. Held her together like glue that takes an age to bind....
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The Mystery Writer
Jessica Mann
From the bestselling author of Out of Harm's Way, this utterly compelling novel blends fact and fiction, past and present to make for a tantalising read that both haunts and intrigues.
1940: SS The City of Benares is carrying child evacuees to safety from wartime Britain, among the...
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Encarnita`s Journey
Joan Lingard
It is 1920 and the beautiful village of Yegen, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, awakens to a new year and two events that are to change the pueblo for ever: the birth of Encarnita, a beautiful dark-eyed girl; and the arrival of the British writer Gerald Brenan and his string of artis...
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