A new novel from a much-loved storyteller
1919, London's East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper's family arealso preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. After five years ofeparation and anxiety - and,...
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During Spain’s turbulent 1960s, in a mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family.
Carla hates everything her parents stand for. She has embraced the student movement against Franco’s regime...
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1947. Excited and in love Gracie Brown leaves her home in England and moves to America with her husband Jeff. With little money and no job prospects, the couple move in with Jeff’s parents whilst they find their feet in a land where promise seems to only come to those who start off f...
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March 1915. Caroline Lilley’s fiancé, Reggie, is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and returns home at this request. Frustrated in her desire to help the war effort, she throws herself into saving the harvest by organising the village women – and runs up ag...
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The end of the old world’ people said about the long hot summer of 1914. It was the last season of optimism, of certainty about the future as the sun set on the Edwardian age.
That summer Aunt Tilly comes to stay with her brother the Rector and his four lively daughters in the...
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