1938: Lady Vita Goldsborough lives in the menacing shadow of her controlling older brother, Aubrey. But when she meets local artist Dodie Blakeney, the two women form a close bond, and Vita finally glimpses a chance to be free. 1997: Following the death of her mother, Eve Blakeney returns to the coast where she spent childhood summers… Continue reading Vita and the Birds by Polly Crosby
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Summer Wedding by Sarah Morgan
A family weddingCatherine Swift is a bestselling romance author, but her personal story hasn’t been quite so successful; three failed marriages have left her relationship with her daughters strained. Engaged once again, Catherine is counting on this wedding, at her villa in Corfu, to finally bring the family together. A summer of secretsAdeline can’t believe… Continue reading Summer Wedding by Sarah Morgan
The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe
Born into a basket of clean sheets—ruining a perfectly good load of laundry—Emmeline never quite fit in on her family’s rural Nova Scotian farm. After suffering multiple losses in the First World War, her family became so heavy with grief, toxicity, and mental illness that Emmeline felt their weight smothering her. And so, she fled… Continue reading The Spoon Stealer by Lesley Crewe
Only love can hurt like this by Paige Toon
Neither of them expected to fall in love. But sometimes life has other plans. . . When Wren realises her fiancé is in love with someone else, she thinks her heart will never recover. On the other side of the world, Anders lost his wife four years ago and is still struggling to move on.… Continue reading Only love can hurt like this by Paige Toon
The Forgotten Garden by Sharon Gosling
Budding landscape architect Luisa MacGregor is stuck in a rut – she hates her boss, she lives with her sister, and she is still mourning the loss of her husband many years ago. So when she is given the opportunity to take on a parcel of land in a deprived area, she sees the chance… Continue reading The Forgotten Garden by Sharon Gosling
The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel
Success would depend on taking a dangerous risk.When Blaise Hill, a feisty young journalist from one of Sydney’s toughest neighbourhoods, is dispatched to London at the dawn of the swinging sixties to report on Princess Margaret’s controversial marriage to an unconventional photographer, she is drawn into an elite realm of glamour and intrigue. As the… Continue reading The Royal Correspondent by Alexandra Joel
The Secret Shore by Liz Fenwick
As one of the Navy’s most skilled mapmakers, Merry knows the very lives of men far away depend on her work in the War Office. But when a family crisis draws her back to her beloved Cornwall, Merry finds herself working alongside an enigmatic American officer on secret operations spanning the rugged coasts of Cornwall… Continue reading The Secret Shore by Liz Fenwick
One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley
On a suburban street filled with secrets, 84 year old Edie Green must look back into the past to discover what happened to her friend Lucy, who went missing years before . . . A mystery she can’t remember. A friend she can’t forget. I kept your secret Lucy. I’ve kept it for more than sixty… Continue reading One Puzzling Afternoon by Emily Critchley
A Stepney Girl’s Secret by Jean Fullerton
A brand new heart-warming and atmospheric saga fiction series from Jean Fullerton, charting the loves, hopes and heartaches of three women who move into a rectory in Stepney, East London during WW2. East London, 1940. At the outbreak of war, hopeless romantic Prue Carmichael and her sister must leave their rural parish behind when their father… Continue reading A Stepney Girl’s Secret by Jean Fullerton
The Arrow Garden by Andrew J King
When lonely and socially isolated translator, Gareth, takes up traditional Japanese archery in 1990s Bristol, he learns that to study Kyudo is to reach out, to another culture, another time, other people… But when one of them reaches back, two lives that should never have touched become strangely entangled. In wartime Tokyo, Tanaka Mie finds… Continue reading The Arrow Garden by Andrew J King
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