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(0)Dilly Court
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Rockwood Chronicles volume 3
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2022
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After the sudden death of her husband, Patricia Greystone is left with nothing, and at 24, she finds herself a penniless widow. As the youngest child of a large family, she has always been headstrong and proud - so she?s determined not to return to her family cap in hand. Instead she strikes out on her own. The dark streets of London are the perfect place to hide from the world, and Patricia makes her living singing on the streets. But the city is...
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On a bitter winter's day, an unnamed girl lies dangerously ill in hospital. When two coarse individuals come to claim her, she can remember nothing, not even her name. According to the men, she is their young sister, Lucy. As her health improves and her memory gradually returns and she realises she has been kidnapped.
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The river maid volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
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The third book in the stunning ?River Maid? series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtAs the ship glided into the harbour, guided by the wintery waters of the Thames, Rose took a deep breath. Had she done the right thing? Leaving everything behind her to follow the man she loved?But as London refused to appear through the thick fog that engulfed it, Rose felt more lonely than ever?Raised in Australia, Rose Munday is on the way back to the city...
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The river maid volume 2
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The second book in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court1873. When Carrie Manning?s father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father has left behind.But the company is in dire straits, forcing Carrie seek work as a companion to Maria Colville. When Carrie...
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Phoebe Giamatti lives with her boisterous Italian family in the heart of London's East End. Her father was killed in gang warfare and the family has a deep hatred for the Paxman brothers. One day Phoebe discovers her mother is in trouble - and the Paxmans are involved. Originally published: 2011
12) The button box
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2017
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Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London?s notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family? but who was going to save her? There was a time when the Carter sisters? father was their hero. Now he?s a drunk who?s gambled away everything they had and put them all in peril. It's on Clara's shoulders to save the four sisters from destitution. Clutching her precious button box, the only thing of value...
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When 17-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage.
17) The river maid
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The River Maid volume 1
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The stunning new novel from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly CourtLondon, 1854: twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father?s beck and call.Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a room in Essie?s house,...
18) The swan maid
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2016
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Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London?s busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie is too worn out to even dream of a better life.Until one night an injured soldier is brought to The Swan. Lottie nurses him back from the dead and suddenly everything changes. She finds herself following the drum of the soldiers, all the way from the docks of Chatham to the darkness...