Kim Hicks
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The events of one fateful night change two sisters' lives forever ... February, 1921. When influenza claims the life of their mother, Daisy Cooper and her younger sister Mary are suddenly all alone in the world. Daisy works long hours to keep a roof over their heads, but she worries she's neglecting Mary. Mary is thrilled when the moving pictures come to Rotherhithe, and she loves watching the silver screen flicker into life. But, for Daisy, the magic...
5) Backlash
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Anna Travis volume 8
Pub. Date
2012
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Late at night a van is being driven erratically. The driver is questioned by the police. A woman on the street after an evening's drinking never makes it home. A suspect, an arrest, a confession. A case done and dusted?
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Molly Bonner is an archaeologist who has come to discover the truth behind the village of Lufferton Boney's greatest and most famous resident, the giant (and slightly obscene) Gnome, a fertility symbol etched into the face of Pound Hill. In the process, she shakes up the lives and loves of the colourful characters he looks down upon. Originally pub
10) Hopes and dreams
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It's 1942 and Dolly dreams of distant lands. As the war rages on, excitement comes in the form of American GIs posted in London. Although Dolly is engaged to Tony she can't help but fall in love with Joe, a dashing American GI.
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Chivers Audio
Pub. Date
2001
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8 9 hrs., 45 mins
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Ruth Bentley feels life has dealt her more than her fair share of trials and tribulations. For the second time she has lost her home and possessions in a bomb attack, her husband is away, daughters evacuated and her mother killed and father injured.
13) Love and war
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Living in their two-up-two-down in Rotherhithe in 1938, Eileen and Ronald Wells lead a happy and settled existence with their three daughters, all of whom have jobs, boyfriends and promising lives ahead of them. But soon the storm clouds of war engulf Europe and they suddenly find their idyllic family life thrown into chaos. Throughout the country young people hasten to join up, and Eileen watches anxiously as her two older girls do the same, one...
16) Truth to tell
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Nina Porter seems to have it all: husband, home, family and security. But her life turns upside down when a marital row over truthfulness sets her thinking. Isn't she dishonest herself, always playing the good wife?
17) Our Yanks
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2001
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During August 1943, a Fighter Group of the American Eighth Army Air Force arrived in a quiet English village. Initially disliked, as time went by the villagers grew to know them and the damned Yanks turned into Our Yanks.
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Fran Varady volume 1
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This work features Fran Varady, who is insolvent, unemployed, nearly homeless, but resolute. When the secret, selfish member of her squat dies, Fran finds herself thinking that all was not as it first seemed.