Rosie Thomas
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Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. She invites five of her oldest friends to come & join her, & stave off the prospect of old age. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on them, & the isolation of the group is breached.
2) Constance
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Constance, a musician, composer and arranger of other people's music, has made a new life for herself in Bali. On hearing the news of her sister's serious illness, the last thing she wants is to leave the relaxed lifestyle and return to London.
5) White
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As the group of climbers set out, the physical and emotional demands test each character. At the heart of the story is the relationship between Finch, Sam and Al - two men driven by different demons and a woman with a dream of her own.
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman whose dream is to
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Harper
Pub. Date
2015
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MOON ISLAND On a small stretch of wild coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May, arriving for the summer, feels isolated and resentful. Leonie, next door, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets. Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl. As she immerses herself in the past, she begins to feel she is destined to follow...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2014
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THE WHITE DOVE Born an aristocrat, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and balls. But Amy is ill-suited to a life of indulgence, and eagerly embraces a nursing career, where she is drawn into the radical politics of the day. As the spectre of war looms, Amy's bittersweet love for the proud miner Nick Penry leads them to the conflict in Spain, where love and pain become inseparable agonies. THE POTTER?S HOUSE Olivia Giorgiadis...