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(0)Janet Woods
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A novel of Victorian England - Raised in the slums in 1850s London, Celia Laws is a rarity, an educated young woman whose creative skills have attracted notice. But with family to care for, circumstances have driven her to pickpocketing. In Celia?s harsh world, it?s a small step from picking pockets to prostitution. When a young man offers her a fortune to spend a week with him, she takes the money and runs. But Celia?s conscious can?t allow her to...
2) Paper doll
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It's the early 1920s. Julia Howard is a perfect daughter to her father, a toy manufacturer who created a paper doll in her image. However, Julia longs to cast off her goody-goody reputation, but her plans to do so are thwarted by wealthy businessman Latham Miller.
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1835, England. Serafina Finn is conceived as the result of a love affair between a sea captain and a married woman, who dies giving birth to the child. Abandoned to an orphanage Serafina grows up being blown from pillar to post, never quite knowing who she is and longing for the security of belonging somewhere.
4) Tall poppies
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One woman - two loves . . . - Dorset, 1917. If it's not enough that a girl from a good background is forced to work as a maid, Livia Carr is then violated by her master and falls pregnant. But help unexpectedly comes from her attacker?s son, Richard, a WWI hero who is not expected to live much longer. He marries her, and his death, though expected, comes as a great blow. Into the breach steps Livia's first love, Denton Elliott - but he does not know...
10) Different tides
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1835. Clementine Morris, despite her youth and inexperience, is hired by Zachariah Fleet to care for his recently orphaned niece and nephew. He tells her he wishes the young children to have more than a governess, and her heart goes out to the grieving infants. Clementine, too, is an orphan, and all alone in the world. But little does she know that
13) Secrets and lies
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1933. Esme Carr leaves her closely-knit family behind in England and travels to Australia with her best friend, in search of adventure. There, the young women learn the value of friendship and compromise as they support each other through the good and bad times, to eventually find love.