Jenny Ashcroft
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Pub. Date
2017
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When 22-year-old Olivia is coerced into marriage by the cruel Alistair Sheldon she leaves England for Egypt, his home and the land of her own childhood. Reluctant as she is to go with Alistair, it's in her new home that she finds happiness in surprising places: she is reunited with her long-estranged sister, Clara, and falls - impossibly and illicitly - in love with her husband's boarder, Captain Edward Bertram. Then Clara is abducted from one of...
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1897. Identical twins Harriet and Mae have always struggled to see eye-to-eye, but when one sister's envy of the other results in a shocking betrayal, she realises the only way she can make amends is by making the ultimate sacrifice. But that sacrifice has repercussions throughout the generations - and when in 1941 Ivy arrives in Singapore, posted there with the Women's Royal Naval Service, wanting to learn more about the period in her family's history...
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Sphere
Pub. Date
2020
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Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a fresh start. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement: the war, those treacherous seas, her family, her fiance - but she can't help herself. Within weeks, she's boarding an enormous convoy, already too attached to five-year-old Walter Lucknow. But rural Queensland, and the cattle station home of Walter's parents, is not as either of them were told to expect. Rose cannot leave this little...
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HQ
Pub. Date
2022
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Under the Cretan sun, in the summer of 1936, two young people fall in love. Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather, in the shoreside villa her lost mama grew up in. When she arrives in 1936, she believes the long, hot weeks ahead will be no different to so many that have gone before. But someone else is visiting the island that year too: a young German man called...
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HQ
Pub. Date
2024
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Cornwall, 1934. Violet Ellis is living in the shadows of her father's ruined reputation. So, when wealthy widower James Atherton offers her employment, she immediately begins the treacherous journey to his home on the remote Cornish island of Aoife's Bay - despite the bone-chilling allegations surrounding his late wife Elizabeth's death. In James's company, Violet begins to feel the love that has been missing all her life. But when anonymous letters...
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Soundings Audio Books
Pub. Date
2021
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Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered. Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a fresh start. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement but she cannot help herself. Within weeks, she is boarding an enormous convoy, already too attached to five-year-old Walter Lucknow. But rural Queensland...