Josephine Cox
1) Two sisters
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2020.
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The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father's farm. Ellen, loyal and honest, loves the countryside. Gina, impulsive and unreliable, craves excitement and yearns for something more than drudgery and toil. But life for the sisters and their mother is tainted by their father's black moods. His worst treatment is often aimed at Gina, who has given up trying to please the man who seems to despise her. Grindle Hall, the big manor house, is owned...
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Those looking in from the outside think that Lucy Lovejoy's life is like any other, but at the centre of her family there is a big, empty hole where all the love and warmth should be. Over the years her children have watched while their father chipped away at Lucy's self-confidence. Now the children are following their own paths and Lucy has never felt more alone. When tragedy strikes at the heart of her family, it's a wake-up call for her. Everyone...
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Finding a new beginning means taking the hardest road, but the journey is where you find your true courage. Torn away from their beloved home, the journey for the Carter family has just begun. In the middle of the night, Evie is torn away from her beloved home and close-knit community, as her family run away to the south. Her father's luck has finally run out but, what should mark a hopeful new beginning, is just the start of young Evie's troubles....
5) The letter
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Pub. Date
2023
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Bella can't wait to be married to her fiance Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fourteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters...
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Pub. Date
2021
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Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners. Florence doesn't care about the gossips - she's drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains and now Florence...
8) Lonely girl
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015
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One fateful night changes the course of Rosie's life forever. There is a tragic event that Rosie is the only witness to, and it takes away the person she loves most in the world. Grieving and alone apart from her faithful Labrador, she fights her way into the outside world to forge her own path. Will she triumph over the obstacles fate has set in her path, and will she ever find out the shocking truth behind her mother's cruel treatment?
9) Songbird
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In the riverside town of Bedford, four students can hear the haunting voice of a woman singing. The beautiful melody is coming from their neighbour a reclusive creature who never opens the door to anyone or leaves her home in daylight. They have no way of knowing that the woman next door, Madeleine Delaney, is driven by a dangerous memory that for over 20 years has controlled her meagre existence... Madeleine?s angelic voice and striking looks capture...
10) Vagabonds
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Emma Grady trilogy volume 3
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It is 1885 and Emma Grady has returned to her home town of Blackburn. Still haunted by her past she starts to look for her estranged daughter Molly. Fearing that Caleb Crowther, her great uncle, is chasing her Molly and her children run away and become vagabonds.
11) Live the Dream
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When friendship becomes love, two people must face their greatest fear - being hurt again...The powerful bestseller from the country's number one storyteller.
12) A time for us
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Lucy Nolan is the golden girl. The only daughter of local grocers, Sally and Mike Nolan, she's grown up in a home of total love and security. The one thing her heart desires is that Jack Hanson might ask her to marry him, and when he does eventually propose, Lucy is prepared to give up everything to be with him - even though it means leaving her beloved parents to live abroad where Jack has been offered an exciting business opportunity. But then,...
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Headline
Pub. Date
2017
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Although Barney would always love her, his restless soul would not allow him to stay, but Kelly could never have envisaged how his leaving would alter her life. Alone once more, Kelly finds herself remembering the past, particularly the autumn of 1877.
14) More than riches
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Pub. Date
2017.
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With her mother gone and her sweetheart Adam away in the army, Rosie is lonely. She eagerly awaits the letters from him, but they never come. As she grows more disillusioned, Adam's best friend Doug goes out of his way to be charming and attentive. Before long Rosie's world begins to fall apart.