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....
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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...
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2022
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Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she's been easy to take advantage of. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her friend Barbara Hayle. Glamorous, and with a successful career on the stage, Barbara seems to be everything that Maureen is not....
7) Daddy's girl
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HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024
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Heartbroken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when their beloved mother dies. Putting her own dreams aside to keep the family together, she's watchful of her youngest sister, Janette, fast on the way to becoming a tearaway. Her father Fred, often in the pub rather than striving to pay the bills, delivers a shock. He's taken up with Mavis Swindel, the landlady of a shabby boarding house and swiftly marries her, moving them all...
8) Alley urchin
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Emma Grady, transported to Australia for a crime she did not commit, believes the child she bore as she left England is dead. However, the baby is still alive and growing up as an alley urchin in the streets of Blackburn.
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Sometimes a damaged child becomes a broken man... It's 1952 and Adam Carter is seven years old, an only child with no friends or any self-confidence. His father Edward is a bully of a man: a successful and ruthless businessman, he breeds fear in the hearts of his family. Adam's mother Peggy is too cowed to protect her son, so his only support comes in the shape of Phil Wallis, the school bus driver. One particular afternoon, when Adam is his last...
10) Journey's end
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Harper
Pub. Date
2008.
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Following the fortunes of some of the much-loved characters from 'The Journey', Josephine Cox's latest novel spans continents, decades and generations of one family.
11) Born bad
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Pub. Date
2009
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18 years ago Harry made a decision that drove him from the place he knew and loved. Through every waking moment during the intervening years, he was haunted by what happened when he was a boy. He had never forgotten that girl with the laughing eyes. Now Harry is heading back. He needs to know the outcome of what happened all those years ago.
12) Lovers and liars
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
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In the sleepy Lancashire village of Salmesbury, childhood sweethearts Emily and John are secretly planning a life together when they are cruelly forced apart. Already abandoned by her father, and unhappy at home, Emily is heartbroken when John leaves the village. Her life takes a devastating turn for the worse when she gives birth to a child. Many miles away, John is trying to forget Emily and forge a new life. Having carried her in his heart for...
13) The gilded cage
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Headline
Pub. Date
1999
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Leonard Mears is a powerful man with a hard heart. Ruthlessly presiding over his wife and children, he shuts them away from the outside world. However, he has reckoned without the rebellious nature of his eldest daughter, Amelia.