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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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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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
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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?
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The marriage of Marcia and Curt Ratheter seemed idyllically happy. As much in love as on their wedding day, nothing could mar their joy. But one fateful day in 1931 brought Marcia's world tumbling about her ears and left her and her two daughters bereft. Barty Bendall had always loved her, he said; and the girls needed a father. Marcia moved to Blackburn with him, where she tried to forget the past. Barty, though, sank into bad ways, tyrannizing the...
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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....
12) Daddy's girl
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HarperCollinsPublishers
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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...
13) 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.
14) 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...
15) The broken man
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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...
16) 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.
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Queenie returns to Blackburn when her friend Sheila is imprisoned for running a brothel. While visiting Sheila, Queenie is asked by a frail old woman for news of her long-lost son. Queenie sets out to find him, little knowing that Rick Marsden, the love she fled from, is looking for her.
18) 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.
19) 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,...
20) A little badness
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Young Cathy Blackthorn has never experienced any loving response from her mother and when her father returns home with a young lad and announces him as the son they never had, Cathy despairs of ever winning her parents' love.