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1) The swimmers
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
Description
Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees ... Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2020
Description
From the bestselling author of Villa of Sun and Secrets. Take time out to find what makes you happy... When Retreat owner Amy offers three lucky competition winners a holiday on the Cote d?Azur, she has no idea that this simple act of kindness will have life-changing repercussions on her own life as well as those who join her? Young entrepreneur Chelsea has just been subjected to a very public relationship break up and needs to get away to lick her...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2019
Description
Everyone deserves a chance at happiness... Danniella is running from her past, so when she arrives at the beautiful seaside resort of Whitsborough Bay, the last thing on her mind is making friends. After all, they might find out her secrets? Alison is fun, caring and doesn't take herself too seriously. But beneath the front, she is a lost soul, stuck in a terrible relationship, with body confidence issues and no family to support her. All she really...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora's fortune was about to change. Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescued her from her life of poverty on London's streets. Adopted as one of their own, she shed her rags and was finally given a place to call home. When a twist of fate calls her back to the cobbles, Flora's new life is torn apart. Flora must make her own way if she is ever to find where she truly belongs.
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Henry dreams of silence. A world without the clattering of carriages through cobbled streets, the distant cries of drunken brawls, the relentless ticking of the clock. Then he meets a fascinating, mysterious gentleman who sells just that. Precious silk that can drown out the clamour of the world - and everything Henry is so desperate to escape. Summoned to Sir Edward's secluded factory to try to cure his young daughter's deafness, Henry is soon drawn...