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Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2019
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The best days of your life might be still to come? When 73 year old Jen announces that she is going to marry Eddie, a man she met just a few months previously on a beach on Boxing Day, her four best friends from aqua aerobics are flabbergasted. The wedding is booked and, when the groom decides to have a stag trip to Las Vegas, the ladies arrange a hen party to beat all others -a week in the city of love, Paris. From misadventures at the Louvre, outrageous...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2020
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When Edie?s mother-in-law, Anna DeLuca, dies, she is relieved. Edie blames Anna for the accident that destroyed her family. So, when her will lures Edie to Sicily and the long-abandoned Villa della Madonna del Mare, she sees through Anna?s games. Suspecting Anna is meddling from beyond the grave to try to reunite her and her ex-husband Joe, Edie is determined to leave Italy as soon as possible. But before she can, the villa starts to shed its mysterious...
3) Angel's wish
Author
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Suffolk, 1924. After the death of her fiance in the field hospitals of France, Angel becomes nurse to the MacDonald family in the small village of Uffasham. Taking residence at the appropriately named Angel Inn, she is met by many new faces - and old ones, too. Edith, a fellow nurse from the war, while taking great interest in Angel's new life, refuses to let her forget her old one. As Angel grows closer to her employer, Robert, Edith threatens to...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Dee Jensen's life is about to get complicated... She's just found out that if she wants to start a family she needs to get on with it - fast. But her almost-definitely boyfriend Nat has almost-definitely just broken up with her. Could platonic co-parenting - where two friends have a child together with no romantic connection - be the easy answer? Dee finds herself suggesting the idea to a chef she's just met called Andy. And in the cold light of day...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Summer 1939 - When war breaks out, Sylvie is marooned with her cousin Nell's family in the Chiltern hills and cannot return to her Normandy home. During the early days of rationing, blackouts, and the threat of bombers in the skies, Sylvie and Nell have to grow up quickly. Yet as the war rages around them, it's the competition and jealousy between the two that dominates their lives. When the girls fall in love with the same man, their relationship...
6) Martyr!
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2024
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Cyrus Shams is lost. Ever since his mother?s plane was senselessly shot down over the Persian Gulf when he was just a baby, Cyrus has been grappling with her death. Now, newly sober, he is set to learn the truth of her life. When an encounter with a dying artist leads Cyrus towards the mysteries of his past - an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as an Angel of Death, a haunting work of art by an exiled painter - he finds himself...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it?s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long? From the bombed-out...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
New starts and hopeful hearts... At 25, Daisy May?s life is not living up to expectations. Her childhood dreams of being an artist feel as unachievable as a committed relationship or managing to save enough money for a deposit on a house. But a surprise inheritance could change all that. After Daisy learns she?s now the new owner of a forty-foot narrow boat, she sets out for Wildflower Lock, where the fresh country breeze and the calm water is enough...
Author
Series
Escape to volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
An opportunity of a lifetime? When Jenny has the chance to leave her days of sofa surfing behind and move to the beach to run her best friend?s ice cream parlour, she jumps at the opportunity. With no relevant experience, she?s certainly kept busy with learning new skills to manage the ice cream parlour at the same time as juggling motherhood and trying to settle into their new home. But when Nick, her best friend?s ex, comes into her life, ill feelings...
Author
Series
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Love, second chances and new beginnings? When Kim Reynolds learns how unhappy her daughter is, she realises the perfect remedy is a completely fresh start. Giving up the corporate job she?s worked towards her entire life, Kim is determined to make Berry Grove Bed & Breakfast a success, but more importantly, she?s determined to support her daughter Mia as she settles into her new life. But when Danny, Kim?s childhood sweetheart, turns up, buried feelings...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
1940, London When Cordelia accepts the post of head librarian in Silver Town Library, her mother is more than a little disapproving. The East End has high levels of poverty and illiteracy, and her mother says it?s no place for a woman of her status. But Cordelia is determined to make a difference in these times of strife, and along with her colleagues, Jane and Mavis, she begins to help the local community, making sure everyone knows what the library...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Kent, 1939 Soon to marry her childhood sweetheart, Eliza thinks her life is set. But when war breaks out, everything changes and, while helping the soldiers returning from Dunkirk, she bumps into Lewis, an unforgettable stranger from her past. Eliza?s in-laws? country home becomes a cell for code breakers receiving messages from the French Resistance, with Eliza as translator. When Lewis is assigned to head up the team, the pair fall dangerously in...
13) The toxic friend
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
After spending her childhood in care, Eva is desperate to find her birth parents and to get some closure on her difficult past. And so she finishes her relationship with boyfriend Gareth, leaves her home in London, and heads to Whitby in search of the family she has never known. But Eva?s close friend, Celia is worried. Eva has stopped answering her calls and when Celia travels to London to speak to her she realises Eva has moved without telling anyone....
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
A holiday dreams are made of... Newly single on the day she turns thirty, Freya Johnson boards a last-minute flight to Corfu. Little does she know this holiday will change her life forever. Enter Hollywood film star, Nicholas Kaden, whose entourage is stirring up the village of Kassiopi while he films his new movie. He?s hot, he?s unexpectedly down-to-earth, but is he for real? Throwing caution to the wind, Freya lets herself get caught up in this...
Author
Series
Pilot's Girl volume 4
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order in the next instalment in the Pilot's Girl series from bestselling author Fenella J Miller. January 1944 Heavily pregnant, Barbara is looking forward to welcoming her new baby. But with her husband Alex still away flying and fighting the Germans, she fears he will miss the arrival of his longed-for child. But after the birth, Barbara is gripped with a terrible fear that she will lose her family completely - that this dreadful war will take...
Author
Series
Pilot's Girl volume 3
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2024
Description
Pre-order in the next instalment in the Pilot's Girl series from bestselling author Fenella J Miller March 1941 Recently married, Barbara should now be enjoying her life as a newlywed, but she is plagued by a secret that she must keep hidden if she wants to keep the family she loves. But no one can keep a secret forever. Barbara knows that if her new husband Alex, a Spitfire pilot, discovers her secret he would surely reject her and their marriage...
Author
Series
Escape to volume 2
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
Cosy up with this heartwarming Christmas romance filled with hope, love and new opportunities? When Chrissy Marsden moves her children and menagerie of pets into Corner Cottage, she hopes to put her divorce behind her and have the fresh start she?s been longing for. Just as she feels she is finally getting her life back on track, with a chance encounter at the school gates re-igniting her passion for sewing, a surprise pregnancy throws everything...
Author
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
It was meant to be the start of quiet season in the sleepy Cornish village of Seal Bay, but not for sexagenarian librarian and wild swimming enthusiast Morwenna Mutton. Because when a local businessman is found on the beach with a bread knife is his back, bungling police officer DI Rick Tremayne is soon out of his depth. Morwenna knows it's going to be down to her to crack the case. The list of people the victim upset is long, the evidence is slight,...
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Series
Girls From the Italian Resistance volume 1
Publisher
Boldwood Books
Pub. Date
2023
Description
1943 Lidia De Angelis has kept a low profile since Mussolini?s laws wrenched her from her childhood sweetheart. But when the Germans occupy Venice, she must flee the city to save her life. Lidia joins the partisans in the Venetian mountains, where she meets David, an English soldier fighting for the same cause. As she grows closer to him, harsh German reprisals and her own ardent patriotic activities threaten to tear them apart. Years later While...
Author
Publisher
Canelo Escape
Pub. Date
2023
Description
If your loved one could stay another day, what would you do? Diana Merriman is probably the only person in the small town of Snow Haven who isn?t looking forward to Christmas. It?s been three weeks since her fianc ̌Linus was hit by a car as he biked home from the toy store he owns. When she uncovers the surprise gift Linus had bought her for Christmas - a snow globe of their town - the night before Christmas Eve, little does she know it will set...