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Beach View Boarding House volume 14
Pub. Date
2018
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It's the end of May 1944 and the rumours are growing of an impending allied invasion into France. The wireless is now the background noise of everyday life in Cliffehaven, and everything stops in the factories, homes and pubs when the news comes on. But Peggy and the residents of Beach View have other concerns. As D-Day draws closer, it's not just the course of war that's causing havoc in Cliffehaven.
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Beach View Boarding House volume 10
Pub. Date
2016
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It's 1943 and Peggy Reilly is at her best when the troubles of war come knocking at the door of Beach View Boarding House - especially when it concerns her younger sister, Doreen. Doreen is divorced from Eddie, but his letters have taken on a more threatening tone of late. When Doreen barely survives a traumatic disaster whilst on leave in London, she returns home to Peggy and Cliffehaven in the hope that the love and comfort she will find there can...
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Beach View Boarding House volume 8
Publisher
Magna
Pub. Date
2015
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Mary Jones has just celebrated her eighteenth birthday and said goodbye to her childhood sweetheart Jack, when she learns that a bombing raid has killed her parents and destroyed her home. Her father's trunk is still intact amid the ruins, and Mary discovers a shocking secret amongst his diaries. Mary travels to Cliffehaven on the south coast in search of answers. Here she is billeted with Peggy Reilly's fearsome sister, Doris. When warm-hearted Peggy...
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War has not been kind to Carol Porter. It took her husband and baby, and with them her heart. At last she's found some peace, working as a land girl at Coombe Farm. But Carol's sanctuary, the whole local area in fact, is about to be disrupted. When Pauline Reilly hears Carol's news she's worried for her little sister. But as rumours about Slapton Sands reach Cliffehaven, Pauline can't help be more concerned for her only surviving son. And despite...
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September 1940. Staff nurse Polly Brown has been granted a post at Cliffehaven Memorial Hospital on the south coast to be near her badly injured husband, Adam. But her decision has meant that she has had to part with their beloved five-year-old daughter, Alice, who is travelling to safety in Canada.