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2017
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A mother always knows best. Doesn't she? What if your choice for your child could harm someone else's? Every mother faces impossible choices. Vaccination is one of the hardest. For single mum Kate O'Hara, there was no decision to make. Her daughter Rosie is one of a small percentage of Irish children who can't be vaccinated against measles. All Kate can do is hope that her little girl is safe. For mummy blogger Madeleine Cooper, it was a leap of faith...
3) Love untold
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Grace is about to turn ninety. She doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades. But to do that she must find her daughter Alys - the only person who can help to put things right. And when she finds her - if she does - she risks betraying granddaughter Elin. Who is far less forgiving of the past, with its hurts and secrets and lies. Meanwhile Grace's great-grand-daughter...
4) Lies
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2017
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WHAT IF YOUR WHOLE LIFE WAS BASED ON LIES? When Joe Lynch stumbles across his wife driving into a hotel car park while she's supposed to be at work, he's intrigued enough to follow her in. And when he witnesses her in an angry altercation with family friend Ben, he knows he ought to intervene. But just as the confrontation between the two men turns violent, and Ben is knocked unconscious, Joe's young son has an asthma attack - and Joe must flee in...
6) Moving on
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Molly Peel feels trapped by her family: her ex-husband Craig cannot seem to abandon his controlling ways despite abandoning her for a younger woman, her lazy son Brian has long been taking advantage of her generosity, and her selfish daughter Rachel is embarrassed by her. When she is blamed for ruining Rachel?s wedding in circumstances beyond her control, Molly decides enough is enough and makes a clean break to Wiltshire to begin a new life. However,...
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Zaffre
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As Christmas grows nearer, Tilly, a young maid, is sent away from her home in London to care for a sick child in an old cottage on the Isle of Sheppey, and she little imagines how her life will change. Having settled in with her new family, Tilly dares to believe that the happiness she's longed for could be hers at last, and that she might finally be free from the secrets of her past. But tragedy strikes, and Tilly is forced to return to London, leaving...
9) Baby love
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Penguin
Pub. Date
2022
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When 14-year-old Laura gets pregnant and is disowned by her family, she finds solace in a community of girls just like her who help guide each other through the difficult years to come.
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Button Street Orphans volume 1
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
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All the Button Street children deserve a good home?Alone and on the streets after their mother ends up in hospital, Charlie has promised his little sister Maisie he?ll never let her feel frightened again. That promise is hard to keep when Maisie falls ill.Hope comes in the shape of Susan and the other nurses at the local hospital. Times are tough and lately they?ve seen even more children come through their doors who need kindness and a loving home.The...
12) A Cornish legacy
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Pub. Date
2025
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Escape to Cornwall this summer with the new emotional and uplifting novel from Sunday Times #1 bestselling author Fern BrittonSet by the wild Atlantic coast of Cornwall comes a story about finding home in the most unlikely places.Cordelia Jago has lost everything. Her mother, her father, her career, her husband and her best friend, her trust. All she has left is a legacy she never expected - and would never have wanted.Wilder Hoo - The Wild House...
13) Postscript
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P.S. I Love You volume 2
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It's been seven years since Holly Kennedy's husband died - six since she read his final letter, urging Holly to find the courage to forge a new life. She's proud of all the ways in which she has grown and evolved. But when a group inspired by Gerry's letters, calling themselves the PS, I Love You Club, approaches Holly asking for help, she finds herself drawn back into a world that she worked so hard to leave behind. Reluctantly, Holly beings a relationship...
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Canongate Canons
Pub. Date
2024
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This is the story of a home. A story rooted in love. The story of a poet born of an Irish jazz musician and a Jamaican go-go dancer, an absent father and a resilient mother. In Springfield Road, Salena Godden evokes an era when oranges seemed bigger and summers were longer, a world of half-penny sweets, free school milk, hand-me-downs and Thatcher?s Britain, for those too young to remember and for those old enough to know. For Salena, it was a time...
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Primrose Square volume 2
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Zaffre
Pub. Date
2019.
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The women of Primrose Square know well that friendship will get them through all of life's joys, heartbreaks and challenges. But every relationship in this close community is tested to breaking point when Frank at number 79 comes home to a surprise birthday party, thrown by his wife and adoring children. He shocks everyone with a bombshell he'd intended to keep secret till the end of his days. Nothing in Primrose Square will ever be the same.
18) The camping trip
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When everything goes wrong at camping, the family returns home and have an indoor camping.
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2016
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A mother comes to visit her daughter in hospital after having not seen her in many years. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront her past, uncovering long-buried memories of a profoundly impoverished childhood; and her present, as the facade of her new life in New York begins to crumble, awakening her to the reality of her faltering marriage and her unsteady journey towards becoming a writer. From Lucy's hospital bed, we are drawn ever more...