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Publisher
Bloomsbury Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2013
Description
In Ancient Greece, a skilled marble sculptor has been blessed by a goddess who has given his masterpiece - the most beautiful woman the town has ever seen - the gift of life. Now his wife, Galatea is expected to be obedience and humility personified, but it is not long before she learns to use her beauty as a form of manipulation. In a desperate bid by her obsessive husband to keep her under control, she is locked away under the constant supervision...
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The Wiltshire Girls volume 2
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2011
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In the sequel to 'Cherry Tree Lane', Nell the second Willitt sister, leaves her brutal father and moves with new husband Cliff to Lancashire. But Nell's happiness is short-lived and when tragedy strikes, Nell, mad with grief, runs away.
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Series
Black Book volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
How can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime? Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers...
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When a car carrying five teenagers home from a party crashes into a brick wall, the consequences are devastating - not just for the young people directly involved, but also for their families, their friends and the wider community. No one escapes unscathed, but some are more deeply scarred than others and one of the group will not survive. In their grief and confusion, those left behind question who was to blame for the accident, and what price they...
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Series
The Wiltshire Girls volume 1
Publisher
Allison & Busby
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With her stepfather threatening her with a forced marriage, Mattie Willitt flees home in search of a better life. She is soon lost and at the mercy of the elements - until her life is saved by Jacob, a widower who takes her in and nurses her back to health. Finding consolation in each other?s troubled pasts, the pair soon grow close But when pressure is put upon them to marry, and Mattie?s stepfather discovers her whereabouts, they must face their...
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Black Swan
Pub. Date
2008
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The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country lify, they await the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan.
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Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2015
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Millie hardly knew her aunt, and besides, she has her own career to think of. Young, pretty, full of confidence - or so she likes to pretend - she wants nothing to do with a dull spinster aunt whom her family refuses to talk about. But when she arrives at Flo's basement flat, Millie's interest is awakened.
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Ellen O'Casey, an Irish Catholic immigrant, is struggling to support her ailing mother, her teenage daughter and herself. Washing other people's laundry in the day, and singing in bawdy pubs at night, Ellen is determined to make a better life for her family by saving enough for the passage to New York where the rest of her extended family have already emigrated. But Danny Donovan, a local gangster and the landlord of the pubs where Ellen sings, intends...
10) Mrs Whippy
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Emelda's husband Charlie has left her for a dancer half her age. Her five sons blame her for their father's leaving. For comfort she turns to her only true friend - ice cream. But lately there's a handsome man driving the ice-cream van. Could romance be about to blossom?
11) Killing hour
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Description
He heard voices in his head, in between the crashing of waves. Then he was gone, a drop in the ocean. A fisherman found his broken body on the rocks below. A phone call shatters Dr. Jay Handler's romantic anniversary dinner. The thought of his troubled nephew, helpless and doomed, will haunt Jay forever.
12) Isa and May
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The curiously named Isamay, a would-be academic, is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history from Sarah Bernhardt and George Sand to the matriarchal Queen Victoria and other influential grannies while constantly ambushed by the secrets her own family has been keeping.
13) Heiresses
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Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2009
Description
The Trevellyan heiresses are the height of success, glamour and style. But when it comes to wealth, Jemima's indulgent lifestyle knows no limits; Tara's one purpose in life is to be financially independent of her family and husband; and Poppy wants to escape its trappings without losing the comfort their family money brings.
14) Lost innocence
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Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2010
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When Alicia Carlyle returns to the home of her childhood after the tragic death of her husband, she is hoping to put the past behind her. But first she must come face to face with the woman who nearly destroyed her marriage and tore her family in two - her sister-in-law, Sabrina.
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Publisher
Vintage
Pub. Date
2004
Description
What do men run away from? Not war, not physical hardship, but the day-to-day emotional demands of impossible domestic situations. That's women's work. This is a story of female courage, where black comedy turns to disturbing pathos revolving around the rights of an indomitable woman.
17) Not my daughter
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A pregnancy pact between three teenage girls stuns their parents, shocks the town and elecrifies the media. Susan Tate, one of these mothers, has struggled hard to do everything right. A single mother herself, she is now the headmistress of the high school which all of the girls attend. Soon fingers start pointing.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio UK
Pub. Date
2025
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On a bright spring afternoon in Dublin, Ciara Fay makes a split-second decision that will change everything. Grabbing an armful of clothes from the washing line, Ciara straps her two young daughters into her car and drives away. Head spinning, all she knows for certain is that home is no longer safe. This was meant to be an escape. But with dwindling savings, no job, and her family across the sea, Ciara finds herself adrift, facing a broken housing...
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Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Lena has always kept her two sisters Millie and Cara in check. But when Lena is involved in an accident her sisters forget their issues and rush to her side. As they try to wake Lena from her deep sleep, they begin to learn things they never knew about themselves and discover their much-loved sister had a few secrets in her closet.