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Pub. Date
2015.
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Frankie Shaw is a single mum in pursuit of a fresh start. Moving from London to a small town in Norfolk with her two teenage kids will do them all good, she thinks, with dreams of seaside life filling her head. But the reality is harsher - isolated and struggling with writer's block, she regrets her decision to move her family to a run-down town that sits uneasily alongside second homes and expensive boutiques. When she meets Scott, a wary Canadian...
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Pub. Date
2015
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When Ailsa uproots her family to Norfolk, she's determined a change of scene will fix all their problems. Then the Fairports move in next door. Opinionated and free-spirited, their presence threatens to destry Ailsa's fresh start. Yet for straight-A student Romy, Ailsa's teenage daughter, there's no escaping the intense attraction she feels towards their youngest son, Jay. So when Jay tells Romy his darkest secret, she only wants to help. But Romy's...
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Pub. Date
2015
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In 2006, three-year-old Phoebe Piper went missing on a family holiday. Despite massive publicity and a long investigation, no trace of her was ever found. Seven years later, Molly Jackson, aged ten and recently uprooted to a Norfolk village, finds her great uncle Dan dead in his bed. Molly remembers nothing of her early years, but she's been sure for ages that she is Phoebe. Everything in her life points to it and now, finally, she has proof. Dan's...
4) The will
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2022
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Cecily Mordaunt is dead. On the evening of her funeral, her family will gather for dinner and each will be given a letter, revealing who is the next custodian of Roxborough Hall. The house is a burden, a millstone, a full-time job - but they all want it. And some are willing do anything to get it. One family. Eight letters. Who will get what they deserve?
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When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage and they and their bull-terrier Bill set off, with Fred at the helm of Dogfish Three. Sally's misgivings are soon justified, as a series of disasters - human, nautical and canine - threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating...
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Rosanna is part of a close, extended Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. As she grows up, the others turn to her when they are unhappy or in trouble. To find her own happiness, she has to break free and finally make them aware that she has feelings too.
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Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2014
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DI Jack Delaney is trying to make a clean break. Tormented by his troubled past, he has taken his young family out of London, swapping the mayhem of London for the tranquil calm of the north Norfolk coast. Except it's not so tranquil. After a terrible storm hits Sheringham, a body is discovered beneath the rubble of a collapsed cliff. Natural disaster? No, this looks like murder, and Jack is the only local resident qualified to investigate. But when...
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Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2023
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The love letters were only the start of the story. Tucked into a crook of the Norfolk coast lies Nelson's Bar - an idyllic village where time seems to stand still. Maddy Austen has called this beautiful spot home all her life, as had her husband Adey - until one snowy night an epic row sent him storming out, never to be seen again. Six years on, and Maddy's life in the village has settled into a gentle pattern with her daughter Lyla and Great-Aunt...
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Publisher
Dales
Pub. Date
2021
Description
Norfolk, 1939. The residents of Great Plumstead agree to open up their homes to evacuees from London. Pregnant Marianne is determined to make a fresh start for herself. Local lady Thea opens up her beautiful home, Rookery House, to the evacuee mothers. The ladies of Great Plumstead are fighting their own battles on the Home Front - but can the community come together in a time of need to protect their own?
11) The pride
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Publisher
Isis
Pub. Date
2017
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1901. Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, while Edward grew up with an abusive father in the wilds of New Zealand. Despite their differences, the two fall madly in love when Edward Neyler arrives in England, looking for a better future. However, the consequences of their love affair are terrible for Tina as she is shamed by the father she adores, and Edward is sent away. Against all the odds, Tina and Edward find each other...