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Finalist for Sunday Express Book of the Year: A moving and sensual story of secrets, sacrifice, and enduring love from bestselling author Mary Wesley At eighteen, Rose falls passionately, irreversibly in love with Mylo Cooper. Although he proposes moments after they meet, the penniless Frenchman isn't a suitable husband for Rose. Trading love for security, Rose weds Ned Peel. She becomes mistress of Ned's grand country house and promises never to...
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A witty and inventive comedy about sex, creativity, fame, and love Claud Bannister is a struggling twenty-something writer when he meets the woman who will transform his life. Independent, strong-willed Laura Thornby is used to manipulating artistic men. But from the moment she decides to become muse and inspiration to Claud, she begins to change in ways she never imagined. Maybe it's Claud's larger-than-life characters-people more genuine to him...
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Couples, both married and unmarried, collide at a country house during a weekend of sex, adventure, and shocking surprises In 1944, with Britain still embroiled in World War II, Henry Tillotson marries a mysterious woman in desperate need of a passport. On their wedding night, she gives her new husband a black eye and falls ill. Is Margaret mad? Or is something else driving her-something from her shadowy past? The arrival of two more couples at the...
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A romantic, high-spirited romp through England and Africa by the bestselling author of The Camomile Lawn When her father dies and leaves her a fortune, Poppy Carew suddenly becomes much more popular. Would-be author Victor Lucas, who may have drowned his wife, and his cousin Fergus, of Furnival's Fine Funerals, are just two of the men who passionately pursue her. There's also besotted farm owner Willy Guthrie, not to mention Poppy's ex-lover, Edmund...
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A virtuosic masterpiece of wit, humor, and psychological suspense from cherished author Mary Wesley Middle-aged widow Matilda Poliport has decided to end her life. She puts her papers in order and gives away her beloved pet goose, Gus. She packs a picnic and heads off to the beach to drown herself. But her plans are interrupted by Hugh Warner-wanted by the police for bashing in his mother's skull with a tea tray. Hugh has the same idea as Matilda:...
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A tender and witty novel of finding one's way to adulthood A Sensible Life opens in 1926. Ten-year-old Flora Trevelyan is on vacation with her family in Dinard, an exclusive seaside resort in Brittany. Left to her own devices by her self-absorbed parents, Flora embarks on a remarkably independent life. Set against the backdrop of Europe between the two world wars, this acclaimed novel tells a deeply affecting story of friendship, family, and love...
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The captivating and sensual story of a woman who defies convention to make a new life-only to have her past catch up with her Orphaned by the death of her parents in a plane crash, Hebe bridles under the yoke of her strict grandparents. But when she returns from an Italian holiday pregnant-and overhears her family making plans for her abortion-she runs away. At nineteen, making her way alone in the world, all she has are her wits and her unswerving...
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A poignant and uplifting novel about transforming unbearable loss into a second chance for happiness London publisher Sylvester Wykes is traveling home from work when he hears the sudden squeal of brakes. As the train screeches to a halt, a figure leaps out to save a sheep lying near the tracks. Wykes is fascinated by this mysterious young woman dressed all in black. Their paths are fated to cross again when Wykes hires a housekeeper, unaware that...
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Seventeen-year-old Juno Marlowe - pretty, but diffident and awkward - is caught in a World War II air raid as she crosses London after seeing off to the front the two shallow young men she has worshiped like a puppy for years. Sheltered overnight by an ailing stranger, she is launched by his sudden death - and the letter he charges her to deliver to his father - into an unlooked-for but defiant journey. Finding herself embraced without question by...