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1) Icon of Gold
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A searing tale of forbidden love spanning 1950s Britain and Greece from the author of A Fragile Peace, "a wonderful storyteller" (Daily Mail).
Cathy Kotsikas is as unsettled as anyone in postwar Britain. A hasty marriage has become an exhausting clash of personalities. Leon, her Greek husband, as charming as he is ruthless and self-centered, understands neither her mildly eccentric character nor her need for freedom.
Cathy's sanctuary is Sandlings,...
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An intensely gripping story of two extraordinary families from bestseller Teresa Crane
1929: Siobhan Clough and her three children are enjoying a holiday on the English coast. With them is Mary McCarthy and her volatile son, Liam. All is well until the arrival of Siobhan's husband George. A man of strong views and even stronger temper, he browbeats his gentle wife, belittles his daughter Christine and treats Liam like a servant…
A year later,...
3) Siena Summer
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An enthralling novel of war, rivalry and intrigue in 1920s Tuscany.
A decade after her sister Isobel eloped with a wounded soldier to Italy, Poppy Brookes receives a troubling letter, summoning her to the neglected country estate they now share in beautiful Siena.
Poppy soon finds a disturbing undercurrent in the marriage. The relationship between the sisters is also strained, as Poppy had nursed Kit back to health, and has never quite forgiven...
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"A wonderfully rich web of intrigue and romance, love and betrayal" set in 1920s Tuscany-from the author of Freedom's Banner (Barbara Erskine).
When Carrie Stowe unexpectedly inherits her eccentric grandmother's Italian villa, she sets her heart on escaping the suffocating and toxic reality of life with her repressive husband, Arthur.
But after arriving late at night during a violent storm, she discovers that she is not alone. Waiting for her...
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Fleeing their Suffolk home in the wake of disaster, Kitty Daniels and her brother Matt arrive in the stews of 19th-century Whitechapel with nothing but the clothes in which they stand and, to each, a talent.
Kitty's voice may hold the key to escape from the savage squalor of the slums; but Matt's talent for thieving, whilst more immediately useful, plunges them both into deadly danger.
From the backstreets of London through fame and fortune to a...
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Two brothers, an epic conflict and a dark family secret. An extraordinary novel from Teresa Crane, author of the bestselling The Italian House
Stefan and Marik Anderson: two men bound together by blood and divided by a hatred sown since birth... Stefan, the illegitimate outcast, has lived a tough and difficult life on the wild Essex marshes: Marek, diffident and intelligent, has been brought up in easy and affluent London.
It is only with the outbreak...
7) Molly
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In the poor mud of Ireland, she dreamt of London, of a chance to do more than survive.
Fleeing her fanatical republican family, Molly O'Dowd arrives nearly penniless in London at the end of the nineteenth century. Plunged into the world of East End gambling houses and brothels, Molly invests what little money she has in a typing course, her only way out. This investment will lead her on the path to establishing herself as a woman of power and means.
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