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  • Journey to Guyana

    When the author's husband, a civil engineer, told her they were going to Guyana. she replied: "Wonderful. I've always wanted to go to Africa", a self-critical comment she quotes to indicate how little is known about the countryShe spent two years there in Georgetown on the narrow coastal trip where 750,000 lived - (while she was there), with 30,000 in the rest of the 83,000 square mile. She made ... Leer más

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  • The Serpent's Tooth

    Although Polly Adams was only seven when her mother left home, she immediately took responsibility for her younger brother, Jimmy. But she never forgave her mother, whom she had loved and trusted, for abandoning them.When war broke out they were evacuated, with the school, to the Yorkshire Dales where Polly and Jimmy were taken in by the Braithwaites to live on their remote farm at the head of the ... Leer más

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  • Snow in Winter

    From the early days of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales, Nell Thorpe learnt through bitter experience that she shouldn't allow herself to become reliant on any man. So when she meets Gregory Nansen on a skiing holiday, she refuses, despite her growing love for him, to sacrifice her cherished independence; marriage and children are clearly out of the question. But gradually Nell begins to ... Leer más

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  • The Years Between

    After the horrors of the First World War, the Arndales, like so many others, must start again.Northrop Hall itself has been turned into a rehabilitation home for returning soldiers, under the direction of Diana's tireless husband, the good doctor James Bramley. Diana is proud of James and works dutifully alongside him, but she mourns the fact that their marriage has given her no children, and that ... Leer más

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  • The Ewe Lamb

    Judith Delaney and Alice Dowerthwaite have that rare thing: a friendship which survives their different life styles and aspirations.At school together in the Yorkshire Dales, their paths suddenly divide when Judith leaves to go and live with her father, an academic lawyer. She grows up to be ambitious and struggles, against male prejudice, to carve out a career for herself in the legal profession ... Leer más

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  • For Better, For Worse

    In the final volume of the Northrop Hall trilogy, the Crawley children are living with their mother in the village of Netherby, safely away from Gradby, an industrial town where bombs are expected to fall. Their father, involved in war work in London, is an infrequent visitor.Remote from the war, loving the freedom of living in the country, the children's life seems in some ways idyllic until a ... Leer más

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  • Other Women

    When successful business man, Grover Blackford – described by his wife as sixteen stone of solid selfishness – falls to his death from the mountain fortress of Sigiria in Sri Lanka, it could have been a tragic accident.On the other hand none of the people with him had reason to regret his passing. Indeed the world seemed a safer and sweeter place without him.As the story unfolds the truth is ... Leer más

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  • A Packetful of Trouble

    Who hasn't dreamed of a holiday free of grown-ups and rules? For the Packet children that dream suddenly comes true when their mother's friend Cynthia, who lives in the south of France, offers the family the use of two ancient caravans in a field near her house. Their mother has just got a job, so the problem of what they should do in the long summer holidays has been unexpectedly solved.There is ... Leer más

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  • The Kingdom of the Rose

    Eglantine Thorpe belonged to that generation of women deprived of husbands and lovers by the First World War in which half a million young men were killed. These women were the Maiden Aunts of the century,expected to look after other women's children and, as unmarried daughters care for their elderly parents until they died.There were some pioneers – and she was one of them – who rejected these ... Leer más

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  • Northrop Hall

    In the first years of the twentieth century life at Northrop Hall - carries on as it has always done under the watchful eye of the dowager Lady Arndale. Her son Charles now runs the estate as his father had done before him, supported by his amenable wife Elspeth, who models herself on her mother-in-law. In a few years' time their eldest son, Teddy, now away at public school will return to learn ... Leer más

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  • Yuletide Angels

    Dina is searching for a special angel to top her Christmas tree, one that looks like her Japanese, Irish, German, and Mexican sons. Her husband Julio struggles with his disdain of holiday hype. Can this family and their friends come to rediscover what makes the Christmas season a time worth treasuring? And will a fruitcake nobody wants find a home? ... Leer más

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    Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon Rivers, where living is so difficult that as many Guianese live abroad as in their homelands; an ... Leer más

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