Sophie Roberts
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Pub. Date
2020
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English
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1936: The dark clouds of war are gathering across Europe and the brightest minds in Britain have been brought together in a grand manor on the Suffolk coast. These select few have been tasked by Churchill to develop, in utmost secrecy, an invention that will help win the war and alter the course of history. In this tense atmosphere, an unlikely friendship develops between Vic, a brilliant but shy physicist, and Kathleen, a cheerful local girl helping...
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Pub. Date
2023
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English
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A scheming traveller. Across Europe, a young woman with no name and no fixed appearance hops from empty villa to vacated apartment to dormant summer house under the guise of house sitter. Her agenda? Steal from the rich, and kill anyone who gets in her way. A grieving wife. On a stormy night in England, travelling home down narrow country lanes, a fatal car crash leaves Kat?s husband Oliver dead. But as Kat begins to mourn his loss, she discovers...
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Suffolk, 1914. Twelve-year-old Mattie and her little sister Evie lead an idyllic life in the countryside, exploring the meadows and picking watercress in the streams. Living with their family in Plough Cottage, little do they know that this perfect childhood won't last. With World War I just around the corner, the country will soon be thrown into turmoil ... As the years pass, the girls go on to live very different lives. Mattie travels to Plymouth...
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To the outside world, Electra D?Apli�se seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world?s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. Yet beneath the veneer, Electra?s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health,...
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Just before her 15th birthday Jinnie Howlett is offered a position as maid-of-all-work at a farm near the Cumbrian border. She hopes this will be a welcome relief from the workhouse she knows too well. But when she meets her brutish employers Jinnie realises she has only exchanged one life of drudgery for another.
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2020.
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English
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When Ros steps off a plane after three years away, she's in need of a new job, a new flat, and a new start. But her friends have moved on, her parents only have eyes for each other, and her bedroom has been moved into the garden shed. Suddenly, Ros has a bad case of nostalgia for the way things were. Then her phone begins to ping with messages from her old life. Including one number she thought she'd erased forever: the man who broke her heart. Sometimes...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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One sultry evening in Kowloon, Dr Rowena Rossiter and Sister Alice Huntley are off-duty and in search of fun - little knowing that their world is on the brink of collapse. That night, Rowena will meet two men who will fight for her heart for the next four years. Connor O'Connor, the rebellious Irish soldier, who will woo and then lose her, and Kim Pheloung. Immensely rich and the most beautiful man Rowena has ever seen, he is also the most ruthless,...
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Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Ashley got much more than a suntan on her first ever foreign holiday; one whirlwind romance and nine months later she had a daughter, Molly. Too proud to ever contact the father, Ashley made a decision to go it alone and raise her daughter herself. Fifteen years later, she finally has the chance to take Molly on her first ever holiday; a gorgeous, all-expenses-paid trip to the charming French resort of St. Raphael. But fate has other plans. One look...
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Rosa Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Sicily, 1977. Ten-year-old Lily and family arrive for their annual summer holiday in Sicily. Adopted as a toddler, Lily's childhood has been idyllic. But a chance encounter with a local woman on the beach changes everything. 10 years later. Ever since that fateful summer Lily's picture-perfect life, and that of her family, has been in turmoil. The secrets of the baking hot shores of Sicily are calling her back, and Lily knows that the answers she...
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Avid Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Alison Spedding is a loner; no real friends, no boyfriend and a job in which she goes unnoticed. At 32, her only passion is birdwatching. One afternoon, high on a Scottish mountain, earnestly waiting for the rarest of sights - a white tailed eagle returning to its nest - she slips, falling silently. In shock, her fellow twitchers return to the hostel to raise the alarm, heavy with the realisation that she must be dead. What they find shocks them even...
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2021
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English
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Venice 1704: Anastasia is desperate to escape her controlling father and plans to marry her childhood sweetheart. But instead of the life she has always dreamed of, she finds herself trapped in Venice, the unwilling wife of a silk weaver. Anastasia seeks comfort in painting and draws strength from her talents. Despite her circumstances, two women reach out to her and give Anastasia a reason to hope. And together they make a momentous decision which...