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1) Ruby Flynn
Author
Language
English
Description
The FitzDeanes are powerful. They have estates in England, a castle in Ireland and a growing shipping business in Liverpool. But in Ireland, during the famine, a great and terrible mistake was made, which has come to haunt the family for generations. Now young Ruby Flynn, rescued when the rest of her family died during the storms of 1947, reared and educated by nuns, arrives at Ballyford Castle, to work as a nursery maid. It is a fateful turning point...
2) Spare room
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Beautiful double room to let to single person. Lisa, a troubled young woman with a past, can?t believe her luck when she finds a beautiful room to rent in a large house. The live-in owners are a kind and welcoming couple. Everything is fine until she finds a suicide note hidden in her room. But when the couple insist this man didn?t exist and that Lisa is their first tenant, Lisa begins to doubt herself. Compelled to uncover the secrets of the man...
5) The canal
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An electrifying debut novel that becomes a shocking tale about... boredom � In a deeply compelling debut novel, Lee Rourke-a British underground sensation for his story collection Everyday-tells the tale of a man who finds his life so boring it frightens him. So he quits his job to spend some time sitting on a bench beside a quiet canal in a placid London neighborhood, watching the swans in the water and the people in the glass-fronted offices across...
6) The memory
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
She?ll never forget ? I?ll never forgive. People always notice my daughter, Isobel. How could they not? Incredibly beautiful ... until she speaks. An unsettling, little-girl voice, exactly like a child?s, but from the mouth of a full-grown woman. Izzie might look grown-up, but inside she?s trapped. Caught in the day it happened ? the day that broke her from within. Our family fell apart that day, and we never could pick up the pieces ?.
7) Sympathy
Author
Publisher
ONE
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
At twenty-three, Alice Hare leaves England for New York. She falls in love with Manhattan, and becomes fixated on Mizuko Himura, an intriguing Japanese writer whose life has strange parallels to her own. As Alice closes in on Mizuko, her 'internet twin', realities multiply and fact and fiction begin to blur. The relationship between the two women exposes a tangle of lies and sexual encounters. Three families collide as Alice learns that the swiftest...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
'My sister was abducted from here nearly 30 years ago. The person who took her was never found. And neither was she. Her abductor nearly killed me. So I'm back here now trying to find the truth.' Atlee Pine has spent most of her life trying to find out what happened that fateful night in Andersonville, Georgia. Her six-year-old twin sister, Mercy, was taken and Atlee was left for dead while their parents were apparently partying downstairs. One person...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
India, 1926: English Margaret arrives with her new husband Suraj at his family home, set amidst beautiful rolling hills, the air filled with the soft scent of spices and hibiscus flowers. Margaret is unwelcome, homesick and lonely, but her maid Archana, a young woman from an impoverished family, reminds her of her long-lost sister, a tiny glimpse of home in a faraway place. As Margaret and Archana spend more time together, an unexpected friendship...
11) Forget me not
Author
Publisher
Zebra
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With a popular comic strip, card line, and children's cartoon to her name, Lucy Brighton should be in a happy place. But the ache of a cold, lonely childhood lingers on. Even though she still lives in the New Jersey house where she grew up, Lucy has had little contact with her parents since they moved to Florida five years ago. Finding Joy In The Present Then Lucy receives a call that her parents have been killed in a car crash. While settling their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As summer beckons, Evie's family gathers once more at the beautiful old riverside house they all adore. But when Evie discovers a secret that threatens their future, a shadow falls over them all: this summer by the river could be their last together. For Charlie, a visit home to see stepmother Evie is an escape from his unhappy marriage in London. Until a chance encounter changes everything: in the space of a moment, he meets a woman by the river,...
13) Oh William!
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Lucy Barton is a successful writer living in New York, navigating the second half of her life as a recent widow and parent to two adult daughters. A surprise encounter leads her to reconnect with William, her first husband - and longtime, on-again-off-again friend and confidante. Recounting their college years, the birth of their daughters, the painful dissolution of their marriage and the lives they built with other people, Strout paints a portrait,...
14) Guilt
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
When the body of a woman is found stabbed to death, the blame falls to her twin sister. But who killed who? And which one is now the woman behind bars?Zara and Miranda have always supported each other. But then Zara meets Seb, and everything changes. Handsome charismatic and dangerous, Seb threatens to tear thesisters? lives apart - but is he really the one to blame? Or are deeper resentments simmering beneath the surface that the sisters must face...
Author
Publisher
Bolinda/Bonnier audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
'The story started at dawn on the fourteenth of September, 1943 ...' All her life, London-born Angelika has been intrigued by her mother's secret past. Now planning her wedding, she feels she must visit the remote Crete village her mother grew up in. Angie's estranged elderly grandmother, Maria, is dying. She welcomes Angie with open arms - it's time to unburden herself, and tell the story she'll otherwise take to her grave. It's the story of the...
Author
Series
Badgers Brook volume 1
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Marie Masters has been happily married for nine years, but she can?t help but feel her once-loving husband Ivor is no longer the man she married. He?s increasingly prone to drink and gambling and has become strangely secretive. Worried that Ivor?s behaviour is putting their growing family at risk, Marie decides to follow her husband. Marie learns that Ivor is spending time at a run-down house called Badgers Brook, but that?s only the beginning of...
17) Real fake
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Annie Shepherd is represented by the biggest entertainment agency in the world. Annie Shepherd has the perfect literary life. But Annie Shepherd has a secret. A huge secret she's tried to hide her entire career, which is bought to the surface when her National Book Award winning boyfriend (and Annie?s former professor), suddenly dies. Now, Annie must rely on her own worst enemy for a solution ? her literary agent. The posh, snooty and pretentious...
Author
Publisher
Marylebone House
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Bishop of Lindchester is happily married with four daughters. But does he have a secret? Archdeacon Matt is inclined to think not. That said, it's obvious to him that Bishop Paul's got a pretty big bee in his mitre about the brilliant but troubled Freddie May . . . Welcome to the fictional Diocese of Lindchester, where you will be taken (dear reader) on a yearlong romp in the company of bishops, priests and lay people. Prepare yourself for a bumpy...
19) The bass rock
Author
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
In 1720s Scotland, a priest and his son get lost in the forest, transporting a witch to the coast to stop her from being killed by the village. In the sad, slow years after the Second World War, Ruth finds herself the replacement wife to a recent widower and stepmother to his two young boys, installed in a huge house by the sea and haunted by those who have come before. Fifty years later, Viv is cataloguing the valuables left in her dead grandmother?s...
Author
Publisher
eKensington
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Macy Stoddard had hoped to ease the grief of losing her parents in a fiery car crash by accepting a job as a private nurse to the wealthy and widowed Alexandria Hallstead. But her first sight of Hallstead House is of a dark and forbidding home. She quickly finds its winding halls and shadowy rooms filled with secrets and suspicions. Alex seems happy to have Macy's help, but others on the island, including Alex's sinister servants and hostile relatives,...
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