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Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Applecote Manor captivates Jessie with dreams of hazy summers in the Cotswolds, the perfect place to bring up her children. But the house has an unsettling history and strange rumours surround the estate. When teenage Margot and her three sisters arrive at Applecote during the heatwave of '59, they find their aunt and uncle still reeling from the disappearance of their daughter, Audrey, five years before. Drawn into the life Audrey left behind and...
2) The betrayal
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Could you kill someone? Someone you love? Paris, 1938.�Twin sisters are divided by fierce loyalties and by a terrible secret. The drums of war are beating and France is poised, ready to fall. One sister is an aviatrix, the other is a socialite and they both have something to prove and something to hide.� The Betrayal is an unforgettably powerful, epic�story of love, loss and the long shadow of war, perfect for readers of Santa Montefiore and...
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Series
The Love and Temptation volume 6
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
The Davenport sisters were alone, without even a dour-faced maid to supervise their strict puritanical devotions, until the elder, flame-haired Gillian boldly decided it was high time they let their hair down. Now, with the help of a kindly relation, the two daring misses exchange their somber attire for modish gowns and hairstyles that would surely give their parents apoplexy. But the best is yet to come: plum pudding, eggnog, carols, and a most...
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English
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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...
5) Mad
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Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Alvina Knightly: Uncensored. Unhinged. Unforgettable. 'There's something you should know before we go any further: my heart is in the wrong place. Now don't say I didn't warn you ...' Perhaps that's why nothing in Alvie's life has ever gone right? Until now. She can finally abandon her credit card debt - and her fruitless three-way relationship with Tinder and Twitter - when fate gives her the chance to steal her identical twin's perfect life. It's...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Full of warmth and laugh-out-loud funny, the new novel from the author of Erotic Stories for Punjabi WidowsBritish-born Punjabi sisters Rajni, Jezmeen and Shirina have never been close but when their mother died, she had only one request: that they take a pilgrimage across India to carry out her final rites. While an extended family holiday is the last thing they want, each sister has her own reasons to run away from her life.Rajni is the archetypal...
Author
Publisher
Transworld Digital
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
For identical twins, Kate and Violet are about as unlike as two peas from the same pod can be. Except in one respect - they share a hidden gift. But after Kate inadvertently reveals their secret when they are thirteen years old, their lives are set on diverging paths. Twenty years later Kate, a devoted wife and mother, has settled down in the suburbs to raise her two young children. Violet is single, and lives a much more flamboyant and eccentric...
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Language
English
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In the dead of night, Kate receives a phone call. Police have recovered her sister Anya's clothes and personal belongings at the poolside of a remote hideaway in Mexico - a place she had no idea Anya would be. Anya was last seen getting into a vehicle with a local diving instructor but now he's missing too. Their relationship has been complicated ever since a devastating tragedy blew their family apart, but Kate cannot believe Anya would willingly...
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Series
The Daughters of War volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
A rebellious daughter. 1925. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name. Rosalie Delacroix flees Paris for a dancer?s job in the bohemian clubs deep in its winding streets. A sister with a secret. 1944. Running from the brutality of war in France, Florence Baudin faces a new life. But her estranged mother makes a desperate request - to find her vanished sister,...
10) Divisadero
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
It is the 1970s in Northern California. A farmer and his teenage daughters, Anna and Claire, work the land with the help of Coop, the enigmatic young man who lives with them. Theirs is a makeshift family, until they are riven by an incident of violence - of both hand and heart - that �sets fire to the rest of their lives'. This is a story of possession and loss, about the often discordant demands of family, love, and memory. Written in the sensuous...
11) Guilt
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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...
12) The noise
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English
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Young sisters, Sophie and Tennant Riggin, are the only two people to withstand the effects of a massive explosion that destroys their community, located in the shadow of Oregon's Mt Hood. A team of elite government investigators are sent to research the fallout and the girls - why did only they survive? ... but with conflicting objectives. Dr Martha Chan, a psychologist who analyses effects of large-scale medical emergencies, will study them. Lieutenant...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Two sisters - Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister's protector; Lucia, the headstrong, unpredictable one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts hearing voices, it is Miranda who must find a way to reach her sister. But Lucia impetuously plows ahead, marrying a bighearted, older man only to leave him, suddenly, to have a baby with a young Latino immigrant. She moves her...
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Robin and Sarah weren't the closest of twins. They weren't even that similar. But they loved each other dearly. Until, in the cruellest of domestic twists, they were taken from one another. Now, in her early 30s, Robin lives alone. Agoraphobic and suffering from panic attacks, she spends her days pacing the rooms of her house. The rest of the time she watches - watches the street, the houses, the neighbours. Until one day, she sees something she...
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Bolinda/Brilliance audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Her friend is missing. After five years abroad, Charity Halliwell finally returns to Loxby Manor, the home of dear friends and her lost love. No longer a young girl, she is now haunted by a painful secret and the demise of her dreams. Instead of the healing and happiness she hopes to find, she encounters a darkness lurking in the shadows of the once-familiar house. When her friend, Seline, disappears the very night of her arrival, Charity is determined...
16) The war at Troy
Author
Series
The Troy Quartet volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Bringing ancient myth to life with passion, humour and humanity, Lindsay Clarke vividly retells the story of Troy and of the heroes who fought there. Enraged by the betrayal of Helen and Paris, Menelaus and his brother, the High King Agamemnon, gather their allies and set out to conquer the city of Troy. Aboard their ships and behind the city?s walls are figures whose names and deeds echo through history - the wily strategist Odysseus, the Trojan...
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Publisher
Bolinda/Embla Books audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Elodie Fray wants to be more like her perfect sister, Ada, the one her parents are actually proud of. When she decided to quit her job and pursue her dream of becoming an author, she thought it would be her time to shine, but a year on nothing has happened. And she's getting desperate. When Elodie makes one small mistake on a drunken night with a friend, things quickly spiral and suddenly everyone believes she has a book deal. Unable to find a way...
18) Three wishes
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
The three Kettle sisters have had a mortifying mishap. Their raucous, champagne-soaked birthday dinner has come to an abrupt end following a violent argument and an emergency dash to the hospital. So who started it this time? Was it angry, hurt Cat, still recovering from the 'Night of the Spaghetti'? Was it Lyn, so serenely successful, at least on the outside? Or was it quirky, dreamy Gemma, the sister who can't keep a secret, except for the most...
19) All that jazz
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English
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The events of one fateful night change two sisters' lives forever ... February, 1921. When influenza claims the life of their mother, Daisy Cooper and her younger sister Mary are suddenly all alone in the world. Daisy works long hours to keep a roof over their heads, but she worries she's neglecting Mary. Mary is thrilled when the moving pictures come to Rotherhithe, and she loves watching the silver screen flicker into life. But, for Daisy, the magic...
20) High pressure
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Publisher
Bolinda audio
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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As temperatures soar across Europe during the hottest summer for 40 years, a series of hoax terrorist attacks is generating panic in London. Then a bus blows up on Oxford Street and the hoaxes have suddenly become real. Student Brioni O'Brien has been desperately trying to contact her older sister since she unexpectedly returned early from travelling, so when Marissa's bag is found near the site of the explosion, she fears the worst. Teaming up with...
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