Скачать книгу (размер 2 849 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 560) Аннотация: The Queen of Storytellers is back — with a triumphant tale of one woman's struggle over adversity. In 1786, a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hung for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there. How Mary escaped the harsh existence of the colony and found true love, and how she was…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 1995, Scotland. The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years, she's been battling for justice — insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery...Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond's existence until she finds the…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 686 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 528) Аннотация: When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors. Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 523 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 496) Аннотация: It was Sussex, 2003. When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician, Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright. The girls met working on a cruise ship and their friendship blossomed as they sailed the seas of South…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 768 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 544) Аннотация: Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home...Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives. Onboard the steamer to New York…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: 1995, Scotland — The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic — insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 502 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 688) Аннотация: Somerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery... Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond's existence until she finds…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 584 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 704) Аннотация: Like every girl, Charlie is simply looking for love ... On a glorious, hot summer's day sixteen-year-old Charlie Weish's privileged childhood comes to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own garden by two strangers. Her father has disappeared and it soon becomes evident to Charlie that dark forces are at work, shattering not only her financial…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 910 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 768) Аннотация: Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother's effects she realises that the past she has always been so sure of has been built on a tissue of lies. Devastated, she runs away to London, and loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity, temptation and danger, especially to…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 461 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 680) Аннотация: When you're sixteen, pregnant and alone, sixties London is anything but swinging... Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 747 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 736) Аннотация: Ellie is a sweet-natured brunette, generous of heart with a sparkling smile and an accent which reveals her East End background. Bonny is beautiful and spoilt, with cascades of blonde hair, the brightest pair of blue eyes and a mouth like Cupid's bow. The two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced by two American airmen, they pool their wits and resources and set off to make a…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 176 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 624) Аннотация: From the seedy backstreets of London's Soho in the 60s to the tough, sexy world of international rock-stardom in the 70s, Georgia sees it all-When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then — on her fifteenth birthday — she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 829 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 752) Аннотация: An epic saga of life, death, tears and laughter, from a storyteller thousands have come to love and trust. Moving from the slums of Victorian London to the plains of the Wild West, the darkest edges of New York and the gold rush of San Francisco, NEVER LOOK BACK is the story of beautiful and intelligent Matilda, who rises out of poverty to forge a new life for herself in the land of the free.…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 931 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 576) Аннотация: Set in the 1930's, the new novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl's struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Adele Talbot is twelve when her younger sister is killed in a road accident in London's Kings Cross, and her mother Rose so devastated by the loss begins to abuse her. Adele is sent to a children's home in Tunbridge Wells, but soon runs away to…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 605 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 512) Аннотация: »You killed two people», Beth said. «You're likely to spend the rest of your life in prison.» Susan looked up. Her eyes had a faint spark now. «It was worth it», she said. Beth Powell and Susan Wright were best friends — both from troubled families, their only happy times were the summers they spent together as children. Until fate intervened and separated them. It's twenty-nine years later when…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: When Daisy Buchan is 25, her beloved mother dies, and as she is reeling from this trauma, she is shocked to be told by her father that she is adopted — that her real mother was a poor young teenager from Cornwall. She does not know who her father is. Eventually Daisy finds out more about her mother, Ellen Pengelly, a farmer's daughter from a remote Cornish village, and as the layers of her family…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 665 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 720) Аннотация: 'Trust me!' she spat. 'As soon as someone says trust me, you can be sure they're going to let you down or hurt you.' From the bestselling author of Never Look Back, a heartwarming, gripping story about the power of the human spirit. All her life, people have told little Dulcie Taylor they'll look after her. And every time, she and her sister May have been hurt. Their parents. Their teacher. The…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 257 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 640) Аннотация: Rosie Parker is no more than a child when her mother dies during the war. Left to the less-than-tender mercies of her father Cole and her brutish step-brothers Seth and Norman, she sees the arrival of housekeeper Heather Farley as a possible replacement mother and her salvation. But when Thomas Farley comes looking for his sister several years later, he discovers Heather has left the Parkers in…