Kirjahaku

Miriam Wakeford was full of hope when she arrived to take up her new appointment as needlewoman and companion in the bleak, windswept house of Tancred, high on the South Downs.Her strict Quaker upbringing was no preparation for the experiences which awaited her there...

A 'God is an Englishman' kind of novel - about a very human kind of Englishwoman, a woman who fought her way up from domestic service to schoolmistress and whose life was touched by three men, one who taught her what it was to love and be loved, another who waited for her in vain, and a third - the strange tormented man who was to be her destiny.Rich in adventure, history and human passions, this is a novel of astonishing breadth...an enthralling panorama of life and love between the wars...

The Marigold Field is the story of poor, proud, high-spirited people...people whose roots were in the farming country of southern England...in the bawdy and exuberant streets of the East End.Jonathan Whitman, his cousin Myra, Anne-Louise Pritchard and the enormous Pritchard clan to which she belonged, saw the changing era and incredible events of a passing age - an age of great poverty and great wealth, of straw boaters, feather boas, and the Music Hall...And above all The Marigold Field is a story of one woman's consuming love...of a jealous obsession that threatened to destroy the very man she adored...

'Although the story of the Barshinskeys, which became our story too, stretched over many summers and winters, that golden time of 1902 was when our strange involved relationship began, when our youthful longing for the exotic took a solid and restless hold upon us...'It is at this enchanted moment that The Summer of the Barshinskeys begins.A beautifully told, compelling story that moves from a small Kentish village to London, and from war-torn St Petersburg to a Quaker relief unit in the Volga provinces, it is an unforgettable story of two families.

Contemporary easy mysteries depicting strong women and handsome men. Revenge, murder, and escape are just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. In Counting the Days, a surprise birthday card sparks Mary into make several life altering changes. Is it murder or an accident? In Surprise at High Altitude, a stressed-out project manager is whisked away in the handsome IT contractor's private jet thinking it's a joke. Will she live through the day? In Too Much Gin, a night of partying goes awry for a young woman trying to impress her dream date. Can she get out of the mess she creates? Someone wasn't supposed to die in the Fire at The Bent Fork Caf , and thus Jaimie is forced to break her vow to avoid the police.

An epic, historical saga, following the fortunes of an aristocratic Hungarian family through two World Wars.