Kirjahaku

When a mysterious man, Will, moves into the house opposite hers, Elizabeth's quiet village life is turned upside down.Their friendship develops when Will helps with researching the involvement of one of her ancestors, Edward, in the last revolution in England.This friendship sets the neighbours gossiping and infuriates Elizabeth's daughter, who is convinced Will is a con man preying on her mother, thus raising doubts in Elizabeth's mind.Elizabeth and Will delve more into the past and attempt to solve the mystery surrounding the death of Edward's son, Edmund.How can Elizabeth find out the truth about Will? Is he who he seems?Does any of what he has let slip about his unpredictable past make sense?

Unknown to her, Sybilla is the carrier of an incurable, hereditary disease. A chance encounter with an older academic results in an unplanned pregnancy. She gives birth to a daughter, Jessica, who discovers that she is also a carrier of the disease. This results in the break up of her marriage with the loss of her home and job. The chance encounter with an abandoned baby leads Jessica to make decisions which lead to a tangled web of lies and deceptions.

Lily Bancroft did not fit the mould of a conventional woman. She wanted to go to university and study to become a doctor; she also wanted to visit Egypt and pursue her fascination with that ancient civilisation. Sadly, she achieved neither but she did lead an extraordinary life. Born in the 1880's, she was determined to live her life exactly as she wished, though first she needed to escape the confines set by her parents and so married the first eligible man who came along. Endowed with a gift for healing and obsessed with the occult, she found success in healing others and holding seances where grieving Through three marriages and two world wars, she struggled to fulfil her dreams. One man stood by her as each of her marriages failed, hoping she would return his love.Based on a true story

The Allotment' is a heartwarming story of an unlikely group of people brought together by their different circumstances. At the centre of this story is the Allotment itself, a place of healing, solace, and friendship, where even the most unlikely characters can find a sense of belonging. There's Neil, the army veteran battling PTSD, and little Brenda, the unlucky-in-love girl dealing with a cantankerous mother. Then Bill, who finds comfort in his plot after the passing of his wife. Dougie, the sweetly innocent Down Syndrome boy with a secret girlfriend and Amanda, the lonely, middle-aged warden, and finally Mary, the young widow who takes over her late husband's allotment despite having no gardening experience - each character offers a unique perspective to the story. With the help of the soil, they will all, most of them anyway, find healing and happiness in the Allotment.