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Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore, when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears claiming to have mothered James's child, Evelyn's world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but she also...

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Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore, when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears claiming to have mothered James's child, Evelyn's world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but she also...

Evelyn is a young woman who has defied convention to become one of the country's pioneer female lawyers. Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. Therefore, when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears claiming to have mothered James's child, Evelyn's world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but she also...

The number-one U.K. bestseller comes to America---a sweeping historical novel about love, war, betrayal, and discovery.

February, 1926. The city of London is tense in the days leading up to The General Strike. Evelyn Gifford, (protagonist of THE CRIMSON ROOMS) has now qualified as a solicitor - and is one of the first women to do so - but her life remains full of conflict. Embroiled in two new cases, Evelyn finds herself encountering both sides of the strike. A young maid is accused of a stealing a letter and as Evelyn becomes involved with her family, she find...

The compelling story of two generations of a family - and the secrets they keep - from the bestselling author of THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL.

The compelling, powerful story of two women, separated by a hundred years, but linked by the lives they choose and the decisions they make.

March 1939Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape. Christa, an only child, longs to break free from the constraints of London suburbia, and fantasises about the ethereal Belgian heroine who saved her father. When Estelle comes looking for the truth about the mother she believes deserted her, an intense friendship grows betwe...

In the March of 1939, the sheltered Christa's longing for adventure is met when she befriends Estelle, a daughter of the Resistance. As war breaks out again, and as Estelle follows in her mother's footsteps, past betrayals look set to repeat themselves. This is a sweeping historical romance for readers of Rose Tremain.

1788, and unrest rumbles asross France. Asa Ardleigh, the impressionable daughter of a country squire, travels to Paris with her newly wedded sister, Philippa. In the heady days before Revolution, they find a city fizzing with ideas - and Asa falls in love with the dashing activist, Dider Paulin. But as the storm clouds gather, Asa must return home. In England, no one knows of Asa's liaison and the family's financial worries put pressure on h...

McMahon pens an unforgettable historical novel about a young woman's coming of age in 18th century England, a world of secrets and science, passion and betrayal, innocence and experience.

The number-one U.K. bestseller comes to America---a sweeping historical novel about love, war, betrayal, and discovery.

The number-one U.K. bestseller comes to America---a sweeping historical novel about love, war, betrayal, and discovery.

A classic, page-turning story of secrets and science, passion and betrayal, innocence and experience - in the tradition of Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory

Durante la guerra de Crimea, una joven enfermera británica, Rosa Barr, recorre los campos de batalla en su empeño de atender y confortar el mayor número posible de heridos. Mientras tanto, en Londres, su prima Mariella Lingwood sigue el devenir del conflicto a través de las cartas que recibe de su novio, Henry Thewell, un célebre cirujano que también ha ido voluntario a la guerra. Pero cuando Henry cae herido y las noticias sobre Rosa cesan, M...

In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, the bestselling author of The Rose of Sebastopol presents a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post-World War I London.

In the spirit of Sarah Waters and Geraldine Brooks, the bestselling author of The Rose of Sebastopol presents a dramatic mystery about love, secrets, and discovery in post-World War I London.