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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > Historical
'A gorgeous, wildly seductive novel, shimmering with intelligence,
humour and joy' - Sarah Waters Financial Times Book of the Year In
1838 Frederic Chopin, George Sand and her children travel to a
monastery in Mallorca. They are there to create and to convalesce,
to live a simple life after the wildness of their Paris days.
Witness to this tumultuous arrival is Blanca, the ghost of a
teenage girl who has been at the monastery for over three hundred
years. Blanca's was a life cut short and she is outraged. Having
lived in a world full, according to her mother, of 'beautiful men',
she has found that in death it is the women she falls for, their
beauty she cannot turn away from, and it is the women and girls
who, over her centuries in the village and at the monastery, she
has sought to protect from the attentions of men with what little
power she has. And then George Sand arrives, this beautiful woman
in a man's clothes, and Blanca is in love. But the rest of the
village is suspicious of the newcomers, and as winter sets in, as
George tries to keep her family and herself from falling apart, as
Chopin writes prelude after prelude in despair on his tuneless
piano, their stay looks likely to end in disaster . . . Heady with
the delicious scent of the Mediterranean, richly witty, and utterly
compulsive, Briefly, A Delicious Life is a story about convention
and breaking convention, about love - yearning, secret, forbidden,
unrequited - and about men and women and the cruelty they mete out
to one another. 'Exquisite' - New York Times 'Deeply enjoyable' -
Telegraph 'Electrifyingly beautiful, exhilaratingly clever . . .
sensual, original, intelligent and brimming with love' - Imogen
Hermes Gowar
If you love Julia Quinn's Bridgerton, you'll be enchanted by
Sabrina Jeffries' Sinful Suitors! 'Anyone who loves romance must
read Sabrina Jeffries!' Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling
author The Pleasures of Passion is the fourth charming book in the
Sinful Suitors series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina
Jeffries. Sabrina's witty, sexy historicals will be loved by fans
of Sarah MacLean, Eloisa James and Julia Quinn. When Niall Lindsey,
the Earl of Margrave, was forced to flee after killing a man in a
duel, he expected Brilliana Trevor to wait for him. Seven years
later, Niall has returned, disillusioned and cynical - so being
blackmailed by the government into helping his former love catch a
counterfeiter connected to her father doesn't improve his mood. The
now widowed Brilliana wants nothing to do with the reckless rogue
who she believes abandoned her to a dreary, loveless life, but she
will do anything to save her father. Yet as their fake engagement
brings long-buried feelings to the surface, can she let go of the
old hurt and put her pride aside? And will the pleasures of their
renewed passion enable them both to rediscover love? For more
dazzlingly romantic and witty historical romance, don't miss
Sabrina's other gorgeous series including, The Hellions of Halstead
Hall, The School for Heiresses and The Royal Brotherhood.
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Only Oona
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