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Never give up on a wish for a happy ever after...Callie Derbyshire
has it all: her dream job as a carer at Bay View, finally she has
found the love of her life. Everything is perfect. Well, almost.
Ex-partners are insistent on stirring up trouble, and Callie's
favourite resident, Ruby, hasn't been her usual self. But after
discovering the truth about Ruby's lost love, Callie is determined
to give Ruby's romantic story the happy ending it deserves. After
all, it's never too late to let love in again. Or is it? A
heartwarming and uplifting novel of finding love and friendship in
the least expected places from top 10 bestselling author, Jessica
Redland.This book was previously published as two novellas - Raving
About Rhys and Callie's Christmas Wish. What readers are saying
about Making Wishes at Bay View: 'I really enjoyed this book and
the characters and most of all I am happy that it will be a
series.' 'This book did not disappoint in the slightest' 'It is
written really beautifully.' 'Absolutely adored the charming
storyline' 'This book exceeded my expectations' 'From start to
finish, I was hooked.' ' It is totally heart-warming' 'What a
sweet, charming, and enjoyable read about finding love and
discovering who you are yourself'
A sweeping historical tale of family, passion and love from
bestselling novelist Claire Lorrimer. Until her father died, Adela
Carstairs had lived in a secure and loving home. Then happiness was
shattered when her mother remarries a cruel, hard-drinking man.
With her younger brother and sister, Adela is forced to flee his
drunken rages and they escape to London where they seek refuge in
the squalor of the back streets. Addie's desperate hope is that her
childhood companions, the Mallory twins, will find and rescue them.
When all three find themselves caught up in the danger and terror
of revolutionary France, the twins prove invaluable. It was to be
an experience which would test their friendship, and love, to the
limit.
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Sparrow
(Paperback)
James Hynes
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R285
R258
Discovery Miles 2 580
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For readers who have been moved and overwhelmed by Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life, Emma Donoghue’s Room and Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain, Sparrow tells the story of Jacob, son of no one, last survivor of an abandoned British Roman town. Raised in a brothel on the Spanish coast in the waning years of the Roman Empire, a boy of no known origin creates his own identity. He is Sparrow, who sings without reason and can fly from trouble. His world is a kitchen, the herb-scented garden, then the loud and dangerous tavern, and finally the mysterious upstairs where the ‘wolves’ - prostitutes of every ethnic background from the far reaches of the empire - do their mysterious business. When not being told stories by his beloved ‘mother’ Euterpe, he runs errands for her lover the cook, while trying to avoid the blows of their brutal overseer or the machinations of the chief wolf, Melpomene. A hard fate awaits Sparrow, one that involves suffering, murder, mayhem, and the scattering of the little community that has been his whole world.
Through meticulous research and bold imagination, Hynes brings the entirety of the Roman city of Carthago Nova - its markets, temples, taverns of the lowly and mansions of the rich - to vivid life. You will feel you have been to this place, and understand how a slave class - conquered people of every age, walk of life, or skin colour - made the brutal empire function.
Sparrow recreates a lost world of the last of old pagan Rome as its codes and morals give way before the new religion of Christianity, and introduces readers to one of the most powerfully affecting and memorable characters of recent fiction.
The dramatic story of a young woman's war - full of heartache and
triumph from the bestselling author of Christmas on the Mersey and
London Belles Kitty has seen her fair share of tragedy and instead
of thinking about romance, is determined to do her bit for King and
country. Her life as a WREN means she is kept busy much of the
time, but when Kitty finds herself stationed back home on
Merseyside, she meets up again with Frank Feeny, the brave young
officer who has always held a place in her heart. Britain is on the
verge of victory, but will Kitty embrace the future and learn to
love again?
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