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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas
BRISTOL 1943 and life for the Tobacco Girls isn't getting any
easier...Bridget Milligan has donned a uniform and joined the
nursing services where she becomes intrigued with the miracles of
modern medicine. She's also torn between family loyalty, her new
career and Lyndon O'Neill, the love of her life. Is it too
impossible to hope that everything will come out right in the end?
Phyllis Harvey is still serving in Malta where she sees the
casualties of war first hand. Finally it seems like Phyllis is
blessed with true in love, but fate can sometimes be a rocky road
and nothing is that certain. Maisie Miles is left holding the home
front at the tobacco factory but with the sudden death of her
grandmother finds herself once more alone in the world. However,
thanks to a substantial inheritance, she is able to extend a
helping hand to a friend in desperate need. There are tears and
laughter, goodbyes and new arrivals along with the hope that new
beginnings are not far over the horizon. Praise for Lizzie Lane: 'A
gripping saga and a storyline that will keep you hooked' Rosie
Goodwin 'The Tobacco Girls is another heartwarming tale of love and
friendship and a must-read for all saga fans.' Jean Fullerton
'Lizzie Lane opens the door to a past of factory girls, redolent
with life-affirming friendship, drama, and choices that are as
relevant today as they were then.' Catrin Collier 'If you want an
exciting, authentic historical saga then look no further than
Lizzie Lane.' Fenella J Miller
In the barrio of Fresno, California, the Molina family is living
out the Chicano version of the American Dream. Father William works
on an assembly line while his wife, the well-bred beauty Rachel,
stays at home to care for their three children--and to keep them
off the streets. But when William is offered an opportunity to
enter the ranks of the middle class, he quits his job, packs up the
Ford Maverick, and transports the Molinas to a brand-new world: the
small town of Medford, Oregon. So begins the dramatic
transformation of youngest son and aspiring actor Joey, who assumes
the role of a vato loco gang member in order to win the respect and
fear of his gringo classmates. While Joey tries to make himself
popular with tall tales of guns and glory, his father embarks on a
bitter struggle to develop his career and combat age-old cultural
stereotypes. How William's extraordinary efforts and deepening
despair affect the lives of his loved ones is at the heart of this
haunting and incandescent novel--one destined to become a classic
in Chicano-American literature.
From internationally acclaimed author Anne Enright comes a
shattering novel set in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast.
The Green Road is a tale of family and fracture, compassion and
selfishness-a book about the gaps in the human heart and how we
strive to fill them. Spanning thirty years, The Green Road tells
the story of Rosaleen, matriarch of the Madigans, a family on the
cusp of either coming together or falling irreparably apart. As
they grow up, Rosaleen's four children leave the west of Ireland
for lives they could have never imagined in Dublin, New York, and
Mali, West Africa. In her early old age their difficult, wonderful
mother announces that she's decided to sell the house and divide
the proceeds. Her adult children come back for a last Christmas,
with the feeling that their childhoods are being erased, their
personal history bought and sold. A profoundly moving work about a
family's desperate attempt to recover the relationships they've
lost and forge the ones they never had, The Green Road is Enright's
most mature, accomplished, and unforgettable novel to date.
A dramatic saga that sweeps from the dust of the Boer War to the
carnage of the Great War, with a bitter private conflict sandwiched
in between... Corporal Russ Hazelwood loves his wife Rachel, but
she is far away, and the African woman seems the answer to long,
passionless nights on the veldt. The war over, Russ returns to York
and Rachel, to a growing family and increasing prosperity, little
realizing how - years later - those moments of weakness in Africa
will come back to haunt him, threatening to destroy everything he
cherishes. Then, overshadowing all, comes the most dreadful war the
world has ever seen. And when it is over, the greatest battle has
still to be won - on the home front.
The second title in Sheelagh Kelly's bestselling 'Feeney' saga
tells how one treacherous act can turn a brother's love into a
murderous rage... In the summer of 1867 a sudden change in the
fortunes of the Feeney family saves them from their life of
struggle and poverty in the mean back streets of York. But what
will save the Feeney family from itself? Patrick and Thomasin
Feeney and their children, Erin, Richard and Sonny, each have
different dreams - and as these dreams grow under the influence of
their new-found wealth the old bonds between them begin to break.
Estranging husband and wife, dividing father and son, setting
brother against brother. But it is Richard, as dishonest and
selfish as he is handsome and charming, whose final betrayal
threatens to bring down the judgment of God.
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Dickie
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Sheelagh Kelly
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R387
Discovery Miles 3 870
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The fourth and final title in Sheelagh Kelly's bestselling 'Feeney'
saga follows the story of Richard William Feeney - 'Dickie'.
Supposedly dying a hero's death in a tragic fire in 1874, Richard
Feeney secretly escaped the flames and fled to America, where he
prospered. Now, twenty-six years later, he is back in York in the
bosom of his astonished family. The year 1900 is about to fade...
along with the life of Patrick Feeney, Dickie's beloved father.
Recriminations are temporarily forgotten, as the family reunites in
grief. But the past has a way of catching up, and Dickie's day of
reckoning is just around the corner. His jaunty good looks and
disregard for the law invariably land Dickie in trouble. Behind him
lies a trail of chaos, and his long-suffering wife and family are
burdened with the consequences. When Mr Rufforth of the Yorkshire
Insurance Company recognizes Dickie as the son who supposedly died,
he is faced with a trial and possible imprisonment. Meanwhile,
Detective Chief Inspector Scholes Nettleton reopens his files on an
unsolved double murder.
Pre-order the brand-new instalment in Fenella J. Miller's
bestselling Goodwill House series! September 1940 With harvest
approaching, land girl Daphne is busier than ever as she ploughs
the fields and tends to the animals with her friends Sal and
Charlie. All three girls enjoy the relative peace of Goodwill
House...but war is never far away. When a German plane crash lands
in the grounds of Goodwill House, everyone is shocked, especially
when the two German pilots are declared missing. Where could they
be hiding? Tensions are high, and Daphne is dealt yet another
shock, when she meets Corporal Robert Andrews - the man she was
once engaged to marry! Goodwill House is the last place she
expected to be reunited with Bob and although he looks dashing in
his uniform, Daphne doesn't think she can ever forgive him for
breaking her heart. With the war getting closer every day, can
these two to finally be reunited for good or will their love be
forever lost...? Don't miss the next heart-breaking instalment in
Fenella J. Miller's beautiful Goodwill House series. Praise for
Fenella J. Miller: 'Yet again, Fenella Miller has thrilled me with
another of her historical stories in the Goodwill House saga
series. She brings alive a variety of emotions and weaves in facts
relating to the era, all of which keep me reading into the small
hours.' Glynis Peters - Bestselling author of The Secret Orphan.
'Curl up in a chair with Fenella J Miller's characters and lose
yourself in another time and another place.' Lizzie Lane 'Engaging
characters and setting which whisks you back to the home front of
wartime Britain. A fabulous series!' Jean Fullerton
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