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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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Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a family of
dreamers and their lives within the legendary Palisades Amusement
Park
Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than
Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey--especially for
seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on
the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her
parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell
homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster.
There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool,
complete with divers whose astonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite
her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers.
But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams,
and then the world intrudes: There's the Great Depression, and
Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways that will split the family
apart; and perils like fire and race riots in the park. Both Eddie
and Jack face the dangers of war, while Adele has ambitions of her
own--and Toni is determined to take on a very different kind of
danger in impossible feats as a high diver. Yet they are all drawn
back to each other--and to Palisades Park--until the park closes
forever in 1971.
Evocative and moving, with the trademark brilliance at
transforming historical events into irresistible fiction that made
Alan Brennert's "Moloka'i "and "Honolulu" into reading group
favorites, "Palisades Park "takes us back to a time when life
seemed simpler--except, of course, it wasn't.
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