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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > War fiction > Second World War fiction
All she wants is somewhere to call home...Frances Sweet can't
really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her
cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little
sister. As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the
men they love - Frances is growing up fast enough to catch the eye
of dashing American soldier Declan. But she also has a greater
longing - to find the mother who abandoned her years before... Full
of hardship, love and emotion, discover the final instalment in
Lizzie Lane's bestselling Sweet Sisters trilogy. 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
The Fourth Shore: the sliver of fertile land along the Tripoli
coast, the 'lost' territory Mussolini promised to reclaim for
Italy. Which is how, in 1929, seventeen-year-old Liliana Cattaneo
arrives there from Rome on a ship filled with eager colonists to
join her brother and his new wife. Liliana is sure she was on the
brink of a great adventure, but what awaits her is not the
Mediterranean idyll of cocktail parties, smart dances, dashing
officers and romantic intrigues she had imagined. Instead she finds
a world of persecution, violence, repression, corruption and
deceptions both great and small. A child of fascist Italy, blown
about by the winds of fascism and Catholicism, Liliana becomes
enmeshed in a dark liaison which has terrible consequences both for
her and those she loves most. The Fourth Shore is the engrossing
and intensely poignant story of Liliana's journey from Rome to
Tripoli to a north London suburb where, as plain Lily Jones, she
begins to uncover a secret she has buried so deeply that even she
is far from certain what it is. Praise for Early One Morning by
Virginia Baily: 'As gripping as any thriller...really, really good'
Daily Mail 'A big, generous and absorbing piece of storytelling'
Samantha Harvey, Guardian 'A real treat' Philip Hensher, Observer
'Wonderful' Tessa Hadley
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