Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074901394X
1900. The death of her father forces Harriet out of her home to escape the advances of her stepbrother, the rule of her stepmother and into service at Dalton House. Over time Harriet develops a friendship with the Dalton's crippled son Joseph but her life is changed completely when she inherits Greyladies, an old and possibly haunted house.
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749016701
During WWI, Greyladies - an ancient manor house in rural Wiltshire - is requisitioned for a hospital. Its mistress, Harriet, Joseph and their sons are allowed to stay in the rear part of the house, but when tragedy strikes Joseph's brothers, his future at Greyladies is at risk. Latimer family legend says a new mistress will be found to look after the house, yet how does this happen? In Swindon, Phoebe Sinclair is unaware of her connection to Greyladies and the Latimers. When her German employers are interned because of the war, she loses her job. Even worse, her brutish step-cousin Frank tries to force her to marry him. Phoebe flees to London.
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 24,17 MB
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749016809
Wiltshire, December 1915. Olivia Hanbury is widowed and has been persuaded by her cousin Donald to move in with his meek little wife while he is serving in France. When he's wounded, he returns home to convalesce. Tensions rise between him and lively Olivia. Her friend Babs involves her in starting the new Women's Institutes and introduces her to Alex, an antiques dealer. Meanwhile, Phoebe Latimer is holding the fort at Greyladies, an ancient manor house, while her husband is away at war. But someone is attempting to rid Greyladies of the German internees based there. Their nasty tricks put Phoebe's life and that of her unborn child at risk. A chance meeting brings Olivia to Greyladies, and she feels as though she's finally come home. Alex joins her there. Will these three help one another through these troubled times? Or will violent men destroy Greyladies and all it stands for?
Author : Angela Margaret Thirkell
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 14,45 MB
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pomfret Towers" by Angela Margaret Thirkell. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author : Anthony Trollope
Publisher : London : Chapman and Hall
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 10,6 MB
Release : 1879
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 11,77 MB
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749027681
Childless Maeve Corrigan, though rich and successful, is dying of cancer. She wants to leave her business empire to one of the offspring of her two estranged brothers, Des and Leo. But which young relative should she choose? Des has four children and he is overstretched financially. Leo is the unambitious owner of a hardware store in a remote Australian town and has two children. As the younger generation begin to gather around Maeve, old secrets are revealed, new allegiances made, and there are surprises for every member of the family. The Corrigan legacy isn't what it first appears.
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,72 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749017171
Now that Nell's three sons are in work, she's ready to build a new life for herself. She's been left a house in England by an elderly aunt and decides to leave Australia for a while. But her house on Peppercorn Street isn't fit to live in and Nell is happy to sell it and allow a builder to create Cinnamon Gardens. Her elderly neighbour Winifred however wants to stay in the only home she's ever known. Violence escalates as someone tries to frighten the old lady into selling, and to make matters worse, her young friend Janey is being stalked. Can Nell build a new life with a new love? Will she find out why her parents quarrelled with their relatives? And, more importantly, what can she and her new friends do to help each other stay safe?
Author : Fauteux, Albina
Publisher : Meridian, c1987-c1991.
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Hospitals
ISBN : 9782894150450
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 22,19 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749017074
Three women find new hope in Peppercorn Street, a small village in a beautiful corner of Wiltshire with a mixture of homes and people. Janey is 18 and living in a small flat with her baby daughter. Just as her new life starts to show promise, her past catches up with her. Nicole is renting one of the new luxury flats. She's just walked away from her husband and teenage sons, tired of being treated as a servant, suspecting her husband of having an affair. Winifred has lived in her large family home at the top of the street for over eighty years but it's all getting too much, though she doesn't want to leave. Things are not what they seem in any of the three women's lives and danger can strike at rich and poor alike. The trick is to survive it, and for this you need good friends and courage: all freely available in Peppercorn Street.
Author : Anna Jacobs
Publisher : Allison & Busby Ltd
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,84 MB
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0749023856
When the teenage girl who has been hanging around near the house knocks on the door and tells her she's her granddaughter, Cassandra Bennington is shocked rigid. There's only one way this can be true: if Evie is the daughter of the baby Cassie gave away for adoption when she was herself a troubled teenager. Is this a trick? Or is Evie's tale true? When she discovers why the girl has come to find her, it brings a tangle of other problems that she can't ignore. This was the last thing she expected to be dealing with as she moves into her new home in a leisure village in Wiltshire.
