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Wild Strawberries
Angela Thirkell
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844088843
Pretty, impecunious Mary Preston, newly arrived as a guest of her Aunt Agnes at the magnificent wooded estate of Rushwater, falls head over heels for handsome playboy David Leslie. Meanwhile, Agnes and her mother, the eccentric matriarch Lady ...
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Nightingale Wood
Stella Gibbons
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844085729
Life is not quite a fairytale for poor Viola. Left penniless, the young widow is forced to live with her late husband’s family in a joyless old house. There’s Mr Wither, a tyrannical old miser, Mrs Wither, who thinks Viola is just a common shop ...
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Rebecca
Daphne Du Maurier
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844080380
Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again . . .
Working as a lady's companion, the heroine of Rebecca learns her place. Life begins to look very bleak until, on a trip to the South of France, she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome widower ...
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The Dud Avocado
Elaine Dundy
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844087600
THE DUD AVOCADO gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. It is, as the GUARDIAN observes, 'one of the best novels about growing up fast'.
Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a ...
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The True Heart
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844082605
This is the love story of Sukey Bond and Eric Seaborn.
Sukey is an orphan, in service, the lowest of the low. It is 1873, and in her first position as a servant girl on a farm in the Essex Marshes, she meets Eric - gentle, simple, a 'holy fool.' ...
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The Soul of Kindness
Elizabeth Taylor
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844086566
"Here I am!" Flora called to Richard as she went downstairs. For a second, Meg felt disloyalty. It occurred to her of a sudden that Flora was always saying that, and that it was in the tone of one giving a lovely present. She was bestowing ...
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The Flint Anchor
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844082568
John Barnard, leading merchant at a Norfolk port, is a pillar of nineteenth-century rectitude. Though stern and aloof with his indolent, tippling wife and watchful children, he is undermined by helpless love for his pretty, cold-hearted daughter ...
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The Company She Keeps
Mary Mccarthy
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781844085941
These six brilliantly written episodes, brought together in Mary McCarthy's first novel, create a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle. Based loosely on the author's own life, the book follows a young bohemian woman, Margaret Sargent, th
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The Caravaners
Elizabeth Von Arnim
Hachette Digital
ISBN : 9781853810015
Dear Husband, she said, actually imitating me. I know what you are going to say. I always know what you are going to say. I know all the things you ever can or ever do say. She paused for a moment, and then added in a firm voice, looking me straight in
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
eBooksLib (en)
ISBN : 141219721X
1801. - I have just returned from a visit to my landlord - the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw...
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