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The author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins "writes about a woman writing about writing and gets triumphantly away with it ... a novel of tremendous readability" (Independent).
Driving through the snowbound Yorkshire countryside, stopping at anonymous hotels, Marion is prepared to do anything to escape her memories. She begins to write stories, stories that take her into other people's lives. But as she is drawn back into her own world, she must face the things...
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When her missionary father suddenly dies in Nigeria, thirty-seven-year old school teacher Anne Harrington makes the journey from London to retrieve his body. She decides to take the return voyage by container ship, giving herself time to come to terms with his death.
She had no way of knowing what would await her onboard: that she would get involved with two stowaways (clandestinely), and the ship's mate (sexually), and the journey would end in murder....
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A novel that delves into "the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended" (Library Journal).
What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become?
Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to her parents' home, marrying her childhood sweetheart, and becoming a mother....
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The first novel from the acclaimed author of Mr. Wroe's Virgins and The Voyage Home.
Orph is a strange, silent, friendless young man. Emma meets him when she comes to work at the children's home where he lives. She offers him a room in her student flat. But there, amid the love affairs and politics of university life, Orph's alienation only grows deeper, and his lonely course has the most desperate of consequences.
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From the multi-award-winning and critically acclaimed author of The Testament of Jessie Lamb comes this riveting novel about the devastating secrets revealed in the midst of a disintegrating marriage. The story of a marriage and of two lives in science. When Conrad fails to return from a conference, Eleanor wonders if it is because of the affair, she is having? Or perhaps it is because his research into transgenic monkey hearts is stalling; perhaps...
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Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office.
The plan is simple. She'll find her mother, demand the answers she's always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides,...