Set between the 1930s and the present, Maggie O'Farrell's novel is the story of Esme, a woman edited out of her family's history, and of the secrets that come to light when, 60...
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Author: O'FARRELL, MaggieSummary:
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Author: WINSPEAR, JacquelineSummary:
Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into service as a maid at her ladyship's Belgravia mansion. A suffragette, Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under...
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Author: LIVELY, PenelopeSummary:
"I thought that I would see if the private life of a house could be made to bear witness to the public traumas of a century". Here Penelope Lively recalls Golsoncott, the country house...
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Author: NIFFENEGGER, AudreySummary:
The story of Clare, a beautiful art student, and Henry, a librarian, who have known each other since Clare was six and Henry was thirty, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry thirty...
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Author: MCCANN, ColumSummary:
A Russian peasant who became an international legend, a Cold War exile who inspired the adoration of millions, an artist whose name was a byword for genius, sex, and excess. The magnificence of...
Genre: Biographical fiction