Little Billy is the light of Polly's life - it's for her son's sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and an isolated farm. Then Billy is knocked down by a car, his father killed attempting to save his life...
Domestic fiction
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Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary: -
Author:ALLBEURY, TedSummary:David Collins comes back from World War II with new ideas about the established order. His wife Mary, yearning for a comfortable, ordinary marriage, is uneasy. But David is an honourable man and tries to allay his wife's fears....
- Author:ANDREWS, LynSummary:
A fire destroys the modest coal haulage business their father Jack has built, leaving Jack broken and his family wondering how they will survive.
- Author:SCANLAN, PatriciaSummary:
Chris Wallace is selfish, arrogant, a liar and a bastard. He is also sexy as hell. His weary wife Suzy, is a woman scorned wreaking havoc on his mistress, once her best friend. Ellen, the mother of his child, still wants him after he...
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Author:Levesque, AnneSummary:Filled with engaging characters, with their unique and lively Cape Breton voices, Lucy Cloud follows the fortunes and heartaches of a family with secrets and the intense longing to live fully. In 1960s Inverness, Cape Breton, the coal...
- Author:Gaffney, PatriciaSummary:
Depuis dix ans, Emma, Rudy, Lee et Isabel sont liées par une amitié indéfectible. Esprit, humour et compassion sont les armes qui permettent aux quatre Grâces de résister à tous les tracas de la vie… Jusqu’au jour où survient une...
- Author:Thomas, RosieSummary:
Alors qu’elle vide la maison de son défunt père, Mair Ellis découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d’enfant. Débute alors une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie. Se rendant au Cachemire sur les traces de ses...
- Author:Collins, JackieSummary:
Secrets de famille, sexe, pouvoir, fortunes colossales et deux meurtres : une semaine mouvementée à New York! Un vieillard richissime et exécrable continue, à presque quatre-vingts ans, de manipuler et tyranniser sa famille. Marqués par...
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Author:COX, JosephineSummary:Jinnie is the child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise adopts little Jinnie.
- Author:BROOKNER, AnitaSummary:
Eighteen year old Maud is invited to spend the summer in her aunt's large country house where she meets two men, one beautiful and ruthless, the other a quiet dreamer, both of whom will profoundly affect her life.
- Author:Nino RicciSummary:
As the young Italian boy Vittorio Innocent arrives in the New World, leaving the arms of his dying mother for the troubled haven of his father, he and his half-sister Rita must make their way in a farming community whose ways are both...
- Author:COBEN, HarlanSummary:
Investigating his girlfriend's mysterious disappearance, Will Klein learns that she is somehow tied to his brother's death, and he becomes increasingly disturbed when he realizes that everyone he loves is harboring dark...
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Author:Nadine GordimerSummary:"Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he controls the trajectory of his life, with the markers of vocation and marriage. But when he's diagnosed with thyroid cancer and prescribed treatment that makes him...
- Author:Andrea LevySummary:
Faith Jackson knows little about her parents' lives before they moved to England. Happy to be starting her first job in the costume department at BBC television, and to be sharing a house with friends, Faith is full of hope and...
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Author:Fannie FlaggSummary:When dowdy housewife Evelyn Couch meets endearing old lady Ninny Threadgoode, she shares with her an enthralling story of two women. The headstrong Idgie and the gentle Ruth who in the 1930's ran the Whistle Stop Cafe, a railside eatery...
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Author:Steven GallowaySummary:Paul loves hockey, but when a loud afternoon practice session seems to contribute to the accidental loss of Paul's father's arm, the boys' fate and relationship to the game seem to change forever. Following the boys to...
- Author:ALLEN, Charlotte ValeSummary:
Bobby Salton runs away from her violently abusive husband, taking her six year old daughter, and flees to the Connecticut coast. There she takes on a job in the home of Eva Rule and her Aunt Alma. Her arrival arouses unexpected, and...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Years of sitting on the stairs while her mother entertains her 'visitors' in their house in Weavers Lane have taught Emmy Carter that prostitution is a life she must avoid at all costs.
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Author:Marti LeimbachSummary: -
Author:RICE, LuanneSummary:Jane Porter has always been a free spirit. But, despite leaving Twin Rivers Valley, Rhode Island, behind her, fourteen years ago, the town is forever etched upon her heart. Now she is unexpectedly drawn home to visit her mother and...
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