Prologue to the Casteel-Tatterton saga. Annie and her husband return to Farthinggale Manor to lay the ghosts of the past to rest. She discovers her grandmother's diary, "Leigh's book", and therein finds the source of...
Family Chronicles
- Author:ANDREWS, Virginia C.Summary:
- Author:GALSWORTHY, JohnSummary:
Jon Forsyte meets Fleur, Soames' daughter, and they fall in love. They must then face the unbreachable rift that divides their families. Book three of the Forsyte Saga.
- Author:COX, JosephineSummary:
Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. But, when Ben's father, Ronnie dies, their whole world changes.
- Author:McCaffrey, AnneSummary:
Continuing the saga of Pern and its dragonriders, this is the story of Jaxom and his dragon Ruth. As Jaxom nears manhood and his confirmation as Lord of Ruatha Hold approaches, he finds it difficult to get people to take him seriously....
- Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:
Set in London and Cornwall from WWII to the present day, this is the story of the Keeling family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
- Author:GOLDSMITH, AndreaSummary:
Alice Lewin survived the war as a young child. After decades of burying her past she decides to visit the Kindertransport archive, where she learns of the existence of a possible relative, Henry Lewin. She travels to Australia to hear...
- Author:Hunt, Angela ElwellSummary:
En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed.
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.
- Author:GREGORY, PhilippaSummary:
Sequel to "Wideacre", this historical novel continues the fortunes of the Lacey family. Sensual, gripping and at times mystical, this book sweeps the reader irresistibly into the England of the 1790's and a revolutionary...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Meet the Corrigans. Childless Maeve, 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? As...
- Author:BURGH, AnitaSummary:
Winter, 1901. The ancient facade of Cresswell Manor surveys a vast and rich estate - but the land has fallen into decay. When Stanislas von Ehrlich, a self-made man of fortune, moves into the neighbourhood, the natural order of things...
- Author:CADELL, ElizabethSummary:
Second book in trilogy of "The lark shall sing" and "Six impossible things". A story of family life.
- Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:
A novel set in Scotland and revolving around a group of people whose lives will be profoundly affected by the party they are to attend in September. A wonderfully crafted story of people and Scotland by the author of "The shell...
- Author:PLAIN, BelvaSummary:
Contemporary romantic family saga, focusing on the secrets of three women; a mother of a teenage girl who has been raped; the mother of the boy who is the culprit; and a young girl who grows up to become a brilliant architect.
- Author:ROBERTS, NoraSummary:
First novel of a trilogy about three young men bound by the love of an extraordinary couple who took them in and raised them as brothers. Now grown and living on their own,the Quinn brothers return to the family home to honour their...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
In 1820 Salem Street is sparkling and new: eight small terraced houses built by a Lancashire mill owner for his best workers. Annie Gibson's family is one of them, but when Annie's mother dies her world changes and not all for...
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
Continues the mid-nineteenth-century Lancastrian saga of extraordinary heroine Annie Gibson, begun in 'Salem Street', and 'High Street'.
- Author:PLAIN, BelvaSummary:
A happy marriage is eroded by temptation, leaving three children and their mother to find strength in each other to triumph over their despair.
- Author:GOWER, IrisSummary:
Rhiannon, proud and spirited, is alone in the world after Bill Beynon, her one time lover, marries someone else. She gains a respectable post as a housekeeper to an elderly man, but when he dies his sister throws her out on the streets...