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The Last Dress from Paris - by Jade Beer (Paperback)

About the Book "The secret is hidden within a collection of Dior dresses.... London, 2017. There's no one Lucille loves more than her grandmother (not even her mother, she's ashamed to say). So when her beloved Granny Sylvie asks Lucille to help secure the return of something that is precious to her, she's happy to help. The next thing she knows, Lucille is on a train to Paris, tasked with retrieving a priceless Dior dress. But not everything is as it seems, and what Lucille finds in a sma

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The Obituary Writer [Book]

On the day John F. Kennedy is inaugurated, Claire, an uncompromising young wife and mother obsessed with the glamour of Jackie O, struggles over the decision of whether to stay in a loveless marriage or follow the man she loves and whose baby she may be carrying. Decades earlier, in 1919, Vivien Lowe, an obituary writer, is searching for her lover who disappeared in the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906. By telling the stories of the dead, Vivien not only helps others cope with their grief

The Forgotten Seamstress [Book]

"An intriguing patchwork of past and present, upstairs and downstairs, hope and despair."--Daisy Goodwin, New York Times bestselling author of The American HeiressA moving story of two women tied together by an heirloom despite the decades that separate their times in England, The Forgotten Seamstress quilts layers of history into one astonishing mystery.In the early 20th century, Maria knows that, as a shy girl with no family, she's lucky to have landed in the sewing room of the royal household

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S. G. Maclean Other | The Bookseller Of Inverness -- S. G. Maclean | Color: Red | Size: Paperback

A Gripping Historical Thriller Set In Inverness In The Wake Of The 1746 Battle Of Culloden. 'This Slice Of Historical Fiction Takes You On A Wild Ride' The Times After Culloden, Iain Macgillivray Was Left For Dead On Drummossie Moor. Wounded, His Face Brutally Slashed, He Survived Only By Pretending To Be Dead As The Redcoats Patrolled The Corpses Of His Jacobite Comrades. Six Years Later, With The Clan Chiefs Routed And The Highlands Subsumed Into The British State, Iain Lives A Quiet Life,

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Mrs Miles's Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front

Mrs Miles's Diary: The Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front: Amazon.co.uk: Constance Miles, S. V. Partington: 9781471125584: Books

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Chance of a Lifetime

In one century she loved him madly, and in another she wants nothing to do with him In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire's daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they've been waiting for the right moment in time to step in. Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in love with another man--the one she was supposed to marry before Liam interfered. But this Cora is very different from the innocent girl who fell for Liam in the past. She's a cop and has a confidence and independence he wasn't expecting. She doesn't remember Liam

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All This Talk of Love

It's been fifty years since Antonio Grasso married Maddalena and brought her to America. That was the last time she saw her parents, her sisters and brothers--everything she knew and loved in the village of Santa Cecilia, Italy. Maddalena sees no need to open the door to the past and let the emotional baggage and unmended rifts of another life spill out.But Prima was raised on the lore of the Old Country. And as she sees her parents aging, she hatches the idea to take the entire family back to Italy--hoping to reunite Maddalena with her estranged sister and let her parents see their homeland one last time. It is an idea that threatens to tear the Grasso family apart, until fate deals them some unwelcome surprises, and their trip home becomes a necessary journey. All This Talk of Love is an

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A Single Thread

An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of the Second World War, from internationally bestselling author Tracy Chevalier 1932. After the Great War took both her beloved brother and her fianc, Violet Speedwell has become a surplus woman, one of a generation doomed to a life of spinsterhood after the war killed so many young men. Yet Violet cannot reconcile herself to a life spent caring for her grieving, embittered mother. After countless meals of boiled eggs and dry toast, she saves enough to move out of her mother's place and into the town of Winchester, home to one of England's grandest cathedrals. There, Violet is drawn into a society of broderers--women who embroider kneelers for the Cathedral, carrying on a centuries-long tradition of bringing comfort to