The Loving Spirit by Daphne du Maurier
Eh, well every writer does have to write the first novel “High above the clustered houses and the grey harbour waters of Plyn, the loving spirit smiles and is free.” Although you know I’m not going...
View ArticleBride of Pendorric by Victoria Holt
Eking out a living with her widowed father in his art studio on the island of Capri, Favel is swept off her feet by visitor Roc Pendorric and they are married, although her happiness is marred by the...
View ArticlePenmarric by Susan Howatch
Penmarric begins as Mark Castallack and his mother Maud, cheated out of their inheritance by a scheming relative, wage a years long court battle to regain possession of the lands of Penmar and the...
View ArticleShadow of the Moon by M.M. Kaye
Star crossed lovers, the British Raj & India, what more can you want in a book? This was just an amazing book. Once the author set up her characters and story line things just cooked along — be...
View ArticleMy Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier
Did she or didn’t she? That is the question that will keep readers on the edge of their seat until the final twist on the very last pages. Phillip Ashley was orphaned at a young age and raised in 19C...
View ArticleLord of the Far Island by Victoria Holt
A good comfort book Raised by a wealthy distant cousin after the death of her mother, Ellen Kellaway is forever reminded that she is the Poor Relation. Resigned to her eventual fate as a governess,...
View ArticleThe Desert Crop by Catherine Cookson
Set in Northern England in the late 1800′s, widowed farmer Hector Stewart decides to marry Irishwoman Moira Conelly but here’s the rub – he thinks she’s coming into money and she thinks he’s much...
View ArticleThe Shadow Of The Lynx by Victoria Holt
Thomas Tamasin spends his life chasing rainbows and leaves his daughter Nora firmly ensconced at school as he chases the biggest one of all and heads for the gold fields of Australia. He soon dies and...
View ArticleKent Heiress ~ Roberta Gellis
Don’t let the cover scare you, its a lot better than you’d think. Although if I were planning on taking it on a plane or a bus I’d get one of those special covers so no one would think the worst The...
View ArticleThe Cornish Heiress ~ Roberta Gellis
Gellis is at her “explainatory” worst in this one. More on the above statement later. This book, the second in Gellis’ English Heiress trilogy continues the story of the St. Eyre family begun in The...
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