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OTHER TITLES
HarperCollins
A contemporary novel
which combines the intriguing subjects of
surrogacy and obsessive love.
| Tina and Steve seem like the golden couple:
rich, good looking with everything they could want except a child
of their own. Tina is a very beautiful but temperamental former model, Steve a successful businessman with international interests, but he also wants to develop his stately home in the country as a garden centre and leisure complex. The lynchpin to this enterprise is Louise who, though not unattractive, is solid and sensible and has loyally and devotedly worked for Steve for a number of years, since before his marriage to Tina which came as a shock to her.Louise and Tina are complete opposites, both in looks and personality, and Louise thinks Steve has married the wrong woman and should have realised that she would have been the perfect partner. Her obsession with Steve, her wish to be more closely bound to him, leads her to make the radical suggestion that she should be a surrogate mother to his much wanted child by Tina. The consequence of this offer and the effect it has on the relationships not only of the three people most intimately concerned, but also their family and friends, is the subject of this riveting novel in which Nicola Thorne tackles two contemporary and controversial subjects. |
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WATER'S EDGE The third volume in The Broken Bough saga In May 1926, Peg Hallam, a successful young reporter working in London, is an enthusiastic supporter of the General Strike which is crippling the country. She is engaged to Alan, a fellow journalist and socialist who has long admired her, but whom she is not quite sure she loves. On the picket line outside her employer's newspaper offices Peg unexpectedly bumps into Hubert Ryland, heir to Lord Ryland, on whose Dorset estate Peg's family lives. Under such dramatic circumstances the long-suppressed attraction between the two young people is reawakened, and Peg finds she can no longer deny her feelings… |
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THE BLACKBIRD'S
SONG It is 1924 and twenty-one year old Peg Hallam
has come to London from rural Dorset to carve a career for herself
in the busy world of Fleet Street journalism.
More Titles
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| The Broken Bough | 2001 | Severn House | ||
| The first volume in a strong and dramatic saga set in the early 1900's Also Audio | ||||
| My Name is Martha Brown | 2000 | HarperCollins | ||
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Based on a true story about the last woman to be publicly hanged in Dorset in 1856 whose life and tragic death was of lasting interest to Thomas Hardy. Also Audio
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| Class Reunion | 1999 | HarperCollins | ||
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| The Good Samaritan | 1998 | HarperCollins | ||
| Wealthy woman tries to help a charming beggar
who subsequently runs off with her sister, and is then the suspect
in a particularly brutal murder. Intriguing suspense story. Also Audio |
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| Old Money | 1997 | HarperCollins | ||
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About old values and how society, in the supposed age of equality, still applauds class and class distinction. Also Audio | |||
| Worlds Apart | 1996 | HarperCollins | ||
| Anna, thirty-something, a busy and successful solicitor, is happily married to Peter and tries hard with her relationship with his two children by a deceased first wife. However just as she has decided not to have children of her own they turn against her, severely straining a love that is not based on a natural blood tie. Also Audio. | ||||
| Repossession | 1996. | Severn House | ||
| A novel of psychic suspense. Spooky goings-on on a modern housing estate. | ||||
| Trophy Wife | 1995 | HarperCollins | ||
| Rich, titled older man chucks wife for a younger woman. Family repercussions. Also Audio. | ||||
| Profit and Loss | 1994 | HarperCollins | ||
| Hard hitting modern story about the effect on two couples of the early 90's recession, one successful, the other not. | ||||
| Silk | 1993 | HarperCollins | ||
| Explores the lives and loves of the successful; the rich may be different, but their hearts are vulnerable too. Also Audio | ||||
| A Wind in Summer | 1993 | Grafton | ||
| Yorkshire Dales family saga.The effect of a dominating father on the lives of his children. | ||||
| The People of this Parish series | ||||
| Sweeping saga over six novels covering the years 1880 to 1950, largely set in Dorset. The titled Woodville family intermarry with the yeoman Yetman family,and set off a train of events that weave in and out in a rich tapestry during the course of two world wars and a complete change in society. Titles in sequence are: |
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| The People of this Parish | 1991 | Heinemann. Also Audio | ||
| The Rector's Daughter | 1992 | Heinemann. Also Audio | ||
| In This Quiet Earth | 1998 | Severn House Also Audio | ||
| Past Love | 1998 | Severn House Also Audio | ||
| A Time of Hope | 1999 | Severn House Also Audio | ||
| In Time of War | 2000 | Severn House Also Audio | ||
| Bird of Passage | 1990 | Grafton | ||
| Set in Dorset about a mysterious woman returning to her home village. She has a past which she is trying to conceal from her family | ||||
| Champagne | 1989 | Transworld | ||
| Saga about a Champagne
dynasty.Unknown heiress Sandra O'Neill inherits an ancient marque
of Champagne when the owner Georges Desmond is killed in an aircrash. She faces stiff opposition from the family of the dead man who feel she has stolen their birthright. Latest edition, HarperCollins 1996 (paperback). |
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| Champagne Gold | 1992 | HarperCollins | ||
| Continues the saga of the efforts of the
disinherited and vengeful Desmond family to unseat Sandra, involving
mayhem and attempted murder. Latest edition, HarperCollins 1996 (paperback). |
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| Pride of P1ace | 1998 | Granada | ||
| The Prynne family
are forced to turn their ancient ancestral home into an up market
hotel. Saga from 1951-1980. |
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| Swift Flows the River | 1988 | Macdonald | ||
| A richly nostalgic saga of Yorkshire life between the wars. Starts 1916. Also Audio | ||||
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