Rosie Thomas
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English
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In 1941, newlywed Nerys Watkins leaves rural Wales to accompany her husband on a missionary posting to India. When he takes on a more dangerous mission, Nerys is left in the exotic lakeside city of Srinigar, where the colonists dance, flirt, and gossip as if there is no war. When her husband returns, Nerys is a different woman. Years later, clearing out her dead father's house, Mair Ellis discovers an exquisite shawl enfolding a lock of child's hair...
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Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris to record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II, and of her one...
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Series
Illusionists volume 1
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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London 1870. A terrifying place for a young, beautiful woman of limited means. But Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling if respectable conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist's model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil - a born showman whose dream is to run his own theatre company. Devil's right-hand man is the improbably-named Carlo Bonomi, an ill-tempered...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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From the critically acclaimed author and "master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan), a sweeping saga of loss and redemption that centers on Alice, who as a scientist, relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly, she is forced to use her skills to evaluate her own life for the first time. In her thirties, childless, and tied to Oxford by her work, it's time to break away....
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