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Two sisters / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
The pretty Arnold sisters have grown up on their father's farm and yearn for something more out of life than drudgery and toil. Ellen, loyal and honest, is her father's favourite, but Gina is impulsive and unreliable, and can't please a father who has never shown her love. The big house, Grindle Hall, offers them both a chance of betterment, but while Ellen follows the steady path, Gina takes a darker road and soon her actions will have fateful consequences for them all. Only Ellen can help them, but will a sister's love be enough?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Sisters; Families; Fathers and daughters; Women;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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A time to remember / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
Maureen has never learned the art of putting herself first. She always gives, and never expects anything in return for herself. Instead of being treated the same way by others, her gentle temperament has seen her taken advantage of, and now she has lost her joy in life. Maureen has a chance to change that when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost time, she decides to take a holiday and, needing a companion, looks up her old friend Barbara. However, Barbara has changed in the years since they last met, and what starts out as a nostalgic trip down memory lane becomes something different altogether. Will their friendship stand the test of time, or should it be left firmly in the past?
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Female friendship; Reminiscing; Vacations; Women;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The letter / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
"Bella can't wait to be married to her fiancée Sidney, and dreams of the day she will walk up the aisle to be given away by her widowed father, with her bookish sister Alice as her bridesmaid. Their lives are disturbed when they receive a letter from their fifteen-year-old cousin Millie. Taken in by her austere aunt and uncle when her parents were killed in an accident, Millie says she is being badly treated and pleads to be rescued. When the two sisters take a trip to find out the truth, things take a troubling turn. Millie is brought home to live with them, her only possessions her ill-fitting clothes and a tatty suitcase. But soon they are questioning this act of kindness. Does their teenaged cousin just need some love and kindness? Or is she a troublemaker, with only mischief and malice on her mind ... ?"--
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Cousins; Families; Letters; Sisters; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Daddy's girl / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
Heart-broken Sarah Quinn is left to care for her father and siblings when their beloved mother dies. Putting her own dreams aside to keep the family together, she's watchful of her youngest sister, Janette, fast on the way to becoming a tearaway. Her father Fred, often in the pub rather than striving to pay the bills, delivers a shock. He's taken up with Mavis Swindel, the landlady of a shabby boarding house and swiftly marries her, moving them all into her lodgings. Forced to do most of the dirty and backbreaking housework, and often at the sharp end of Mavis's spite, Sarah becomes convinced that her father's new wife has something to hide. But as her quest becomes an obsession, does Sarah risk destroying everything that matters to her in the search for the truth?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Families; Interpersonal relations; Life change events; Mothers; Secrecy; Stepmothers;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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A daughter's return / by Cox, Josephine,author.; Middleton, Gilly,author.;
Florence Stanville is a woman with a past. When she moves to Guisethorpe on the east coast of England, the townsfolk are intrigued by the glamorous and mysterious stranger, with her flame-red hair and abrupt manners. Florence doesn't care about the gossips - she's drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother. The riddle of those days remains and now Florence can only snatch at half-remembered memories and shadowy figures in her dreams. As Florence is reluctantly drawn into the lives of her new neighbours, the layers of her own life are revealed, though it's clear not everyone wishes her well. Far from finding peace, Florence has found instead turmoil and secrets. Can she put the pieces of her past together, or will it remain a closed book forever?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Homecoming; Neighbors; Family secrets; Small cities;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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