Books: - Women's Reads

Diana Pullein-Thompson

'Christabelle Lang? She can't still be alive.' She is and, forced out of her self-imposed exile through the unwanted attentions of James,a young art historian eager for her reminiscences, Christabelle relives the memories of her life as a painter during Fitzrovia's colourful heyday between...
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Sarah Grazebrook

Maggie seems to be going up in the world. Compared to living with her large and impoverished East London family and watching her mother being worn down by life and childbearing, working as a maid is a big improvement. Meeting very different people like the Pankhursts, Maggie is introduced ...
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Rachel Moore

March, 1943. Young Breda Hanney is on the brink of becoming a married woman; she is about to tie the knot with her childhood sweetheart, Warren Pascoe, in the small Cornish village of Penbole. But in wartime Britain, all young, able-bodied men are needed to fight for king and country, and ...
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Lauren Willig

The New York Times Bestselling Series ‘All in readiness. An unmarked carriage will be waiting for you behind the house at midnight’ History student Eloise Kelly is in London looking for more information on the activities of the infamous 19th century spy, the Pink Carnation, w...
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Margaret Thornton

It is 1945 and the charming market town of Middlebeck is thriving once more. For fifteen-year-old Maisie Jackson, life could not be better; school is going well, her best friend Audrey is a constant source of fun and Maisie's mum is finally free from the cruel clutches of her now ex-husban...
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