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Lily Gullick lives with her husband Aiden in a new-build flat opposite an

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Growing up in Preston's poorest area, Kate Shaw knows just how harsh life can be. With her father unable to do his night watchman rounds, Kate does all she can to help her family survive. But when Andrew Pitt comes into her life, everything changes. True happiness seems to be on the horizon for Kate as she & Andrew make plans to marry. Then tragedy strikes & Kate takes the only course she can to protect the people who depend on her. With her future looking hopeless, Kate must find a way to escape
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Bernard Cribbins reads Charles Kingsley's much-loved tale about a little chimney-sweep who is turned into a water baby. Tom the chimney-sweep has a hard life. He is beaten by his master, the cruel Mr Grimes, & forced to climb up dark flues where he bruises his knees & elbows & gets soot in his eyes. He is always hungry, for there is never enough to eat, & always dirty, as there is nowhere for him to wash. One day, he is so tired from sweeping flues that he comes down the wrong chimney & lands in the bedroom of a beautiful young girl, where he is mistaken for a thief & runs away. He falls asleep near a river
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Four lives. Four defining moments which will bring them together. Owen Abingdon is haunted by nightmares of the Merfolk. He believes they have stolen his little sister who vanished while he was meant to be minding her on the beach, but he was only a child himself. Is it fair for his mother to blame him? Catherine Hoyle's perfect Christmas with her cousin from America was blighted when they went skating on thin ice & Rosalyn nearly died. Somehow, instead of being praised for raising the alarm, Catherine gets blamed. Sean Madigan grew up on a farm in Irel&. Learning to swim in the Shannon was his way of escaping the bitter poverty of his childhood, but it also incurred his father's wrath. He flees to Engl&, but his heart belongs to the Shannon & her pulling power is evernear ...

In the bleak snowbound landscape of the Cambridgeshire Fens, a car is winched from a frozen river.

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In the spring of 1883, Claude Monet decided it was time to find a permanent residence for his family & he selected the village of Giverny. It was small & relatively untouched by industry & the region had a picturesque appeal. Gentle rolling hills rose to the north, while to the south there were cultivated fields of wheat & poppies as well as meadows covered with wildflowers & irises. Not suitable for children under the age of 3 years. ...

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Books Historical Fiction Books Wakefield 1870 On the banks of the River Calder, Meg Taylor struggles to care for her younger siblings & sick mother whilst her father is away working as a boatman on the canals. The slums where they live are rife with disease, & Meg longs for a different life, away from the grinding poverty, but she'll never leave her family. But with the canals slowly dying as trade moves to the railways, & with Meg’s father stubbornly holding onto the past, Meg fears her family’s future is going to get even bleaker. If only there was a way she could save them…. Christian Henderson is tired of the greed of his wealthy family. He sees the poverty around him & wishes he could do more to help the proud working-class people he meets. People like Meg Taylor, whose courage he so admires. From the moment he meets Meg, Christian is captivated – Meg might be poor, but she is proud & spirited! Meg’s dreams of being with a man like Christian are fantas... ...

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' Weeks went by when Ismay never thought of it at all. Then something would bring it back or it would return in a dream. The dream began in the same way. She & her mother would be climbing the stairs, following Heather's lead through the bedroom to what was on the other side, not a bathroom in the dream but a chamber floored & walled in marble. In the middle of it was a glassy lake. The white thing in the water floated towards her, its face submerged, & her mother said, absurdly, Don't look!' The dead man was Ismay's stepfather, Guy. Now, nine years on, she & her sister, Heather, still live in the same house in Clapham. But it has been divided into two self-contained flats. Their mother lives upstairs with her sister, Pamela. & the bathroom, where Guy drowned, has been demolished. But Death will rear its ugly head once more... Ismay & Heather get on well. They always have. They never discussed the changes to the house, still less what had happened that August day. But as their love lives start to develop, someone is murdered along the way, & long buried suspicions re-emerge with potentially tragic results. ...