5 Heartwarming Books Boxset

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With 5 heartwarming stories set in the past from authors such as Maureen Lee & Catrin Collier. Footsteps by Katharine Mc Mahon. The women in Helena Mayrick's family have always led secretive & tragic lives, & when Helena's comfortable marriage is devastated by her husband's violent death, it seems that she, too, is locked into the cycle. Helena is invited to research a book on her grandfather, H. Donaldson, the celebrated Edwardian photographer. At first she is reluctant to immerse herself in family history, particularly as Donaldson's relationship with her grandmother, Ruth, is shrouded in mystery & turmoil. But gradually, as the story of enigmatic Ruth & the elusive, passionate Donaldson unfolds, Helena finds that the past, like the present, was shaped by cruel dilemmas & the demands of love... Love in the Country by Rebecca Shaw. When Seb joins Barleybridge, the last thing on his mind is romance. Keen to settle into his first real job & make a good impression he embraces the working life of a country vet. He has almost forgotten his high maintenance ex-girlfriend Carly & concentrates on settling down to a job he really loves. He is welcomed by the other members of the Practice & is soon contending with a menagerie of very diverse clients which take Seb on an incredibly steep learning curve. Seb is to find that his expertise with animals & their owners leads to a friendship with the upper-class Jilly & rather more than that with Maggie whose family is heartbroken when he diagnoses their alpacas with TB. But when a surprise meeting in the Practice itself turns his world upside down... Love & Laughter by Lilian Harry. The War is over at last & in Plymouth & Portsmouth, two of Britain's greatest seaports, the task of rebuilding must begin. But it is not only streets, businesses & homes that have been laid waste. Lives, too, have been devastated. Marriages have been disrupted, family life shattered, & now the inhabitants must find their own way back to normality
- if they can remember what that is. Lucy Pengelly is just one woman whose life has been torn apart by the War. What will happen when her husband returns from the POW camp in the Far East? & what of the growing friendship between Lucy & her friend David, who played such an important part in their lives during the Blitz? Such Sweet Sorrow by Catrin Collier. When World War Two is finally declared, the entwined Powell & Ronconi families face an uncertain future in Pontypridd. For three women in particular, there are hard choices to make. Jenny Powell