When Evas film star sister Katrina dies she leaves California & returns to Cornwall where they spent their childhood summers to scatter Katrinas ashes & in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past as well as those from a time long before her own. For the house where she so often stayed as a child is home not only to her old friends the Halletts but also to the people who had lived there in the eighteenth century. When Eva finally accepts that she is able to slip between centuries & see & talk to the inhabitants from hundreds of years ago she soon finds herself falling for Daniel Butler a man who lived
- & died
- long before she herself was born. Eva begins to question her place in the present & in laying her sister to rest comes to realise that she too must decide where she really belongs choosing between the life she knows & the past she feels so drawn towards.

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There have been many versions of this Legend of Rose Hall
- some good some not so good
- but this one is definitely the best...this

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Rose Heilbron QC (later Dame Rose Heilbron) was an English Barrister one of the two first women Queen's Counsel in 1949 & the first woman Judge in England in 1956 who became a world famous icon of the 1950's & 1960's. This biography written by her daughter Hilary also a Barrister & Queen's Counsel charts her rise to prominence & success against the odds excelling as an advocate & lawyer & later as a High Court Judge. She broke down many barriers & became a pioneer for women at the English Bar & for women generally. She also championed many women's causes in an era when it was not fashionable to do so most of which have since become part of the mainstream. The biography highlights her role as an inspiring & successful advocate in many famous cases. In 1950 when murder still carried the death penalty & aged only 35 she defended the man accused of a brutal murder in what was to become known as the Cameo case. She later defended Devlin & Burns in another famous murder trial. She represented the striking Liverpool Dockers in a case of national importance. She achieved an historic victory in an early anti-discrimination case representing the world renowned cricketer Learie Constantine who had been the victim of race discrimination & she defended the notorious London gangster Jack Spot. But there are many other famous & fascinating trials as well as cases of great legal importance related in this biography. Also chronicled is her tenure as a High Court Judge where she received plaudits for her compassionate approach to cases involving difficult & emotional family & personal issues as well as for her adept & experienced handling of criminal cases such skills clearly recognized by her appointment by the government in 1975 to chair an Advisory Committee on Rape. This book tells the story of her many firsts in the legal profession over a career spanning nearly 50 years & of the wide range of other legal & non-legal activities she undertook as a result of her fame. With the added insights & recollections of her daughter it portrays a multi-dimensional picture of the young & beautiful Rose Heilbron
- barrister working wife & mother & later judge
- who not only managed to combine these public & private roles in an era when to do so was extremely rare but who did so with the combination of warmth flair & determination which was to make her an internationally acclaimed role model for women. Many people over the years have wanted to write about her: this is the first authorised biography. It will be of interest to lawyers & legal scholars & will also have a wider general appeal to professional & working women worldwide.

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Roused by a single drop of blood Rosie Daniels wakes up to the chilling realisation that her husband is going to kill her. & she takes flight
- with his credit card. Alone in a strange city Rosie begins to build a new life: she meets Bill Steiner & she finds an odd junk shop painting Rose Madder which strangely seems to want her as much as she wants it. But its hard for Rosie not to keep looking over her shoulder. Rose-maddened & on the rampage Norman is a corrupt cop with a dogs instinct for tracking people. & hes getting close. Rosie can feel how close he is getting.. .A brilliant dark-hued fable of gender wars a haunting love story & a hold-your-breath triumph of suspense ROSE MADDER is Stephen King at his electrifying best.
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Russia 1854: the Crimean War grinds on & as the bitter winter draws near the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale Rosa Barr
- young headstrong & beautiful
- travels to Balaklava determined to save as many of the wounded as she can. For Mariella Lingwood Rosa's cousin the war is contained within the pages of her scrapbook in her London sewing circle & in the letters she receives from Henry her fiance a celebrated surgeon who has also volunteered to work within the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill & is sent to recuperate in Italy Mariella impulsively decides she must go to him. But upon their arrival at his lodgings she & her maid make a heartbreaking discovery: Rosa has disappeared. Following the trail of her elusive & captivating cousin Mariella's epic journey takes her from the domestic restraint of Victorian London to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea & the tragic city of Sebastopol. As she ventures deeper into the dark heart of the conflict Mariella's ordered world begins to crumble & she finds she has much to learn about secrecy faithfulness & love.

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Every love story has a dangerous twist. Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband Scott is accused of something terrible
- but
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Every love story has a dangerous twist. Tamia Challey is horrified when her husband Scott is accused of something terrible
- but
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Beata Zatorska learned to make pierogi & other Polish recipes in her grandmothers farmhouse kitchen in the remote village in the foothills of the Karkanosze mountains where she grew up. When she returned years later her beloved grandmother was gone but she found her handwritten recipes for preparing traditional Polish dishes & for preserving the precious fruit & vegetables grown in the family garden. Those recipes make up this charming book together with Beatas memories of her childhood in Poland in the 60s & 70s & the story of her journey with her husband Simon to discover Poland today. ...

When Judith Perle's husband dies the young widow bestows one of her properties a house in the Monk's Foregate on the Abbey of Shrewsbury. The only rent is a single white rose to be delivered annually upon the day of the translation of St Winifred. But as a beautiful woman with a substantial dowry Judith represents a target for would-be suitors & her dowry will be even greater if the house were to revert to her. Someone it seems will stop at nothing to prevent payment of the rose & in the summer of 1142 the rose bush is violently hacked down. Lying beside it the body of a murdered man is discovered. The enquiry into this sensational crime of passion falls as ever to Brother Cadfael. ...

If May Sally & Harriet didnt need the money so badly they definitely wouldnt be working for Slimeball Slater at Quality Cleaners. So when they discover its Slimeball taking them to the cleaners they decide to set up their own business
- & thats when things really start to take off. Working for themselves gives them the freedom & independence theyve been longing for. May can afford the mooring fees for her beloved narrowboat; Harriet discovers a true gift for painting & Sallys dream of a place of her own is fast becoming reality. But is it too much having made such a success of their working lives to expect similar success in their romantic ones?
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