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  • The Chalky Sea
    Clare Flynn
    Two troubled people in a turbulent world.In July 1940, Gwen Collingwood drops her husband at the railway station, knowing she may never see him again. Two days later her humdrum world is torn apart when the sleepy English seaside town where she lives is subjected to the first of many heavy bombing attacks.In Ontario, Canada, Jim Armstrong is debating whether to volunteer. His d...
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    19,54 €

  • The Star of Ceylon
    Clare Flynn
    Ceylon, 1906: Stella Polegate steps off the ship in Colombo harbour, her heart beating with contradictory emotions. As her father’s unofficial research assistant, she’s thrilled to explore this island of ancient temples and verdant tea plantations-yet painfully aware that her brilliant mind will remain uncredited, her academic ambitions dismissed simply because she is a woman.W...
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    14,81 €

  • The Artist’s War
    Clare Flynn
    Hampshire, 1916: Alice traces her hand over the cold glass of the window as the pale morning light slips into the empty room. The pain of loss is worse than a physical one. Reminders of Edmund are all around her. The coldness of the sheet on the other half of the bed. The unrelenting silence in the cottage when her stepdaughter Lottie is tucked up asleep at the end of another d...
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    14,73 €

  • The Artist’s Apprentice
    Clare Flynn
    In this heart-wrenching and utterly spellbinding story of love and artistic ambition, a young woman fights to be true to herself in a world where duty, money and class jeopardise her dreams.England, 1908: Alice Dalton never intended to rebel against her aristocratic parents. But after her father’s failed attempt to arrange a marriage for her with Edmund Cutler, son of a wealthy...
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    14,73 €

  • The Artist’s Wife
    Clare Flynn
    July, 1914: In their sunlit Hampshire workshop, Alice Dalton mixes paints for the stained-glass artwork she and Edmund are working on, pausing only to joyfully cradle the soft swell of her stomach.But the looming war threatens her hard-won happiness. When a knock at the door announces the arrival of Victor, her estranged brother, returning after six long years in America, her e...
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    14,60 €

  • The Pearl of Penang
    Clare Flynn
    As World War Two looms closer, a young woman travels to a far-off tropical paradise on the promise of a new life, in this powerful and emotionally gripping love story.Penang, 1939: As Evie steps off the boat, the tang of exotic scents in the air almost overwhelms her. Her heart beating wildly, she looks out over the lush landscape she will now call home, and prays she hasn’t ma...
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    14,72 €

  • Prisoner from Penang
    Clare Flynn
    An incredible story, inspired by real-life events, of the courage of two ordinary women imprisoned in the Dutch East Indies during WW2.1941, Malaya: When Mary Helston flees her beloved home, the beautiful tropical island of Penang, as it comes under attack, she thinks her broken heart can’t suffer any more.She’s proved wrong when she’s captured and imprisoned, with countless ot...
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    15,36 €

  • A Painter in Penang
    Clare Flynn
    In a tropical paradise torn apart by civil war, a young girl embarks on a life-changing journey of discovery in this captivating story of love and survival.Kenya, 1948: Sixteen-year-old Jasmine Barrington is desperately unhappy at her strict convent school and longs to return to the beautiful island of Penang in British colonial Malaya, where she was born.When the school expels...
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    14,73 €

  • Jasmine in Paris
    Clare Flynn
    Paris, 1949: In this evocative and emotional novel, a young woman crosses continents to vibrant bohemian Paris, determined to make a life for herself as an artist.As the train pulls into the Gare de Lyon in a cloud of steam, art student Jasmine Barrington experiences a surge of excitement mixed with fear.Revelling in her freedom, by day Jasmine throws herself into her studies a...
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    14,84 €

  • Die Frau des Wildhüters
    Clare Flynn / Nathalie Hopper
    Verbunden durch Liebe. Getrennt durch Lügen.Martha Walters ist die Witwe eines gewalttätigen Ehemannes. Martha steht vor dem Nichts und nun droht ihr auch noch der Verlust ihres Zuhauses. Christopher „Kit' Shipley ist der widerwillige Erbe eines nicht unerheblichen Familienvermögens. Er erbt mehr Geld als er benötigt oder haben will und auch Verantwortung, die er nicht abschütt...
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    16,95 €

  • Image-based Sexual Abuse
    Asher Flynn / Clare McGlynn / Nicola Henry
    This book investigates the prevalence, nature and impacts of image-based sexual abuse, and examines the legal and non-legal responses to this problem in a comparative, cross-country context. ...
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    80,23 €

  • Auf der anderen des Ozeans
    Clare Flynn / Nathalie Hopper
    Die Reise hat gerade erst begonnen ...Ein Kennenlernen durch Zufall - sie hätten sich gar nie über den Weg laufen sollen - und verlieben stand noch viel weniger auf dem Plan.Elizabeth Morton wurde in die privilegierte Welt einer wohlhabenden Familie hineingeboren. Michael Winterbourne, ein Minenarbeiter, der sich sein Handwerk selbst beigebracht hat, kommt aus einer ganz andere...
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    17,71 €

  • Sturm in unseren Herzen
    Clare Flynn / Nathalie Hopper
    Zwei Fremde lernen sich kennen und zwei Welten prallen aufeinanderZehn Jahre hat der australische Matrose Will Kidd auf hoher See verbracht und dem Land, aus dem er geflohen ist, den Rücken gekehrt. Die unrechtmäßige Hinrichtung seines Vaters für den Mord an seinem Bruder sucht ihn immer noch heim. Eigentlich lebt er im Hier und Jetzt - bis ein Zufallstreffen im Hafen von Liver...
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    21,77 €

  • Sisters at War
    Clare Flynn
    1940 Liverpool. The pressures of war threaten to tear apart two sisters traumatised by their mother’s murder by their father.With her new husband Will, a merchant seaman, deployed on dangerous Atlantic convoy missions, Hannah needs her younger sister Judith more than ever. But when Mussolini declares war on Britain, Judith’s Italian sweetheart, Paolo is imprisoned as an enemy a...
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    14,62 €

  • Image-based Sexual Abuse
    Asher Flynn / Clare McGlynn / Nicola Henry
    This book investigates the prevalence, nature and impacts of image-based sexual abuse, and examines the legal and non-legal responses to this problem in a comparative, cross-country context. ...
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    268,26 €

  • A Greater World
    Clare Flynn
    The journey is just the beginning...Elizabeth Morton, born into a prosperous family, and Michael Winterbourne, a miner, come from different worlds but when they each suffer unspeakable and life-changing tragedy they’re set on a path that intertwines on the deck of the SS Historic, bound for Sydney, Australia.Falling in love should have been the end to all their troubles. But fa...
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    14,19 €

  • Storms Gather Between Us
    Clare Flynn
    Life can change in a single moment...Living under the watchful eye of her controlling and abusive father, Hannah Dawson’s hopes for freedom and happiness seem a distant dream. Her mother, passive and ashamed of her self-preservation, refuses to challenge her husband. It is the mysterious circumstances of her long-lost Aunt Lizzie’s disappearance in the 1920s that inspires Hanna...
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    14,30 €

  • The Frozen River
    Clare Flynn
    Three strong women make their way in 1950s Canada English hairdresser, Ethel, alone after the deaths of her family and her wartime fiancé. Widow and single mother, Alice, bringing up two daughters, receives an unexpected inheritance that will transform her life. War bride, Joan, now mother to four small children. All brought together in a rural Canadian town where they each try...
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    19,45 €

  • The Gamekeeper’s Wife
    Clare Flynn
    A gripping story of love, duty, sacrifice and determination in the aftermath of the First World War. Martha Walters is the widow of an abusive man. Martha has nothing and is about to lose her home. Christopher Shipley is the reluctant heir to a substantial family fortune. He has more money than he needs or wants, and responsibilities he cannot shirk. They were never meant to fa...
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    19,66 €

  • The Alien Corn
    Clare Flynn
    They faced up to the challenges of war – but can they deal with the troubles of peace?Canadian, Jim Armstrong, married in haste during the second world war, after a one-night stand. When his wife and their small son join him in Canada it’s four years since they’ve seen each other. War bride, Joan discovers Jim has no intention of the family returning to England. She struggles t...
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    18,48 €

  • A Fine Pair of Shoes and Other Stories
    Clare Flynn
    A Tapestry of True Tales from Then and NowThis collection of nine short stories comes from historical novelist Clare Flynn. There are five historical tales – four based on stories from her own family history, and a tragic tale from eighteenth century Sussex. A Fine Pair of Shoes started out with her wish to capture and embroider the bare bones of a family story, based on her pa...
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    7,26 €

  • A Greater World
    Clare Flynn
    She crossed the world to marry a stranger but fell in love with someone elseA woman's journeyWhen Elizabeth Morton's father asks her to travel to the other side of the world to marry a complete stranger, she thinks he's lost his mind. It's 1920 and a woman has rights. But her choices are removed when she is raped by her brother-in-law and thrown out of her own h...
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    19,32 €

  • The Green Ribbons
    Clare Flynn
    How far would she go to save her marriage? How far would he go to keep a promise?1900. Eighteen-year old Hephzibah Wildman, homeless and destitute after the tragic death of her parents, becomes a governess at Ingleton Hall. Befriending Merritt Nightingale, the local parson and drawn to the handsome Thomas Egdon, she starts to rebuild her life. When she attracts the unwanted adv...
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    17,28 €

  • Letters from a Patchwork Quilt
    Clare Flynn
    "A story of love, loss and tragedy; a heartbreaking and moving tale." Readers’ Favorite.From the author of A Greater World and Kurinji FlowersIn 1875 a young man, Jack Brennan, from a large and impoverished Catholic family, refuses to be pushed into the priesthood and runs away to become a teacher.Jack falls in love with Eliza Hewlett, but his dreams and plans are thwarted when...
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    19,32 €

  • Kurinji Flowers
    Clare Flynn
    Marriage to a man she barely knows. Exile to a country she doesn't know at allAn emotional love story set in the last days of colonial IndiaAfter an abusive relationship with a predatory older man, debutante Ginny Dunbar is publicly disgraced when her artist lover exhibits a nude painting of her in a smart London gallery. All her mother's hopes for a society wedding are...
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    21,87 €