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  • If Only
    Elaine Blick
    The pampered daughter of a wealthy man, Alice has the choice between two eligible and attractive men. But this is the era of suffragettes, and Alice is looking for satisfaction in a career rather than marriage.A succession of hard knocks changes the once spoilt beauty into a compassionate woman, willing to put others before herself in a life of service.Set against the dramatic ...
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  • A Shining Path
    Elaine Blick
    Most women convicts sent to Australia in the early 1800s were forced into a life of servitude, where they are not only skivvies, but were mistresses of their employers as well.How did Peggy escape this fate and become a schoolteacher instead?Peggy was amongst a group of women convicts in London’s Newgate prison awaiting their criminal transportation to Australia. The social ref...
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  • Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
    Elaine Blick
    Here Today, Gone Tomorrow is a travelogue with a difference. Two retired women set off in a campervan from London to tour Europe. Neither has driven a campervan before, much less had any experience driving on the right.They journey through four countries and cover 4,000 miles, often bewildered by one-way systems and rapid changes of language, yet meeting kindness wherever they ...
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    11,85 €

  • Beyond the Horizon
    Elaine Blick
    Torn from all that is familiar and dear, Louise finds herself in Newgate, that most notorious of British prisons. Here the innocent young woman must survive amongst thieves, prostitutes, and forgers, where catfights, drunkenness, hunger, and cold are a daily reality.But the worst is yet to come: a five-month sea journey to Botany Bay in Australia. In this male-dominated prisone...
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    15,18 €

  • When This War Is Over
    Elaine Blick / Eliane Blick
    When This War Is Over is the sequel to No White Flowers, Please. Rhoda Pritchard, 19 years old, has moved from Bath to Salisbury, where she becomes a nurse in a small private psychiatric hospital.There are two men in Rhoda’s life: Harold, a struggling artist, and Lawrence, a suave and handsome man. When Harold goes abroad to assist his missionary parents, friends advise Rhoda t...
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    14,71 €

  • No White Flowers, Please
    Elaine Blick
    The 'Roaring Twenties' was the era of the flappers, those bright young things who cut their hair and raised their hemlines. But for Rhoda Pritchard, growing up in a mining town in the North Island of New Zealand, life wasn’t easy. On her 11th birthday, Rhoda and her younger brothers and sisters stood by their mother’s grave. The strong-smelling white flowers surrounding the cof...
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  • Where the Bellbird Sings
    Elaine Blick
    Nearly fifty years have passed since Elizabeth last saw the colonial house in Nelson, New Zealand, where she once boarded as a young teacher in 1962. Where the Bellbird Sings takes Elizabeth back in time to her memories of the house and the peace that she felt when she heard the call of the bellbird.Now widowed and seventy years old, Elizabeth returns when she hears the house i...
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    15,51 €