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  • The Red Chair
    Jill Treseder
    Twenty years after fleeing her abusive ex-lover, Naomi has inherited Mill End - their isolated retreat in North Devon. But she is shocked to find that someone else is already in residence - an unwelcome bête noir from her past.As her former tormentor continues to exert his control from beyond the grave, Naomi is left reeling from a succession of disturbing memories and events, ...
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    25,13 €

  • Blackthorn Winter
    Jill Treseder
    It’s 1845. Eight-year old James Thorne is growing up in the New Forest. His life takes him far from his roots - first to the workhouse, next as a seaman in the Royal Navy, then to the respectable confines of urban life in 19th century Portsmouth. But he never relinquishes his joy in the Forest and the yearning for the presence of trees in his life.This family saga traces James’...
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    23,15 €

  • The Birthday House
    Jill Treseder
    The year is 1955, the location picturesque Devon.In a house by the River Dart, schoolgirl Josephine Kennedy posts invitations to her twelfth birthday party – a party that never takes place.Horrific violence is committed that night in the family home, leaving all of its occupants dead. Based on a disturbing real-life crime, this compelling story explores Josephine’s fate through...
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    17,88 €

  • My Sister, Myself
    Jill Treseder
    Hungary, 1956. Russian tanks brutally crush the revolution against the Communist regime. Sisters Katalin and Marika escape Budapest with their family and settle in London.However, the past is not so easily left behind. Their father is a wanted man, and the sisters’ relationship hangs in the balance. Their futures are shaped by loss. For Katalin, this means the failure of her am...
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    23,20 €

  • The Saturday Letters
    Jill Treseder
    When Henrietta finds herself excluded from seeing her grandchildren, she decides to write to them to explain their Afro-Caribbean origins in slavery.She tells the story of her childhood in Bermuda, of marrying a British soldier, bringing up six children in Gibraltar and moving to England on her husband’s retirement from the army. Writing the letters reveals unexpected and chall...
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    17,88 €

  • The Hatmaker’s Secret
    Jill Treseder
    Two babies are born a century apart and three generations of women are blighted by a family secret.Thea’s sense of self depends upon keeping her secret. Her daughter, Vanessa, is confused about her own identity. And there’s Kate, Vanessa’s own daughter, whose marriage is threatened because of her grandmother’s deception. Issues of racial prejudice, betrayal, forgiveness and tru...
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    24,02 €

  • Becoming Fran
    Jill Treseder
    Francesca Fairweather has never lived up to the extrovert image of her copper-coloured hair. Escaping a difficult mother and a disastrous love affair to become a student in 1960s Bristol, she makes friends of Verity, Dale and Morag. But their presence is not to be relied upon, and she continues to lurch from crisis to crisis. Her Aunt Goldie, her friend Zelda and her father eac...
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    24,95 €

  • A Place of Safety
    Jill Treseder
    Was this what happened when you took a life? The thin end of some sinister wedge? Even when the act was one of love and compassion, the last shared ritual?u2028Alfie, a fifty-something artist, assists his wife’s suicide, is arrested and bailed. He seeks a simple life on Dartmoor where he can grieve for his beloved Meg, and come to terms with the crime he has committed in the ey...
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    25,04 €