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  • The Fancy
    Monica Dickens
    Women from all walks of life have been thrown together by the War. Together they must toil for long hours in the aircraft factory whilst striving to navigate their disrupted lives. Overseeing their work is the kindly Edward Ledward, whose beloved rabbits provide an escape from his loveless marriage. Given a promotion, and somewhat scared of ’his girls’, Edward quickly find...
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    22,83 €

  • Dear Doctor Lily
    Monica Dickens
    When two young women, Lily and Ida, meet on a flight to America they embark on a relationship that is to see them through two very different marriages and is to bring them comfort and distress, joy and tragedy, in equal measure as the years unfold. ...
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    25,04 €

  • The Room Upstairs
    Monica Dickens
    A grim, relentless story, with touches of the macabre, about a proud woman hanging grimly on to what is left of her well-remembered past and a mad woman ready to kill to preserve her peace of mind. ...
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    19,79 €

  • One of the Family
    Monica Dickens
    At 72 Chepstow Villas lives the Motley family: Leonard, the Assistant Manager of Whiteley’s, his gentle wife Gwen, ’new woman’ daughter Madge and son Dicky. Into their comfortable Edwardian world comes a sinister threat of murder and a charismatic stranger who will change their lives for ever. ...
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    21,95 €

  • The Listeners
    Monica Dickens
    The engrossing, heartwarming story of what happens when people at the end of their tether contact the Samaritans ... In this deeply felt, absorbingly told novel, Monica Dickens not only vividly portrays three would-be suicides-but also the Samaritans themselves- Paul the ex-schoolmaster whose career has been ruined by an alcoholic wife, Victoria, half-engaged to a peer’s conven...
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    23,05 €

  • Joy and Josephine
    Monica Dickens
    Rich girl...poor girl?Jo was the apple of her foster-mother’s eye- although Mrs Abinger had never told Jo she was adopted, nor had she resolved the mystery surrounding Jo’s background. Then Jodiscovers the truth and is off on a wild search for her real identity...There were two alternatives: either she was an abandoned foundling, or she was the wealthy, cherished niece of Sir R...
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    23,91 €

  • The Angel in the Corner
    Monica Dickens
    An affair with the unpredictable Joe led to a marriage that Virginia was determined would work. But Joe had no reason to trust or respect women. As he drew her into one humiliating situation after another, Virginia was forced to admit that her romantic dream had turned into a nightmare. ...
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    21,77 €

  • Man Overboard
    Monica Dickens
    Lieutenant-Commander, the hero of this novel, is axed from the Navy at the age of thirty-six, one of many thousands obliged to re-plan their lives as the result of cuts in the armed services. A widower with a small daughter, he has no experience or knowledge outside submarines and the Royal Navy. His whole life had been that of a sailor since he joined up direct from school at ...
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    21,92 €

  • World’s End in Winter
    Monica Dickens
    There is a place at World’s End for any furry or feathered friend in need. The Fielding children live in a rambling old house, packed full of animals. Best of all - there are no grown-ups! Mum and dad are off on adventures of their own, which means the children have to take care of themselves. Carrie and Michael befriend Priscilla who has been left wheelchair-bound by a riding ...
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    17,64 €

  • Spring Comes to World’s End
    Monica Dickens
    With their parents working on a boat in the Mediterranean, Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael have learnt to look after themselves - and their menagerie of animals in their tumble-down house at World’s End. As their Uncle Rudolph threatens to sell their beloved home, the children are determined to earn the money to buy it themselves. But money disappears as fast as it comes in, especi...
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    17,52 €

  • Summer at World’s End
    Monica Dickens
    Tom, Carrie, Em and Michael are still living on their own at World’s End. In between wondering where the next meal will come from, and trying to avoid interfering grown-ups, they are never short of fun and excitement. Carrie cannot stand to see an animal suffer, and when she plunges into another rescue operation, more perilous than any she has attempted before - putting her, an...
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    17,53 €

  • No More Meadows
    Monica Dickens
    ’Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more bypath meadows where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave.’ So wrote Robert Louis Stevenson. Christine felt bound to agree. ’My wife can do anything,’ Vinson said. Even if ’anything’ meant getting used to the size and pace of his country, Ame...
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    22,81 €

  • The House at World’s End
    Monica Dickens
    Carrie, Tom, Em and Michael Fielding are at the mercy of their rotten Uncle Rudolph after a fire leaves them homeless, with their mother in hospital and their father abroad at sea. Uncle Rudolph and his vain wife Val reluctantly take the children in, but soon let them live alone at World’s End, their ramshackle house in the countryside, rather than look after them. So begins a...
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    17,61 €

  • Kate and Emma
    Monica Dickens
    Monica Dickens’s novel opens in a Juvenile court in London. One of the young offenders is a sixteen-year-old girl, Kate, who is described as being in need of care and protection. In the court is a girl only slightly older, Emma, daughter of the magistrate. From her experience of going around with a social worker on his calls she knows that adolescents and, more important, small...
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    21,91 €

  • Flowers on the Grass
    Monica Dickens
    After the sudden death of his wife, Daniel abandons home and security, setting off to find the freedom he knew as a boy. This novel follows his wanderings from a seaside boarding house to a hospital bed, introducing the strange characters he meets and recording his even stranger adventures. ...
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    20,75 €