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  • The Rich House
    Stella Gibbons
    Set on the eve of World War II in a resort on the east coast of England The Rich House follows the love affairs of six young people and their intertwined adorations. Encircling their lives is Archibald Early a once-famous actor his housekeeper and his grandson Ted. These three tip the balance and relationships shift but even war cannot halt the passions of the young. ...
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    23,57 €

  • Ticky
    Stella Gibbons
    ’He wanted very large sums of money the friendship of titled and distinguished men the love of beautiful women who were also famous. He was twenty and his dreams were titanic.’Ticky’s father has bought him a position in Queen Victoria’s most famous regiment: the First Bloods. Spending his last pennies on lavish accommodation and a fine stallion Ticky arrives at The Club: th...
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    24,00 €

  • The Woods in Winter
    Stella Gibbons
    ...for the first time in her life, she was living as she had always unknowingly wanted to live: in freedom and solitude, with an animal for close companion. Her new life had acted upon her like a strong and delicious drug.Ivy Gover, a curmudgeonly middle-aged charwoman with some slightly witchy talents, inherits a rural cottage in Buckinghamshire and takes up residence near the...
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    13,50 €

  • The Swiss Summer
    Stella Gibbons
    Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, leaving her life in England with every detail arranged and every foreseeable mishap foreseen and guarded against-and pinned on her coat was a bunch of gentians given to her in loving farewell by her husband-and she was on her way to the Alps.Worn down by postwar London life, forty-s...
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    13,33 €

  • A Pink Front Door
    Stella Gibbons
    James’s gesture with the key was cautious because he was not always sure of who or what he would find in the hall when he got in. It might be someone in tears, or someone asleep while they filled up time waiting to catch a train, or someone drunk.James Muir has reason to be cautious about entering his own home. His wife Daisy just can’t resist solving everyone else’s problems. ...
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    13,40 €

  • The Snow-Woman
    Stella Gibbons
    I suppose I was lonelier than I knew.It’s the 1960s, and Maude Barrington, now in her seventies, has kept life firmly at bay since the deaths of her three brothers in World War I. But when an unexpected visitor convinces Maude to visit old friends in France (and an old nemesis, who persistently calls her 'the snow-woman'), she is brought face to face with the long-suppressed em...
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    13,52 €

  • My American
    Stella Gibbons
    ** AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME **’Stella Gibbons’s gift is very special’ Daily ExpressAmy a neglected motherless child in 1920s London meets Robert a wealthy American boy. It’s an encounter she will never forget.My American follows the lives and loves of Amy Lee and Robert Vorst: from a chance childhood meeting to the comic tragic and romantic trysts that follow....
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    19,36 €

  • Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged)
    Stella Gibbons
    Cold Comfort Farm (Unabridged) by Stella Gibbons In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cow...
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    9,92 €

  • The Charmers
    Stella Gibbons
    Thrown out of her long-established office job Miss Christine Smith takes up a new role as housekeeper for a group of middle-aged artists. Charmed by a previous mystical experience her spirituality is nurtured further by the tenants who seem stuck in their own personal lull. Written in the 1960s surrounded by social and political transitions the novel focuses on change or ...
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    22,72 €

  • Cold Comfort Farm
    Stella Gibbons
    In Gibbons’s classic tale, a resourceful young heroine finds herself in the gloomy, overwrought world of a Hardy or Bronte novel and proceeds to organize everyone out of their romantic tragedies into the pleasures of normal life. Flora Poste, orphaned at 19, chooses to live with relatives at Cold Comfort Farm in Sussex, where cows are named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Gra...
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    9,66 €