Family Drama
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Venice, a Cat and a Koala
Emma Andrews has quit London for Venice after a family quarrel at her beloved grandmother's funeral. She would not have believed that Venice 'could possess me so completely to the exclusion of grief, tiredness and my family'. She remembers gaping...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/03/2009
Sea Creatures
A young family struggle to come to terms with the sudden disappearance of their mother from their home on the Cornish coast. Twenty-two years later the estranged Moon family, siblings Jenna, Charlie and Olivia, along with their father Brendan, are...
Format: Paperback - Released: 20/10/2009
Naked Justice
Lydia Wesley was twenty-two years old and only three days away from her dream wedding when her life changed irrevocably. While walking the family dog close to her parents' home she was brutally attacked, raped and defiled by a total...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/02/2009
The Whispering Wind Two Lives, One Heartbreaking Story
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The Whispering Wind is a moving story of two lovers, set on the beautiful island of Sardinia, where Elise goes on holiday to escape a loveless and violent marriage. Whilst there, she meets and falls in love with Beppe, a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2013
Windows on the Abyss
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The death of George's mother triggers in him guilt-riddled memories of the breakup of his marriage and his subsequent neglect of both wife and mother. He relates in a polyphony of voices the build-up to a series of breakdowns and...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2013
Out of the Clouds of Deceit
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In 1948, while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with another pilot, Dennis, who lost his brother in the war and cannot come to terms with his grief. Through contact with older serving officers, Aiden...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2012
The Tennis Player from Bermuda
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In summer 2012, the world will focus on Wimbledon twice: the 126th Lawn Tennis Championships starting on June 25, and the London 2012 Olympic tennis competition starting on July 28. Here is a novel set at Wimbledon 50 years ago...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2012
How the Dice Fell
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Set in London and the north of England, How the Dice Fell is a powerful story about terrorism, love and revenge set within the tensions of a multi-racial Britain. Chance brings three people together in a London Underground train on...
Format: Paperback - Released: 18/06/2012
Ruth
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From the lush Owen Stanley Ranges of Papua New Guinea to working-class inner Sydney...Ruth follows the story of its protagonist, the only daughter of John and Alice Madison, coffee plantation owners. Set in the fifties and sixties, Ruth struggles to...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/03/2012
Tea, Love and War Searching for English Roots in Assam
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The range of the book: from wartime England to colonial Assam; from sapper training in India to jungle warfare in Malaya - Tea, Love and War tells the unique true story of the child of an exploited village woman gaining...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/01/2012
Abandoned Love
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Based on a true story about the author finding her real mother in the South of France, Abandoned Love is a compulsive, emotive read This novel is about three women, Miriam, Marjorie and Rosie. Miriam, a Lucie Clayton model, falls...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
The Golden Thread
A heart-stopping page turner, The Golden Thread, with its many twists and turns in the plot, attractive characters, and feel good-ending has a strong appeal for women readers. Two sisters, Claudia and Maria, grow up as happy playmates and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/01/2012
Yesterday's Porridge
The word 'porridge' has connotations, which associate it with a term of imprisonment which is how I perceived my formative years. The mere thought of yesterday's uneaten porridge conjures up a picture of something cold wet and slimy with a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2011
Ursula's Arm
Why does Ursula's right arm hang limply by her side? The doctors can find nothing wrong - is she faking it or is it all in the mind? Her husband, Leo, wants Ursula to see Mrs Moberley, a psychoanalyst, but...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2011
After the Rains
Jayne grows up on a farm in the mountains of Zimbabwe, where her closest friend is Enoch, the young African son of one of the farm workers. Following a devastating terrorist attack, during which Jayne defends the farm with her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
The Impersonator
The story tells of sexual obsession in the ‘sixties, when two members of a family become hopelessly infatuated with the same person. Fifteen year old Elizabeth Tarrant is suddenly orphaned in Rhodesia and from then on her life changes dramatically....
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/05/2011
The Primrose Path
Eloise James was still in school when she met the love of her life, her teacher, Paul Bridgestock. With an age gap of twelve years between them, the couple faced separation. But against the odds, Paul successfully allayed the concerns...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/11/2010
A Fine Line
Bridget is married to Joseph from Switzerland. They have two young children, and both take the decision to follow Dr Lynn's advice and Bridget is admitted to a psychiatric unit for intensive therapy to try to peel the layers off...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/08/2009
Against the Tide
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It's July 1939 and even though Poland is trapped between Adolph Hitler and Uncle Joe Stalin, everyone hopes war can be avoided. On the island of Jersey, eighteen-year-old Jack Renouf is forbidden from associating with his own Uncle Fred because...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2012
A Matter of Degree
Colin Andrews has drawn on his long experience as a teacher, folk performer and Morris dancer to produce a highly original novel that will leave readers with a sense of satisfaction - and a warm smile on their face. No...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/08/2011
A Calculating Heart
Having escaped from yet another scandal, libidinous lawyer Leo Davies has at last decided to settle down. He's going to sell his Belgravia pad and buy a family home for his son, Oliver, and he's set on marrying the...
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Agony Angel
Angela Lawson, or Angel, works as an agony aunt for a teenage magazine. She's in charge of dolling out advice to troubled readers. Trouble is, she's too busy fretting about her own problems to take any of their's seriously.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/09/2007
Karoo Plainsong
This vivid novel, set against a backdrop of apartheid, tells the story of Ada, an illegitimate, unschooled but brilliant pianist who grows up in service to a family of Irish immigrants. As apartheid tightens its grip, she is seduced into...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/12/2010
Middle Watch
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Middle Watch is a time when a man alone on a lighthouse in those wee small hours feels he's the only person in the world. A man awake and alone in the darkness of the night has time to think,...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2012
Burglar Boy
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Not your typical black-hearted burglar, Dean is a neglected 11-year-old, free to roam the streets, day and night, and encouraged to steal by his older brother in a secret life of crime. Then, one day, during a break-in, Dean meets...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/05/2011
Caring for Cathy
A man without a past and a woman without a future. This is a story of friendship between a young musician, David, who has lost his memory in a car accident, and an older woman, Cathy, who is dying from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 11/02/2008
Those Who Leave
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Angelo Vargas was an enigma, a man from nowhere who had followed a perilous path through a restless and eventful life. The time had come to leave his ‘diplomatic activities’ behind and settle in England to search for his shrine....
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/03/2005
Days Of Abandonment
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This compelling novel that shocked audiences in Europe with its unsentimental and unyielding depiction of motherhood, marriage and solitude, tells the story of one woman’s headlong descent into what she calls an “absence of sense” after being abandoned by her...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/05/2006
Lifetime Burning
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reedy for experience but determined to be good, Flora Dunbar spends a lifetime seeking love, trying to build a future out of the wreckage of her past - an eccentric childhood spent in the shadow of her musical twin, Rory;...
Format: Paperback - Released: 16/06/2006
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Much of the greatest literature concerns itself with family dramas, from Madame Bovary to Anna Karenina, and realistic depictions of the ups and downs of family life continue to fascinate.
Now Lovewriting presents Caro Fraser’s A Calculating Heart, a drama about the life and loves of a successful lawyer.
Lovewriting lets you discover new authors of family drama, and allows you to download free opening extracts from their books to sample.
