Author: Elizabeth Caroline GREY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Dower House
Author: Annabel Davis-Goff
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312206451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the inevitable: They have beautiful old houses, but can scarcely afford to heat them; eat meals on exquisitely set tables, while the roof leaks; and talk very seriously about the importance of making suitable marriages. When Molly flees the genteel poverty of Ireland for London of the 1960s, she must balance the allure of the new against the romance of a world that no longer exists.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312206451
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the inevitable: They have beautiful old houses, but can scarcely afford to heat them; eat meals on exquisitely set tables, while the roof leaks; and talk very seriously about the importance of making suitable marriages. When Molly flees the genteel poverty of Ireland for London of the 1960s, she must balance the allure of the new against the romance of a world that no longer exists.
The Dower House Mystery
Author: Patricia Wentworth
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up—the man she’d fallen passionately in love with—for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again. Amabel’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends—and the boy she adores—on a trip to Egypt. But she needs two hundred pounds from her mother. George Forsham is offering that exact sum to anyone willing to stay six months at Dower House, the centuries-old estate in the English countryside where Amabel and Julian first met. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn’t deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening . . . The mewing of a cat that doesn’t exist, the sound of flapping wings, someone crying in the dark. Are restless spirits walking the night? Or is there a rational explanation? Plunged into deadly danger, Amabel could lose her second chance with the man she never stopped loving.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504033280
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
In this atmospheric tale from the author of the Miss Silver Mysteries, a widow is reunited with her girlhood love in a house haunted by all-too-human ghosts They meet again in the dusk of a ruined garden. Amabel Grey hasn’t laid eyes on Julian Forsham in twenty years, not since she gave him up—the man she’d fallen passionately in love with—for the fiancé who needed her. Now an unexpected circumstance brings the British widow and the world-famous scientist together again. Amabel’s nineteen-year-old daughter, Daphne, has been invited to join her friends—and the boy she adores—on a trip to Egypt. But she needs two hundred pounds from her mother. George Forsham is offering that exact sum to anyone willing to stay six months at Dower House, the centuries-old estate in the English countryside where Amabel and Julian first met. The fact that the overgrown, sadly neglected house is rumored to be haunted doesn’t deter Amabel. Until strange things start happening . . . The mewing of a cat that doesn’t exist, the sound of flapping wings, someone crying in the dark. Are restless spirits walking the night? Or is there a rational explanation? Plunged into deadly danger, Amabel could lose her second chance with the man she never stopped loving.
Bath Tangle
Author: Georgette Heyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the Earl of Spenborough suddenly dies, his wilful daughter Serena is devastated. Then she is horrified to find has her inheritance is held by a trustee, none other than the Marquis of Rotherham, an arrogant noble who used to be betrothed to Serena. She can regain her inheritance is if she weds but only if the marquis gives his approval.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bath (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When the Earl of Spenborough suddenly dies, his wilful daughter Serena is devastated. Then she is horrified to find has her inheritance is held by a trustee, none other than the Marquis of Rotherham, an arrogant noble who used to be betrothed to Serena. She can regain her inheritance is if she weds but only if the marquis gives his approval.
The Old Dower House, a Tale of Bygone Days
Author: Elizabeth Caroline GREY
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Dower House Mystery
Author: Alanna Knight
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749024011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
York, 1907. Newly retired Inspector Faro is delighted at the prospect of staying in the Dower House, situated on a Roman villa once home to Emperor Severus. But he arrives to find his wife Imogen distraught and desperately searching for her missing Irish cousin, who seems to have vanished without a trace . . .
Publisher: Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN: 0749024011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
York, 1907. Newly retired Inspector Faro is delighted at the prospect of staying in the Dower House, situated on a Roman villa once home to Emperor Severus. But he arrives to find his wife Imogen distraught and desperately searching for her missing Irish cousin, who seems to have vanished without a trace . . .
Scandal at the Dower House
Author: Sally James
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610848292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Is the baby Caterina, Countess of Rasen, brought back from Portugal hers and her dead husband's? The new Earl, Nicholas, is attracted to her, but suspicious. Catarina, in order to protect her young sister Joanna, cannot reveal the truth. And then Cousin Matthew insists that the baby is his and Joanna’s, that their marriage was legitimate. Nicholas will have to prove him a liar. Regency Romance by Sally James writing as Marina Oliver; originally published by Robert Hale [UK]
Publisher: Belgrave House
ISBN: 1610848292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Is the baby Caterina, Countess of Rasen, brought back from Portugal hers and her dead husband's? The new Earl, Nicholas, is attracted to her, but suspicious. Catarina, in order to protect her young sister Joanna, cannot reveal the truth. And then Cousin Matthew insists that the baby is his and Joanna’s, that their marriage was legitimate. Nicholas will have to prove him a liar. Regency Romance by Sally James writing as Marina Oliver; originally published by Robert Hale [UK]
America
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
"The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Homosexuality
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
"The Jesuit review of faith and culture," Nov. 13, 2017-
Black Border
Author: Ambrose Gonzales
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Author Gonzales created an authentic record of African American character sketches and dialect in his Gullah stories of the Carolina coast, originally published as this collection in 1922.
Publisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 142902044X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Author Gonzales created an authentic record of African American character sketches and dialect in his Gullah stories of the Carolina coast, originally published as this collection in 1922.