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Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa ISBN: 177010917X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 259
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When everybody has a secret, something has to give Alison has always known about the heartache that lies at the core of her husband’s family. Over thirty years ago, babies Isabella and Melissa mysteriously disappeared when their mother, 32-year-old Tertia Cowley, took them with her to a doctor’s appointment. Tertia left the babies in the care of the receptionist. A man claiming to be the twins’ father arrived ten minutes later and left with the girls. The twins were never seen again. Years later, old documents resurface that reveal family mysteries and unanswered questions. The lies start mounting when Tim’s wife, Alison, begins to unknowingly uncover the truth. An obsessive journalist with a history of stalking stirs things up for the family, while brother and sister, Julie and Cricket, are given devastating news that will alter their lives forever. Will Alison be the person who can finally answer the question of whatever happened to the Cowley twins?
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa ISBN: 177010917X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 259
Book Description
When everybody has a secret, something has to give Alison has always known about the heartache that lies at the core of her husband’s family. Over thirty years ago, babies Isabella and Melissa mysteriously disappeared when their mother, 32-year-old Tertia Cowley, took them with her to a doctor’s appointment. Tertia left the babies in the care of the receptionist. A man claiming to be the twins’ father arrived ten minutes later and left with the girls. The twins were never seen again. Years later, old documents resurface that reveal family mysteries and unanswered questions. The lies start mounting when Tim’s wife, Alison, begins to unknowingly uncover the truth. An obsessive journalist with a history of stalking stirs things up for the family, while brother and sister, Julie and Cricket, are given devastating news that will alter their lives forever. Will Alison be the person who can finally answer the question of whatever happened to the Cowley twins?
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: ISBN: 9780795704901 Category : Abduction Languages : en Pages : 276
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" There have been a number of unsolved disappearances of children in South African history. In this second novel, Gail Schimmel posits that none is more mysterious than the fictional disappearance of the Cowley Twins on 4 June 1978. On this day, 32-year-old Tertia Cowley took her two-and-a-half-month old twins with her to a doctor's appointment in Rosebank Medicentre, leaving her 5-year-old son, Tim, in the care of his grandmother. Cowley had arranged that her husband would pick the twins up from the doctor's rooms en route home. When the doctor called Cowley in for her appointment, her husband had not yet arrived, so she left the twins under the care of the receptionist. She explained that her husband would arrive to fetch them. About ten minutes later, according to the receptionist, a well-dressed, middle-aged white man arrived in the reception area. He said that he was Mrs Cowley's husband, and that he would take the twins with him. The receptionist handed the twins to him, and when Mrs Cowley emerged from the doctor's room, she passed on the message that the twins were with their father, and that he would be taking them to visit his mother before meeting Mrs Cowley at home. A few hours later, the truth emerged : Alan Cowley arrived home from work, and apologised that he had been unable to fetch the twins. It was then that the Cowleys came to the horrible realisation : an impostor had abducted their daughters. They immediately called the police, but it was too late. Despite extensive investigations, no trace of the Cowley Twins has ever been found. But what happened to the blue-eyed, blonde girls, Isabella and Melissa ? ..." -- Back cover.
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa ISBN: 1770106286 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 421
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Twenty-six years is a long time not to be alive. Since The Accident that ruined her life, Catherine has lived on autopilot, going through the motions of work and motherhood without being fully present. Trying to fill the gap, her adult daughter, Julia, is looking for love in all the wrong places, and wreaking havoc on the lives that she touches along the way. Just what will it take to shock Catherine back into life?
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa ISBN: 1770107444 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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From the author of The Accident and Two Months comes the story of a whirlwind friendship – and the dark secrets lurking beneath it. After a tumultuous marriage, Mary Wilson is happy in her uncomplicated life, focusing on her twelve-year-old son. She has always been content with her little family – but then she finds an old postcard that throws her past into question ... When her high school reunion comes along, Mary jumps at the chance of a distraction from the shock discovery, and meeting her old classmate, April, feels like a gift. Despite barely remembering April, Mary throws herself into the new friendship and finds her previously quiet social life reinvigorated. But as the bonds between them are forged, Mary finds herself drawn further and further into April’s life and marriage, increasingly fearing that everything is not as perfect as it seems. Is her own painful past clouding her judgement, or is Mary right to suspect that the people she trusts most are the ones with the most to hide?
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa ISBN: 1770108505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 312
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‘Little Secrets is utterly brilliant – it’s a wolf of a thriller in suburban sheep’s clothing!’ – QARNITA LOXTON, author of the much-loved ‘Being’ series Monique and Ben Klein have been married for twenty years. They both know that they didn’t get married for all the right reasons, but they’re happy with the decision they made. They have a good life in a beautiful house, with three children who they adore. It all worked out in the end. Or did it? Monique has become obsessed with being the perfect wife and mother. Her sense of self is attached to the compliments she receives from friends and relatives. From her appearance to her home to her children, nobody is allowed to see the cracks. They might be normal for other people, but not for Monique. Ben knows that he gave up on a part of himself and his dreams when he married Monique. He’s an actuary, working for a corporate, and not the artist that he longed to be. He ignores as best he can the difference in their thinking. If anyone asks, he is happy. Their daughter Rosie is struggling with her friendships and the daunting world of teenage parties. But with a strict mother like Monique, she knows that even if she gets frustrated, Monique’s rules will keep her safe. Until Ben meets Daisy. And Rosie meets Margie. And everything starts to fall apart.
Author: FRANCIS JACOX Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 468
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Our most powerful female writer of fiction has emphatically taught, if a striking story can teach, that there is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can’t isolate yourself, and say that the evil which is in you shall not spread. Men’s lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease. “I know, I feel the terrible extent of suffering this sin of Arthur’s has caused to others,” — so the good rector tells one who cherishes vengeance on the wrong-doer; “but so does every sin cause suffering to others besides those who commit it.” The problem how far a man is to be held responsible for the unforeseen consequences of his own deed this speaker pronounces to be one that might well make us tremble to look into it; the evil consequences that may lie folded in a single act of selfish indulgence being a thought so awful that it ought surely to awaken some feeling less presumptuous than a rash and vindictive desire to punish...FROM THE BOOK.
Author: Gail Schimmel Publisher: ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 292
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It's Jordi Gordan's 55th birthday and she receives, as she has for every birthday for the last fifteen years, a message from Nico. While her husband, Hal, cooks her a birthday breakfast, she cries over her message from Nico - because Jordi is a woman with a secret. During the course of the day, the reader follows Jordi around: to the traditional family breakfast and the handing out of gifts, then to a visit with her (now French-speaking and senile) elderly mother, to Thrupps for some groceries, to lunch with her best friend, the irrepressible Sally, and then home where she makes the final preparations for a business dinner party that evening (an unfortunate miscalculation of dates that has robbed her of a special night with Hal). As she goes about her preparations, we meet Jordi's friends and family - and we get to see how her life is carefully constructed to screen all of them from her secret. Slowly, Jordi begins to tell us about Nico - how she first met him and where, how they knew as soon as they met that there was something between them and how neither of them could act on it because of their marriages. For almost thirty years, she and Nico have been sidestepping each other - in London, in New York, even in Jo'burg. And at every turn we see how Jordi and Nico's lives are kept apart by Jordi's strong belief in the importance of her marriage vows. Even when she weakens and begins to indulge her fantasy of running away to be with Nico, there is always something to hold her back. As evening approaches, she puts Nico to the back of her mind and readies herself for her guests. The dinner party is a success and the atmosphere is laid back and casual. Then, while she is taking a break from the table, Jordi overhears two of her guests talking about her. Back at the table she confronts the women in an amiable kind of a way, but it becomes clear that something is not quite right. The conversation grinds to a halt before Moira, Jordi's poisonous sister-in-law, blurts out a shocking truth.
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