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Rachel Billington
Multi-Author Series List
Jane Austen's Emma
Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury (Jan-1996)Book List in Order: 19 titles
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Occasion of Sin
- Jun-1984
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Beautiful, decisive, and Catholic, Laura Knight is perfectly happy and secure with her husband and seven-year-old son, until she falls in love with a younger man and is ensnared by sexual euphoria and guilt...
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The Garish Day
- May-1986
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Henry Hayes Middleton, a staunch product of a proper education, seeks his career in the Foreign Office and unconsciously conducts a spiritual search that is completed through a woman who would seem an unlikely influence...
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A Woman's Age
- Jun-1986
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EVENTS OF THEIR TIMES FOREVER CHANGED THEIR LIVES... Mothers and daughters, husbands and lovers...in an entralling novel, glowing with life, charged with the drama of four generations of changing times...and remarkable women....
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Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury
- Jan-1996
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The irrepressible Emma is restless... And Mr. Knightley's apparently endless patience is tried, not only by her strong mind and high spirits but also by the problems of his brother John and the return of a widowed Frank Churchill. After a year of m...
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One Summer
- Jul-2007
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An intense, moving novel about obsessive love.K, a middle-aged painter, has returned from a hermit-like existence in Chile to attend the wedding of a girl he once loved to the point of obsession. He arrives at the English country church to find it e...
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There's More to Life
- Sep-2007
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Ned has been sent to his Great Aunt Helen's cottage by the sea for the holidays. But nothing turns out as planned. For a start, there's no aunt, and when strange things start to happen, it's clear that Ned is no longer alone. A ghost, a girl on the r...
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Lies and Loyalties
- Apr-2008
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'An utterly gripping page-turner' SPECTATOR'Heartache, soul searching and finger pointing swirl around this complex tale of a dysfunctional, yet powerful family' DAILY MIRROR'A gripping tale to satisfy all lovers of a finely twisting plot' DAILY TELE...
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The Missing Boy
- May-2010
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'It's highly readable and is written with wisdom and compassion' Kate Saunders, THE TIMES'Moving and poignant' STAR MAGAZINE'A well-wrought, honest book that is generous with its insights and tender in all the right places' DAILY EXPRESSThirteen-year...
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Poppy's Hero
- Jan-2012
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When Poppy discovers that her father Frank is in prison, she is angry and bewildered. Seeing her wonderful, heroic father in a London prison looking pale, subdued and in prison clothes, she suddenly has a brilliant idea: to free her father. She and h...
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Maria and the Admiral
- May-2012
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A sweeping historical drama, based on the true and enduring love of Thomas Cochrane and Maria Graham.'Touching and dashing in equal measure' SPECTATOR'Intense and moving' THE LADY'Rachel Billington imagines their intense relationship in this engross...
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Poppy's Angel
- Jan-2013
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Poppy's dad is still in prison. Her mum has rushed back to Poland to look after her seriously ill mother, and Poppy is sent to stay with her friend Jude. But Poppy feels stifled. At times like this she needs Angel, the joker among her friends - dodgy...
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Clouds of Love and War
- Jul-2020
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Occasionally panoramic, more often intimate, in Clouds of Love and War author Rachel Billington balances a detailed and highly researched picture of the life of a Second World War Spitfire pilot with the travails and ambitions of a young woman too of...
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War Babies
- May-2022
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A woman lies unconscious on the carpet of a smart Westminster apartment, one red high-heeled shoe has fallen off... A younger woman lies with her eyes closed, half-hidden under a drinks cabinet... Her fingers clutch an empty bottle... What happens wh...
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The Space Between
'Pacy and occasionally steamy ... perfect for a lazy Sunday afternoon' YOU MAGAZINE'A beautifully written tale ... 4 Stars' DAILY MAIL'Billington's perceptive portrait of the complications of modern life is a Jane Austen for the 21st century' GOOD BO...
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A Woman's Life
'The novel is a reflection of the characters' lives - vivid, dramatic and sometimes chaotic, with emotional volume turned up to full blast . . . a narrative of striking exuberance and generosity - THE TIMESConnie is the youngest member of a large Iri...
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