Christine Purkis

• Jul-1994
• / General Fiction
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• Oct-2011
• / Action Adventure
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Darting through the water, the tiny creature feels a vast shadow and sees gigantic thrashing limbs: a Paddlefoot! Peering into the depths from up above, the girl glimpses a flash of blue and a sequined tail. Surely she must be dreaming? Little do...

• Nov-2011
• / General Fiction
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Rowan's family live deep in the country - in a caravan. They are travellers and life is chaotic and very, very happy; until, that is, the day Rowan meets a strange old woman who carries the secrets of the past under her shawl...It is a past in which ...

• Dec-2011
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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• Feb-2019
• / Historical
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Set in 1850s Wales, London and the Crimea, Jane Evans is a novel about the real first woman on the drove, who also nursed under Florence Nightingale. Fleeing her harsh life in rural Wales, Jane ends up nursing wounded soldiers in inhuman conditions i...

• Mar-2019
• / Historical
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Jane Evans is a historical novel set in Wales, London and the Crimea. It is the fictionalised story of the real Jane Evans, the first woman on the drove, who also nursed with Florence Nightingale in the Crimea. In the 1850s, a young w...

• May-2023
• / Historical
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A novel centred on a headstrong working-class girl in 18th-century north Wales. Peggin is a maid to the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth. Abandoned by her family, she finds her long...

• Jun-2023
• / Literary
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Novel based around a headstrong working-class girl in late 18th-century Wales. Peggin is a maid for the infamous Ladies of Llangollen, a real gay couple who moved in the literary circles of Byron and Wordsworth, and her brother Joe is involved the bu...