Elizabeth Jeffrey

• Mar-1978
• / Romance
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• Jul-1979
• / Contemporary Romance
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Could she compete with a memory? After her fiance's death, Rachel had gone to Scotland to try to pick up the threads of her life. Once there, however, her life became tangled with the lives of two others -- an elfin-faced child who refused ...

• Sep-1979
• / Romance
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• Aug-1990
• / Suspense
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After fleeing her divided Dutch homeland, Jannekyn van der Hest comes to Colchester, Essex, looking to make a new life for herself. Though she seeks comfort and community, she finds herself at the mercy of her cruel uncle, who condemns her to a demea...

• May-1993
• / General Fiction
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When Edward Price-Carpenter arrives in Wyford, Essex, he immediately catches Cassie Jordan's eye. Handsome and persuasive, the young man has come to oversee work on his father's racing yacht, and takes lodgings in the Falcon Inn where Cassie lives wi...

• Jan-1995
• / General Fiction
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For Abigail Chiswell, the Colne river front in Colchester, Essex is a second home. With its own sights and sounds - of crowded quaysides, fishing smacks and packed oyster barrels - it means more to her than all the lofty rooms and comforts of her fat...

• Sep-2006
• / General Fiction
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A vivid recreation of 1850s Yorkshire, packed with romance, drama and scandalous family secrets.... Abandoned as a baby, Joanna was brought up by the cruel farmer who found her, and put to work on his land as soon as she could walk. Despite such ha...

• Jul-2007
• / General Fiction
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After the death of her mother, Mollie Barnes is sent to live in her aunt and uncle's house and forced to endure her aunt's simmering resentment. One day, the tension explodes, leading to a shocking revelation about Mollie's parentage. Every day, Moll...

• Jul-2008
• / General Fiction
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The new novel from a well-loved storyteller - The discovery of two old photographs, one of a large house, the other of three teenage girls in Edwardian dress, puzzles twenty-year-old Lucy Armitage and sends her off on a quest with antique dealer Ben ...

• Jul-2009
• / General Fiction
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A poignant tale of family and friendship from an ever-popular library author - East Anglia, 1880s. Unwanted thirteenth child Jemima is brought up in poverty, whilst her twin Sophie is taken to live with a kind aunt. Sophie grows up spoiled, dislik...

• Apr-2013
• / Historical
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Since they were pupils in the village school, it had been obvious that Becca the ploughman's daughter and George the blacksmith's son would one day marry. But Becca's scheming younger sister, Ellen, upsets their plans with a shocking announcement: sh...

• Aug-2013
• / Historical Romance
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A war widow finds new love in this absorbing First World War romance Newly widowed after a whirlwind wartime romance, Stella Nolan is preparing to meet her late husband’s family for the first time. But not all her new in-laws are prepared to o...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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The comfortable, upper-class lives of the aristocratic Barsham family are set to change forever with the onset of World War I. August, 1914. The silver wedding celebrations of Sir George Barsham, MP, and his wife, Lady Adelaide, are overshadowed b...

• Aug-2018
• / General Fiction
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• Aug-2022
• / Christian
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Four siblings, one war, countless challenges… can they emerge unscathed?The silver wedding celebrations of Sir George Barsham, MP, and his wife, Lady Adelaide, are overshadowed by the declaration of war with Germany. Over the following months, the ...

• Aug-2022
• / Christian
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She must learn to live without him and start living her life again…Newly widowed after a whirlwind wartime romance, Stella Nolan is preparing to meet her late husband’s family for the first time. Arriving at his family home, Warren’s End, Stell...

• / General Fiction
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The year is 1916 and twenty-year-old Poppy Barlow is clearing the desk of her late father when she comes across a faded photograph of her father with his two sisters - aunts that Poppy never knew she had - along with their address. Poppy contacts her...

• / General Fiction
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The evening Rose Bentley takes a short-cut home across the marsh proves a fateful one. Panicked by the rising tide and struggling on a sprained ankle, it is no wonder she imagines seeing a dead body in a mud-drowned gully. Her rescuer Michael Dowland...

• / General Fiction
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When lovely Laura Chapman wakes up to find herself destitute in a London workhouse with all her belongings stolen, she cannot imagine how she will ever get over the shame. An orphan newly arrived from India, Laura is at the mercy of Jack Plant, the w...

• / Romance
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Rachel Gardner's family life is far from a happy one. Her father, Stanhope, is cold and remote and her mother Nellie seems to care for nothing but housework. Then, one day, Stanhope collapses in the street and dies - and the façade he had built up c...

• / General Fiction
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When Ginny Appleyard's childhood sweetheart returns home after his racing season aboard the yacht Aurora, her hopes that he is bringing her an engagement ring are shattered, as Nathan disembarks with Isobel Armitage; the daughter of Aurora's owner. I...

• / General Fiction
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When Hannah Fox's younger brother Sam is ridden down in the street by Thomas Truswell, the spoilt son of the most powerful industrialists in Sheffield, she sets off to the Truswell's estate to complain. Lady Truswell is taken with the hot-tempered yo...

• / General Fiction
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After a London pub brawl, in which her beloved father is injured, thirteen-year-old Sally Stangate and her family must flee to begin a new life in the Essex village where he was born. But when they arrive, Sally has an uncanny feeling that her future...

• / General Fiction
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When Anna hears her father's plans to marry her off to an old widower, she is determined to escape. Gathering together everything they own, Anna and her childhood sweetheart Jan board a boat from Holland to England. Heading for Colchester, the hub of...

• / Contemporary Romance
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