Lesley Glaister

• Apr-1991
• / General Fiction
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In a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters—Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther—identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead...

• Apr-1992
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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Eight-year-old Wolfe watches as the innocent antics of Halloween and the roaring fires of Guy Fawkes Day take a frightening turn, and girlhood rivalries, whispered affairs, and shameful secrets explode in an act of violence. Reprint....

• Apr-1993
• / General Fiction
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Jennifer is a girl on the brink of adolescence. With no real friends, she retreats into the world of her imagination. When she discovers that her parents are actually her grandparents she seeks her escape and finds herself having her own adventures, ...

• Jan-1994
• / General Fiction
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Award-winning author Lesley Glaister explores the lives of two women from different centuries, imprisoned for crimes of passion and love Jennifer is in solitary confinement. A place where there is only memory, imagination, and me. She isn't the fi...

• Sep-1997
• / Psychological Suspense
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A WWII vet’s suicide drives his daughter to uncover his troubled past in this “absorbing, poignant” novel from the award-winning author of Partial Eclipse (Publishers Weekly).   Zelda Dawkins knows her older lover, Foxy, is goi...

• Nov-1999
• / General Fiction
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Did Patrick Mount, philosopher and visionary, discover the secret of sheer bliss? And why did he disappear? If Connie Benson, his former lover, knows the secret, she's not telling. A reclusive artist, she has kept her final portrait of Mount under wr...

• Aug-2002
• / General Fiction
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Since walking out on her life at sixteen, Lamb has lived alone in the gaps between other people's lives. Secretly inhabiting the cellar of an elderly man for whom she cleans, she keeps herself to herself, her life a precarious balancing act - until s...

• Mar-2004
• / Thriller
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Opportunity for the Right Applicants. Housekeeper/companions required. Would suit young couple. Remote, rural location. Cooking, cleaning, gardening and caring duties. Applicants must be self-sufficient and resourceful. It seems like the perfect job ...

• Mar-2005
• / General Fiction
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When Cassie sees a job advertised for a couple to run a remote Australian farm, she thinks it will be the perfect escape for her and Graham. But trapped under the baking sun of the outback, paranoia sets in. There's no radio and they send but never r...

• Apr-2005
• / Mystery
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Award-winning novelist Lesley Glaister presents a selection of stories by four accomplished women writers - two exceptional short stories from each. Imaginative, intriguing stories ranging from wintertime in small-town Canada to a family settling in ...

• May-2007
• / General Fiction
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The truth behind a one-night stand becomes just as terrifying as the consequences, “engrossing” (The Guardian).   Nina Todd is a woman of unextraordinary looks, with a dependable boyfriend and a menial job in Sheffield. It’s wh...

• Aug-2011
• / Literary
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The rise of a religious cult intertwines with the secret history of a family in this tale from a master of suspense at the top of her game

The last time Dodie sees her mother alive, Stella is unusually busy, tattily splendid in an ol...

• Mar-2014
• / General Fiction
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Little Egypt was once a well-to-do country house in the north of England. Now it’s derelict and trapped on a small island of land between a railway, a dual carriageway and a superstore, and although it looks deserted it isn’t. Nonagenarian twins,...

• Dec-2014
• / Literary
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From the award-winning author of Honour Thy Father: Who’s a threat to whom in this “spine-chilling” novel of split personality? (The Times, London).
 
Inis has no interest in finding out who she is. She wants t...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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• Nov-2020
• / General Fiction
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After the Great War, a nurse and a damaged soldier become dangerously entangled in this “sensitive, unsettling tale” by the author of A Particular Man (The Independent).Sometimes love hurts. Sometimes love kills . . . It’s 1920 a...

• Jun-2024
• / Historical
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Love never dies in this novel by “a writer of addictive emotional thrillers” (The Independent). Told from three perspectives A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss. When Edgar dies in a Far East...

• / General Fiction
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Winner of the Yorkshire Post Author of the Year Award: Lesley Glaister spins a couple's ordinary domestic problems into a riveting tale of psychological suspense Nadia is a sculptor driven by a single obsession: to conceive a child. Her husband,...