Meg Hutchinson

• Jun-1998
• / General Fiction
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Carys Beddows has never understood why her mother hates her so much. Certainly jealousy plays a part -- Maria believes that young Ryder Tempal would be hers if her daughter was out of the way, and she throws Carys out of the house. Maria continues wi...

• Jan-2003
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Young Philippa Cranley is living a lie. Her tyrannical father Archer forces her to masquerade as a man in order to comply with the terms of her maternal grandfather's Will, and enable him to inherit the glassworks. By threatening her fragile mother ...

• Jun-2003
• / General Fiction
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Can a legacy of hate ever be overcome...
Maura Deverell lives with her ailing mother in the beautiful Irish hamlet of Clonmacnoise, where the locals still believe in ancient magic. Their cruel landlord Seamus Riordan threatens to throw the women...

• Dec-2003
• / Romance
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Russia proves a cruel land to Anne Corby: her mother perishes in the wild savagery of the steppes, and Anne herself is left pregnant with an illegitimate child, result of a brutal rape. She flees with nothing but a mysterious talisman, wrapped in a b...

• Jan-2004
• / Romance
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Saran Chandler is a locksmith's daughter but following her father's death, her happy family is torn apart and she is left to fend for herself.

Luke Hipton is a workhouse orphan with a murky past who is wise beyond his years and bec...

• 2004
• / Romance
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'Don't go, Amber, don't leave Denny an' me alone, I be feared of this house.' If only she had heeded her ten-year-old sister's words! But Amber Neale returns from India to the devastating news of Bethany's death and her brother's disappearance. ...

• Jun-2004
• / Romance
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The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford's father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling to support herself and her ailing mother. Regul...

• Dec-2005
• / General Fiction
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When Myra Brent's sister Eden visits her at Moorcroft House, instead of being welcomed, Eden receives a stinging slap. Eden is devastated by her sister's cruel behaviour. Myra is simply trying to prevent her beloved sister from catching the predatory...

• Jun-2006
• / Romance
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Meg Hutchinson's twentieth novel sweeps from the collieries of the Black Country to the sugar-scented islands of the Caribbean as it tells the story of a young woman who must suffer many violent wrongs before being saved by her own virtue, and by the...

• Dec-2007
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With mounting disbelief, Regan Trent realises that the death of her beloved mother has left her totally at her stepfather's mercy. But mercy is a foreign concept to Sherwyn Huntley. To this ruthless man, Regan is simply an obstacle between him and th...

• Feb-2011
• / General Fiction
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Sold into marriage, can she prove her true worth? Another heart-wrenching, gripping story from the Queen of Sagas.
Banished from her father's sight and home since the age of four, wheelchair-bound Esther Kerral is horrified when she is force...

• Jan-2013
• / Mystery
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A feature on Old Wives' Tales is not exactly the assignment to make Kate Mallory's pulse race. She fancies herself an investigative journalist and crime reporter and has the stories under her belt to prove it. But her research throws up a vital clue ...

• Jan-2013
• / Fantasy
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Philip Bartley stops to pick up a hitch-hiker one rainy night, hoping for sexual favours in return. But when the car crashes into a hedge, the slender, blonde figure with the seductive tongue is nowhere to be seen . . . Reverend Peter Darley has a m...

• Jan-2013
• / General Fiction
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Journalist Kate Mallory is covering a routine case of vandalism in a local churchyard when she comes across a mysterious foreign banknote and a drawing of an ancient talisman, the Seal of Ashmedai, used in rituals of black magic. At the same time, R...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Rachel Cade is a miner's daughter on the run from a crime she did not commit.
Jared Lytton is the hot tempered but well-meaning mine owner who cannot stop thinking about her.

Stunned by her stepmother's accusation that she kil...

• Nov-2018
• / General Fiction
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Emma Lawrence endures harsh treatment at the hands of her aunt and uncle, the Gilmores, for the sake of her sister, Rachel. But after Rachel is brutally raped and strangled, Emma must escape to save her own life.

She befriends Timothy and ...

• Feb-2021
• / General Fiction
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Robbed of marriage to the man she loved, Leah Bryce rears his daughter Miriam as her own. But her desire for vengeance lead her to treat the girl with extreme cruelty. Leah's son Ralph has always loved the girl he believes to be his sister, and fight...

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She will fight for her father's legacy against those determined to destroy her...
Abel Pardoe's daughter Phoebe is young and in love, doted on by her mine owner father and engaged to be married to the handsome and charming Montrose Wheel...

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Isabel Kenton is left to run the family business when her father dies on the eve of the Great War and her twin brother enlists in the Flying Corps.
A clairvoyant tells Isabel that 'yours will be a different war' and so it proves to be as...

• / General Fiction
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Lizzie Burton is an orphan of mysterious origins. She has been a housemaid at Portland House for as long as she can remember.

Deborah Hammond is also an orphan from the workhouse and, like Lizzie, has been in service since childhood. All t...

• / General Fiction
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Raped and left pregnant by her drunken father, Anna Bradley knows she must abandon her baby and make a new life if her son is to have a future. As luck would have it, she is befriended by Maggie Fellen, and under her gruff but tender care, Anna build...

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He claimed to be a man of God. But he did the devil's work.Thomas Thorpe hides his carnal desires under the mask of a pious lay preacher. When Ann Spencer rejects his advances, he evicts her from her home, claiming she is living in sin with a young m...

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The Number One bestseller. When Tam's brother Benjie is wrongly accused of theft, and locked in a prison cell, his sister makes a solemn promise that she will not let the little lad down. But Fate makes her break her word almost immediately: Benjie...

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Miriam Bryce has never known her mother's love. And when she finds herself pregnant and deserted by her lover Saul, her mother is quick to throw her out of her home. Injured in an accident she is saved by a rich businessman who takes her into ser...

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Laura Cadman had always assumed she would marry Edmund Shaw, the son of her father's partner. But Edmund's violent refusal, and his attempts to cheat her father out of money force her to look elsewhere for happiness. Only when she is saved by Rafe Tr...

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Tyler Cadell's cruel order spells heartbreak for his wife Garnet and their new-born baby. She flees to save herself, but cannot save her child and the memory of that tragic loss haunts her days. Taken in by a band of Black Country Romanies, Garnet is...

• / Romance
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Emma Price has eyes like a summer sky and is as kind and generous as she is beautiful. She is in love with Paul Felton and he with her, but their love seems sure to fail as Emma's father works in the coal mine that Paul will inherit when he comes...