Ruth Abbey

• 1971
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"I FEAR FOR YOU, MY CHILD..." Living on the charity of the English branch of her French family, Louise Saville had no idea of what her Uncle Edward meant by the words he spoke on his deathbed...until after he died. Then, slowly, she became aware ...

• 1973
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Someone from Nunnery Manor was watching me. And once, when I cried out in alarm to ask who was there, a silence cold and sinister was the only answer to my cry. But as I ran - terrified - I thought I heard a cruel and malicious laugh from behind the ...

• 1973
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Carenza Pearce discovered that she was a foundling when the woman she had always believed to be her grandmother died. With a letter addressed to Sir Rupert Harford and an old locket with his picture as the only clues to her identity she journeyed to ...

• 1974
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I shall never forget my first encounter with the Granger family...it seems strange that I could have been so blind about them...even then, right at the beginning, there were odd little signs that should have warned me. A spirit of neighborliness prom...

• 1975
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Rowena Howard returned to Greystones upon the death of her father only to discover that the home she loved above all else was no longer to be her carefree refuge. Forced to put childhood behind her, she was now mistress of a vast estate, with only th...

• 1976
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Helga Radford, child of an English aristocrat and a German governess, comes to Gales Hill at her dying father's request to seek reconciliation with his estranged family. Helga struggles to become loving and dutiful towards her autocratic grandmother ...

• 1986
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A mysterious man wishes to marry Elizabeth even though she seems to be the double of his late wife. Brought up by a fanatically religious mother, Elizabeth Lister at eighteen is immature and unworldly. When, in the space of a few days, she loses b...

• Dec-1989
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From the moment that Felicity Russell catches sight of the House by the Tarn she begins to feel uneasy. Has she done right to leave her domineering step-mother, and come to live with her cousin, a cousin who deceives and lies to her; a hunch-back who...

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A tale of passion and intrigue in nineteenth century Cornwall. When penniless Carenza Pearce is turned away from her destination, she is befriended by a wealthy landowner who talks her into a marriage of convenience. Carenza Pearce, eighteen, lea...