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Pamela Holmes

The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell

By Pamela Holmes - Published 2022

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Aberdeen, 1730: the cultured, restless Elizabeth Blachrie resists her parents’ attempts to marry her to a dull but suitable man, for she is in ...Read Review

Wyld Dreamers

By Pamela Holmes - Published 2018

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In the summer of 1972, a group of young people arrives at Wyld Farm, Somerset, ostensibly to renovate a dilapidated cottage on a farm ...Read Review

The Huntingfield Paintress

By Pamela Holmes - Published 2016

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Biographical Fiction

Suffolk, 1848. After traveling the world for eight years with her husband, William, Mildred Holland is not prepared to live the quiet life of ...Read Review