Geoffrey Harfield
A Father for Daisy
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A wonderful romp of a read, this historical romance is set in late 1880s Lancashire. A vicar’s daughter saves baby Daisy from ...Read Review
Angels at War
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Rarely, in all my years of reviewing for the HNS, have I come across such a masterly historical romance with a brilliantly set ...Read Review
Alice’s Girls
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A World War II British land girls’ story by one of the script writers of the excellent House of Elliot, it is a ...Read Review
The Wounded Heart
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Oh joy! A properly constructed and satisfying story of devotion through the tribulations of war and illness. Though a beautifully presented book, one ...Read Review
An Heir for Burracombe
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Lilian hits the jackpot again with her Coronation Street look-alike romp in Devon, starting the day after the 1953 Coronation. I have reviewed a ...Read Review
A Glimpse at Happiness
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Josie O’Casey returns to East End London overjoyed to discover her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, is alive and well. Her happiness is ...Read Review
The Crooked Cross
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This is a masterly fiction of events and characters who, in 1933, hatch an elaborate plot to kill Hitler in Munich. The author has ...Read Review
Tainted Tree
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This rambling book, which was sent to me for review as a historical novel, is set in 1991 and the ’60s. It contains no ...Read Review
The Spies of Warsaw
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This is a difficult to follow but fascinating study of French intelligence-gathering in Central Europe, prior to World War II. Alan Furst is ...Read Review
A Penny a Day
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This, one of Lilian Harry’s Burracombe novels, is the fourth of her books I have reviewed. They were all excellent regional sagas, ...Read Review