Jasmina Svenne
Portrait of a Family with a Fat Daughter
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This is the story of a matriarchal Italian family (or arguably two such families that merge into one), from the late 19th century ...Read Review
The Buttonmaker’s Daughter
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It is May 1914, and self-made man Joshua Summer’s plan to create a magnificent Italian garden at his Sussex home Summerhayes is nearing ...Read Review
The Dancing Girl and the Turtle
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When Song Anyi is orphaned, she decides not to wait for her uncle to fetch her and sets out on the long journey ...Read Review
The Liberation
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A frightening encounter with the street children of bomb-damaged Naples in 1945 brings Caterina Lombardi in contact with the aloof Major Jake Parr, an ...Read Review
Wild Lavender
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When 14-year-old Simone Fleurier is sent away from her family’s lavender farm in Provence to work for her miserable great-aunt in Marseilles, ...Read Review
Angel Heart
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1815. Six years after her husband’s presumed death, half-French Marie-Ange is living in straitened circumstances in Devon. Possible financial succour arrives when the ...Read Review
Meet Me at the Pier Head
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Scarred by his traumatic past, hitherto half-American, half-Irish headmaster Theo Quinn has steered clear of love. But when exuberant teacher Tia Bellamy bursts ...Read Review
Spilt Milk
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The Marsh sisters, Nellie and Vivian, are inseparable until the great flood of 1913 brings a charismatic but unreliable stranger to their isolated cottage ...Read Review
The Angel and the Cad
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In 1805, aged 16, Catherine Tylney Long became England’s richest heiress. She could have had her pick of the suitors that clustered around her, ...Read Review
The Flight of Sarah Battle
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Sarah Battle grows up amid the chaos of her father’s coffeehouse in late 18th-century London where, inspired by the French Revolution, political ...Read Review