Download or read book Scattering of Daisies the Daffodils of Newent written by Susan Sallis and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2012-07 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scattering of Daisies- Beginning the wonderful, heartwarming story of the Rising family. Will Rising had dragged himself from humble beginnings to his own small tailoring business in Gloucester - and on the way he'd fallen violently in love with Florence, refined, delicate, and wanting something better for her children. March was the eldest girl, the least loved, the plain, unattractive one who, as the family grew, became more and more the household drudge. But March, a strange, intelligent, unhappy child, had inherited some of her mother's dreams. March Rising was determined to break out of the round of poverty and hard work, to find wealth, and love, and happiness. Daffodils of Newent- They were called the Daffodil Girls, spirited and bright, enduring, loving and dancing their way through the gay and desperate twenties. April, who married the tortured and sexually suspect David Daker, convinced she could blot out his memories of the trenches. May, pregnant by her handsome music-hall star husband, who refused to settle down and become a family man. March, loved and betrayed by the man who had fathered her child, and who still wanted her, in spite of everything.
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Download or read book The Daffodils Of Newent written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Daffodils of Newent continues the story of the Rising Girls, begun in A Scattering of Daisies. Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will love this emotional and wonderfully enthralling saga, from multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis, that expertly captures the lives and emotions of a family in the run up to World War Two. READERS ARE LOVING THE DAFFODILS OF NEWENT! 'A captivating read, satisfyingly long, that will hold the reader's attention to the very last page!' -- ***** Reader review 'The ending was perfect, and completely unexpected!' -- ***** Reader review 'Fascinating characters and beautifully described settings.' -- ***** Reader review 'A well-crafted book, with beautifully drawn characters.' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************* IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE GREAT WAR, CAN THEY FIND HAPPINESS? They were called the Daffodil Girls, spirited and bright, enduring, loving and dancing their way through the gay and desperate twenties. April, who married the tortured and sexually suspect David Daker, convinced she could blot out his memories of the trenches. May, pregnant by her handsome music-hall star husband, who refused to settle down and become a family man. March, loved and betrayed by the man who had fathered her child, and who still wanted her, in spite of everything. WHAT WILL THE FUTURE HOLD IN STORE FOR THEM? The Daffodils of Newent is the second book in the Rising Family sequence and is followed by Bluebell Windows and Rosemary for Remembrance. The story began in A Scattering of Daisies.
Download or read book A Scattering Of Daisies written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wonderful and heart-warming story of the Rising Family starts here in A Scattering of Daisies. Multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis expertly transports us back in time to the turn of the twentieth century and immerses us in the lives, loves and fluctuating fortunes of a family we'll never forget. Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. READERS ARE LOVING A SCATTERING OF DAISIES! 'I have read this book so many times over the years, I just LOVE it!' -- ***** Reader review 'An amazing inter-generational story that I kept reading way too fast' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent read, very enjoyable.' -- ***** Reader review 'Loved this book [...], well written and down to earth. Just the way I like it!' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************************** ARE DREAMS AND DETERMINATION ENOUGH TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE? Will Rising had dragged himself from humble beginnings to his own small tailoring business in Gloucester - and on the way he'd fallen violently in love with Florence - who was refined, delicate, and wanting something better for her children. March was the eldest girl - the least loved: plain, unattractive and, with the best will in the world, the household drudge. Yet, as strange, intelligent and unhappy as she was, March had inherited some of her mother's dreams and she was determined to break out of the round of poverty and hard work, to find wealth, and love, and happiness. Did she have it in her to achieve her desires? And what could the future possibly hold in store? A Scattering of Daisies is the first book in the Rising Family sequence and is followed by The Daffodils of Newent, Bluebell Windows and Rosemary for Remembrance.
Download or read book Scattering of Daisies and Daffodils written by Susan Sallis and published by Corgi. This book was released on 2001-03-01 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touched By Angels written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A story of the deep emotional bond among friends who were more like family and the threat to that bond posed by the war and all that it entailed... From the multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. READERS ARE LOVING TOUCHED BY ANGELS! ***** - 'A captivating read, satisfyingly long, that will hold the reader's attention to the very last page!' ***** - 'The ending was perfect, and completely unexpected!' ***** - 'Fascinating characters and beautifully described settings.' ***** - 'A well-crafted book, with beautifully drawn characters.' ********************************************************************* AS THE WAR CHANGES EVERYTHING, WILL THEIR BOND HOLD STRONG? They were just schoolgirls - evacuees - when they first met the Reid brothers. Berry was the one who dazzled them - handsome, funny, he symbolized that golden summer of the war working together on the farm. Then their world collapsed around them. Morag, the strongest and quietest of the three girls, lost everything she held dear in one savage bombing. Vallery's beloved brother was killed in the desert war, and Jannie - well, Jannie had never had much to start with but a wayward father and a disinterested mother, but still, she had Morag and Vallery. When the Reid boys returned from the war it was Berry who had changed. Damaged both in mind and body, he held the dream of Morag in his mind, even though it was Vallery he married. As they settled to a life in the remote cliff-side Abbey, away from everyone, so the old ties between the three girls and the Reid brothers grew more intense, more confused - and Morag, Vallery and Jannie discovered that Berry still had the power to draw them all to him...
Download or read book Daughters Of The Moon written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lose yourself in this moving story of a sanguine bond between sisters. Perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher and Fiona Valpy; you won't be able to put it down. 'Full of gifted, complex characters it gripped my attention to the very end.' - ***** Reader Review 'Sallis is always a really good read.' - ***** Reader Review 'I was sorry it ever finished.' - ***** Reader Review ******************************************************************************* A SPECIAL BOND BETWEEN SISTER, BUT CAN IT SURVIVE? The twins were born in war-torn Plymouth in 1944, two little girls whose parents didn't altogether want them. Their childhood as evacuee babies, then at boarding school, then living with their Aunt Maggie, made them grow up uniquely self-sufficient. They didn't need anyone else. They had each other. Miranda was the vibrant, flamboyant one, determined never to conform or be dull and conventional. Meg was quieter, more self-effacing. But Meg always knew when anything bad was happening to Miranda. As they grew up, the bond between them held - until Meg moved to Cornwall to buy a house, to paint, to fall in love. And for the first time a rift broached their special relationship. Their lives shifted - Miranda trapped into domesticity, and Meg - feeling herself betrayed - sought a new path to unexpected success. But the link was still there, in spite of all that was to happen, in spite of violence and tragedy, and finally it led to happiness that came when they had ceased to expect it...
Download or read book Sea Of Dreams written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the Sunday Times bestselling author and multi-million copy seller Susan Sallis, this is a beautiful and moving novel perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Lucinda Riley and Rosamunde Pilcher. READERS ARE LOVING SEA OF DREAMS! "A wonderful story. Highly recommend." - 5 STARS "A story that kept me wanting to turn the pages...I was hooked..." - 5 STARS "The story has great pace and I couldn't put it down." - 5 STARS ********************** AS ONE MILLENNIUM ENDS, CAN THEY LOOK FORWARD TO A NEW AND BETTER WORLD? Somerset, Christmas 1999. Holly and Mark Jepson find themselves looking after an assortment of guests at Mark's uncle's holiday chalets. Each guest is fascinating in their own way - from the eccentric artist and his pretty daughter to the young married couple expecting their first baby and the wife escaping from a violent past. Each will have a part to play in the events - unexpected and shattering - which take place before the new millennium dawns...
Download or read book Water Under The Bridge written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emmie Dart was nearly forty years old and servant to old Canon James when Walter asked her to marry him. He was the Canon's son, younger than she was, and a gentleman - even though a rather dilettante drifter who had really done very little with his life. But Walter had a secret in his past that he asked Emmie to share with him - and she, in turn, told him of her harsh and cruel background that made her feel unworthy to be anyone's wife. In spite of everything the marriage worked. Walter became Station Master at the lazy, sundrenched little country station of Dymock. Emmie set about rearing her three children, all so different. As Walter and Emmie watched their children grow, marry, have children of their own, so three women began to dominate the family - Dorothy, who was proud, loyal, strong, and frequently extremely angry with the James family into which she had married, Kildie, illegitimate, manipulative, and causing constant strife and drama, and Holly, the third generation, whose loving spirit often held them all together. It was more than fifty years before Walter James's secret was revealed - a secret that nearly broke the family apart.
Download or read book The Promise written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-05-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wartime memories evoke both pain and happiness in this heart-warming novel from multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. 'Sallis's West Country novel has the feel of Mary Wesley and character insight that is all her own' -- Daily Mail 'The thing about Susan Sallis's books - once you pick them up, it's very hard to put them down!' -- ***** Reader review 'Brilliant' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent read, very enjoyable' - -- ***** Reader review 'Wonderful' - -- ***** Reader review ******************************************************************** THE ONLY PROMISE WORTH MAKING IS THE ONE YOU KEEP... There were four of the Thorpe family in the Anderson shelter the night of the raid on Coventry. Mum and Dad, Florrie and little May.... Jack was missing. He was one of those who had not come back from Dunkirk. And May had to promise to keep a terrible secret, a promise which affected the lives of all the survivors, until May herself was the only one left. Seventy years later Daisy and Marcus, sixth formers in a Gloucestershire School, are given an A Level project on the bombing of Coventry in 1940. They go to talk to May, now living in sheltered accommodation nearby. A friendship is forged which bridges the gap between them. The two youngsters have their own problems, but as their lives unfold they become involved in the strange history of May's missing brother and of the promise, made all those years ago, which still has its repercussions today.
Download or read book The Sweetest Thing written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling story, by multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis, one day changes the lives of many forever. Fans of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed... 'Susan Sallis's West Country novels have...a character insight that is all her own' - DAILY MAIL 'I truly loved it' -- ***** Reader review 'Excellent read, very enjoyable.' -- ***** Reader review ************************************************************************************** AN IDYLLIC SUMMER ENDS IN TRAGEDY... Cornwall 1960: A whole new world unfolds for young Connie Vickers as she holidays with her brand-new fiancé William. Finding the prospect of marriage a little daunting, Connie relishes the freedom that the Cornish coastline offers her and revels in solitary walks to gather her thoughts. But a strange encounter with a beautiful blond boy on the beach leads to a terrible tragedy, the consequences of which are to affect Connie and William for the rest of their lives.
Download or read book No Time At All written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two disabled children love their new bungalow by the sea. It even has its own spectral steam-train which only they can hear each night. The train holds many mysteries which will change their lives.
Download or read book The Path to the Lake written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a heart-warming and emotional novel of secrets, loss and final redemption that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will simply love The Path to the Lake. ***************************************** IS SHE RUNNING AWAY FROM THE SECRETS OF HER PAST? Viv's marriage to David is not a conventional one, but when he dies - in an accident for which she blames herself - it is as if her whole world had collapses around her. She escapes by running, mainly around the nearby lake, which was once a popular place of recreation but is now desolate and deserted. It becomes both her refuge and her dread. But through the misery she makes some unexpected friends - a couple in the village whose family need her as much as she needs them. And gradually, as a new life opens up, she is able confront terrible secrets from her past which have haunted her and which can now be laid to rest...
Download or read book The Keys To The Garden written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a moving and heart-warming novel that will stay with you long after you finish the last page. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will simply love The Keys to the Garden. READERS ARE LOVING THE KEYS TO THE GARDEN! "This writer never lets you down. You just have to keep page turning." - 5 STARS "Enjoyed reading this book very much" - 5 STARS "[Couldn't] put this book down" - 5 STARS ********************************************************************* A MOTHER'S LOVE ENDURES THROUGH ALL... Widowed Martha Moreton is a devoted mother to her only child, Lucy. When Lucy marries Len, Martha tries hard to make the best of things: Len is a good man, they won't be living far away... and the arrival of grandchildren is something she anticipates eagerly. Unexpectedly, Len's job takes the newly married couple overseas, where their first child is born. But sorrow, not joy, comes with Dominic's birth. On their return, Lucy's best friend, Jennifer, is anxious to provide her own kind of consolation... Martha, herself experiencing unlooked-for and unwelcome changes in her own life, clings fast to the maternal bond that means so much to herself and Lucy. Together, can they find their own kind of happiness?
Download or read book Choices written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A life-enhancing and emotionally powerful novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Fiona Valpy and Rosamunde Pilcher. READERS ARE LOVING CHOICES! "My first Susan Sallis read.....but not my last. I didn't want this book to end." - 5 STARS "A brilliant, very thought provoking and unforgettable book." - 5 STARS "From first page to last holds your attention. Would recommend this as a real life story read, with characters you can connect with." - 5 STARS "This book was instantly readable for me. I found it sad and yet uplifting..." - 5 STARS **************************** WHEN A LIFE IS DESTROYED BY TRAGEDY, CAN LOVE WIN THROUGH? On the very day Helen Wilson plans to choose her wedding dress, a devastating car accident takes the three people she loves most cruelly away from her and changes her life forever. Grieving and heartbroken, she moves to Flatners, a cottage overlooking the Bristol Channel, to start a new life and leave the pain of the past behind. Gradually settling into a new existence, she makes new friends and immerses herself in local life - and slowly becomes aware of the complex feelings she is developing for Harry Vallender, the previous owner of Flatners...
Download or read book Come Rain Or Shine written by Susan Sallis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a magnificent and sweeping novel that asks whether friendships really can endure through thick and thin. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed. READERS ARE LOVING COME RAIN OR SHINE! "Brilliant, I couldn't put it down." - 5 STARS "Great storyline. Took me a while to place everyone, so many wonderful characters. But so worth it. Susan Sallis puts you right there, in the thick of it." - 5 STARS "Wonderful" - 5 STARS "It was exciting and intriguing and nicely slow at the same time" - 5 STARS *********************************************************************************************************** SOME FRIENDSHIPS REALLY DO STAND THE TEST OF TIME. WILL THEIRS? The four of them were close when they worked together in the 1960s: Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie. Now, twenty years later, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America with a fifteen-year-old daughter, decides there must be a reunion. Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall, unexpectedly offers to host at Prospect House, a property she has inherited in the Malvern Hills. Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn't seen for so long. And Maisie ... Maisie, perhaps the most vulnerable of the four, mother of five children, married to the unpredictable Edward, fails to arrive at Prospect House. The drama of her disappearance has a far-reaching effect on the lives and destinies of them all...
Download or read book A scattering of daisies a novel written by Susan Sallis and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
