Deze auteur verwierf bekendheid met haar romans, die vaak zijn geïnspireerd door haar jeugd en familiebanden. Haar stijl wordt geroemd om zijn warmte en het vermogen om de sfeer en ambiance van specifieke tijdperken op te roepen, wat lezers een gevoel van nostalgie en geborgenheid biedt. Elk van haar verhalen is zorgvuldig samengesteld om de complexiteit van menselijke relaties en de blijvende kracht van herinneringen weer te geven.
Book three in the stunning Neyler family saga. Life must go on however, and a new generation of the Neyler family are making their way in this turbulent world. The family hope he'll have more luck in love that his father. Before she knows it she is caught up in the tragedy of a Jewish family struggling to escape the Nazi horror.
Ted and Tina Neyler's children are growing up, doomed to be drawn into the Great War: Frank will be scarred forever by one terrible day in the trenches, while Louis, the charming optimist, returns unscathed from the war to find that his wife and mistress have met up and that his misdemeanours are inexorably catching up with him.
stockings, lisle . . . shoes, black clumpy . . . Come to that, why had Meg from Cheshire, and Sue, very much the big city girl from Liverpool, and Shanna, the life-toughened product of a broken home in Glasgow? Not with the sergeant shouting and the station air-raid siren beginning to wail . . .
On 21 April 1926 three baby girls are born. Nell is born to a farm labourer's wife, Anna to rich and pampered Constance Radwell and in London Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary. Set in the hills of Wales and the rolling Norfolk countryside the story follows Nell and Anna through their wartime adolescence and into womanhood as they struggle to overcome their problems while watching "their" princess move towards her great destiny. Only when they finally meet do the two girls understand that each of them is 'someone special'.
The misty magic of the Norfolk Broads and the harsh beauty of the Australian bush come to life in this compelling and touching love story.
Book One in the compelling Neyler Quartet, following the triumphs and tragedies of a wealthy family through the first fifty tumultuous years of the twentieth centuryBook One in the compelling Neyler Quartet1901Tina Rose is the beloved daughter of a wealthy Jewish family, while Edward grew up with an abusive father in the wilds of New Zealand.