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The Girl from Lace Island

The Girl from Lace Island
  • Author(s): Joanna Rees
  • Location(s): Kerala
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1989 and 2016

Set on an island off Kerala… Some bonds will never break . . . 1989 When happy-go-lucky fifteen-year-old Leila is exiled from her exotic home on Lace Island to a cold English boarding school, it is just the beginning...

The Girl from Oto

The Girl from Oto
  • Author(s): Amy Maroney
  • Location(s): Europe
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): Renaissance era and modern day

Historical fiction set in the Pyrenees, London, Oxford, St. Andrews, Amsterdam, Bruges. In The Girl from Oto, a young American scholar navigates a foreign world, experiencing friendship, betrayal and love as she chases the ghost of a Renaissance-era artist through...

The Girl from Portofino

The Girl from Portofino
  • Author(s): Siobhan Daiko
  • Location(s): Portofino
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1970 / 1944

When Gina Bianchi returns to the beautiful Italian resort of Portofino to attend her father’s funeral, she is beset by vivid memories of World War 2, when she joined the Resistance, alongside her identical twin sister, Adele. In her...

The Girl from Summer Hill

The Girl from Summer Hill
  • Author(s): Jude Deveraux
  • Location(s): Virginia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): early 2000s

Sparks fly as fiery Casey Reddick and brooding Hollywood actor Tate Landers clash in the Virginia summer heat. A chef who puts her career first and her love life second, Casey doesn’t see what every girl in town is...

The Girl from the Coast

The Girl from the Coast
  • Author(s): Pramoedya Ananta Toer
  • Location(s): Indonesia
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): early 20th century

Pramoedya’s The Girl from the Coast tells the story of a beautiful young woman from a fishing village who finds herself in an arranged marriage with a wealthy aristocrat. Forced to leave her parents and home behind, she moves...

The Girl from the Grand Hotel

The Girl from the Grand Hotel
  • Author(s): Camille Aubray
  • Location(s): Cannes
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1939

The #1 bestselling author of Cooking for Picasso and The Godmothers returns with The Girl from the Grand Hotel, a dazzling historical novel that brings readers into the glamorous world of the first (and doomed) Cannes Film Festival and...

The Girl from the Hermitage

The Girl from the Hermitage
  • Author(s): Molly Gartland
  • Location(s): St Petersburg (Leningrad)
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1940s/1980s

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away...

The Girl from the Tea Garden

The Girl from the Tea Garden
  • Author(s): Janet MacLeod Trotter
  • Location(s): North East India
  • Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
  • Era(s): 1930s and WW2

She’s half the world away, but her heart remains in India. In the dying days of the Raj, Anglo-Indian schoolgirl Adela Robson dreams of a glamorous career on the stage. When she sneaks away from school in the back...

The Girl from the Train

The Girl from the Train
  • Author(s): Irma Joubert
  • Location(s): South Africa, Poland
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

A sweeping international love story that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit over the inhumanities of war and prejudice. Six-year-old Gretl and her sister jump from a train bound for Auschwitz, her mother and grandmother unable to squeeze...

The Girl from Trichy

The Girl from Trichy
  • Author(s): Gita V Reddy
  • Location(s): Bangalore (Bengaluru)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

“Appa enna solluvaro? What will Appa say?” Malathi comes from a conservative family. When she takes up a job in Bengaluru, her father gives her a list of conditions. Falling in love is definitely not among them! Aditya is...

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