Blogs in August 2024

The Guernsey Girls Go to War 23rd August 2024

War separates them, but it cannot dampen their spirits . . . Spring, 1940. Annie’s new husband Ricky leaves to fight, but she soon discovers battles brewing closer to home. As her sister Janey begins to unravel, only Annie...

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The Ghost of Seagull Cottage 14th May 2024

A haunting tale of love, loss and finding one’s place in the world Widowed artist Annabel returns to Guernsey seeking a fresh start for herself and her young daughter away from her late husband’s controlling family. Seagull Cottage appears...

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The Guernsey Girls 6th November 2023

January 1936. After the hard work of being a maid at Wallington Manor in the lead-up to Christmas, Annie is very excited at the prospect of going home to Bethnal Green. She has missed her family, but the money...

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The Last Kings of Sark 28th December 2022

Jude is twenty-one when she flies in a private plane to Sark, a tiny carless Channel Island, the last place in Europe to abolish feudalism. She has been hired for the summer to give tuition to a rich local...

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Appointment with Venus 28th December 2022

The future is never certain… For over four centuries Armorel — let us call it an imaginary Channel Island — had been a haven of peace. With the fall of France in 1940, the island became untenable by British...

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