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Nightwoods 1st January 1970

Set in the 1950s, this is the story of Luce, a young woman, whohas chosen to live as a caretaker in a remote cabin in North Carolina. Happy to be in nature, away from civilisation. But a man from...

Lost Girls 1st January 1970

Criminal defence lawyer Bartholomew Crane is despatched to a small lakeside town in Northern Ontario with a brief to defend a schoolteacher accused of murdering two teenaged girls. He assumes it will be an open-and-shut case and that he’ll...

Sophie’s Bakery For The Broken Hearted 1st January 1970

This book is the same as Good Grief. Sophie, at 36, has just lost her husband Ethan through cancer. Winston vividly describes the emotional rollercoaster of bereavement, with all the different stages and finally, in Oregon, she gets her...

Getaway 1st January 1970

Michelle Mason tells herself she’s on vacation. A brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It’s a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her banker husband, who’s left behind a...

Gardenias 1st January 1970

The novel begins in 1942, when nine-year-old Lark and her newly separated mother and aunt Betty travel by train from southern Minnesota to San Diego. Eager to obtain war work and as much distance as possible from her estranged...