Blogs in December 2016

A Perfect Square 30th December 2016

When pianist Ginny Smith moves back to her mother’s house in Sassafras after her breakup with the degenerate Garth, synaesthetic and eccentric artist Harriet Brassington-Smythe contrives a creative collaboration to lift her daughter’s spirits: an exhibition of paintings and...

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Gilding The Lily 27th December 2016

A gripping mystery of jealousy, murder and lies. An invitation to her estranged, wealthy father’s surprise 75th birthday party in New York sees Amelia and her husband, Jack, set off across the pond to meet a whole new world...

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The Montana Stories 20th December 2016

Eighty years ago, at the end of May 1921, Katherine Mansfield came to Switzerland, to live at the Chalet des Sapins in Montana (now Crans-Montana) in Switzerland. She was 32 and seriously ill with tuberculosis (possibly caught, according to...

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Rebecca’s Children 4th December 2016

For centuries generations of the Jenkins family have eked out a living from their Carmarthensire hill farm. But when a fire destroys virtually all of their possessions the Jenkins children are forced to watch their lives crumble around them....

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The Line Between Us 4th December 2016

Ifor is the gardener at Nanagalan, an ancient manor house situated in the Welsh Borders and Ella is the only daughter of the family who owns it. In 1939 Ifor enlists to fight and is one of a small...

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