Shadows on the Sun

Kathryn Haig

Parrallel

When Lydia's adored mother died tragically, Lydia's grief was compounded by a terrible revelation - the autopsy showed that Hope, the woman who had brought Lydia up, loved her and nurtured her, had never in fact borne a child. Lydia had to know the truth, which must date from the time when, as a young woman, Hope joined the Women's Royal Army Corps and made four lifelong friends. Hope, Nell, Juliet, Ruth and Isa - five very different girls, but between them they made the hardships, the square-bashing and the petty humilations of being officer cadets bearable. Isa was always going to go far in the army - her ambition was to become a general at the very least - while Juliet just wanted to have fun. Ruth wasn't ambitious, and was happy to marry Tim, her soldier boyfriend whose life had now been wrecked by the Gulf War. And Nell - Nell had done well for herself. She'd married Oliver, the most attractive and sought-after of the Sandhurst intake, who was now a general. She had a luxurious home with servants, a chauffeur, a glamorous social life - but the glossy facade of her life hid a very different reality. And one of these women must be Lydia's mother - if Lydia could only unrav

A Time to Dance

Corgi Books

<p>At the outbreak of world war II Laura, who was brought up in the manor house of Anstey Parva, where her formidable grandmother, Lady Anstey, rules the roost, decides to join the ATS. She is sent to Egypt where she meets and marries James, a young subaltern who is shortly afterwards killed in the desert.But Laura's heart belongs elsewhere , although she does not yet realise it; and her mind becomes increasingly occupied with the mystery of what happened to her father, who died, she has always been told, during the Great War. Why, then does his name not appear with the others on the village war memorial? Why do no photographs of him exist? Why is his name never mentioned? Laura tries to trace his final resting place through the war graves commission, but they have no record of him. She discovers, in the attics of Anstey House, his dress uniform beautifully preserved in tissue paper, together with some letters which indicate that he was court-martialled and killed by a firing squad. But why? What was his offence? Laura has to find out, and in doing so uncovers an extraordinary story which results in an immensely moving reunion.</p>

Apple Blossom Time

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Severn House Publishers Ltd.

Contemporary

Magna Large Print Books

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