Watchman's Stone

Literature & Fiction

Rona Randall

Genre Fiction

Collins

Dragonmede

William Collins Sons

Ballantine

Lyonhurst

Ballantine Books

<p>Thrilling women's writing that transports you to eighteenth century England. Over twenty years after the The Drayton Legacy, eighteenth century life in the potteries continues. Joseph Drayton is dead and has been replaced as Master Potter by his lame brother Martin. Max Freeman is presumed dead and now Olivia, the daughter he never knew, fights a solitary battle against prejudice and the avaricious ambitions of her mother, the pretty, selfish Phoebe. Olivia’s decision to abandon her claim to the Tremain estates and join the Drayton Pottery shocks her family. She will be relegated to the lowest of labourers in her uncle’s firm. While Olivia works her way up from the humblest ranks, the Freemans — united with the Draytons through marriage — are involved in schemes and feuds. Agatha, widow of Joseph Drayton, hopes to procure the Tremain inheritance for her dilettante son Lionel, while Lionel himself wonders why his father’s body was found naked in an outhouse so many years before. Phoebe defrauds her mother-in-law and is torn between the security of her home at Tremain Hall and the charms of a new lover, Roger Acland. Meanwhile, Olivia can love only one man, the village farrier who has returned from a mysterious past in America, with complications in his personal life creating obstacles in hers. The Potter's Niece is a study of human emotions at their most raw — jealousy and greed; love and despair. Rona Randall was born in Cheshire, but grew up in London. She won a scholarship to a local college of art, but circumstances prevented her from taking this up and she took a secretarial course which she hated. She studied drama under the late Frank Forbes-Robertson and became an actress for a time. After this she worked as a secretary in an editorial office, then became a journalist, before moving on to writing fiction. She is married to a Chartered Quantity Surveyor, and has one son and two grandchildren. She lives in Kent. Rona Randall has herself progressed, through pottery, to become an accomplished modeller in ceramics, and the unusual background of The Potter's Niece is one she knows well.   Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher. For more information on our titles please sign up to our newsletter at www.endeavourpress.com. Each week you will receive updates on free and discounted ebooks. Follow us on Twitter: @EndeavourPress and on Facebook via http://on.fb.me/1HweQV7. We are always interested in hearing from our readers. Endeavour Press believes that the future is now. </p>

The potter's niece

Contemporary

Hamish Hamilton Ltd.

Knights Keep

Ace Books

<p>To Eustacia Rochdale, life in 1800s London was exciting, if uncertain. Her beautiful mother Luella courted the rich and titled who came to her Bloomsbury home to gamble and managed to win enough from her guests to live comfortably, but was determined that her daughter achieve the respectable upper-class marriage that she herself could never attain. When Eustacia meets Julian Kershaw-heir to Dragonmede, a title and a family fortune-Luella is delighted. Desperately gambling on the young man's unskilled passion for cards and his obvious attraction towards Eustacia, she succeeds in arranging their engagement. Eustacia arrives at Dragonmede as Julian's new bride, unaware of her mother's manipulations. She is met with hostility and suspicion, and when Julian himself becomes cold and withdrawn, she begins to wonder if the various accidents occurring since her arrival are not indeed attempts on her life.</p>

Simon&Schuster

Luella Rochdale, gay, immoral and generous-hearted, runs a gambling house in Victorian London. Luella's sole ambition - a successful marriage for her daughter, Eustacia - is achieved when Eustacia becomes the wife of Julian Kershaw, heir to Dragonmede. But the marriage is passionate, stormy and disillusioning. Eustacia discovers that life in country society is no more respectable than in London. Worse, at Dragonmede it is accompanied by sinister legend and fear, plus the shock of learning how her marriage was manipulated, and why.

Dragonmede (Troubadour Books)

Futura Publications

Against the fascinating backdrop of a busy hospital we meet lab assistant Linda Powell, in love with the pathologist who only has eyes for microbes; Janet Humphrey, a staff nurse who is engaged to the boss but has yet to learn what love really is; and Meg Watling, a student nurse afraid to grasp the happiness within her reach.

Girls In White (Thorndike British Favorites - Large Print)

Thorndike Press

This is the story of three sisters born and brought up within the precincts of a great hospital. Their parents had been killed in an accident when they were infants, and since then St. Bede's had been at once their home, their school, their work, and their world. And for Faith, Hope, and Charity, it will also be where they find love.

Sisters In Nursing

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