Trophy Wife

Literature & Fiction

Thorne, Nicola

Contemporary

Harpercollins

The Good Samaritan

Champagne

HarperCollins Canada, Limited

<p>A celebrated international champagne magnate leaves his vast empire in the capable hands of Sandra O'Neill, an unknown American heiress who must face jealousy and sabotage in her quest for power</p>

Pride of Place

HarperCollins, Publishers

A Place in the Sun

Genre Fiction

Grafton Books

Old Money Worlds Apart

HARPER/COLLINS

<p>The three daughters of Lord Vestrey lead their very different lives--one as a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria, one as a nurse under Florence Nightingale, and the third as a companion to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood</p>

Sisters & lovers

DOUBLEDAY

Lindsey's determination to become a doctor and her sister Estella's ambition to become an actress upset their Victorian parents' plans for them

Affairs of Love

British & Irish

The ""unsuitable"" careers of two late-Victorian sisters--medicine and the theater--muddle their love lives and estrange them from parents; but both soldier on through a mine-field of set-backs and misunderstandings--in this sobersides, thick-ankled romance/career odyssey. Lindsey Abercrombie is the bluestocking sister, who turns down a promising suitor to study at the London School of Medicine for Women. Estella is the beauty lured early-on into dramatics, through the amateur theatricals staged by fledgling playwright Raynor Brook. Raynor and Estella are volatile sorts, inclined to spat; Estella flounces off to join a touring company, headed by handsome Tom Shipley, a student of the great Irving; the two, soon awash in desire and grappling hands, marry--but Tom's rather a brute, the company disbands, and pregnant Estella learns that Tom's a bigamist. Meanwhile, Lindsey declines to marry, being devoted to her work; she also declines the advances of devoted housemate Charlotte--who must be satisfied with a platonic adoration. But then, while Estella is leaving her daughter Ellen with a miserable Charlotte, Lindsey decides to wed nice Dr. Mortimer Digby from Boston--a matter of friendship and convenience. And, after an unhappy sojourn with Digby's blueblood family in Boston, Lindsey's off to hear Professor Charcot's Paris lectures on diseases of the nervous system. . . and to meet, of course, that fascinating Dr. Freud! Eventually, then, in treatment to discover why she dislikes sex, Lindsey has a heavy case of transference as she and Sigmund plow together through her infant past: ""The thought of him was comforting, troubling, very exciting, like being in love."" But what of Estella, you ask? Well, she's now a notable courtesan in Paris and a rotten mother--until her better instincts resurface in a Taylor-Burton-ish reunion/triumph. . . while Lindsey and Digby find a serene life of love and work. Dotted with pale celebrity cameos and period medical lore.

Affairs Of Love

Romance

BERKLEY

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