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Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780340767221
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (672 download)
Download or read book The Hiring Fair, Hearts of Gold, Creature Comforts written by Jessica Stirling and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444717596
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Captive Heart written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World War One ended well for the Franklins, prosperous Clydeside shipbuilders. But trouble is brewing behind their respectable facade... Rebellious teenager Maeve McCulloch has arrived from Ireland to stay with the Franklins, much to the dismay of her aunt Lindsay. Maeve's mother caused nothing but grief and heartache for Lindsay and it seems that Maeve may do the same. Meanwhile, Lindsay's husband has been swept off his feet by the wealthy and manipulative Stella Pickering. And Lindsay herself is torn between love and loyalty when handsome navy hero Geoffrey Paget unexpectedly walks back into her life. As the slump of the 1920s begins to bite on Clydeside, troubles both financial and personal invade all their lives. Once again Jessica Stirling has evoked a whole world at the moment when - for better or worse - it is about to change forever.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444744917
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Treasures on Earth written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first novel in the trilogy which continues with Creature Comforts and Hearts of Gold, set in Fife from 1814 into the Victorian era. One November night, highlander Gaddy Patterson strays into the staid lowland parish of Balnesmoor, and stumbles upon a dead girl and her baby. Gaddy struggles to scrape a living for herself and the child, and in her struggle against the hatred of the village, she uncovers their long-hidden secrets... Praise for the trilogy: 'Stirling skilfully offers her readers a story rich with believable characters and colourful settings.' Best Sellers 'Beautifully written - full of the harsh realities and traditional relationships shaping life in early 19th-century Scotland. Highly recommended.' Library Journal
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 144471693X
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Fields of Fortune written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2008-04-03 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The streets of eighteenth-century Edinburgh, where disease and squalor jostle with high culture and grand ambitions, are the setting for Jessica Stirling's powerful new novel. On the brink of a disastrous marriage Nicola Templeton finally rebels, and flees to Edinburgh to seek refuge with her sister. Charlotte's own runaway marriage has already turned their father into an implacable foe and it seems that Nicola too may be cut off from her share of the Craigiehall estate if she does not bow to his will. The bustling Georgian city, a hotbed of intrigue and corruption, draws Nicola swiftly into its web. She is courted by Grant's dashing young brother, Gillon, fresh home from fighting in the American wars. Innocent country girl or not, she is not dazzled by Gillon's wit or deceived by his promises, for Gillon is penniless, if no less ambitious than his brother. Meanwhile, though, incensed by his daughters' ingratitude, Lord Craigiehall has plans of his own for the future of the Ayrshire estates. Plans that involve him with the notorious society hostess, Lady Valerie Oliphant, and a pretty little actress from London whose wiles are more than equal to his own.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466869720
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Piper's Tune written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Stirling's Glasgow comes to scintillating life in The Piper's Tune, a story of love and fortune set in Edwardian Scotland. Lindsay Franklin's life is an adventure she has just begun to enjoy. At eighteen, Arthur Franklin's cosseted daughter has left her Glasgow school and finds her role as a marriageable young lady with a widowed father more than agreeable. And the source of her family's wealth, the Franklins' shipbuilding yard on Clydeside, is prospering as the long peace of Queen Victoria's reign gives way to the feverish arms race of the new century. But Lindsay's life takes an unexpected turn when she is given a share of the family business. Equally unexpected is the appearance of Forbes McCullough, her charming Irish cousin whose attentions she secretly welcomes. To everyone's surprise, Lindsay decides to master the family business as carefully as her male cousins. What is not surprising is that several eligible men have decided that it is time to master Lindsay. As the mysteries of shipbuilding open to her, and the puzzle of male behavior becomes both more fascinating and more dangerous, Lindsay is forced to make some fateful decisions.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466874392
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Strawberry Season written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dawn of time, the Isle of Mull, off the Scottish coast, has had to fend off ferocious winds and a ravenous ocean intent on swallowing the island whole. Roughened by ceaseless storms and chill, Mull remained a quiet community, set in its ways, with almost no fodder for town gossip, as the nineteenth century drew to a close. Until, that is, new blood moved in, setting the local Campbell sisters, Innis and Biddy, against each other in all-out war for the love of the same newcomer, Michael Tarrant. But just as the passage of time changes slightly the cragged hills of Mull, so does it soften hearts to reconciliation: the two sisters realize their bond is too thick for a man to sever. For Innis, marriage to Michael Tarrant turned out far from idyllic: he fled to seek life outside Mull, leaving Innis to raise their children. Biddy, too, has married, but still yearns for the happiness that has always slipped through her fingers. Although it has taken sixteen years for life to return to a semblance of what it was before the Tarrants arrived, something is still amiss. Then a pregnant woman's arrival on the island turns any countryside serenity on its head. Loathed by some, loved by others, and feared as an ill omen by still others, this Fay Ludlow embodies the changes due to fall upon Mull. The winds of change at her back will bring with them ghosts of a past buried too soon in Jessica Stirling's The Strawberry Season.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444716395
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Last Voyage written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2011-12-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Martindale sisters are about to embark on a reckless journey of deceit, rivalry and betrayal that reaches a thrilling and romantic climax as the Titanic sails for New York... At first, handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish does not appear to be an ideal catch for Julie. But when a whirlwind seduction leads to love and marriage and Clive's ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is more than happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the mother of his children. Anna's suitor, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoor's brooding landscapes to courting the beautiful young woman his mother has chosen to be his bride and from the first their uneasy, loveless marriage totters on the brink of crisis. Only when American art collector Teddy Norris enters their lives with a proposal that Howard cannot ignore, and an easy-going charm that sweeps Anna into a tempestous affair, do the sisters begin to question their loyalty to their husbands and to each other. A loyalty that will be tested to the limit on the first, and last, Atlantic crossing of the White Star's new super-liner, the unsinkable Titanic - a voyage not all of them will survive.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444715739
Total Pages : 528 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book Blessings in Disguise written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2007-02-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glasgow is a city teeming with immigrants, rich and poor, schemers and victims alike. And the McKennas, fresh from Ireland, have no intention of being victims. When Nolan McKenna and his sisters arrived unannounced on Cissie Cassidy's doorstep claiming to be her late husband's long-lost relatives, the lonely widow is all too willing to be taken in and trusting enough to help them find them a foothold in the city. While Nolan wields a shovel for twelve back-breaking hours a day, the beautiful, trusting Clare takes up with the wrong man instead of the collection agent who yearns to make her his bride. Sharp-witted and pretty, Evie is made of more ambitious stuff and uses her job behind the bar of the Harp of Erin to attract the attentions of Russell Blackstock, builder and land-speculator, who owns half the tenements on Clydeside - and plans to own still more. The worlds of the wealthy Blackstocks and the penniless McKennas are set on a collision course that will mean huge changes for them, and for the city they live in.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 144474481X
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Wise Child written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third poignant novel in The Nicholson Quartet revisits a family divided by pride and weakened by poverty in turn-of-the-century Glasgow. Dedicated to holding their marriage together for the sake of their crippled son, both Kirsty and Craig Nicholson are forced to sacrifice the lovers they have previously found escape in. And for a time all seems well... until Kirsty seizes an opportunity to buy a small shop and makes a roaring success of her new career. Lonely and rejected, Craig continually seeks ways to gain the upper hand on his wife and her partners until only a brittle band of conscience stands between them and ruin.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444780603
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Constant Star written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London in the Blitz - the story of The Wayward Wife continues in this compelling saga of love and war. Susan Cahill enjoys her job at the BBC - until a bomb destroys the building and brings unwelcome responsibilities and an autocratic new boss, Walter Boscombe. He has no time for ambitious young women from Shadwell and seems determined to break Susan's spirit - and her heart. Breda Hooper, Susan's widowed sister-in-law, and her small son are rescued from the East End's shattered docklands by Danny, Susan's estranged husband. Settled in a shabby caravan in the Vale of Evesham, Breda soon finds herself entangled in village affairs in more ways than one, with only her quick wits, her new friends and the ever dependable Danny to keep her out of trouble. For Susan and Breda, jeopardy comes not from the skies but in the terrible price each must pay for falling in love with men who are not all that they seem to be and who, even in the midst of all out war, will change their lives forever.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466874406
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Wind from the Hills written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessica Stirling continues the epic of love, greed and betrayal that began in The Island Wife in her magnificent novel, The Wind from the Hills. For Innis and Biddy, daughters of the embittered Vassie Campbell, life has changed greatly from the days when they were poor crofters. Innis, the mother of three young children, has found that marriage to handsome Michael Tarrant is utterly different from the idyll she expected. And Biddy has become only too accustomed to being a wealthy widow who keeps herself aloof from both the life she once knew and her dead husband's family. But though the sisters' lives seem set, they are destined to change once more. For Innis, a temptation to a better life may have to come too late--and for Biddy, courted by an ardent new suitor, happiness may have come at last. Set against the background of an island off the coast of Scotland that is being forced half-willingly into a new era, the story of the two very different sisters and their very different longings is one of the most memorable that Jessica Stirling has created.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444744852
Total Pages : 534 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Workhouse Girl written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-01-19 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Cassie Armitage and her well-to-do family, Robert Montague seems a perfect suitor: a distinguished preacher with a glamorous past and impressive connections. Only after marriage will trusting and idealistic Cassie discover that Montague is not all that he seems. Nancy Winfield, born to the workhouse and betrayed by her protectors, is quick to recognize the preacher’s evil intentions. Imprisoned in a dangerous marriage and deceived by her sister, Cassie finds an ally in Nancy, and a friend in widower Allan Hunter, who is a victim of Montague’s twisted schemes. Beneath the surface of Cassie’s staid existence perverse and deadly passion run deep, threatening a tragedy that only Nancy Winfield’s loyalty – and Cassie’s courage – can prevent
Author : Jessica Stirling writing as Caroline Crosby
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444744933
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Haldanes written by Jessica Stirling writing as Caroline Crosby and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling, beautifully-observed story of growing up, of anguish and friendship, true and false, set in London, Scotland and the Peak District. The Haldanes were her mother's family. Not that Pauline had much to do with them after her mother Barbara deserted her husband and child. But the Haldanes had money, and money is power. So when, soon after the end of the First World War, her father goes broke, they are prepared to help - but at a price. Set in London, Scotland and the Peak District, The Haldanes is a compelling, beautifully-observed story of growing up, of anguish and friendship, true and false, during the Twenties when all the old values and rules are under attack. 'She writes in bright colours with bold, confident strokes' Glasgow Herald
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444716840
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book One True Love written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Thorne is an orphan of means, one reason why Bette Hollander carries the young English girl off to her home in far-away Scotland. Bette would be more than happy for Susanne to fall in love with her handsome, headstrong son Louis, for marriage to the little heiress would repay old debts and restore the Hollander family's fortunes. But love cannot be delivered to order and as Susanne grows up and proves to have a mind of her own, Bette's plans for a match made in heaven seem fated to end in disaster.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444744879
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)
Download or read book The Marrying Kind written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Burnside's family have been luckier than most. The poverty of Glasgow in the 1930s has been kept at bay. So far . . .Alison seems content to graduate into marriage with teacher Jim Abbott, until she becomes entangled with fellow student Declan Slater who has an irresistible charm.'Stirling is a wonderful storyteller.' Bookseller 'Jessica Stirling's high reputation is well deserved.' Manchester Evening News
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466869151
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Sisters Three written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are four Conway women: indomitable Lizzie, who endures despite everything that life in Glasgow can throw at her, and Lizzie's three daughters, each one combining Lizzie's iron will with her own ambitions and desires. Now, as the 1930s draw to a close and war threatens, each sister struggles with her life and loves. Polly lives in luxury as the wife of the overprotective Dominic Manone, while Babs has her hands full with her demanding brood and her fast-talking husband. Only Rosie seems to have found peace in Shelby's Bookshop...until a young policeman comes around. While Polly seeks distraction in a dangerous affair, her husband is drawn into a venture involving a sinister go-between, a beautiful and amoral blond, and an unimaginable fortune. As the web of suspicion and deceit tightens around Dominic, Polly finds herself threatened from all sides until she is finally forced to make difficult choices about her sisters, her husband, and her own unfulfilled desires. Set in Edwardian Scotland, against the vibrant streets of Glasgow on the brink of war, Sisters Three is Jessica Stirling's most exciting and passionate romance to date.
Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466866519
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book Shamrock Green written by Jessica Stirling and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-03-18 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage of Sylvie and Gowry McCulloch was not made in heaven and has gone through difficult times. Settled now in Dublin, they have a daughter, Maeve, whom they both love dearly. Sylvie presides over the respectable Shamrock Hotel while Gowry is a driver for Flanagan's bus company. When Francis Hagarty explodes into their lives, however, everything changes. Fran is a journalist and gunrunner and hides a shipment of smuggled arms in the Shamrock. Gowry discovers it and, sensing danger, is furious. But Sylvie has already fallen in love with Fran and is soon swept into an illicit affair. Trapped in a tangle of subversion that he has resisted all his life, Gowry is forced to flee Dublin and becomes caught up in the war in Europe. As Gowry struggles to survive the horrors of trench warfare in France and Sylvie and precocious daughter Maeve are drawn into the Easter Uprising at home, the family's future hinges on heartbreaking choices, any one of which may lead to tragedy for all of them.
