Listening to the Quiet: A gripping saga of love and secrets in a Cornish village

Jo Venner returns to the small tin-mining village of Parmarth in Cornwall, to take up the post of schoolmistress. As a child she had spent happy days there playing with the local children, and enjoying the affection shown her by Celia Sayce, owner of the 'big house'. Rejected by her own mother, Jo had found in Celia the encouragement and love she craved. But now Celia is dead, and Parmarth has changed.
Jo falls swiftly in love with Luke Vigus, an itinerant, half-gypsy dealer who stirs Jo to depths of passion she has never known before. But Luke is burdened with the responsibility of an alcoholic mother, and his three young half-siblings - and their relationship can never be accepted by the villagers. Marcus Lidgey, the schoolmaster, is drawn to Jo, and offers her the support she needs in her demanding role. Yet he too harbours dark secrets from his past, and is gradually, dreadfully, losing his mind...

Listening to the Quiet

Cook, Gloria

Romance

Severn House

Pengarron Rivalry

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Continuing the enthralling story of the Harvey family It is 1931, and eight years have passed since the events described in Moments of Time. Emilia and Alec Harvey have a five-year-old daughter, Lottie, who is a source of joy to her mother, and a comfort at a time when her marriage seems to be under strain. Alec is absent-minded and prone to melancholy, and when he is badly hurt in a storm at Ford Farm, his misery draws him to seek solace with his brother Ben's new wife, Brooke. When Perry Bosweld, a disabled army surgeon, re-enters Emilia's life she finds that she is still attracted to him. Yet Emilia's first duty is to her husband and to the farm, and she will not allow herself to swerve from this path . . .

From a Distance

Historical

War lashes the Harvey family 1944. Emilia, now happily married to Perry Bosweld and expecting his child, worries about her son Will in the RAF. And Ben Harvey is horrified when he's suddenly faced with the daughter he?d turned his back on. Emilia and Ben hurl painful truths at each other, but Ben takes it the hardest, and disappears when he is approached to act as a Special Operative Executive behind enemy-occupied lines in France. At the same time as the war puts their loved-ones? lives in danger, secrets from the past continue to threaten to overwhelm the Harveys. But, as ever, new arrivals to Cornwall and fresh passions act as dramatically unpredictable catalysts in the family's chemistry . . .

Never Just a Memory (Pengarron)

British & Irish

Three young women do what they must do to survive in a male-dominated world In a poor copper-mining village, carpenter's daughter Amy Lewarne finds her life changed for ever when she finds Toby, her missing brother, dead. Titus Kivell, head of a belligerent and reclusive family, feels it time to break out into the swiftly expanding world of the Victorian era, and puts his wild son Sol in Toby's place. Amy and Sol are drawn to each other, but fate seems to conspire against them.

Keeping Echoes

A family's struggle for love and hope in the aftermath of war In the aftermath of the Second World War, Faye Harvey struggles against the stigma of being a single mother. Then Mark Fuller, badly ravaged by his POW experiences in the Far East, arrives in Cornwall to see the three children under the guardianship of Faye and her uncle Tristan. Mark, about to enter an amicable divorce, still needs nursing. Faye is drawn to him ? but then the father of her son, a Scottish laird, turns up, offering marriage now his wife is dead. Faye is torn, but her main concern has to be what is best for her son. Meanwhile Tristan falls for the new housekeeper Susan Dowling, but their age difference and her distrust of men seem to make love impossible. And over at Ford Farm, Faye's cousin Lottie Harmon, waiting for her former GI husband to come from America, beings to fear she may not want a new life with him after all . . .

A Stranger Light (Severn House Large Print)

The new book in the popular Harvey series - It is 1948, and the village of Hennaford is struggling to recover from the war. Johnny Harvey is disillusioned; injured in the war and disturbed at the changing society; life seems to be passing him by. Meanwhile, sixteen-year-old Tess Viant, crippled with polio and abandoned by her family, is befriended by Jill Harvey. Jill is delighted to be pregnant after four years of marriage to Tom, but when complications arise, it's Tess who has to help Jill . . .

Whisper of Life, A (Harvey Family)

The new book in the popular Meryen series - Sarah Kivell had thought that the death of her tyrannical husband Titus, head of the once noble but now criminal Kivell clan, would set her free. But little did Sarah anticipate that Titus would reach beyond the grave in the form of his belligerent son Kit, whos determined to wreak havoc on the lives of all those in Meryen . . .

Out of Shadows (Meryen)

The new Meryen saga set in Victorian Cornwall - Rachel Kivell cant wait to leave Meryen and elope with her married lover, but Doctor Lockley is not all he seems . . . Meanwhile, when the carriage Squire Nankerviss bankrupt cousin, Lady Helen Churchfield, was travelling in is found overturned, with no sign of the lady, the village pulls together to find her. And when they finally do, bloodied and near death, it seems this was no accident . . .

All in a Day (Meryen)

The new book in the popular Meryen series - 1849. When Poltraze Farm is bequeathed to 16-year-old Clemency Kivell in return for her having rescued the squires infant son, her autocratic father, Seth, moves the family there and renames it Trenbarvear. But his vindictive bullying causes anguish and tragedy, and one by one, the family deserts him. He plots murder and revenge on them all, and only the strength and wits of Clemency can save those she loves . .

Holding the Light (Meryen)

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