Groom, best man, guests, even a bishop—but where is the bride?An orphan fresh out of convent school, Prue Pagan has no home and nowhere to go. Then a chance meeting with her worldly-wise friend Cleo lands her a summer job in the north of England at Mountjoy Castle, where generations of the Mountjoy family have loved, lusted and scandalised their neighbors.Prue’s innocence is no protection against the wickedness of the English upper classes. As a long sultry summer settles on the castle and its surrounding villages, Prue must find her feet and make friends in an unfamiliar world of musicians, aristocrats and witchy housekeepers—and fend off the advances of attractive, predatory Valdemar Mountjoy.Will Prue take fright, listen to her heart—or succumb to the temptations lurking on every side?Music, magic, mischief and mayhem entangled with more than a hint of midsummer madness make for an enchanting, witty and romantic listen.Escape into another world and delight in the lives of a host of fascinating characters. This is the England of Wodehouse and Downton Abbey, where wickedness and scandal lurk beneath the superb self-confidence of the upper classes.

Children of Chance [Paperback]

Literature & Fiction

ELIZABETH PEWSEY

Contemporary

Sceptre

Unholy Harmonies

ELIZABETH ASTON

THE MOUNTJOY NOVELS - a romantic comedy series, complete with ghosts, musicians, aristocrats and eccentrics in the best style of Wodehouse and Trollope.\nLeaving old scandals and looming trouble behind them in the mists of Eyotshire (or so they hope) assorted Mountjoys, friends and acquaintances head southwards one by one to the dazzling blue of the Mediterranean and the island of Aeolus off the coast of Sicily:\nMagdalena Mountjoy, fleeing fog and faithless Valdemar. 
Thomas Mountjoy, running away from his grim public school. 
Agatha, fleeing from husband George, who is furious over a lost inheritance. 
Former music student Thea, escaping from an unhappy love affair. 
The pugnacious composer ‘Discordant’ Mordaunt, tormenting every musician in earshot with his atonal obsession while the critic Quarles stalks him in search of weakness. 
Ex-dancer Dido, not fleeing anything or anyone.\nAmidst palms and the vapours of a slumbering volcano, secrets come to light and new friendships are formed – but will they survive when the troubles they left behind come out to Aeolus in pursuit?

Volcanic Airs

A group of friends travel north to a cathedral community and unwittingly cause havoc in this novel by the author of "Children of Chance".

Divine Comedy

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

The fifth novel in the Mountjoy series. Struck down by shingles, Cleo Byng postpones her wedding and heads north to recuperate in wintry Eyotshire. But her cousin's home turns out to be a haunted Elizabethan building, and Cleo finds her convalescence far more lively than the doctor ordered.

Unaccustomed Spirits

Brotherly Love

Hodder&Stoughton Canada

Larry Dunne divides his time between writing bad avant-garde poetry, working in a Bloomsbury bookshop, arguing with his girlfriend Pamela and putting the world to rights in a dive off the Strand named Joe's Club in honour of Stalin. Envious of Pamela and her upper-class friends and especially envious of friend Peter's book, Larry takes off to Hungary to breathe the purer air of an ideal state and bask in universal fellowship. But reality in late 50s Budapest is rather different. He soon finds out that the state runs on envy, paranoia and two-stroke, and wants nothing more than to get back to his cosy world of Bohemian London as quickly as possible. Then a woman is murdered in a neighbouring apartment, and he finds himself under suspicion. Larry realises that if the murderer isn't caught, he could be in Budapest for a very long time.

Losing Larry

Flame

Finding Philippe

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

ISIS Publishing

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