Lark returning

Four generations of "bondagers", female laborers who were bonded to a farmer for year-long stints in Scotland, fall short of their dreams until Lark, a talented singer, rises above the moors to make a name for the family

Lark Returning

McNeill, Elisabeth

Literature & Fiction

Ballantine Books

Dusty Letters

Severn House

Turn Back Time

With a blend of historical fact and fiction, Elisabeth McNeill presents a novel of age-old class divisions, of the destructive power of money, and of a rich woman's struggle to find her own worth.

Money Troubles

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Living in Bombay in the 1950s, Roberta Maling-Smith--known as Baby to her friends and family--nurses a broken heart by embarking on a relationship with charming Australian Dennis Gillies, unaware that he is being blackmailed.

A Bombay Affair

Dee and Ben Carmichael have returned to Bombay with their children. Investigating the activities of a gold smuggler, Dee becomes confused about the reality of the world around her . . .

The Golden Days

After an anonymous tip, Detective Inspector Tommy Morrison of the Bombay police reopens an old murder case and discovers that the victim, a woman found dead on a train in 1969, was his sister's illegitimate child and had been given up for adoption at birth.

The Last Cocktail Party

A tale of friendship and compassion in India Following the massacre at Cawnpore in 1857, Emily and her sister Lucy are captured and held at the Bibighar, the house of the Indian mistress of the British Nabob. Years later, in 1919, a young British doctor called Jenny Garland encounters an elderly woman living in terrible poverty in the slums of the Cawnpore Bazaar. As friendship grows between them, Jenny discovers that they share a history neither of them could ever have imagined.

The Lady of Cawnpore

Contemporary

An enthralling Scottish saga based on a true historical event In October 1881 a violent storm devastated the prosperous fishing village of Eyemouth, in the Scottish Borders, leaving few families unscathed. Newly wed Rosabelle Maltman lost her husband, her mother-in-law Effie her husband and three sons. For these women, and their friends and neighbours in the small, close-knit community, life would never be the same again. As the months pass, the women of Eyemouth must learn to look to the future, to live and to love again. This is their dramatic and poignant story?

Storm

British & Irish

The sequel to the enthralling saga The Storm - After a violent storm devastated the village of Eyemouth in October 1881, the villagers have slowly started to rebuild their lives. Inconsolable at the loss of her husband, Rosabelle Maltman has moved to London to start a new life, leaving her son behind. In Eyemouth Rosabelle's sister-in-law Jessie uses her own, very different talents to manipulate the menfolk of the village. But it is their mother-in-law Effie who is the lynchpin of the family, helping the villagers to look to the future.

The Turn of the Tide

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