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1) The past: a novel

Author

Hadley, Tessa

Language

English

Formats

Book, Playaway, eBook, Kindle, eAudiobook

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Assembling at their Somerset country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions, and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.

2) The midnight rose: a novel

Author

Riley, Lucinda

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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From bestselling author Lucinda Riley. this is an epic story of family secrets, love, and betrayal set in Imperial India, a magnificent English country house in the 1920s, and that same house today.

3) Ashenden

Author

Wilhide, Elizabeth

Pub. Date

2013, 2012.

Language

English

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An epic saga of the upstairs and downstairs residents of an English country house which spans some 240 years and includes the stories of its original architect, a Victorian family that shared four decades of family history, soldiers billeted in the house during World War I, and a young couple who restores the house in the 1950s.

4) She shoots to conquer

Author

Cannell, Dorothy

Series

Ellie Haskell mysteries volume 14

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

5) The orchid house: a novel

Author

Riley, Lucinda

Pub. Date

2012.

Language

English

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"For fans of The House at Riverton and Rebecca--a debut spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from a magnificent estate in war-torn England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist, Julia, and the prominent Crawford family whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences for generations to come. As a child Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park, the great house...

6) The French gardener

Author

Montefiore, Santa

Pub. Date

2009.

Language

English

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Plant a Seed Read 2025

7) The daughters of Foxcote Manor

Author

Chase, Eve

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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Fresh Start
Secrets & Spells

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"England, 1970. On the one-year anniversary of the Harrington family's darkest night, their beautiful London home goes up in flames. Mrs. Harrington, the two children, and live-in nanny Rita relocate to Foxcote Manor, ostensibly to recuperate. But the creeping forest, where lost things have a way of coming back, is not as restful as it seems. When thirteen-year-old Hera discovers a baby girl abandoned just beyond their garden gate, this tiniest,...

8) Murder at Mansfield Park

Author

Shepherd, Lynn

Series

Charles Maddox

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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"Nobody, I believe, has ever found it possible to like the heroine of Mansfield Park." --Lionel Trilling In this ingenious new twist on Mansfield Park, the famously meek Fanny Price--whom Jane Austen's own mother called "insipid"--has been utterly transformed; she is now a rich heiress who is spoiled, condescending, and generally hated throughout the county. Mary Crawford, on the other hand, is now as good as Fanny is bad, and suffers great indignities...