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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 11
Language
English
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Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability-and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England: her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. On a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Set partly in London and partly in South Carolina, Girl from the South follows the fortunes of a small group of the young and the single, the children, in fact, of sixties swingers. They have, it seems, infinite opportunity, but are bedeviled by indecision, by the breadth of choice, by the inflexibility of tradition and by the consequences of their parents' careless marital history.
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Language
English
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"An iconic figure of the 1960s and '70s, Pattie Boyd breaks a forty-year silence in Wonderful Tonight, and tells the story of how she found herself bound to two of the most addictive, promiscuous musical geniuses of the twentieth century and became the most famous muse in the history of rock and roll." "She met the Beatles in 1964 when she was cast as a schoolgirl in A Hard Day's Night. Ten days later a smitten George Harrison proposed. For twenty-year-old...