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"The story of two people as extraordinary as the Victorian age they lived through. Darya is the brutalised but courageous young wife of an Afghan tribesman. She is a cursed woman, married under false pretences, for she is unable to bear children. But more awful than her barrennes...
"Emmaline's mother becomes a drug addict and sells her son as a chimney sweep. Will Emmaline ever find her brother? A powerful love story set in Victorian England" Cf. Our choice, 2003.
Born into direst poverty in Liverpool in the early 19th century, Linny Gow escapes the life of prostitution her stepfather has forced her into, learns how to be a young lady, and flees to India, where the British Raj is in its infancy. There she finds heartache and suffering, but...
The year is 1900, and like many thousands of children before them, fourteen-year-old Rosetta and her small sister Flora have been sent across the sea from an English orphanage to make their home in a new country. But when they arrive, their dream of a family vanishes. Instead, ...
Poppy's quest for her birth mother leads her to discover the real ties that bind and the true meaning of love.
For Antonina, the wife of a wealthy Russian landowner, the world falls apart one afternoon when her husband takes her little boy, Misha, out riding, and Misha is kidnapped and her husband mortally wounded. Desperate, Antonina turns to Grisha, the estate steward, for help in getti...
A 19th-century woman who, cursed by a jealous tribeswoman, travels to Victorian England in her desperate quest for survival.
From one of Canada's finest historical novelists, an intricately woven story of revenge, deception, love and redemption set against the turbulent social upheavals of 1860s Russia. For Antonina, the wife of a wealthy Russian landowner, the world falls apart one cold spring aftern...
A spellbinding story of loss, romance and betrayal set in 18th-century Portugal, from internationally bestselling Canadian historical fiction author Linda Holeman. Diamantina is 13 when her father, a Dutch sailor who washed up on the Portuguese island of Porto Santo, abando...