Penguin A Marriage of Scandal Cookson Catherine

A rags-to-riches story of a young woman who must overcome the scandal of her past to forge a new life • In Heap Hollow cottage in County Durham live what appears to be a close and loving family. But across the happy facade lies a shadow that has lengthened and darkened with the passing years. Their narrow-minded neighbours disapprove of the family's choices because of their illegitimacy, their mother and father never having married • Anna, the eldest daughter, is determined to face the challenging legacy of her birth and prove herself to those in the community who look down on her. Will her strength of character and zest for life be enough to put the scandal of her past behind her and forge a new life?

Unwanted and unloved, fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson is everything her mother doesn't want her to be - adventurous, outspoken and unusual. As soon as she's old enough, Marie Anne is dispatched from Northumberland to London to live with her Aunt Martha to learn to be a lady and perfect her musical talent • Life in London proves to be more difficult than she could ever have imagined. Only the friendship of her Aunt's companion and the praise of her music tutor prevents her from falling into despair • When Anne Marie is suddenly sent back to the Manor, will she find the strength to be who she really is

From the outside, anyone would think that Lucy Palmer has it all: loving children, a dashing husband and a gorgeous home • But when her marriage to Michael comes to an abrupt and unexpected end, her life is turned upside down in a flash • As the truth of her marriage threatens to surface, Lucy seizes the opportunity to swap her house in London - and the stories it hides - for a rural escape to her parents' farmhouse in the Chilterns • But Lucy gets more than she bargained for when she moves back to her childhood home, especially when it throws her into the path of an old flame • Coming face-to-face with her mistakes, Lucy is forced to confront the secrets she's been keeping from herself and those she loves • Is she ready to let someone in? Or will she leave the door to her past firmly closed

Sink into the uplifting and brilliantly romantic tale of a woman putting her mistakes behind her, from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer • 'Tell me, Alice, how does a girl go about getting a divorce these days?' • Three years ago Rosie walked blindly into marriage with Harry. They have precisely nothing in common except perhaps their little boy Ivo. Not that Harry pays him much attention, preferring to spend his time with his braying upper class friends • But the night that Harry drunkenly does something unspeakable, Rosie decides he's got to go. In between fantasizing how she might bump him off, she takes the much more practical step of divorcing this blight on her and Ivo's lives • However, when reality catches up with her darkest fantasies, Rosie realizes, at long last, that it is time she took charge of her life

Des is a good husband, a good father - a good man • He encourages his wife's artistic endeavours, reads bedtime stories to his children every night, and holds down a well-paid job • But appearances can be deceptive. His wife seems to be forgetting that her art is for his eyes only. Rumours at work are threatening his reputation as a devoted family man. And his kids don't seem to need him as much as they once did. Des is afraid • Afraid of the world encroaching on his home • Afraid of past mistakes catching up with him • So afraid of losing control over his family that he is contemplating the unthinkable • A Good Father is a dark and gripping novel that takes you into the mind of a man on the edge

Discover the power of unforgotten love in this sparkling romantic comedy from the bestselling author of A Rural Affair and A Cornish Summer • Every girl's got one - that old boyfriend they never quite fell out of love with… • Tessa Hamilton's thirty, with a lovely husband and home, two adorable kids, and not a care in the world. Sure her husband ogles the nanny more than she should allow. And keeping up with the Joneses is a full-time occupation. But she's settled and happy. No seven-year itch for Tessa • Except at the back of her mind is Patrick Cameron. Gorgeous, moody, rebellious, he's the boy she met when she was seventeen. The boy her vicar father told her she couldn't see and who left to go to Italy to paint. The boy she's not heard from in twelve long years

Flora's been in love with her husband for twenty years. The trouble is, he's been married to someone else for the past fifteen • Now she's been invited to spend the summer in the sandy coves of Cornwall, which should be blissful • But there's one small snag: she'll be staying with her former mother-in-law, Belinda • And then her ex-husband shows up out of the blue, complete with his new wife • Can Flora spend the summer playing happy families with the woman who stole her husband's heart, and the mother-in-law who might have had a hand in it? • Could a holiday romance help her finally get over her him? • And will stumbling on the family secret change her mind about them all? • If you like Fern Britton, Katie Fforde and Jill Mansell, you'll love this irresistible and heart-warming summer read from the bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and About Last Night

Laugh out loud with the gorgeously romantic rural comedy from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer • Polly is content and settled in married life, until one comment shakes everything up • 'You've gone all fat and complacent because you've got your man, haven't you?' • Polly Penhalligan is outraged at the suggestion that since getting married to Nick and settling into their beautiful manor farmhouse in Cornwall she has let herself go. But watching a lot of telly and gorging on biscuits, not getting dressed until lunchtime and waiting for pregnancy to strike are not the signs of someone living an active and fulfilled life • So Polly does something rash • She allows her home to be used as a location for a TV advert. Having a glamorous film crew around will certainly put a bomb under the idyllic, rural life

Indulge in this wonderfully warm and witty story of love, loss and laughter from the bestselling author of A Cornish Summer and A Rural Affair • 'What could be nicer than living in the country?' • Lucy Fellowes is in a bind. She's a widow living in a pokey London flat with two small boys and an erratic income. But when her mother-in-law offers her a converted barn on the family's estate - she knows it's a brilliant opportunity for her and the kids • But there's a problem • The estate is a shrine to Lucy's dead husband Ned. The whole family has been unable to get over his death. If she's honest, the whole family is far from normal. And if Lucy is to accept this offer she'll be putting herself completely in their incapable hands • Which leads to Lucy's other problem

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