Children of Fortune

With the responsibility of the family estate on his shoulders, Laurie must decide between staying in Yorkshire to farm the family land and followin...

Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Val WoodNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 197 x 128 x 23Cover type: Paperback / ...

Following the unexpected death of William Whiting, his children; Rachel, Bill, and Ralph, find themselves as sole inheritors of their father's vast...

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From the author of The Railway Children and Five Children and It comes this tale of six siblings and their adventures in Victorian London. The Bast...

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When restless advertising executive Alex Lazarus meets charming lawyer Julian Lloyd-Mason by chance whilst looking after their children in the park...

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This engaging biography of Augustus Garrett and Eliza Clark Garrett tells two equally compelling stories: an ambitious man's struggle to succeed an...

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When she refused to take a pay cut, Marie Cosgrove was cut loose. So she started her own business . . . and a few years later, she bought the compa...

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Thomas Strickland ensured his six daughters were as well educated as his two sons. A wealthy self-made man, he lost his fortune in a business ventu...

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Faye Martin never expected her husband to abandon her and their three children . . . or that she'd have to struggle every day to make ends meet. So...

Since retirement, Granda Fred has been spending his life in the front room of the small ex-colliery house he shares with his sister, Mary-Ellen. He...

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