![]() “Liz Sutton had always known the past would come back and bite her in the butt – she just hadn’t known it was going to happen today.”Īs far as Elizabeth Marie Sutton is concerned, the only thing Fool’s Gold is home to is a series of bad memories. But will their desire be enough to spark a second chance at love? Ethan and Liz can’t deny their passionate attraction, even after all these years. And this time she won’t have the option of making a quick getaway. ![]() Now Liz must return to town and face the man who doesn’t know of their son’s existence. Devastated and pregnant, Liz left Fool’s Gold, California - Forever, she thought… Until Ethan Hendrix betrayed her and everything they’d ever meant to each other. Then she’d stolen the heart of the most popular boy in town, and their secret romance helped her through the worst of times.
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![]() Named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996, it was once a place of refuge with the remains of monastic settlements evident on the island. ![]() Haven by Emma Donoghue will be released August 18th with Picador and is described as ‘haunting, moving and vividly told…displays Emma Donoghue’s trademark world-building and psychological intensity.’ Set primarily on the remote island known as Skellig Michael off the west coast of Ireland, Haven is a very intense experience from start to finish.įor those of you not familiar with Skellig Michael by name you might recognise it from two of the more recent Star Wars movies, The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, which were, in part, filmed there. But in such a place, far from all other humanity, what will survival mean? Their extraordinary landing spot is now known as Skellig Michael. Drifting out into the Atlantic, the three men find an impossibly steep, bare island inhabited by tens of thousands of birds, and claim it for God. Taking two monks – young Trian and old Cormac – he travels down the river Shannon in search of an isolated spot on which to found a monastery. ![]() ![]() In seventh-century Ireland, a scholar and priest called Artt has a dream telling him to leave the sinful world behind. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Alice promises to help her give birth to a healthy baby, and to prove the physician wrong.Īs Alice is drawn into the witchcraft accusations that are sweeping the North-West, Fleetwood risks everything by trying to help her. Then she crosses paths by chance with Alice Gray, a young midwife. When Fleetwood finds a letter she isn't supposed to read from the doctor who delivered her third stillbirth, she is dealt the crushing blow that she will not survive another pregnancy. But as the mistress at Gawthorpe Hall, she still has no living child, and her husband Richard is anxious for an heir. įleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. To protect a secret, she must risk her life. To save her child, she will trust a stranger. The Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In her novel Briar Rose (1992), her entry in Terri Windling’s Fairy Tale series, Yolen uses the tale of Sleeping Beauty to talk about the Holocaust. Children know this, the families and story tellers who have passed down fairy tales from generation to generation knew this, Jane Yolen knows this. Just because a story is a fairy tale does not make it twee and inconsequential. Beyond the fact that everybody enjoys a bit of escapist entertainment now and then and there’s nothing wrong with that, this is a frustrating argument for those of us who know and love the genre because it elides how the fantastic can be powerfully and effectively used to explore real world issues. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths.”Īn argument used to dismiss non-realist fiction, but specially Fantasy, is that it is pure escapism. ![]() |