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VIRTUAL STRANGERS
Two complete strangers meet on a train and agree to off their significant others. Sounds familiar? It should be, it's 'Strangers on a Train'. 60 years later, two strangers meet online. A man and a woman - Seabee and Annika - hook up on a wannabe authors' site where they flirt, banter and play around with the notion of dispatching their equally impossible partners. It's all a big literary, intertextual joke, until the weekend when both their partners actually do die in what seems to be unrelated freak accidents - or are they? Seabee and Annika find out in a hurry that cyberspace makes strange bedfellows - and if it's not he nor she who did it - then who has done the killings? The two team up to find out who has hijacked their fantasy and turned it into a bloody real-life.
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SWEDISH FOR BEGINNERS
A young Irishwoman goes to Sweden to find out about her late mother's past. She discovers not only a whole new family but also unearths some family skeletons and the shocking truth about her own identity. The mysterious Lukas is linked both to Eleonore and Maud's grandmother Julia. Set in Ireland, Sweden and Australia, this is a moving family saga that deals with identity, grief and loss
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FRESH POWDER
Claire Dillon is spending two weeks in the French Alps with her charge, six year old Emilie, whose father, Frenchman Bernard Marchand, owns a chalet in Courchevel. Bernard has asked Claire to take his daughter there to recover from a serious illness, explaining to Claire that the chalet party will also include some of his business associates. One of them turns out to be Lucy, her childhood friend with whom she fell out ten years earlier after a bitter row.
Lucy, who has made a brilliant career in advertising, was expecting the holiday of a lifetime with her boss, New York business man Al Freeman and his wife Penny. She is as shocked as Claire when they meet again. The presence of Patrick Delacy, Al’s lawyer, with whom she has had a brief affair, ads to Lucy’s discomfort.
A luxury chalet in the French Alps. Six people thrown together by accident. And then it begins to snow..
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FINDING MARGO
When Margo misreads the map while travelling through France, her husband flies into a rage. Tired of his constant bad moods, Margo walks out on him in the middle of the motorway, into the French contryside. She hitches a lift with a woman truck driver and what follow are adventures and romance far beyond her wildest dreams.. Will Alan find her before she finds herself?
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VILLA CARAMEL
Eva Connolly is elegant, clever and determined to make a brilliant career in the European Commission in Brussels. When her brother offers her a month's holiday in his luxury villa in St Tropez, she thinks it will be the perfect opportunity to network with all the Eurocrats who spend the summer there, especially the wealthy and influential Lord and lady Bakewell at nearby Villa Caramel. Eva’s husband Dan is also joining her and her beautiful Irish stepdaughters, Maria and Louise, are for once prepared to holiday with their detested stepmother. The interlocking love lives of the three women and the men who are pursuing them - sexy Frenchman Yves, handsome Italian Guido, ambitious Irishman Paul and posh Englishman Mark - lead the reader in a merry dance to a hilarious and unexpected ending. Set in the corridors of power of Brussels, the boutiques of Paris, the islands of the Caribbean and the beaches of St Tropez, this novel is brimming with glamour, intrigue and romance.
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| A WOMAN'S PLACE
This is the story of two women, mother and daughter, based on true events. In 1899, Julia, at the age of twenty, travels on her own to New York in hot pursuit of the man whose child she carries. Living life with passionate intensity, across the social realm, Julia struggles to survive in turbulent times. Her daughter Sonja, born of that first tempestuous union but brought up in Finland by a stepfather when Julia remarries, has the same spirit and courage as her mother. Her wanderlust takes her to Paris and then on to New York, where, for a short time, she leads a ‘Great Gatsby’- life in the aftermath of the Wall street crash. The backdrop of the Great Depression and its impact on society then, provides an interesting parallel to the present times. Set in Stockholm, Helsinki, Monte Carlo, Paris and New York from 1899 through to the 1930’s, this is a story with a true eye-witness feel. A large part of the narrative is provided by the texts of the letters actually exchanged between the main characters. This story is based on family letters, postcards and diaries written by my great-aunt Julia and her daughter Sonja. You can read about the true story and the real people on the page marked 'A Woman's Place'.
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SILVER SERVICE
Chris O’Shea is running a catering firm in Dublin during the last, heady days of the Celtic Tiger. Things are going well until her wild, reckless sister Becky returns home from New York and Chris feels duty bound to give her a job in the firm, which doesn’t help improve business. Her life is further complicated when she makes the acquaintance, in rather embarrassing circumstances, of a handsome Spanish businessman, who turns her thoughts, despite herself, from that straight and narrow path of career and ambition. This turn of events teaches her that you must love people they way they are and not how you want them to be.
Set in Dublin and the Irish countryside, the story is brimming with fun, food, fashion and frolics all the way to its romantic conclusion.
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