20th Century Sagas
The Cobweb Cage
by Marina Oliver
Series: 20th Century Sagas, Book 1.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 142,710.
Language:
English.
Published: July 20, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General
Marigold is devoted to her family, and determined to make life easier for them. She meets Richard, wealthy and charming, and despite their differences in background, they fall in love and marry. Then comes the Great War, and Richard, a qualified pilot, joins the army. He is missing, Marigold's family is struck by tragedy, and she has to make an agonising decision in order to help them.
The Glowing Hours
by Marina Oliver
Series: 20th Century Sagas, Book 2.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 123,920.
Language:
English.
Published: July 21, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General
Three girls, escaping from difficult homes, meet because of their love of dancing. Nell, Gwyneth and Kitty join chorus lines in 1920s Music Halls, and dance all over the English Midlands. Then they have the chance of appearing at Paris's Folies Bergère, but malign fate intervenes before they can go. And there is Andrew, Kitty's cousin, Timothy, languid aristocrat, and Paul, charismatic doctor.
The Golden Road
by Marina Oliver
Series: 20th Century Sagas, Book 3.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 122,400.
Language:
English.
Published: July 21, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Historical » General
When her stepfather dies, Josie and her mother Dora have to face being poor. Her stepbrother Leo, owner of a jewellery factory, gives Josie a job. He introduces her to Motor Rallying, but when Josie is accused of theft she leaves. Unable to find a job, rejected by her aunt Phoebe, Josie and Dora are forced to live in a slum. Her dream of competing the Monte Carlo Rally seems hopeless.
A Stratford Jewel
by Marina Oliver
Series: 20th Century Sagas, Book 4.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 99,510.
Language:
English.
Published: July 23, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Historical » General
Rosa and her sister Celia long to become professional actresses, and do appear in the Shakespeare Festival Plays. When the Stratford-on-Avon theatre burns down their hopes seem dashed. Max, an American architect, is interested in the competition to design the new theatre, while Rosa's brother Jack, home from the war, becomes more and more strange, and damages their haulage business.
Can Dreams Come True?
by Marina Oliver
Series: 20th Century Sagas, Book 5.
Price:
$4.99 USD.
Words: 114,620.
Language:
English.
Published: September 8, 2011
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Categories:
Fiction » Romance » Historical » General, Fiction » Historical » General
In this fifth Midlands saga Kate, scholarship girl, meets Robert who offers to take her flying. Kate's heroine is Amy Johnson, and she is ecstatic. Then various calamities make life difficult. Expelled, with no job, Alf killed and Hattie unstable, Kate struggles to support them, but more problems arise. Will Kate's dream of flying ever come true?