Islands of Mercy
By: Rose Tremain
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do…
Want to Read $ 10.99"Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"She thought how, here and there in the world, often hidden away in some alley or winding street which few people ever trod, there were small yet wonderful oases of human dedication and kindness of spirit. This gladdened her particularly because she had seen it and not let it pass her by."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"For it did seem to be the case, she reflected, that the owners of art galleries were very frequently men who were unable to use ordinary language with any precision and who walked about in a horrible blizzard of peculiar superlatives and meaningless coinages from which they tried to shelter themselves by a wild flailing of their hands."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
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3.79
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
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2. Human Croquet
By: Kate Atkinson
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Format: 161 pages, Paperback
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3. Spiderweb
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Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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4. Consequences
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5. The Romantic
By: William Boyd
4.15
Format: 451 pages, Paperback
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6. Shrines of Gaiety
By: Kate Atkinson
3.85
Format: 439 pages, Hardcover
London 1926. Roaring Twenties. Corruption. Seduction. Debts due. In a country still recovering … read more
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"His head was always in the clouds. 'I'm writing a novel,' he told her. As if that was something to crow about. As if there weren't enough novels in the world already."-Kate Atkinson, Shrines of Gaiety
7. The Maiden
By: Kate Foster
4.05
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Seventh Son
By: Sebastian Faulks
3.60
Format: 353 pages, Kindle Edition
A CHILD WILL BE BORN WHO WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING When a young woman named Talissa answers an adve… read more
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9. The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
By: Jessie Burton
3.87
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Alive with the magic of Amsterdam, the enchanting new historical novel from the author of the sensa… read more
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"The road in front is empty: it is behind them that something waits."-Jessie Burton, The House of Fortune (The Miniaturist, #2)
10. Disobedient
By: Elizabeth Fremantle
4.14
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
I'll show you what a woman can do . . . Rome 1611. A jewel-bright place of change, with sumpt… read more
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11. Restless Dolly Maunder
By: Kate Grenville
3.88
Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition
Dolly Maunder was born at the end of the nineteenth century, when society’s long-locked doors were … read more
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12. Mother's Boy
By: Patrick Gale
4.16
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
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13. A Bird in Winter
By: Louise Doughty
3.68
Format: None pages, ebook
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she's in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, … read more
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14. Light Over Liskeard
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3.72
Format: 285 pages, Kindle Edition
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4.15
Format: 394 pages, Kindle Edition
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16. Maybe, Perhaps, Possibly
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4.14
Format: 438 pages, Kindle Edition
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3.90
Format: 400 pages, Mass Market Paperback
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18. Islands of Mercy
By: Rose Tremain
3.70
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
She was ‘The Angel of the Baths’, the one woman whose touch everybody yearned for. Yet she would do… read more
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"Let winter come. Let the snow fall and consume Bath in a shroud of silence. Let everything feel as bound and stifled as my heart."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"We cannot shape the world according to the delights society decrees appropriate for us; we must be unconventional in our joys and find them wherever we can."-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"She thought how, here and there in the world, often hidden away in some alley or winding street which few people ever trod, there were small yet wonderful oases of human dedication and kindness of sp…"-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
"For it did seem to be the case, she reflected, that the owners of art galleries were very frequently men who were unable to use ordinary language with any precision and who walked about in a horrible…"-Rose Tremain, Islands of Mercy
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Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition
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