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Elissa Koebel's memoir is as scandalous and self-absorbed as its writer, but for Hope, it is more than just the latest salacious read. The chapter 'A Summer in Ireland' tells of an episode that Hope remembers well, when the younger, beautiful and unconventional Koebel arrived to disrupt a family holiday.

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Romilly Brandon was heir to a fortune and the handsomest and liveliest young man in the county. Returning years later, Romily finds many surprises - his one-time sweetheart grown old and withered, and in possession of a great secret that shakes him to his core.

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Agatha is aware of an intensity, a powerful storm of emotion briefly awakened by a shortlived love affair with her cousin Gerald, that is entirely lacking from the successful marriage on which she is about to embark.

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Margaret Kennedy caught just the taste of the time, mixing a stolid domestic Englishness with 'Continental' bohemians Irish Times

William and Emily Crowne seem to have it all they live a life of privilege and glamour in London, the children of a successful poet, attractive, happy, largely blind to the world around them.

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She is not only a romantic but an anarchist, and she knows the ways of men and women very well indeed Anita Brookner


Hugo Potts is a successful London playwright enjoying his moment of notoriety.

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Kate is bored of being overlooked by her grown-up children and decides to escape on an Aegean cruise. She ends up in Keritha a mysterious Greek island all but forgotten by the modern world. But under the spell of this strange and beautiful island both visitors find themselves, and each other, cast in a new light.

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The problem must lie, she thinks, in her marriage to Alec, and a neat, civilised divorce seems the perfect solution.

But talk of divorce sparks interference from family and friends, and soon public opinion tears into the fragile fabric of family life and private desire.

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This 'superb' (Elizabeth Bowen) rediscovered gem will make you nostalgic for 1940s seaside holidays: a Cornish hotel is mysteriously buried by a landslide, but what brought its eccentric guests together

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The family and their home life may be chaotic, but visitors fall into an enchantment, and the claims of respectable life or upbringing fall away.

When Sanger dies, his Circus must break up and each find a more conventional way of life.

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A Victorian gentleman is forced by illness to entertain himself with the family archive, and he uncovers the Regency-era correspondence and diaries of one Miles Lufton, MP - apparently a black sheep of the family, connected with a scandal long buried.