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Calling Me Home: A Novel by Julie Kibler from Pan (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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A stunning, moving tale of forbidden love in segregated 1930s Kentucky, perfect for fans of The Help.
Love doesn't play by the rules . . .
Shalerville, Kentucky, 1939. A world where black maids and handymen are trusted to raise white children and tend to white houses, but from which they are banished after dark. Sixteen-year-old Isabelle McAllister, born into wealth and privilege, finds her ordered life turned upside down when she becomes attracted to Robert, the ambitious black son of her family’s housekeeper. Before long Isabelle and Robert are crossing extraordinary, dangerous boundaries and falling deeply in love.
Many years later, eighty-nine-year-old Isabelle will travel from her home in Arlington, Texas, to Ohio for a funeral. With Isabelle is her hairstylist and friend, Dorrie Curtis – a black single mother with her own problems. Along the way, Isabelle will finally reveal to Dorrie the truth of her painful past: a tale of forbidden love, the consequences of which will resound for decades . . .
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The Portrait by Hazel Statham from Montlake Romance (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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England 1812: Severely injured at the battle of Salamanca, Edward Thurston, the new Earl of Sinclair, returns home to his beloved Fly Hall. Determined not to present his prospective bride with the wreck he believes himself to have become, he decides to end his betrothal, unaware that Lady Jennifer, for vastly differing reasons, has reached the selfsame decision.
Throughout the campaigns, Edward was often seen relying greatly on a miniature he carried, and it is to this token he clings upon his return. Will he eventually find happiness with the girl in the portrait, or will he remain firm in his resolve not to wed? Reason dictates one course, his heart another.
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Lady Luck and Me by Ben Dobson from Amazon (£0.99) is the Amazon UK
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Ben Dobson is an ordinary man, living an ordinary life. What's extraordinary about Ben's life is how at every turn, Lady Luck plays her hand often landing Ben in hilarious and occasionally disastrous predicaments. Whether it's being bruised on the head by a flying fish in Thailand or being urinated on by New Zealand doctors in the Greek Islands, nothing quite goes according to plan. Will Lady Luck smile on him or will she remain his biggest adversary?
Lady Luck and me is a true story of an average man's battle to find that ultimate state: happiness.
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