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by Jennifer Ryan
Britain, 1942, and rationing has the nation's cooks improvising. When a BBC radio programme announces a cooking contest whose winner will become its first female co-presenter, four very different women enter: a war widow, her estranged sister, a kitchen maid and a London chef. A warm story of rivalry, friendship and making do.
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HistoricalRomance
Maeve Binchy
Benny Hogan, the cherished only daughter of a shopkeeper in the small Irish town of Knockglen, and Eve Malone, an orphan raised by the nuns, have planned for years to go to university in Dublin together. In the late 1950s they finally do, and find a wider circle of friends, a first love for Benny, and a betrayal neither of them saw coming.
LiteraryHistorical
Hernan Diaz
A celebrated novel about a Wall Street tycoon and his wife in 1920s New York turns out to be only the first of four accounts that contradict one another, each revealing more about money, power and who gets to tell the story. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Historical
Sandra Dallas
In a Victorian house built for a bride in the Colorado mining town of Georgetown, three generations of women fall in love, make hard choices and keep secrets. Sandra Dallas follows them across half a century. A warm, absorbing family saga.
