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"It's Christmas time, 1919. Three years before, seventeen-year-old Margot Allan, a respectable vicar's daughter, fell passionately in love. But she lost her fiancé, Harry, to the Great War. In turn, she gained a desperate secret, one with the power to ruin her life and her family's reputation, a secret she guards at all costs. Now Margot's family is gathering at the vicarage for the first time since the War ended. And Harry, it turns out, isn't...
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In 1937 Ireland, Mary Margaret Joyce, nicknamed Peg, is born to an unwed mother living in a penal home. When her mother is discharged, she's forced to leave Peg behind. Peg spends time with an uncaring foster family and then is sent to an industrial school where she learns silence, prayers, and hard work from the nuns there. Then at age thirteen Peg tracks down her birth mother and the tension between them mounts as Peg considers leaving for America....
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Bourgeois housewife Ruth Whiting is “paralysed by triviality,” measuring out her days in coffee mornings, glasses of sherry, and bridge parties—routines that barely disturb the solitude of her existence. Her husband spends his weeknights in town; their daughter, eighteen-year-old Angela, is at Oxford; and their sons are at boarding school. Then Angela accidentally falls pregnant, and Ruth must keep her own past from repeating itself.--