Genres: Historical Fiction, Magical Realism, Womens Fiction

One house. Two women. Both determined to endure.​ A Regency novel inspired by Queen Adelaide and the actress Dorothea Jordan. ​ When Princess Adelaide arrives in England to marry the scandal-ridden Duke of Clarence, she must restore order to his chaotic household and secure the future of the monarchy. ​ But Bushy House already belongs to another woman. ​ For fifteen years Dorothea Jordan filled its rooms with laughter and her ten children. Now her restless spirit has returned — watchful, wounded and unwilling to be forgotten.

Genres: Historical Fiction, Womens Fiction
Formats: E-Book, Paperback
Age Groups: 18+

It is December 1941, and eight-year-old Galina and her friend Vera are caught in the siege of Leningrad, eating soup made of wallpaper, with the occasional luxury of a dead rat. Galina’s artist father Mikhail has been kept away from the front to help save the treasures of the Hermitage. Its cellars could now provide a safe haven, provided Mikhail can navigate the perils of a portrait commission from one of Stalin’s colonels. ​ Nearly forty years later, Galina herself is a teacher at the Leningrad Art Academy. What ought to be a celebratory weekend at her forest dacha turns sour when she makes an unwelcome discovery. The painting she embarks upon that day will hold a grim significance for the rest of her life, as the old Soviet Union makes way for the new Russia and Galina’s familiar world changes out of all recognition. ​ Warm, wise and utterly...