<div>A woman faces life-changing decisions in post&ndash;World War I London from the &ldquo;master storyteller&rdquo; and bestselling author of The Illusionists (Cosmopolitan). In Daughter of the House, Rosie Thomas returns to the marvelous Wix family. Nancy Wix, daughter of the stage impresarios Eliza and Devil, must find a way to keep London&rsquo;s Palmyra theatre afloat, and to entertain audiences who have lost husbands and sons in the First World War. Nancy is a born performer, but she is set apart&mdash;even from her beloved brothers&mdash;by her psychic gifts. She must harness her troubling powers to keep her family and the theatre intact. It is a dangerous path and a lonely one, but Nancy&rsquo;s bold choices lead her to love, and to the recognition of what it takes to become a modern woman. As another war begins to threaten the world, she is forced into a final, fateful confrontation with her demons, and must marshal both her ingenuity and her mysterious talents to fight for the survival of friendship, independence, and family. &ldquo;Brilliantly bring[s] to life the end of the music hall era and the rise of spiritualism in the 1920s. I highly recommend this smart, gothic, and romantic page-turner.&rdquo; &mdash;Historical Novel Society &ldquo;[Thomas] creates a dynamic protagonist involved in an uncertain romance, and her other principal characters are equally well-rounded.&rdquo; &mdash;Kirkus Reviews &ldquo;A long, appealing yarn of a story, Daughter of the House is a sequel to the author&rsquo;s earlier The Illusionists but is eminently readable as a stand-alone novel.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist</div>

Daughter of the House

<div>&ldquo;One of the best storytellers around . . . turns her attention to the trials and tribulations of turning 60 . . . A sure-fire winner&rdquo; (Daily Express). Rosie Thomas, beloved by readers for her brilliantly realized characters and twisting, page-turning plots, turns her &ldquo;sharp nib&rdquo; to a group of older friends in this evocative story of camaraderie and its challenges (The Washington Post Book World). Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come live with her, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting. To begin with, the omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink, and behave badly as they cling to the legacy they thought was theirs forever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover the clock can&rsquo;t be put back. When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. The past is revealed&mdash;and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined. &ldquo;A truly heart-warming story of the value of friendship and the beauty of life. I can guarantee you will not be disappointed.&rdquo; &mdash;The Bookbag &ldquo;A wonderful story that explores relationships, history and change.&rdquo; &mdash;She magazine &ldquo;An evocatively told story of friendship, families and relationships, sharpened by the arrival of the outside world into their idyllic country retreat.&rdquo; &mdash;Choice</div>

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Lovers and Newcomers

<div>The bestselling author &ldquo;writes with ravishing sensuality&rdquo; in this saga of a wartime love that reverberates through three generations of women (The Times, London). The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to eight-two-year-old Iris Black&rsquo;s old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn&rsquo;t seen for years. An unlikely bond develops between them, as Ruby helps Iris record her fading memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War II&mdash;and of her one true love whom she lost to the ravages of conflict. This long-ago love has shaped Iris&rsquo;s life, and, as becomes increasingly apparent, those of her daughter and her granddaughter. And it is to affect them all, again, in ways they could not have imagined. &ldquo;[Thomas&rsquo;s] evocation of the wartime Cairo has all the raffish, glittering brittleness of life on the edge . . . Touches on the varieties and nuances of love between men and women, and the power of family relationships to enhance and destroy lives.&rdquo; &mdash;Elizabeth Buchan, Daily Mail &ldquo;The pairing of these two women, at opposite life stages, shows how the generations can heal one another while discovering more about themselves . . . Lovely to read.&rdquo; &mdash;Historical Novel Society &ldquo;[A] brilliant tale. Rosie Thomas is a writer whose talent shines with every page. I was lost immediately as the pages began turning and the story swallowed me up whole and took me along the two women&rsquo;s journeys.&rdquo; &mdash;Urban Book Reviews</div>

Iris and Ruby

<div>The beloved, bestselling author delivers &ldquo;an epic tale . . . A complicated entanglement of family secrets, love during wartime and dangerous liaisons&rdquo; (Red Magazine). &ldquo;Sorting through her parents&rsquo; possessions after their deaths, Mair Ellis discovers a Kashmir shawl that once belonged to her Welsh grandmother, Nerys Watkins. Nestled within the folds of this exquisite handwoven piece is an envelope containing a single lock of hair. Curiosity drives Mair to trace the history of the shawl, a quest that takes her from Wales to India. As she pieces together her grandmother&rsquo;s past, the two women&rsquo;s stories intertwine, transporting the reader between the Kashmir of WWII and the present day. The bulk of the novel belongs to Nerys, a missionary&rsquo;s wife whose undemonstrative husband urges her to spend the winter in Srinigar with a friend while he spreads Christianity in remote settlements. Nerys is forever changed in this romantic city, blossoming in an illicit affair while being swept up in the dangerous unraveling of another&rsquo;s. The consequences resurface nearly seven decades later, leaving Mair with a life-altering decision. An avid traveler and thorough researcher, Thomas brings the flavors and colors of India to life with vivid detail and develops characters so real one feels a kinship. An engrossing, intelligent, and satisfying read.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist (starred review) &ldquo;Mystery, intrigue, a great love, passion, and a terrible sorrow all come together to make The Kashmir Shawl a very touching and satisfying read.&rdquo; &mdash;Barbara Taylor Bradford &ldquo;A spellbinding tale . . . Beautifully written, honest and compassionate.&rdquo; &mdash;Daily Express &ldquo;A superbly written novel, marvelously descriptive and especially evocative of the war years . . . A gorgeous treat.&rdquo; &mdash;Choice</div>

The Kashmir Shawl

<div>From the acclaimed author of Sun at Midnight comes a saga of family, love, and betrayal set against the backdrop of two world wars. Cousins Clio Hirsh and Grace Stretton were born within hours of each other and raised as sisters in the innocent days before the Great War. But as they grow up, Grace is the one who enchants all those who meet her, leaving shy and quiet Clio to fade into the background. Even as time, ambition, and the winds of war take their lives in different directions&mdash;Grace into the arms of a dependable stockbroker and Clio into the literary world of Paris and Berlin&mdash;jealousy and bitterness simmer beneath their friendship. Decades later, Clio recounts the story of her family to her biographer. She tells of her brother Jake&rsquo;s wartime experiences and medical career; Clio and Grace&rsquo;s early years in bohemian London; younger brother Julius&rsquo;s career as a concert violinist. But for herself, Clio remembers a different story?one of tragedy, heartbreak, and secrets. And above all, the surprising truth about her mesmerizing cousin Grace. &ldquo;A master storyteller.&rdquo; &mdash;Cosmopolitan</div>

All My Sins Remembered

<div>The acclaimed author of Bad Girls, Good Women delivers an epic and adventurous love story set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica. Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation, measurement, and proof. But now, as she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship, everything that lies ahead is mysterious and unpredictable. Six weeks earlier, her life at Oxford had been reassuringly comfortable. But when her relationship suddenly fell to pieces, she accepted a job that would take her to the end of the earth, joining the Kandahar Research Station in Antarctica. When she arrives, Alice discovers an ice-blue world lit by a midnight sun. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it&mdash;or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone&rsquo;s past, and tension crackles in the air. One fellow researcher, James Rooker, is especially secretive. Yet Alice cannot deny the bolt of recognition between them. But Antarctica is a place of danger as well as beauty, and Alice is about to make a discovery that could change her life forever . . . if she survives. &ldquo;Illuminating yet quietly revealing, Thomas&rsquo;s latest is elevated by its unique setting and its strong characterization.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Sun at Midnight

<div>&ldquo;Beneath this buoyant tale of down-market entertainers in Victorian London rumbles a heavyweight novel . . . Intricate and thrilling&rdquo; (The New York Times). A young, beautiful woman of limited means, Eliza is modern before her time. Not for her the stifling&mdash;if respectable&mdash;conventionality of marriage, children, domestic drudgery. She longs for more. Through her work as an artist&rsquo;s model, she meets the magnetic and irascible Devil&mdash;a born showman whose dream is to run his own theater company. Devil&rsquo;s right-hand man is the improbably named Carlo Boldoni, an ill-tempered dwarf with an enormous talent for all things magic and illusion. Carlo and Devil clash at every opportunity and it constantly falls upon Eliza to broker an uneasy peace between them. And then there is Jasper Button. Mild-mannered and a family man at heart, it is his gift as an artist that makes him the unlikely final member of the motley crew. Thrown together by a twist of fate, their lives are inextricably linked: The fortune of one depends on the fortune of the other. And as Eliza gets sucked into the seductive and dangerous world her strange companions inhabit, she risks not only her heart, but also her life, which is soon thrown into peril. &ldquo;Love, seduction, magic and illusion collide . . . A spellbinding journey through an extremely shadowy world.&rdquo; &mdash;Daily Express &ldquo;A brilliant Gothic mix of glitter and grime.&rdquo; &mdash;Daily Mail &ldquo;Thomas&rsquo;s sprawling follow-up to The Kashmir Shawl . . . A story of a theater company, a thriller, and, most successfully, a portrait of a woman trying to create an equal partnership with a man.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

The Illusionists

<div>Five married couples are about to have their lives upended in this &ldquo;hugely enjoyable&rdquo; novel by the bestselling author of Daughter of the House (The Times, London). Rosie Thomas, &ldquo;a master storyteller&rdquo; has been enrapturing readers, earning awards, and garnering critical praise for more than three decades (Cosmopolitan). In Other People&rsquo;s Marriages, she offers a breathtaking look at marriage and relationships, with &ldquo;the five families&rdquo;&mdash;the pleasantly hospitable Frosts, the brash and sexy Cleggs, flirtatious Jimmy Rose and aloof Star, maternal Vicky and reliable Gordon Ransome, Michael Wickham and his perfect wife, Marcelle. Old friends, their lives are interwoven in a comfortable pattern of school runs and Sunday golf, barbecues, and shared holidays. Until Nina Cort returns to the cathedral city of her childhood. Rich sophisticated and newly widowed, Nina is an exotic thread in the pattern, whose intrusion reveals a web of hidden flaws. In the course of a year from which none will emerge unscathed, the five families and Nina discover that you can never truly know the fabric of other people&rsquo;s marriages. Perhaps not even of your own . . . &ldquo;Bestselling author Thomas traces an insightful and touching tale of love found and sustained in her latest novel of contemporary domestic mores . . . A book filled with major pleasures, the foremost of which is Thomas&rsquo;s vivid and realistic depiction of men and women struggling to sustain romantic and erotic love amid the draining demands of family life.&rdquo; &mdash;Publishers Weekly</div>

Other People's Marriages

<div>From the &ldquo;intrepid, challenge-taking writer&rdquo; of The Kashmir Shawl &ldquo;comes this story of sisterly rifts and betrayal&rdquo; (Good Housekeeping). &ldquo;Introspective and descriptive writing carry along . . . Thomas&rsquo; examination of a woman searching for her place in the world. Music writer Constance Thorne is living a seemingly idyllic life in Bali. But paradise can&rsquo;t completely insulate her from the world. She is called back to London to be with her dying sister, Jeanette, a journey that is challenging in many ways. Years before, Constance fell in love with her sister&rsquo;s husband and ended up not only heartbroken but also estranged from the family. Because she was a foundling and raised by adoptive parents, the rejection hit her very hard. Her solution&mdash;to flee to Bali&mdash;has anchored her until now. Following Constance from lush Bali back to noisy London, the story line also meanders around Jeanette&rsquo;s son, Noah, and his girlfriend, Roxana, who is from Uzbekistan and does her own soul-searching.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;A terrific book, beautifully written . . . Questions about identity, belonging, infidelity, dying and forgiveness make this a very moving study of the human heart.&rdquo; &mdash;Australian Women&rsquo;s Weekly &ldquo;Heart-rending and beautifully written . . . You can&rsquo;t fail to be moved.&rdquo; &mdash;Daily Express &ldquo;Prepare to be dazzled . . . An epic tale of sisterhood and betrayal.&rdquo; &mdash;Company &ldquo;Thomas&rsquo; second novel maps out a resonating, touching story that most readers are unlikely to forget . . . An addictive, well-written masterpiece featuring lovely and original characters.&rdquo; &mdash;Romantic Times</div>

Constance

<div>From a bestselling women&rsquo;s fiction author, an &ldquo;absorbing&rdquo; novel about a divorced single mother struggling to forgive her estranged father before he dies. (The Daily Mail) &ldquo;Master storyteller&rdquo; (Cosmopolitan) Rosie Thomas returns with an affecting novel of the complexities of family and the sacrifices we make for the ones we love. Sadie&#39;s life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants and deserves. But now her father is dying&#8213;the elusive man who spent his life creating exquisite perfumes for other women is slipping away from her, and Sadie must try to make her peace with him before it&rsquo;s too late. As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, who often ignored her as he pursued his separate life, her relationship with her son Jack also appears to be breaking down. Intent on salvaging her relationships with both son and father, her seemingly perfect life unravels from both ends. Then the arrival of an ephemeral woman from her father&#39;s past sets off a chain reaction of events that even Sadie cannot control. &ldquo;Thomas masterfully juggles a large cast of characters with sensitivity and a great deal of empathy.&rdquo; &mdash;Booklist &ldquo;Thomas&rsquo;s novels are beautifully written.&rdquo; &mdash;Marie Claire</div>

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