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Titles In This Set
Broken Rainbows
One Last Summer
Hearts of Gold
Past Remembering
Swansea Girls
Broken Rainbows
It is 1942 and, in the wake of America's
entry into the war, the small community of Pontypridd suffers its own - not
entirely welcome - GI invasion. The South Carolina Regiment billeted on the
town soon cuts a swathe through its women, living up to GI's reputation as
"over-paid, over-sexed and over here". For Bethan, whose husband is a POW in
Germany, and her friend Alma, whose husband is missing, the arrival of the
American officers brings new and dangerous friendships. While for Jenny, a
bitter young war widow, it is a chance to bury her grief in a series of
one-night stands. The women are caught between loyalty to their men folk and
the very real attraction of the GIs, and when tragedy strikes the mines, the
tension reaches breaking point...
Hearts of Gold
Trainee midwife Bethan Powell lives in the
shadow of the workhouse during the Depression. It's difficult to say which
is harder for her and fellow nurse Laura Ronconi - their gruelling work in
the hospital, or the frictions and financial hardships at home. Bethan's
Communist miner father, rigidly Chapel mother, unruly brothers and
delightful but dubiously honest aunt, and Laura's vast Italian cafe-running
family, cause the girls as much worry as any difficult case or strict ward
sister. But working-class Pontypridd agrees on one thing - the 'crache', or
gentry, who live in the big houses on the Common, may be just the other side
of town, but they inhabit a different world. So when Bethan and Laura are
smitten by two young doctors, can love really bridge the divide? Or is the
pull of family too strong, the gulf too wide?
Swansea Girls
It is Saturday night and the
Pier Ballroom in Swansea is the place to be: For Lily, an evacuee unclaimed
by her family at the end of the war; for Judy, taught independence by her
war widow mother; for Katie, the product of a marriage between a drunken,
violent father and a cowed, beaten mother; and for the spoiled, wilful
Helen. It is an evening that fuels jealousies and sows the seeds for
friendships, confidences, and romance . . .
One Last Summer
Allenstein, East Prussia, 1939 - Charlotte
von Datski's parents hold a glittering ball to celebrate her eighteenth
birthday and to announce her engagement to a Prussian Count. Meanwhile,
Hitler is ready to plunge the world into war, one that will wipe East
Prussia from the face of the map. Charlotte is forced to leave her beloved
homeland. By 1946, Charlotte finds herself in London with her young son,
struggling to adapt to a new country and a new way of life. The secret of
Charlotte's life is revealed when a book entitled One Last Summer is
smuggled out of a Russian prison camp and tells of an affair between a
Russian POW and a Prussian aristocrat. It becomes an instant international
bestseller. Years on, Charlotte's granddaughter, Laura, comes across
material relating to these events. She persuades her grandmother to embark
on a journey into her past. Charlotte finally faces the demons that have
haunted her for over half a century and recalls the one great love of her
life. A moving and turbulent novel unlike anything Catrin Collier has
written before but which has her trademark storytelling skill and her
ability to portray characters with depth and sympathy.
Past Remembering
1941. In Pontypridd, Ronnie Ronconi has
returned home from war-torn Italy. The family are ce