Sarah Harrison

The Nightingale's Nest

Kate Kingsley faces conflicting loyalties during the course of World War Two. Follows The flowers of the field.

A Flower That's Free

Flowers of the Field

Three very different sisters discover that life doesn’t always turn out as one would expect in this powerful romantic drama. Heart’s Ease is the loveliest house anyone knows and home to the fortunate Blyth family. Siblings Felicity, Charity, Honor and Bruno enjoy a blissfully happy childhood there before life pulls them in very different directions. Beautiful Felicity gains her handsome husband, delightful children and elegant London house, but all is far from perfect ... Charity, the clever one, lives for her work, with no time for emotional involvement, until the least romantic of meetings rocks her world... Sweet, homely Honor is devoted entirely to others, but dreams of a life of her own ... And Bruno, the indulged baby of the family, flies the nest only to find that independence may be tough ... The sanctuary of a beloved childhood home can’t last forever. But the legacy of Heart’s Ease lives on in the Blyth family’s grown-up fulfilment and happiness.

Heart's Ease

She would always be her own woman - true to her wild, searching heart.Adeline Gundry, born in the golden summer of Edwardian England, was raised to be a perfect lady in a perfect world of rank and privilege. But Adeline, like the century itself, had other ideas. For what Adeline wanted was not a conventional life filled with teas and dances, nor a conventional marriage held together by strictures and rules. Adeline wanted independence and passion - the sort of love that makes you feel alive.From her idyllic childhood in Devon to her glorious success as an artist in bohemian London, from domesticity in trouble-torn Ireland to carefree interludes in the golden playgrounds of the Caribbean and French Riviera, Adeline lives her life, gloriously, to the full. And always she is herself - determined, headstrong, passionate - a woman of her times.

An Imperfect Lady

At a time of widespread disillusion, citizens keep telling us how “frustrated” they feel with their democracies. However, whilst scholars and commentators alike have heard that complain millions of times, we may not have taken it as seriously as we should. The author takes the concept of democratic frustration literally and puts it under an unprecedented analytical and empirical microscope. She applies insights from the psychology and political science literatures and uses a mixture of panel studies, surveys, interviews, and experiments to understand its sources, nature, dimensions, and consequences. The book sheds unprecedented light on pathologies of democratic frustration in the US, UK, Australia, and South Africa with a double focus on the general population, and on young people. Doing so, it reveals new thought-provoking insights on the true nature of contemporary democratic crises, and not least on how citizens’ actual desire for democracy uniquely shapes their dissatisfaction.

Voters and Elections Between Desire and Dissatisfaction

Pathologies of Democratic Frustration

1929. Barbara Delahay was a beauty, a young and untouched English rose, enjoying the social whirl of the debutante season. But she attracted the attention of someone unsuitable; someone damaged. Now, in 1953, in an empty house, the widowed Barbara is cowering in fear. Her past has returned to claim her ? and this time it won't be so easy to deny.

The Rose in Winter

Laura and Susan have had a love/hate relationship since their schooldays. Laura presides hopefully over a large, unruly family as she approaches her silver wedding; Susan is exuberantly independent and a most spirited advocate of the single life. At their regular lunches they view each other with a mixture of deep affection and even deeper suspicion. But when the balance suddenly alters, the two friends are surprised to discover something new and potentially wonderful about . . . life after lunch.

Life After Lunch

Sequel to the international bestseller, THE FLOWERS OF THE FIELD, this is an epic novel set amid the turbulence of the Second World War. 'This is the second in the trilogy and, like the first, I cannot put it down. Sarah Harrison is such a good writer' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars Kate Kingsley remembers little of her early childhood, other than the devastation of being torn away from everything she knew in France and sent to live as the adopted daughter of Jack and Thea in Kenya. Now 20, she leaves for a new life in London. But this is 1936 - a time of decadence, but also turmoil. Kate finds an unexpected ally in her Aunt Dulcie, whose own life is anything but straightforward. When Kate falls in love she believes she has found a soul mate. But this is just the start of a journey during which Kate confronts personal danger, faces conflicting loyalties, and must make a heart-breaking choice. 'Harrison is a writer with a gift for mixing candour [and] compassion' You magazine

The bestselling sequel to The Flowers of the Field

Alan MacFarlane

Charles Jardine

Jardine Harrison

Alan MacFarlane has studied the parishes of Earls Colne in Essex and Kirkby Lonsdale in Cumbria, as well as other parishes, and has undertaken anthropological fieldwork in a contemporary community in Nepal. In collaboration with Sarah Harrison and Charles Jardine he has devised a method of collecting, breaking down and then reintegrating historical records in a way which makes it possible to answer some of the sociological, demographic, anthropological, geographical and other questions which interest many people. For the amateur historian or genealogist who wants to know about a village or family, the method makes it possible to find out almost everything that survives in historical documents concerning each person who lived in a village, each plot of land and house.

Reconstructing Historical Communities

The blockbusting novel is the stuff of writers' dreams. In How to Write a Blockbuster Sarah Harrison draws on her own experience to tell you what you can do to make that dream into a reality. In this entertaining and inspiring guide she offers advice and observations on: * What constitutes a blockbuster * Ideas * Planning * Working methods * Research * Characterization * Story * Style * Promotion As well as a wealth of practical information, she covers the less-discussed, but equally important areas of attitude, approach, morale and self-motivation.

How to Write a Blockbuster

A reissue of a classic title, complete with new introduction from the author - Celeste Gallagher has always been a good girl. As a child, she stoically accepted that her role in life was to look after her brothers and keep their sinister secrets; even at thirty, she is still providing them with the support they consider their due. But then something happens to Celeste, and she realizes her destiny is not written in the stars, but is in her own hands. And so, quietly and competently, she puts into action a plan that no one would ever have thought her capable of . . .

Returning the Favour

Isla and Richard have been married for ten years - handsome and successful and gifted, they make an admired couple. Isla knows Richard is no angel, but she is sophisticated enough to be prepared to overlook his minor indiscretions. Jen has been Richard's mistress for even longer. The opposite of Isla in looks and temperament, she offers Richard the chance to be someone completely different. When a chance meeting brings the two women together, each is startled by the difference between them and forced to reevaluate the man they thought they knew. But after the shock waves of hostility have ebbed away, there begins an unlikely but enduring friendship that is to survive beyond a tragedy worse than either can imagine . . .

Flowers Won't Fax

Polly Durrance is het buitenbeentje van een rommelig gezin met zelfzuchtige ouders. Wat ze mist bij haar ouders, probeert ze te vinden in het sinistere portret van haar overgrootvader John Ashe. Ze heeft hem nooit gekend, maar voelt zich aangetrokken tot zijn duistere aanblik. Door te trouwen hoopt Polly de veiligheid en geborgenheid te vinden waar ze altijd naar heeft verlangd. Maar juist op haar huwelijksdag ontmoet ze een man die ze maar één keer eerder heeft gezien, maar die haar sindsdien heeft achtervolgd in haar dromen. Een man die liefde en geluk uitstraalt, als de belofte van zonlicht. Vanaf het moment van hun ontmoeting is Pollys lot bezegeld Over de boeken van Sarah Harrison: Een spannend boek over dromen, ambitie en allesvernietigende liefde. Vriendin Intrigerende psychologische roman, met groot inlevingsvermogen en oog voor details. NBD De Engelse Sarah Harrison is de auteur van vele bestsellers, waaronder De paardenheuvel en De bronzen hond. Ze schrijft met gevoel en inzicht over vrouwen in andere tijden en situaties, waarbij ze originele invalshoeken kiest.

Zwanenzang

Bryn Mancini was born under a lucky star. He is one of the chosen few, a man who appears to have it all - a golden family, a glittering career and a life filled with love. For Apollonia Durrance life has been hard. Born the youngest child of a loveless marriage, her years have been troubled by insecurity, shadows and darkness. When a chance encounter on a windswept beach brings these two together, destiny sets in motion a powerful dark current. Apollonia recognises the soul of a man who has haunted her dreams, who represents all she has passionately craved in life. And she will stop at nothing to be near him. From the bestselling author of An Imperfect Lady comes a haunting novel about what lies beneath the polished lives of the golden people and how dark secrets from the past can bring about an inescapable future.

Swan Music

New single, safe and sorted . . . Eve's separation from Ian is amicable, her daughter Mel is a high-flier, and her son Ben, the apple of her eye, is the local charmer. She has a congenial job, good friends, and all the time in the world to improve her tennis. But passion is no respecter of plans, and Eve's chaste tranquillity, like Ben's boyhood teddy, is about to go out of the window with a vengeance. Because when sons grow up, mothers must too . . .

That Was Then

Middle-aged, middle-class, middle-management and middle-of-the-road . . . David Keating fears he may be all these things. What saves him from despair is his middle-years marriage to touch driven Annet: an attraction of opposites. The passion - and the problems - of their late flowering love give meaning to David's life. But in the physical and emotional turmoil that follow the birth of their daughter Freya, David's sleepless nights are tortured by the memory of an employee he treated shabbily. And as he and Annet struggle to adjust to late parenthood, he is haunted by the idea that someone is watching him. The idea quickly becomes an obsession, and when the mysterious figure disappears he sets out to discover the truth, a search for which he will pay an high price in terms of his own relationships. For the truth isn't always comfortable, and confronting it can be dangerous. Only when David has stared harsh reality in the face does he fully understand that a dreamed of heaven is not 'out there' - but here. And on hold.

Heaven's On Hold

The House-keeper's Pocket-Book; and Compleat Family Cook ... The Fifth Edition, Corrected and Improv'd, Etc

In second century AD, Claudia leaves Rome for the far northern province of Britain where her new husband is commander of a frontier garrison. In the late twentieth century, Miranda Tattersall - the iconic model 'Rags' - becomes the third wife of Lord Frederick Stratton, so beginning a love affair with the Strattons' house, Ladycross, near Northumbria's great Wall. Roberta Govan, long divorced after a brief and disastrous marriage, finally buys a place of her own, away from all past attachments and associations. Or so she thinks. Claudia, Rags, Bobby: their stories are linked by a wild and beautiful place; the events that brought them to it; and the powerful emotions that make it 'home'.

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