But Rosie’s whole world falls apart when a warm and wonderful letter arrives from Adam telling her he’s on his way home. A new divorcee he can’t wait to get back in the game and sets about writing a list of all the things he has to do: / NOT sign up to the gym. The book describes how two individuals who happen to be lonely decide to travel to West Bay one summer to stay at a seaside village.

Florence doesn't care about the gossips - she's drawn to the peaceful seaside town by the pull of her childhood, when she lived for a brief but happy time with her beloved late mother.No stranger herself to the pain of loss and betrayal, she is drawn to this haunted man, his kindness, and his mystery.

I only had one problem with the book and that is that I had to get through a lot of the book to find the more thrilling/tense part when I thought it would be more in the middle. In addition to that pain, she is also not on good terms with her mother, who somehow does not love her, and a sister whom her mother clearly loves. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins. When Jenny’s mistress Claudia seduces her sweetheart, Frank, he leaves ashamed for a new life in Blackburn.Yet it is Ellie Armstrong’s home, and here she experiences love, a love that is hypnotic and fatally compelling.

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But for Sonny, the affair that has promised a future of hope and happiness must end in desperate fear. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at university but was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home. Soon she is carrying Doug’s baby, her father has thrown her out of the house, and she agrees to marry Doug.In 1975 Lucinda Marsh throws herself in front of a speeding train leaving her twelve-year-old daughter Kitty alone, confused and abandoned - save for a selfish aunt, a violent father and her childhood sweetheart Harry Jenkins. In his blind hatred, intent on punishing those who have crossed him, Frank plans the final, ultimate retribution. Cathy is a generous soul, though, and tries to give the young lad a chance to prove himself, but unlike her best friend, David Leyton, something about him makes her more than uneasy. As Florence is drawn into the lives of her new neighbours, the layers of her own life are revealed, but far from finding peace, Florence has found instead turmoil and secrets. Determined to enjoy the security only wealth can bring, she stifles her feelings for young men, and works as a maid for Mr.