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Family stories
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Opening on the eve of the First World War, set around a stately home, Cavendon Hall, its owners the aristocratic…
Ingham family and the Swann family who serves them. The Earl and Countess rely on their faithful retainers Alice and Walter Swann as their young family grows up. But in the summer of 1913, a devastating event changes their future forever, and threatens the Ingham name. Life as the families of Cavendon Hall know it - Royal Ascot, supper dances, grouse season feasts and a full servants' hall - is about to alter beyond recognition as the storm clouds of war gather. 2014.
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Historical fiction
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1926. One stately home’s future lies with four very different young women. Four young women from both sides of the…
house will be the ones to shape its future – Daphne, fighting to modernise her ancestral home; Cecily Swann, forging a path as a fashion designer in London; Deidre, the career girl, and Dulcie, the outspoken debutante. They will change the estate’s future for good or ill as the roaring twenties burn towards the Great Depression. Nothing will ever be the same again. Sequel to "Cavendon Hall", followed by "The Cavendon luck". 2015.
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Family stories, Historical fiction, War stories
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For centuries, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them have lived side by side, against the backdrop of…
an imposing Yorkshire manor. But now, with World War I looming, these two families will find themselves tested in ways they had never thought possible. Descriptions of sex. 2014
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Historical fiction
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Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors…
did over the centuries. Charles Ingham, the sixth Earl of Mowbray, lives there with his wife Felicity and their six children: Guy, the heir, who is studying at Cambridge; their younger son Miles, attending Eton; and their four daughters Diedre, Daphne, DeLacy and Dulcie, affectionately called the Four Dees by the staff. Walter Swann, the premier male of the Swann family, is valet to the earl. His wife Alice, a clever seamstress, who is in charge of the countess's wardrobe, also makes clothes for the four daughters. For centuries, these two families have lived side-by-side, beneath the backdrop of the imposing Yorkshire manor. But now, with World War I looming, these two families will find themselves tested in ways they never thought possible. Loyalties are tested and betrayals are set into motion. In this time of uncertainty, one thing is sure: these two families will never be the same again. Set over a period of sixteen years (from 1913 to 1929), Cavendon Hall is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her very best.
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It's the summer of 1949, and things have run smoothly at Cavendon Hall for years, with very few quarrels, dramas,…
or upsets between the two families. But since the end of World War II, changes have arrived at Cavendon. A new generation is at the helm, and also at the forefront of new scandal and intrigue. With romance, betrayal, heartbreak, and possible murder threatening to tear them apart, the Inghams and Swanns will have to find a way to come together and protect each other in the face of threats they never could have predicted. Told with Bradford's inimitable deftness of prose and a beloved cast of characters, Secrets of Cavendon is a captivating audiobook that will draw listeners in and grip them until the very last minute.
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a captivating epic saga of courage and honor, following the aristocratic…
Inghams and the loyal Swann family who have served them for centuries. It is 1938 in England, and Miles and Cecily Ingham have lead the family in bringing the Cavendon estate back from the brink of disaster. But now, with the arrival of World War II, Cavendon Hall will face its biggest challenge yet. It is a challenge that will push the Inghams and Swanns to protect each other and the villagers, and reveal their true capacity for survival and rebirth. Told with Bradford's deft, evocative prose and featuring a beloved cast of characters, The Cavendon Luck is a story of intrigue, romance, sorrow, and joy that listeners won't soon forget.
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The stunning sequel to Barbara Taylor Bradford's Cavendon Hall follows the Inghams' and the Swanns' journey from a family weekend…
in the summer of 1926 through the devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929. It all begins in July of 1926 when, for the first time in years, the earl has planned a family weekend. As the family members come together, secrets, problems, joys, and sorrows are revealed. As old enemies come out of the shadows and the Swanns' loyalty to the Inghams gets tested in ways none of them could have predicted, it's up to the Cavendon women to band together and bring their family into a new decade, and a new way of life.