Joanna Trollope
1) The choir
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English
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A cathedral in need of repair splits an English town. One faction of the community concludes the way to finance it is to put an end to the expensive and nowadays rather irrelevant boys' choir. But another faction is prepared to fight to death to save it. By the author of The Rector's Wife.
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English
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A modern retelling of the Jane Austen classic follows the Dashwood sisters--Elinor, Marianne and Margaret--as they, after the death of their father, must come to terms with the cruelties of life without the status of their country house, the protection of the family name or the comfort of an inheritance.
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English
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When popular crooner Richie Rossiter dies, his longtime partner, Chrissie, is left bereft and angered that she never got Richie to divorce his first wife and marry her, providing security for her and their three daughters. In addition, money becomes a serious issue since she was his manager. Then she learns that Richie amended his will to leave a treasured piano and the rights to songs he wrote early in his career to his first wife, Margaret, and...
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English
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For twenty years, Anna Bouverie has been the dutiful wife of a village rector, scraping by on his pitiful salary, making cakes for the church bake sales, ironing her husband's surplices, and clothing herself and her children in hand-me-downs. But when an expected promotion to archdeacon falls through, her husband retreats into bitterness. Faced with isolation, the lost hope of a better life, and the bullying of her daughter at school, Anna finally...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The lives of two English couples are disrupted when one of the husbands leaves his wife for a homosexual. The abandoned woman seeks solace with the other couple and ends in bed with the husband. Four children complicate matters further.