The activities, sorrows, and joys of a family of dolls living in an old doll house are related from the dolls' point of view[...]
'Dolls cannot tell you anything, but often their wish is as strong as telling. Have you ever felt a doll's wish?' This wonderful classic edition contains some of Rumer Godden's best-loved stories, including: Miss Happiness and Miss Flower; Little Plum, Holly and Ivy;The Fairy Doll; Impunity Jane; Ca[...]
'Dolls cannot tell you anything, but often their wish is as strong as telling. Have you ever felt a doll's wish?' This wonderful classic edition contains some of Rumer Godden's best-loved stories, including: 'Miss Happiness and Miss Flower', 'Little Plum', 'The Story of Holly & Ivy', 'The Fairy Doll[...]
In a heartwarming holiday story, three wishes come true in the most unexpected way for Ivy, an orphan who wishes for a real home, the Joneses, who wish for a child, and a doll named Holly who wishes for a child to bring her to life.[...]
Phillippa Talbot leaves her life among the London elite to join a cloistered Benedictine community in this insightful portrait of religious life. Reissue.[...]
The faded elegance of Les Oeillets, with its bullet-scarred staircase and serene garden bounded by high walls; Eliot, the charming Englishman who became the children's guardian while their mother lay ill in hospital; sophisticated Mademoiselle Zizi, hotel patronne, and Eliot's devoted lover; 16 year[...]
Sophie, an English ingenue with two children, arrives in Himalayan Kashmir to set up home in a tumbledown cottage surrounded by flowers and herbs. Settling down to live quietly, frugally and peacefully with her new neighbours, she is unaware of the turmoil her arrival provokes as the villagers compe[...]
When their mother leaves the country to be with her lover, Hugh and Caddie Clavering's seemingly perfect life falls apart. Devestated, and desperate for her to come back, the children travel alone to the Villa Fiorita on Lake Garda, determined not to leave without her. On arrival, they can tell Fann[...]
Tracy Quinn, daughter of a screen star and raised on film sets around the world, returns to her adored family home, a country house named China Court. Her grandmother's recent death has set in motion events that threaten Tracy's future and the very existence of China Court. As Tracy fights to save t[...]
Grizel Dane, a bold young servicewoman in the US army, arrives at the London home of her great-uncle Sir Rollo Dane seeking refuge from the chaos of wartime. Through the old man, Grizel learns the surprising history of the Dane family and Lark Ingoldsby. Orphaned by a train crash, Lark was taken in [...]