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Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will simply love this utterly captivating, emotional and memorable novel from The Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis.Readers are loving The Apple Barrel!"A book you can become immersed in and just enjoy" - 5 STARS"Susan Sallis has such an insight into characters - a very moving, interesting story" - 5 STARS"Beautifully written....kept my attention to the end" - 5 STARS"One of those books where you are unaware how long you have been reading! Loved it!" - 5 STARS"A book that you have great difficulty putting down but very sorry when it's finished" - 5 STARS********************************************************WHEN FACED WITH BETRAYAL, CAN YOU FIND PEACE? Hope and Jack Langley's marriage gets off to a promising start: they spend their honeymoon in a primitive Cornish cottage called Widdershins and Hope falls in love with the place on sight - even though half of it has fallen down, water has to be pumped by hand and there are no sea views.Soon after they return home to begin married life in a small village outside Gloucester, Hope discovers she is pregnant. And, almost simultaneously, the glamorous Petersens, Henrik and Mandy, move in as new neighbours. Local rumour about the couple is rife: they are rich, they are Norwegian, they aren't married, they give crazy parties. To Hope and Jack, they seem reassuringly normal and kind and soon the two couples became close.With the birth of their second daughter, the Langleys' happiness seems complete. But appearances can be deceptive.The challenges that eventually confront Hope are almost overwhelming, and the only place that offers refuge and peace is her beloved Widdershins.

From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a magnificent and sweeping novel that asks whether friendships really can endure through thick and thin. Readers of Rosamunde Pilcher, Maeve Binchy and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed.READERS ARE LOVING COME RAIN OR SHINE!"Brilliant, I couldn't put it down." - 5 STARS"Great storyline. Took me a while to place everyone, so many wonderful characters. But so worth it. Susan Sallis puts you right there, in the thick of it." - 5 STARS"Wonderful" - 5 STARS"It was exciting and intriguing and nicely slow at the same time" - 5 STARS***********************************************************************************************************SOME FRIENDSHIPS REALLY DO STAND THE TEST OF TIME. WILL THEIRS?The four of them were close when they worked together in the 1960s: Natasha, Prudence, Rachel and Maisie.Now, twenty years later, Natasha, newly divorced and back from America with a fifteen-year-old daughter, decides there must be a reunion. Pru, always the mysterious one, deeply involved with her commune in Cornwall, unexpectedly offers to host at Prospect House, a property she has inherited in the Malvern Hills. Rachel, married to her former boss, a Liberal MP, gladly leaves a tangled domestic situation to join the friends she hasn't seen for so long.And Maisie ... Maisie, perhaps the most vulnerable of the four, mother of five children, married to the unpredictable Edward, fails to arrive at Prospect House.The drama of her disappearance has a far-reaching effect on the lives and destinies of them all...

A life-enhancing and emotionally powerful novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Fiona Valpy and Rosamunde Pilcher.READERS ARE LOVING CHOICES!"My first Susan Sallis read.....but not my last. I didn't want this book to end." - 5 STARS"A brilliant, very thought provoking and unforgettable book." - 5 STARS"From first page to last holds your attention. Would recommend this as a real life story read, with characters you can connect with." - 5 STARS"This book was instantly readable for me. I found it sad and yet uplifting..." - 5 STARS****************************WHEN A LIFE IS DESTROYED BY TRAGEDY, CAN LOVE WIN THROUGH?On the very day Helen Wilson plans to choose her wedding dress, a devastating car accident takes the three people she loves most cruelly away from her and changes her life forever.Grieving and heartbroken, she moves to Flatners, a cottage overlooking the Bristol Channel, to start a new life and leave the pain of the past behind.Gradually settling into a new existence, she makes new friends and immerses herself in local life - and slowly becomes aware of the complex feelings she is developing for Harry Vallender, the previous owner of Flatners...

From the Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a wonderfully evocative novel, perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Fiona Valpy and Rosamunde Pilcher. READERS ARE LOVING AN ORDINARY WOMAN!

By the Sunday Times bestselling author and multi-million copy seller Susan Sallis, this is a beautiful and moving novel perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy, Lucinda Riley and Rosamunde Pilcher.READERS ARE LOVING SEA OF DREAMS!"A wonderful story. Highly recommend." - 5 STARS"A story that kept me wanting to turn the pages...I was hooked..." - 5 STARS"The story has great pace and I couldn't put it down." - 5 STARS**********************AS ONE MILLENNIUM ENDS, CAN THEY LOOK FORWARD TO A NEW AND BETTER WORLD? Somerset, Christmas 1999. Holly and Mark Jepson find themselves looking after an assortment of guests at Mark's uncle's holiday chalets.Each guest is fascinating in their own way - from the eccentric artist and his pretty daughter to the young married couple expecting their first baby and the wife escaping from a violent past.Each will have a part to play in the events - unexpected and shattering - which take place before the new millennium dawns...

For Alice Pettiford, living near Gloucester in the late 1940s, leaving school for a job as a railway secretary makes perfect sense. When he and Alice discover an old railway coach, long abandoned, hidden in a clearing in the Forest of Dean, Alice realises that it has been a very special, magical place.

They discovered the empty cottage in 1940 - when they were still at school, four teenage friends from wildly different backgrounds and with the war casting its shadow over their lives. The cottage became a place of refuge for them - symbolising their loyalty to one another which held in the face of jealousy, passion, tragedy, and betrayal.

- 5 STARS"Excellent" - 5 STARS"I've read every one of Susan Sallis books this one didn't disappoint" - 5 STARS"The author makes the characters spring to life in your mind.

Out of heartbreak comes a new life... Gussie, Ned and Jannie are not quite siblings, but they share a fiercely close and affectionate family bond. Until one day a terrible tragedy destroys the foundations of that family, and they have to learn to cope on their own.

Fans of Maeve Binchy, Rosamunde Pilcher and Fiona Valpy will not be disappointed by this warm and compelling story where secrets from the past threaten the happiness of a small West Country community by multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis.

Will Rising had dragged himself from humble beginnings to his own small tailoring business in Gloucester - and on the way he'd fallen violently in love with Florence, refined, delicate, and wanting something better for her children.

It is 1951, and the 8.45 from Bristol to Paddington is preparing to leave. Albert, the driver - whose father and grandfather before him worked on the railway - says goodbye to his wife with mixed feelings. The passengers - some regulars on the line, others making a rare visit to London - settle down for the journey.

The twins were born in war-torn Plymouth in 1944, two little girls whose parents - touring actors - didn't altogether want them. Their lives shifted - for Miranda found herself trapped into domesticity, and Meg - feeling herself betrayed - had to seek a new path that ultimately took her to unexpected success.

Madge was four years old when she first saw the Cornish sea and fell in love with it, and it was there that her family grew and suffered and loved. It was there she and her mother went to recover from a heartrending family tragedy - there she was forced reluctantly into marriage - there she fell into a wild and passionate wartime love.

When Lydia celebrated her coming of age, the whole village celebrated with her. Two men attracted her interest that night: Gus Pascoe, and Wesley Peters. Wesley wanted to protect and cherish Lydia, but when his sister was forced to marry Lydia's brother, Alan, a bitterness grew between the two families which threatened to keep them apart forever.

Emmie Dart was nearly forty years old and servant to old Canon James when Walter asked her to marry him. He was the Canon's son, younger than she was, and a gentleman - even though a rather dilettante drifter who had really done very little with his life. But Walter had a secret in his past that he asked Emmie to share with him.

They were just schoolgirls - evacuees - when they first met the Reid brothers.

- 5 STARS"Enjoyed reading this book very much" - 5 STARS"[Couldn't] put this book down" - 5 STARS*********************************************************************A MOTHER'S LOVE ENDURES THROUGH ALL... Widowed Martha Moreton is a devoted mother to her only child, Lucy.

An idyllic summer ends in tragedy... Cornwall, 1960 - and a whole new world unfolds for young Connie Vickers as she holidays with her brand-new fiance William.

The recent death of her beloved father has cast the only shadow on Jess Tavener's tranquil domesticity. But returning to work after her bereavement, Jess finds a sketch, drawn by her husband, of her father in some grand and mysterious setting, with someone totally unexpected.

From the pen of multi-million copy seller and Sunday Times bestselling author Susan Sallis comes a heart-warming and emotional novel of secrets, loss and final redemption that will stay with you long after you finish the last page.