June Barraclough

• 1985
• / Historical Romance
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The Yorkshire home of the Hardow family, Fontaynes Castle, is still run along feudal lines, and presided over by the aging though formidable Earl. Young Ann Tessyman travels a vast distance from the isolated countryside of her birth to take a job ...

• Sep-1987
• / Historical Romance
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Meta Moor is living with her adopted aunt Augusta, at Hartsedge Hall in Yorkshire. Her dream is to return to Rook's Nest, the house where she was born -- and where her mother, died -- with its lake and neglected gardens. Her obsession with the pla...

• Mar-1989
• / Historical Romance
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When Jane Banham’s father died, she was forced to leave the Norfolk village where she had grown up to live with an unknown uncle in London. But the twenty-year-old orphan’s spirits revived when her uncle introduced her to the leading lights of...

• Jun-1993
• / Literary
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Born in the first decade of the 20th century, Maud is both beautiful and intelligent. At university her aloofness sets her apart, puzzling some and fascinating others. An admirer commissions a painting of her, which, many years later, is instrumental...

• Mar-1994
• / General Fiction
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Holding her mare, her riding crop in her hand, Claris Fearnley looks pensively over the hills to the chimneys of her home, Foxglove Hall, which nestles among the distant trees. It is a warm summer morning in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the year 1...

• Jul-1994
• / General Fiction
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Eighteen-year-old Hetty Coppen, raised by a cold stepmotehr, visits Italy with her aunt during the Victorian Era, falling in love with a famed opera singer, but she finds that long-hidden secrets in London threaten her happiness...

• Sep-1997
• / Contemporary Romance
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Lettie Brooksbank, daughter of a poor farmer, is taught to read at Sunday School by Charlotte Bronte. In her quest for more education, she is engaged as companion to old Aurelia Ingham at Hawthorn Hall. She falls in love with a young singer from Hawo...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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In twenty stories and short vignettes, divided into chronological chapters, June Barraclough shares her memories of West Riding in the 1930s and 1940s. School lessons, playground games, her family life and love letters from boys, are all seen through...

• Mar-1999
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• Feb-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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Without a mother since she was a baby, Mary Settle is left with her Aunt Clara Demaine. This novel follows Mary through her studies and her time in France with her Aunt Clara. When she is 18, she meets a young Englishman in Biarritz. Eventually she m...

• Dec-2003
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sally, Jennie, and Caroline are all brought together at the outbreak of war in 1939. Though from all different backgrounds, they are brought up together amidst international and domestic conflict. As the girls grow up in war time, we follow them into...

• Feb-2005
• / Contemporary Romance
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Set in the latter part of the 1990s, recently married Anna, her work-orientated sister Emma, and Anna's lodgers -- imaginative Moira and versatile Vicky -- are variously concerned with work, love, and marriage. In their mid-thirties, they must all re...

• Jul-2005
• / Contemporary Romance
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Seven detached houses comprise Heron Close, a rural settlement by the side of an East Anglian estuary. Susan Swann is a young teacher sharing a house with its owner Miss Kant, a retired lecturer. Also on the Close are the elderly Whitwhams, middle-ag...

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• / General Fiction
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Little Emma Eliza Saunders, the eldest child of a poor cottage family in rural south-west Norfolk, grows up in the 1860's with the memory of a boy who befriended her as a toddler but who then vanished from her life. Her village childhood follows the ...

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FIRST FINDS was the story of Jill Brook's Yorkshire childhood and inner life in the 1930s and 1940s. Now, in FIRST LOVES, Jill moves into adolescence and beyond, capturing some of the dreams and preoccupations of early youth and the course of intense...

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• / General Fiction
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• / Romance
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