Category: Sagas With an International Flavour

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A SEASON OF SECRETS

Beginning in 1915 A Season Secrets is the story of the Fentons, an aristocratic family from Yorkshire. In childhood Thea, Olivia and Violet Fenton, and their American cousin Rozalind, make friends with Carrie Thornton, granddaughter of their father’s old nanny, and Hal, son of one of their father’s tenant farmers. The friendships survive into adulthood and Thea flouts the unwritten rules of her class by embarking on a passionate affair with Hal, and by becoming as fierce a socialist as he is. Olivia is far more conventional and forges friendships with members of the royal family and attends finishing school in Germany. She marries a German, and as Countess von der Schulenburg experiences at first hand the dangerous changes taking place in Germany. Violet becomes an actress, unaware, when she accepts a film contract with the Babelsberg Studios in Berlin that it will lead to her working for British Intelligence. Rozalind, in love with a married man, is a photojournalist whose work takes her into the heart of Hitler’s Germany. As opposing ideologies threaten to drive the Fentons apart it is Carrie who keeps them united, and it is Carrie who finds herself married to the man she has dreamed of marrying ever since her childhood; a man she had thought could never be hers.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘Margaret Pemberton is one of the best saga writers around, writing gritty, gutsy tales.’

Sarah Broadhurst

The Bookseller

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THE FLOWER GARDEN

Nancy Leigh Cameron is beautiful, sought-after, and living a life of deep inner loneliness. Her husband, Senator Jack Cameron, is cold and self-seeking. Her father, the mayor of Boston, needs her socially desirable marriage to last in order to further his own political ambitions. When she is told she has only one more year to live, Nancy decides she will live that year just for herself. Leaving New York for the exclusive hotel of Sanfords on the flower-filled island of Madeira, she embarks on the love affair of a lifetime. She has no idea that Ramon Sanford, the man she loves, is her father’s bitterest enemy, and that their passion will unlock dark family secrets and tragedies that have lain buried for more than a generation.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘A superbly crafted and spellbinding novel of high romance’

Caithness Courier

‘A beautifully haunting tale which is going to appeal to thousands of women.’

Bradford Telegraph & Argus

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SILVER SHADOWS, GOLDEN DREAMS

The only home Daisy Ford has ever known is a Californian orphanage. At sixteen , she resolves to put both the orphanage and her name behind her for good. Quite unaware of her haunting beauty, frighteningly innocent of the harsh ways of the outside world, she makes her way to Hollywood, determined to become an actress in the great tradition of the stars she admired as a child. Becoming known only by the name Valentina, she is helped in her ambition by a young Hungarian director, Vidal Rakoczi. Ahead lies stardom, but the price Daisy pays for it is high, for Vidal is a man with a dark past and a secret; a secret capable of destroying not only his life but, because of their all-consuming passion for each other, Daisy’s life as well. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘A brilliant love story set in the heady days of early Hollywood.’

Yorkshire Evening Post

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NEVER LEAVE ME

In June 1944, in occupied France, the Normandy villagers eagerly await the Allied Invasion. But for Lisette de Valmy, torn between love for her country and her love for a German officer, liberation can bring only pain. Tragedy follows and amid the devastation of war-torn Europe, Lisette has to build her life anew. Willing to be convinced that she can and must love again, she finds herself having to choose between two very different men. But the past still threatens and Lisette must learn to live with a deception begun long ago, a deception that can never be forgotten.
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‘Emotionally gripping and written with storytelling power.’

The Bookseller

‘By the time you finish the first chapter of Margaret Pemberton’s new novel, you will be thoroughly hooked, turning the pages as fast as your eyes can read for she has written a novel of spellbinding intensity.’

Rave Magazine

‘Margaret Pemberton’s compelling tale of love during wartime humanizes the enemy and shows that war affects everyone.’

Booklist

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A MULTITUDE OF SINS

Elizabeth has always been forced to give way to the men in her life. First her father, a lonely, selfish widower who needs her as his companion, then Adam, her middle-aged husband, who carries her off to the brittle world of Hong Kong society, ignoring the burning musical talent she constantly has to repress. In Hong Kong she meets Raefe Elliot, a womaniser and soldier of fortune who repeatedly rocks Hong Kong with his scandals. Between the two of them wild passion explodes into the most shocking scandal of all. As the Japanese prepare to invade Hong Kong Elizabeth at last finds happiness – in her lover, and in her progress as a musician. It is happiness that comes to a cataclysmic end as Hong Kong falls to the Japanese and she and Raefe become fugitives in a war-torn world.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

A Multitude of Sins is a tour-de-force, a novel of sweeping romance and history

–The Romantic Times

‘A spellbinding love story, with all the passion and glory you could wish for. Don’t expect to get other things done; just open a bottle of wine, grab a hankie (or two) read and enjoy.’

Woman’s Journal

‘Takes off passionately, unstoppably. Turbulent stuff.’

Daily Mail

‘Never were heroes more dashing, husbands more devoted, music more exhilarating and bravado more gallant than in this high pitched romance… A rattling good read.’

New Spectrum

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WHITE CHRISTMAS IN SAIGON

It is 1966 and Abbra, a Californian college girl has been married for only a few weeks when her husband, a professional soldier, flies off to fight the Vietcong. Serena is English, the daughter of an earl. Her American playboy husband abandons her on their wedding day and when she next hears of him is a U.S. Army helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Gabrielle, half-Vietnamese and half-French, is a nightclub singer in Paris when she is swept off her feet by a handsome Australian reporter, only to be alone and pregnant when he leaves for Saigon to cover the war. When their husbands are reported missing the three girls find a strength which carries them through despair into hope. Together they set out for Vietnam to find the men they loved – and in doing so find themselves. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘A heartfelt story of heroism.’

More Magazine

‘The compelling, heart-breaking story of three women with nothing in common but the tragedy of war, and one that has been written with passion.’

Maggie Pringle – Today

‘A big novel about three women, their men and the Vietnam, war. With memorable characters, a tough plot, touching loyalties and unpredictable conclusions, It’s great.’

Sarah Broadhurst – The Bookseller

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AN EMBARRASSMENT OF RICHES

In the late 1880’s Maura Sullivan, an illegitimate peasant girl, and Alexander Karolysis, only son of one of the wealthiest men in the newly flourishing city of New York, meet accidentally aboard an emigrant ship to America when Maura is travelling steerage intent on starting a new life for herself, and Alexander is a first-class passenger returning after a Grand Tour of Europe. In Alexander’s absence his father has put an end to his relationship with the girl he is in love with. Full of hatred for his father and with a burning need for revenge, Alexander takes Maura home with him as his bride. Only when it is too late does Maura realise why Alexander has married her – and that the world of rich New York society that she has entered has nothing but contempt for her.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘A gripping story of kinship, hatred and misunderstanding that finally turns to love, written with pace and verve.’

Good Reading

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Zadruga

In Belgrade, in the spring of 1914, neither of the royally-related Karageorgevich sisters have the slightest presentiment of disaster. Seventeen-year-old Natalie is enjoying the danger and secrecy of friendship with young nationalists, eager to free their lands from Habsburg domination. Katerina, her less volatile sister, is deeply and secretly in love with Julian Fielding, a young English diplomat. Then, when accompanying their father on an official visit to Sarajevo, Natalie inadvertently plunges their lives into chaos as she finds herself caught up in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian Empire. The Austrians demand her extradition and Natalie has no choice but to flee the homeland she so passionately loves. She chooses to leave it in a manner that is to prove catastrophic – as the bride of Julian Fielding, the man her sister loves. [/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”25px”][vc_column_text]

‘For a gloriously dramatic saga with lots of grit, try Margaret Pemberton’s ZADRUGA the story of two sisters driven apart by the horror and turmoil of war.’

Today

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