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A harrowing tale of despair, hardship and betrayal...
When they were orphaned at a young age, sisters Hannah and Julie had to learn to look after themselves.
Years later and all grown up, Hannah, with her steady job and happy marriage, seems to have fallen on her feet.
The same cant be said for Julie, however. First pregnant at fifteen, and now with three children from three different men and living with a serious drug addiction, she needs help. It's up to Hannah to step in...
but in doing so she discovers, in the most devastating way, that her own life might not be so perfect after all.
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
| Portugal | ASA |
In her compelling new novel, Bernardine Kennedy brilliantly conveys how the damage caused in the past can cause one's life to spiral out of control.
Eleanor Rivington has always felt like an outsider. Abandoned by her mother and brought up in fear of her father, she's desperate to leave home and live like other girls in London in the seventies. When a barman from work invites her to share a flat with him and two of his friends, it is her chance to break free.
But when Eleanor confronts her father the terrible tragedy that follows haunts her forever. And, despite the support of her new friends, Eleanor's life seems destined for further disappointment!
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
Maria Harman finds it hard to keep her intense and mixed up emotions in check when it comes to her family. For things are anything but loving and harmonious in the Harman household. Her bullying and spiteful older brothers, Patrick and Joe, make her life as miserable as possible, encouraged by their mother, Finola, who believes her 'golden boys' can do no wrong. Maria is hardened to Finola's scorn and indifference but deep down craves her mother's love and can't understand why her mother chose to adopt her in the first place. Her only solace comes from her warm-hearted, slow-witted brother, Eddie, and browbeaten father Sam. But when the layers of deception that conceal Maria's true parentage are slowly broken away, the already dysfunctional family is thrown into chaos...
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
Jessica Patterson’s comfortable, settled life seems idyllic and her marriage perfect. She met American Sheldon Patterson on holiday in Mexico and fell for him instantly. Good looking and easy going as well as financially secure, he was everything Jessie wanted in a husband. When they have a son, CJ, her happiness is complete.
Jessie is besotted with her son and her life revolves around him, while his father constantly travels for business. So when Sheldon announces one day that he is going to take CJ away for a few days to Disneyland, Paris – to ‘bond’ with his son – Jessie is persuaded to let them go. Her nightmare begins when they don’t return…
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
| Portugal | ASA |
| Russia | Geleos |
Lucy Cooper seems to have it all – a smart, attractive PR consultant from a wealthy family, she thinks she has met her perfect match in Donovan, a fitness trainer with a body to die for. After a whirlwind romance, she and Donovan marry but it isn’t long before Lucy realises that her new husband is nothing more then a self-obsessed fitness freak. Worse than that, beneath his tanned veneer there lies an ugly and increasingly violent temper.
Marriage to Donovan is turning Lucy into a nervous wreck, eating away at her confidence and putting her career, her health, even her sanity in jeopardy. Lucy knows she has to make a break before he destroys her – and her loved ones – completely.
Hope comes in the form of Fergus Pearson, an Irish-Jamaican motorbike courier and aspiring actor. He’s gentle, laid-back and kind – everything her husband isn’t. They embark on an affair but a freak accident forces Lucy to make a discovery that will turn her whole world upside down…
“A powerful and emotional novel – you’ll be hooked.” Martina Cole
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Pan Macmillan |
A HARD-HITTING AND COMPELLING SECOND NOVEL
In 1975, Vietnamese orphan Cathy Carter arrives in England to begin a new life. For ten years, her childhood in the New Forest is idyllic – until a terrible fire sweeps through her home. Her adoptive parents are killed but Cathy’s strange and uncommunicative twin sisters rescue her.
As the twins become more absorbed in themselves and in witchcraft, Cathy joins a local theatre group where she is stantly besotted with Nico, the charismatic forty-year-old director. Nico is attracted to the pretty young girl – particularly when he discovers she will inherit a fortune. And on her sixteenth birthday, Nico blackmails the twins into allowing Cathy to marry him. But their marriage quickly turns sour. Nico is not what he seems and his dark secrets soon come to light. After years of degradation and humiliation, Cathy knows her only salvation – and the only way to protect her daughter – is to disappear…
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
| Sweden | Egmont Richter |
*** A WH SMITH FRESH TALENT AUTHOR ***
When Louise Jermaine’s adored father returns to Barbados, she has to grow up fast with little help from her selfish and depressive mother. The comfortable home of her best friend offers some sanctuary – until her abusive stepfather hurts her so deeply that she vows to escape from her past and never return.
Alone, traumatised and just fifteen, she reinvents herself as Angie Kavanagh and begins a new life. Discovering a talent for journalism, she moves to London and works her way to the top as interviewer of the rich and famous.
Years later, Rebekah Alari, supermodel, It-Girl and spoilt rich kid is one of the celebrities whose lives she is invited to examine. Rebekah is a young girl with all the advantages Angie lacked, but as their paths cross again and again Angie sees that Rebekah'’ life is not as glamorous as she pretends.
Angie seems to have achieved the happiness she has always yearned for, but her life is littered with emotional obstacles from her childhood. She can never reveal her true self, even to her lover, and however hard she tries, she finds it impossible to leave the past behind…
“Trust me on this one. It’s a corker.” The Express
| Territory | Publisher/Agent |
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| World | Darley Anderson Agency |
| UK & Commonwealth | Headline |
| Greece | Oceanida |