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THE CRIMSON ROOMS
Living at home with her mother, grandmother and aunt, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. She is also determined to make a career for herself as one of the first female lawyers. So when the doorbell rings late one night, and a woman appears, claiming to have mothered James's child, her world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but also finds that this new arrival challenges her work obsessed lifestyle. So far her legal career has not set the world alight. But then two cases arise that make Evelyn realise perhaps she can make a difference. The first concerns a woman called Leah Marchant, whose children were taken away from her simply because she is poor. The second, Stephen Wheeler, has been charged with murdering his own wife. It is clear that Wheeler is innocent, but he won't talk. Meanwhile, Meredith makes an earth shattering accusation about James, and Evelyn falls in love with a man engaged to be married. With the Wheeler case coming to a head, and her heart in limbo, Evelyn takes matters into her own hands.......
THE COMPLETE NOVELS OF JANE AUSTEN
Enduring popular, treasured and enjoyed, here in one volume are the seven great novels of Jane Austen:
Sense and Sensibility;
Pride and Prejudice;
Mansfield Park;
Emma;
Northanger Abbey;
Persuasion; and
Lady Susan.
Few novelists have conveyed the subtleties and nuances of their own
social milieu with the wit and insight of Jane Austen. Through her
vivacious and spirited heroines and their circle, she paints vivid
portraits of English middle-class life as the eighteenth century came to
a close. Each of the novels is a love story and a story about marriage
- marriage for love, for financial security, for social status.
But they are not mere romances; ironic, comic and wise, they are
masterly studies of the society Jane Austen observed. The seven novels
in this volume contain some of the most brilliant, dazzling prose in the
English language.
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