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The Valentine House

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(464 Pages)
Product Number: LP4137
Released: 01 Sep, 2017
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ISBN: #9781510077836
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

June, 1914: Sir Anthony Valentine, a keen mountaineer, arrives with his family to spend the summer in their chalet, high in the French Alps. Fourteen-year-old foundling Mathilde starts work as one of the 'uglies' - village girls employed as servants and picked, it is believed, to ensure they don't catch Sir Anthony's roving eye. For Mathilde it is the start of a life-long entanglement with ‘les anglais’ – strange and exciting people. Except she soon finds the Valentines are less carefree than they appear, with a curiously absent daughter no one talks about. It will be decades - disrupted by war, accidents and a cruel betrayal - before Mathilde discovers the key to the mystery…

Author(s): Emma Henderson
Original Publish Date: 01 Sep, 2017

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Author(s): Emma Henderson
Narrator(s): Karen Cass
Product Number D6153
Released: 01 Jan, 2019
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528851619
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Author(s): Emma Henderson
Narrator(s): Karen Cass
Product Number MPCD3862
Released: 01 Jan, 2019
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528851626
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Author(s): Emma Henderson
Narrator(s): Karen Cass
Product Number CX4935
Released: 01 Jan, 2019
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Publisher: W F Howes
ISBN: #9781528851602

Professional reviews

"“Gripping and poignant, it is also a passionate love letter to a landscape that has captivated the author.” ELIZABETH BUCHAN, bestselling author of I Can’t Begin to Tell You. “I was totally seduced by this vivid, complex and enthralling novel.” FANNY BLAKE, bestselling author of The Secrets Women Keep."

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