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2010 - Guernsey "I think she's coming round, Anna. I'm sure I saw her blink.  Mum. It's Liz and Anna... your granddaughter....

  On the morning Blossom brought the news that the Pardner Lady, also known as Constance Margorie Brown, was dead, Miss Hortense had not lon...

  As Marie-Claire held her precious baby in her arms, and Benjamin wrapped them both in his embrace, the new parents quietly cried, overwhel...

  In the hours of darkness, the streets and lanes around Dressmakers' Alley could seem dark and frightening, but the two men creeping li...

  My mother has always told her stories perfectly. When her grandchildren were little, they would long to stay overnight at her house - in p...

  Other people, when forced to start over, do so in appropriate places. New York. Los Angeles. Bozeman. Only Flair would wind up in Kansas, ...

  I look at the tiny fingers of a newborn baby and try to understand how they could possibly grow into the fingers of a killer. The dead boy...

    I was born in the midst of a storm, when the waves rose so high up the cliffs of Tintagel it was feared the entire castle would be dragg...

  On the scale of catastrophic things in the world, being a twenty-nine year old virgin isn't that bad. It's not like losing a loved...

  The king's first child, and his great hope as the rightful ruler of the two island kingdoms, Prince Henry, was born in Stirling Castle...

  Fluffy was a guinea pig, but not just any guinea pig! He was young, clever, brave and adventurous. If Fluffy had been a man, he would have...

  It is Tom who hears them first. She has been watching him run up and down the grassy margins at the edge of the field, his arms flung wide...