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Voices in a Haunted Room (Daughters of England #11)
Raised in the grand chateau of Tourville, lovely young Claudine, with her widowed mother, had fled the solitude of the French countryside as revolution torched it, sparking flames that would forever alter the landscape, their destiny, and the face of history itself.
Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of...more
Warmly ensconced and safe from harm in her mother's ancestral English home, Claudine discovers a new kind of...more
Hardcover, 335 pages
Published
April 30th 1984
by Putnam Adult
(first published 1984)
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Die junge Französin Claudine zieht zu Verwandten auf deren englischen Landsitz. Doch schon bald befindet sie sich im Widerstreit ihrer Gefühle: Sie kann sich nicht zwischen ihren beiden Stiefbrüdern entscheiden. Ein fatales Dreiecksverhältnis entsteht
Die junge Französin Claudine zieht zu Verwandten auf deren englischen Landsitz. Doch schon bald befindet sie sich im Widerstreit ihrer Gefühle: Sie kann sich nicht zwischen ihren beiden Stiefbrüdern entscheiden. Ein fatales Dreiecksverhältnis entsteht
This was my favourite book when I was 13! I recently found it again and reread it having not read it in full for a good decade. I remember it being very racy and naughty but now I found it a little...sedate ;) having said that it has lost none of its charm. I just found that I didn't like the heroine as much as I did back then, and the writing does lack vitality and oomph in places. The period it covers (England during the french revolution) is interesting but it was definitely nostalgia for my...more
Jun 22, 2011
Tammie Elliott
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book 11
Overall I guess I liked the story, kind of like a spy novel, but you don't know that at first. It was more of a love triangle between the heroine and her 2 suitors who happened to be twins but of totally different natures. It did hold my interest although it lagged in a few places, but I enjoyed the read.
This is another book in Philippa Carr's Daughters of England series. With each book I read, I understand the family better and like each book better than the other.
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Eleanor Alice Burford, Mrs. George Percival Hibbert was a British author of about 200 historical novels, most of them under the pen name Jean Plaidy which had sold 14 million copies by the time of her death. She chose to use various names because of the differences in subject matter between her books; the best-known, apart from Plaidy, are Victoria Holt (56 million) and Philippa Carr (3 million)....more
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