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GREAT POSSESSIONS
Her wealth gave her glamour and position - and took away love.
The gypsy Thirza predicted a wealthy but difficult life for her granddaughter Eleanor "Lonnie" Dunwell, an illegitimate working class girl. In 1921 her prediction comes true: Lonnie unexpectedly inherits five million dollars, and her safe world falls tragically apart. At seventeen, well brought up but starved of affection, she falls into the unscrupulous hands of a charming, attractive American lawyer.
As Lonnie is whisked around 1930s London, she discovers cocktail parties, adultery, politics and heartbreak. Slowly, a secret determination grows: to escape this unreal life and find her one true love. This rags to riches drama depicts the great and unexpected inheritance which comes between the wars.
The gypsy Thirza predicted a wealthy but difficult life for her granddaughter Eleanor "Lonnie" Dunwell, an illegitimate working class girl. In 1921 her prediction comes true: Lonnie unexpectedly inherits five million dollars, and her safe world falls tragically apart. At seventeen, well brought up but starved of affection, she falls into the unscrupulous hands of a charming, attractive American lawyer.
As Lonnie is whisked around 1930s London, she discovers cocktail parties, adultery, politics and heartbreak. Slowly, a secret determination grows: to escape this unreal life and find her one true love. This rags to riches drama depicts the great and unexpected inheritance which comes between the wars.
345 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 1989
About the author
Kate Alexander
41 books2 followersTilly Armstrong was born on 8th April 1927 in Sutton, Surrey, England, UK. She was a born storyteller and used to tell made-up stories to her siblings at bedtime. She loved writing and was always trying to find enough time for this while pursuing an interesting career. She worked for a time with the World Health Organisation in Geneva, then in Canada for eighteen months and afterwards, back home, she became the Personal Secretary to the Chairman of British Steel, Lord Melchett. Writing success did not come easily, with many early disappointments, but she was very determined and kept on trying.
Tilly published her romance novels from 1978 to 1998, as Tilly Armstrong and under the pseudonyms of Tania Langley and Kate Alexander, her novels set in World War II were especially popular. Apart from over twenty novels she had published also short stories.
Tilly was the fourteenth elected Chairman (1987-1989) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and was one of its Vice-Presidents until her death. She negotiated the first commercial sponsorship for the RNA Novel of the Year award, from Boots. She was also President of Sutton Writers.
Retired from professional writing, Tilly took a keen interest in floral art. At 83, she passed away on 6th July 2010 at Carshalton, England, UK.
Tilly published her romance novels from 1978 to 1998, as Tilly Armstrong and under the pseudonyms of Tania Langley and Kate Alexander, her novels set in World War II were especially popular. Apart from over twenty novels she had published also short stories.
Tilly was the fourteenth elected Chairman (1987-1989) of the Romantic Novelists' Association, and was one of its Vice-Presidents until her death. She negotiated the first commercial sponsorship for the RNA Novel of the Year award, from Boots. She was also President of Sutton Writers.
Retired from professional writing, Tilly took a keen interest in floral art. At 83, she passed away on 6th July 2010 at Carshalton, England, UK.
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December 28, 2008
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It was not Flynn's fault that at nineteen she felt as dried-out as the ostrich egg Margot kept in her drawing room, gaily painted, fragile and empty. p232
Lonnie cupped her hand round one of the flowers, feeling the coolness of the petals and breathing in the fragrance that rose from its golden heart, and felt comforted. She ought not to have needed comfort; most people would have seen her as the luckiest girl in the world, but Lonnie knew that always, except when she was holding Rosemary [child] or was completely swept away by the sexual passion of which she was vaguely ashamed, there was something missing in her life, an empty place waiting to be filled. p226
[cliche i know]
It was not Flynn's fault that at nineteen she felt as dried-out as the ostrich egg Margot kept in her drawing room, gaily painted, fragile and empty. p232
Lonnie cupped her hand round one of the flowers, feeling the coolness of the petals and breathing in the fragrance that rose from its golden heart, and felt comforted. She ought not to have needed comfort; most people would have seen her as the luckiest girl in the world, but Lonnie knew that always, except when she was holding Rosemary [child] or was completely swept away by the sexual passion of which she was vaguely ashamed, there was something missing in her life, an empty place waiting to be filled. p226
[cliche i know]
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