1994, ISBN: 9781250040312

St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the ma… Mehr…

St. Martin's Press. Hardcover. POOR. Noticeably used book. Heavy wear to cover. Pages contain marginal notes, underlining, and or highlighting. Possible ex library copy, with all the markings/stickers of that library. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, and dust jackets may not be included., St. Martin's Press, 1, New York: Putnam Adult, 1985-01-14. Hardcover. Fair/Good. 9x6x1. 308 pages; ex-library with usual markings, edge and corner wear, spine cocked, jacket edges wrinkled; Do we make our own destinies? Can we alter the courses of our lives?Cynthia Freeman’s New York Times bestselling novel will resonate with anyone who has ever dreamed of a second chanceTwenty-five years ago, Martin Roth made the most difficult decision of his life. He gave up the girl he loved, married a different woman, and raised a family. But he’s just been given another shot at happiness.Sylvia has loved Martin since she was a young girl. They have two great children and a wonderful life together—until a love from Martin’s past threatens everything she’s worked so hard to build.Jenny McCoy can’t believe she and Martin have found each other again—but she’s never gotten over his cruel betrayal. Is she ready to forgive the sins of the past for a second chance?Moving between countries and across time, Illusions of Love tells the story of a man, his heritage, and the crisis of faith that brings his life to a crossroads., Putnam Adult, 1985-01-14, 2.25, St Martins Pr, 1994-05-01. Hardcover. Good. 031210944X JR13318 Good/Good c. 1993, blue bds. w/price clipped d.j., 518pp., (shelf wear, corners bumped, page ends soiled, some pages creased to corners, some lt.crinkling and half moons from page turning, some page soiling, binding good, d.j. taped to bds., lt.edge wear, mylar cover, lt.rubbing).From Publishers WeeklyIn post-WW II England a frightened young girl comes to maturity and love in this sensitive historical/fantasy by the author of First Love, Last Love. Having been stranded in Italy at the beginning of the war, Questa Adamson spent years narrowly evading the Fascists and enduring near-starvation and brutalization by German soldiers. At age 17 she returns to her native land and learns that she has inherited the nearly ruined Shropshire estate of Eagle Court. Her short-lived tranquility is disturbed by the arrival of her father's old friend, Grace Syrett, seeking refuge from London's housing shortage for herself and her young son, Dickie. While the women reach an uneasy truce, Questa falls into swoons in which she finds love with a mysterious neighbor, a young Roman named Marcus who lived in the area 20 centuries previously. She also befriends a modern neighbor, elderly, crippled Randolph Atherton, who teaches her how to farm her land. When disaster strikes, Questa manages to find the strength to surmount her troubles and embrace a new love who seems to be Marcus's legacy. Saxon paints a vivid picture of life in postwar England, its inhabitants bitterly struggling with shortages and other deprivations. Her attempt to integrate Questa's dreamworld of Roman Britain is never fully convincing, however.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.From Library JournalIn 1947, 17-year-old Questa Adamson returns to England from Italy, where she has spent the war years living in hiding with relatives of her long-dead mother. Questa's father has died in combat, but she remembers his fond tales of youthful summers spent on his uncle's Shropshire estate, which Questa has inherited. Despite her halting English, malnutrition, and fear of strangers, Questa insists on living in the rundown manor and attempts to restore the farm to productivity. She is aided by neighbors and former servants who knew her father. But equally important are her mysterious dreams and visions of life in the region during the Roman occupation of Britain. Through her dreams, Questa slowly regains confidence and even develops enough trust to fall in love. The connections with the Roman era, central to certain plot developments, require a major suspension of disbelief. For romance readers comfortable with dollops of time-slip fantasy.- Kathy Piehl, Mankato State Univ., Minn.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.From BooklistFrom the misery of war-torn Italy a young woman finds solace in the hills of Wales above the ravaged ancestral home that is all she has left to remind her of her father, a casualty of the First World War, and his family. Everyone tells Questa to sell the home and find an apartment, but after years of hiding and working on the land in Italy, farming comes naturally to her. On her first night alone in the house, Questa also meets family from more than 1,000 years ago, a Roman centurion as bewildered as she about how to cultivate this area. Throughout the novel, Questa time travels (in her dreams?), and she falls in love with the man from long ago. Meanwhile she spruces the old place up while suffering further setbacks from fire, death, and other disasters. Only after she falls in love in her own time does she discover the truth of her visions from the past. Questa's visits with the past just happen, as matter-of-factly as the rain falls and the garden grows in this vigorous historical fiction. Saxton's fans will rave. Denise Perry DonavinFrom Kirkus ReviewsFrom the author of First Love, Last Love (1993) and a number of other romances comes this oddly lackluster story of a young orphan set in the English countryside during the post-WW II period. After spending several years hiding among peasants in Italy, Questa Adamson returns to England to find her father dead and herself the inheritor of his country estate, Eagles Court. The place is a ruin, but with the help of a crusty but lovable old caretaker and her son, Questa attempts to put it in order and get the farm up and running once more. Though she's barely 18, Questa has sworn off men for good after some terrible experiences with German soldiers during the war. But she has vivid dreams of a young lover named Marcus, who inhabited her land some 2,000 years ago. These dream sequences are barely credible and not well integrated into the story, so that their presence is like an annoying tic rather than an evocative refrain. Meanwhile, during her waking hours, Questa contends with the ups and downs of farm life and befriends an older man who owns the neighboring estate. It turns out he has a son named Martin, who bears a striking resemblance to Questa's dream lover. As she falls in love with Martin, the memories of her dreams grow less and less insistent. There's a resolution that ties the dream world to the waking one, though it's not at all satisfactory. As a romance, the book is even more of a dud: Since one of the obstacles placed before Questa is the need to overcome her revulsion toward men, it's more than a little frustrating that the novel ends with her preparing for her wedding day, leaving the reader to imagine the culmination of physical love. -- Copyright ?, St Martins Pr, 1994-05-01, 2.5, St. Martin's Press. Used - Very Good. . Former Library book.. All orders guaranteed and ship within 24 hours. Your purchase supports More Than Words, a nonprofit job training program for youth, empowering youth to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business., St. Martin's Press, 3<

2014, ISBN: 9781250040312

St. Martin's Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 261 Seiten, Publiziert: 2014-06-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.01 kg, Familienromane, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien,… Mehr…

St. Martin's Press, Gebundene Ausgabe, 261 Seiten, Publiziert: 2014-06-24T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Buch, 1.01 kg, Familienromane, Unterhaltungsliteratur, Literatur & Fiktion, Kategorien, Bücher, Zeitgenössische Frauenliteratur, Familienleben, Schwestern, St. Martin's Press, 2014<