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Can the secrets of one woman's past change another woman's future? Endsleigh House stands, crumbling and gracious, on the south-west coast of England, its rooms shut up and dusty. But what secrets do they hold? Cate, an exile from New York, is sent to help value the contents of the once-grand... read more
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- Rachel: Add a description of this character.
- Jack
- Irene Blythe
- Katie
- Paul
- Alice
- Cate
- Anna
- Anne Marie
- Baby Blythe
- Mrs Williams
- Diana Blythe
- Mr Syms
- Mr Coates
- Derek Constantine
- Nicholas Warburton
- Muv
- Sam
- Julia
- Jo
- Mayfair
- Ryan
- Hailey
- Wren
- Nick
- Benedict Blythe
- Lady Avondale
- Henry
- Rothermere
- Malcolm
- Suzanne
- Theodore
- Diplock
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“'It's strange, isn't it?... That's what everyone says - "I'm so sorry." And I say,"Thank you", like I was buying a pint of mild in a shop. It's somehow...wrong, inadequate, that it should be reduced to that. And in the end, the whole thing gets reduced down to a single sentence. "That was the year my wife died."'”
Jack Coates -
“And yet she was undeniably compelling. When she moved, his gaze followed. When she spoke, he found himself leaning forward, not just to hear what she had to say, but to catch what she didn't; the spaces between her thoughts, which seemed to reveal even more. There was a transparency about her; a glassy fragility in spite of all her defences. His instinct was to protect it.”
Jack, thoughts on Cate -
“Despite her golden appearance, she was fast, dark and mutable; like mercury. He couldn't get a grip on her at all.”
Jack, thoughts on Cate -
“'I've spent more hours here than I have in my own home! It takes over your life, looking after people.'”
Jo -
“'But art isn't jist about beauty. It's about truth. And I for one don't believe the two are always related.'”
Theo -
“It was as if he needed to own a part of everything she did. He would love her passionately, greedily. But she would pay for it with little pieces of herself.”
Cate thoughts of Alex Munroe
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‘He also said that in forgiving the other person, you were left with the most difficult bit of all: forgiving yourself. He said, ‘You’re angry at yourself for being vulnerable. For not being able to protect yourself.’
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“And then you’ll know what freedom really is. You will have chosen your own life, even in the most difficult of circumstances.”
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First Sentence edit
In the heart of the City of London, tucked into one of the winding streets behind Gray's Inn Square and Holborn Station, there's a narrow passage known as Jockey's Fields.
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- Kathleen Tessaro (Author)
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Page Count: 386
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Page Count: 386
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- Library of Congress: PS3620.E776 D43 2010
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