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Larksghyll
The sweeping saga of passion and tragedy in nineteenth-century Yorkshire.
In a story of passion, romance, and revenge set in nineteenth-century England, Delphine Craven discovers the truth behind the crime that brought her family to ruin, the meaning of a skull charm, and a love that will alter her life forever.
In a story of passion, romance, and revenge set in nineteenth-century England, Delphine Craven discovers the truth behind the crime that brought her family to ruin, the meaning of a skull charm, and a love that will alter her life forever.
- GenresRomance
336 pages, Paperback
First published May 12, 1986
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Constance Heaven
41 books16 followersConstance Fecher Heaven
aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin
Constance Fecher was born on 6 August 1911 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK. She was educated at the Convent of Woodford Green, Essex from 1921 to 1928, when she went to study at King's College London, where she obtained a Honours degree in English in 1931. In 1931, she also graduated from London College of Music.
In 5 November 1939, she married William Heaven, who died in 1958. She was an actress from 1939 to 1966.
First published in 1963, she started writing historical novels with young protagonists under her maiden name Constance Fecher. From 1972, she signed her more romantic novels using her married name, Constance Heaven. She also used the pseudonym of Christina Merlin.
In 1973, her novel "The House of Kuragin" was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and years later she was elected the eleventh Chairman (1981-1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Mrs. Heaven continued writing until her death in 1995.
aka Constance Fecher, Constance Heaven, Christina Merlin
Constance Fecher was born on 6 August 1911 in Enfield, Middlesex, London, England, UK. She was educated at the Convent of Woodford Green, Essex from 1921 to 1928, when she went to study at King's College London, where she obtained a Honours degree in English in 1931. In 1931, she also graduated from London College of Music.
In 5 November 1939, she married William Heaven, who died in 1958. She was an actress from 1939 to 1966.
First published in 1963, she started writing historical novels with young protagonists under her maiden name Constance Fecher. From 1972, she signed her more romantic novels using her married name, Constance Heaven. She also used the pseudonym of Christina Merlin.
In 1973, her novel "The House of Kuragin" was the Winner of the Romantic Novel of the Year Award, and years later she was elected the eleventh Chairman (1981-1983) of the Romantic Novelists' Association. Mrs. Heaven continued writing until her death in 1995.
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September 16, 2018
This is an old-fashioned love story, with a few different twists and turns.
When Della's father is convicted of a crime he says he is innocent of, and deported, she is left alone in London with nothing.
She takes a job she is not really qualified for, in Yorkshire, in the hope she can get by and also to invetigate her ancestral home of which her father abandoned.
The Yorkshire moors are beautifully described and the characters vividly protrayed.
As a school teacher to the mill worker's children she learns how to suvive.
But as she starts to fall in love with her employer, although she knows she should leave, she is torn between destitution, her employer's beautiful and arrogant wife, and searching for the reasons Larksghyll House is no longer a sanctuary for her.
Several tragedies are the background to this tale of passion and revenge and it doesen't conclude with a happy ending for all.
When Della's father is convicted of a crime he says he is innocent of, and deported, she is left alone in London with nothing.
She takes a job she is not really qualified for, in Yorkshire, in the hope she can get by and also to invetigate her ancestral home of which her father abandoned.
The Yorkshire moors are beautifully described and the characters vividly protrayed.
As a school teacher to the mill worker's children she learns how to suvive.
But as she starts to fall in love with her employer, although she knows she should leave, she is torn between destitution, her employer's beautiful and arrogant wife, and searching for the reasons Larksghyll House is no longer a sanctuary for her.
Several tragedies are the background to this tale of passion and revenge and it doesen't conclude with a happy ending for all.
May 7, 2014
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