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Cumbrian Saga #1
Bid Time Return
First, there is Louisa - the daughter of a wealthy ironmaster, her life is changed forever when her father remarries. For Susannah and her two daughters resent Louisa, not least for her budding beauty and hoydenish ways. Then there is Rupert - barely eleven when his father marries Elinor, Rupert scarcely knows what a mother is. He was only a few days old when his own died, and throughout his childhood his father has rarely mentioned her. Finally, there is Joanna - an orphan, she has come to Furness from India to seek her family; and finds she has inherited more than a house and a mining business. All three find themselves interwoven in this vividly moving saga of relationships and family ties.
608 pages, Paperback
First published November 5, 2015
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Donna Baker
57 books4 followersaka Nicola West, Lilian Harry,
Donna Thomson was born in Gosport, near Portsmouth Harbour, England, UK. Growing up during the terrifying years of the Blitz in a two-up, two-down terraced house, the youngest of four, she aspired to be a writer from an early age.
As a young woman she worked in the Civil Service and moved to Devon to be near her sailor husband. They had a son and a daughter. When the marriage ended, she and her two children moved to the Midlands, where she happily married again to her second husband. After living in the Lake District for twelve years, she finally moved back to Devon, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor. She lost her son Philip in 2008, and has two grandchildren. A keen walker and animal-lover, she now has a dog and three ginger cats to keep her busy, along with a wide range of hobbies she enjoys.
She started signing her romance novels as Donna Baker and Nicola West, now she also writes as Lilian Harry (inspired by the first names of her grandparents). Among her works are historical novels, romances and even two books giving advice on how to write short stories and novels.
Donna Thomson was born in Gosport, near Portsmouth Harbour, England, UK. Growing up during the terrifying years of the Blitz in a two-up, two-down terraced house, the youngest of four, she aspired to be a writer from an early age.
As a young woman she worked in the Civil Service and moved to Devon to be near her sailor husband. They had a son and a daughter. When the marriage ended, she and her two children moved to the Midlands, where she happily married again to her second husband. After living in the Lake District for twelve years, she finally moved back to Devon, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor. She lost her son Philip in 2008, and has two grandchildren. A keen walker and animal-lover, she now has a dog and three ginger cats to keep her busy, along with a wide range of hobbies she enjoys.
She started signing her romance novels as Donna Baker and Nicola West, now she also writes as Lilian Harry (inspired by the first names of her grandparents). Among her works are historical novels, romances and even two books giving advice on how to write short stories and novels.
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July 24, 2025
3.5 stars. Would have been 4 stars but I just found it too long. I enjoyed the story very much but, just past halfway, I started skipping landscape and interiors' descriptions.
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