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Across Oceans: Historical fiction collection
Uprooted from their homes and forced to face the challenges and struggles of adapting to a new world.
These three stand-alone full-length novels are from acclaimed historical fiction author, Clare Flynn. Each novel will transport you across oceans and back in time.
A Greater World takes you to the beautiful Blue Mountains of Australia in the 1920s. Kurinji Flowers to the tea plantations of Southern India in the 1930s and 40s - the last years of British colonial rule. Letters from a Patchwork Quilt to the ugly industrial north of Victorian England and to St Louis, Missouri.
None of the characters went where they had to go by choice, and all faced life–changing challenges. Can love make the difference? Will it stand the course?
Warning – once you start reading you will be up all night.
- GenresHistorical Fiction
1143 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 5, 2018
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About the author
Clare Flynn
46 books227 followersClare Flynn is the author of twety historical novels and a collection of short stories. She is the 2020 winner of the UK Selfies Adult Fiction prize for her best-selling novel The Pearl of Penang, was shortlisted for the RNA Industry Awards Indie Champion of the Year for 2021 and won the award in 2022.
Clare lives in Eastbourne. on the south coast of the UK. She is a fluent Italian speaker and loves spending time in Italy. In her spare time she likes to quilt, paint and travel often and widely as possible.
Clare Flynn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an active member of The Romantic Novelists Association, The Historical Writers Association, The Alliance of Independent Authors and The Society of Authors. More information about her books can be found at www.clareflynn.co.uk
Clare lives in Eastbourne. on the south coast of the UK. She is a fluent Italian speaker and loves spending time in Italy. In her spare time she likes to quilt, paint and travel often and widely as possible.
Clare Flynn is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, an active member of The Romantic Novelists Association, The Historical Writers Association, The Alliance of Independent Authors and The Society of Authors. More information about her books can be found at www.clareflynn.co.uk
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October 25, 2018
Wonderful books
These books are so well written, easy to follow, hard to put down. Each book draws the reader into the emotions of the characters.
These books are so well written, easy to follow, hard to put down. Each book draws the reader into the emotions of the characters.
December 16, 2021
Great reading
I love this author’s nooks as i cannot put them down once i start a book. She writes well about subjects she seems to know real well. I truly recommend her books and i hope i can read them all eventually.
I love this author’s nooks as i cannot put them down once i start a book. She writes well about subjects she seems to know real well. I truly recommend her books and i hope i can read them all eventually.
September 30, 2018
Hopelessly depressing;g
How can an author live with such depressing stories int their Heads? Sorry I was dragged into this low spot
How can an author live with such depressing stories int their Heads? Sorry I was dragged into this low spot
April 17, 2020
Of the three novels in this series, I did like A Greater World, but the last two were bleak, despairing, depressive and dark. The overall feeling reminded me of Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt.
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