Maisie Mosco
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A family's survival depends on their unbreakable bond…
The Sandberg family arrive in England having fled Russia to avoid persecution. It is 1905, and in their new home of Manchester they soon discover that hardships can come in many forms. It's a friendship with their neighbours, the Moritz family, that finally makes them feel at ease.
As the two families' become increasingly intertwined, it is eldest son David who finds the culture of his...
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In a changing world is there room for tradition as well as new ways?
Alison Plantaine was born to the theatre. As a child the life she knew was one of back-stage dramas and highly-charged emotions. The desire to perform is in her Plantaine blood. But when Alison learns about her secret heritage it makes her question the path she has chosen.
Meanwhile, tastes are changing and the family passion for acting is losing touch with trends. A war is...
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They found a home, but can they ever be safe?
Thirty years have passed since the Sandberg family arrived in Manchester, penniless and bewildered, after fleeing certain death in Russia. Sarah and Abraham'schildren have forgotten the poverty and struggles of their youth and their grandchildren have never known such hardship.
But the prosperity that has come with their adopted country has brought other problems. Sons David and Nathan have to face the...
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Is there any such thing as a stable family?
As Marianne strives to balance the demands of her career against the need to hold her family together, it is memories of her grandmother, Sarah, that fill her mind. Marianne is determined to maintain the loyalty and values that she fears the younger generation have lost, but this is no easy task.
As tragedy befalls her actor nephew, the havoc wreaked by a disturbed child and her son's marriage erodes,...
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From "the undisputed queen of her genre," a family saga continuing the story of two Jewish families in northern England bonded by a history of hardship (The Jewish Chronicle).
Shortly into the twentieth century, the Sandberg and Moritz families were thrown together in their adopted city of Manchester. Now, the grandchildren of those immigrants are on the cusp of adulthood and the cracks are starting to show. The family elders are outraged at...
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A new generation grapples with their legacy....
A.P., the grandson of the Jewish matriarch, Marianne, has inherited his Catholic mother's family title and finds himself questioning the wealth and privilege that is suddenly his.
Meanwhile, his cousins, Janis, Jeremy and Bessie, are left a fortune when their parents are killed by a car bomb and Jeremy's search for the assassin has far-reaching consequences for all the family…
The final book in...
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The post-War shadows are receding – but will they ever disappear?
Love and loss, success and failure, the joy of motherhood and the anguish of rejection – these are the patterns woven into Alison Plantaine's life. But her dedication to the theatre has ensured that her first loyalty will always be to her career. Her son Richard, is old enough to understand that for all her talent Alison most struggles to play the role of mother. Now, having been...
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She has success but at what price?
The year is 1930 and Alison Plantaine is a star. She is thirty, and in the full bloom of her stage career. But she is lonely, and for years no man had been able to compete with the pace and intensity of her life.
Only when she visits Berlin does she find a passion to rival the theatre. She falls madly in love with Richard Lindemann, who opens her eyes to what is happening around her. He shows her the dangers that...