Voices from the Sea

by EvelynHood (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $4.35

  When Eppie Watt's husband is tragically drowned at sea, leaving her penniless with Charlotte, a young daughter, Eppie takes the post of housekeeper to Alexander, a wealthy widower. In the same house are Alexander's son and daughter, and his domineering mother. Alexander sees a way to escape his mother by proposing to Eppie. That would suit her too as he is willing to take on Charlotte as his own. She accepts but finds it causes more problems...The mother gossips to the villagers that Eppie is a gold digger; Alexander, now free of his mother, becomes domineering himself; Alexander quarrels with his son over a career and with his daughter who has been spoiled by her grandmother and is now self-willed and rebellious and the daughter takes it out on Charlotte, Eppie's daughter. Life is difficult for Eppie and she is fighting a losing battle. And when she meets Foy, a quarryman, she is very much drawn to him...

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  Paperback
  2008

  $3.22

  Voices From the Sea: It is 1865. Eppie, a young widow with a child to bring up can't believe her luck when she gets the position of housekeeper to wealthy widower Alexander Geddes. He and his teenage son, Duncan, are a dream to work for, but daughter Lydia is moody, spoiled and temperamental - and convinced that Eppie has designs on Alexander. And there are tensions elsewhere in the household, especially when Duncan returns home with a stranger hiding a mysterious past ...Staying On: For the duration of the Second World War, the Island of Bute has been home to flame-haired Mollie McCabe, her mother, sister and two brothers. So when the war ends and her brutal, bullying father comes to take his family back to Glasgow, the McCabes are loathe to leave. But now peace has broken out, the community can no longer afford to give the McCabes the same warm welcome. And tensions boil over when Mollie is on the receiving end of local man Angus Scott's sharp tongue - a sharpness that hides a burning, unrequited passion ...

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  Paperback
  2007

  $10.45

  It is 1865 and Eppie, a young widow with a child to bring up, can't believe her luck when she gets the position of housekeeper to wealthy widower Alexander Geddes. He and his teenage son, Duncan, are a dream to work for, but daughter Lydia is moody, spoiled and temperamental - and convinced that Eppie has designs on Alexander. But Eppie is no gold-digger and Alexander Geddes has intentions that are purely honourable. Intentions that begin to lean in the direction of Lydia's governess - Eppie's sister Marion.

  Yet although the attraction is mutual, its development is slow. For there are other tensions not only in the household but also in the community. Refusing to train as a physician, Duncan is set on following his heart's desire, to side with his stepmother's kin and pursue his dreams of quarrying the precious local marble. Eppie, now almost a member of the family, feels partly responsible for the rift between father and son. She feels even more responsible when Duncan returns home with a stranger who has a mysterious past . . .