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Dinah Jefferies 3-Book Collection
Dinah Jefferies 3-Book Collection
May 8, 2025 12:25 AM

Author:Dinah Jefferies

Dinah Jefferies 3-Book Collection

*Bestselling author Dinah Jefferies' first three novels now together in one e-book*

The Separation

Malaya, 1955. Lydia Cartwright returns from visiting a sick friend to an empty house. The servants are gone. The phone is dead. Where is her husband Alec? Her young daughters, Emma and Fleur? Lydia's search takes her on a hazardous journey through war-torn jungle. Forced to turn to Jack Harding, a man she'd vowed to leave in her past, she sacrifices everything to be reunited with her family.

The Tea Planter's Wife

Nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper steps off a steamer in Ceylon full of optimism, eager to join her new husband. But the man who greets her at the tea plantation is not the same one she fell in love with in London. Distant and brooding, Laurence spends long days wrapped up in his work, leaving his young bride to explore the plantation alone. It's a place filled with clues to the past - locked doors, a yellowed wedding dress in a dusty trunk, an overgrown grave hidden in the grounds, far too small for an adult...

The Silk Merchant's Daughter

1952, French Indochina. Since her mother's death, eighteen-year-old half-French, half-Vietnamese Nicole has been living in the shadow of her beautiful older sister, Sylvie. When Sylvie is handed control of the family silk business, Nicole is given an abandoned silk shop in the Vietnamese quarter of Hanoi, an area teeming with militant rebels. Tran, a notorious Vietnamese insurgent, seems to offer the perfect escape from her troubles, while Mark, a charming American trader, is the man she's always dreamed of. But who can she trust in this world where no one is what they seem?

'Dinah Jefferies is a gifted writer and storyteller' Deborah Rodriguez

'Dinah Jefferies has a remarkable gift for conjuring up another time and place with lush descriptions, full of power and intensity' Kate Furnivall

Reviews

The immensely funny and heartwarming number one bestseller tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life - but will she have the courage to take it?

—— from the publisher's description

Praise for About Last Night. . .

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Warm, witty and wise

—— Daily Mail

An easy, entertaining and enjoyable read, About Last Night raises some modern moral dilemmas . . . and a little lust too!

—— Living Edge Magazine

Laugh-out-loud

—— Press Association

A great, optimistic springtime read

—— WI Life

Frothy and fun

—— Sunday Mirror

An engaging, light-hearted romp

—— Sunday Express

Just as enjoyable as previous novels. A wonderfully easy read

—— Daily Mail

Praise for Catherine Alliott

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Her writing is both intelligent and sparkling

—— Marian Keyes

Compulsively readable

—— The Times

Hilarious and full of surprises

—— Daily Telegraph

A fun, fast-paced page-turner

—— OK

An addictive cocktail of wit, frivolity and madcap romance

—— Time Out

Classy, wonderfully gossipy and breathless

—— Red

We defy you not to get caught up in Alliott's life-changing tale

—— Heat

Beguiling and heartbreaking.

—— Richard Skinner

Terrific . . . A beautiful story.

—— Samantha Shannon, author of The Bone Season

What a wonderful book.

—— Claire Douglas, author of The Sisters

A stand-out read, I'll be recommending it to everyone.

—— James Oswald, author of Natural Causes

insanely brilliant

—— Gillian McAllister

pacy, thrilling and very original. The plot is fabulous

—— Askews Newsletter

A page-turning psychological thriller with a difference, this is guaranteed to keep you on the edge of your seat.

—— Irish Examiner

An extremely good short novel about a teenage boy from Dublin… This is really very good indeed.

—— William Leith , Evening Standard

Their love affair, across divisions of class and age, is brilliantly, painfully told. Although Montpelier Parade is – amazingly – Geary’s debut novel, he already knows how to play with the reader’s feelings like a pro. He’s one to watch.

—— James Marriott , The Times

It’s written throughout in the second person, a device that sounds tricksy and ought to jar, but Geary’s deft way with words makes it work. Staggeringly good.

—— Simon Shaw , Mail on Sunday

Wow, for a debut book, this blew me away. It is a beautiful, lyrical, almost poetic story of first love, the passion and heartbreak of loss and finding out who you are… The writing just made me sigh (in a good way) and I cannot wait to read Karl’s next book. As this is only a slim book, it will haunt the reader, and for me, it will always have a place in my heart. It is a book to treasure and to tell your friends and family about. It’s one to keep and one to reread, just because.

—— Angie Rhodes , Nudge

It’s a sensitively told love story and an evocative picture of rainy, gritty 1980s Dublin. Geary is a writer to keep an eye on.

—— James Marriott , The Times

Geary’s use of the second person is unfaltering and brilliantly sustained, it creates an intimacy and intensity that is utterly absorbing.

—— Claire Allfree , Daily Mail

A quietly moving story of two lost souls in 1980s Dublin.

—— Sarah Gilmartin , Irish Times

The Summer of Impossible Things is that rare thing: a deftly crafted, utterly compelling story written entirely from the heart. Hauntingly beautiful, heart-rending and unique, this is an instant classic. I sobbed my heart out and adored it!

—— Miranda Dickinson

GORGEOUS. It's so moving and romantic and I want to re-read it immediately

—— Louise O'Neill

Definitely more Time Traveller’s Wife than Dr Who

—— Good Housekeeping

Packs an emotional punch that's second to none - and the author's hallmark. Rowan Coleman picks you up, spins you around and dances you to the very edge of love. Glorious

—— Sarah Hilary

Powerfully moving, vivid, glowing with love and humanity... I loved every word

—— Rosie Walsh

The Summer of Impossible Things is utterly beautiful and engrossing - and Coleman is a brilliant storyteller

—— Eve Chase

I fell into the pages of this beautiful book, vivid, emotional, and so very evocative, it was an utter joy from first page to last

—— Amanda Jennings

THE SUMMER OF IMPOSSIBLE THINGS is truly a thing of great beauty.'

—— Paul Burston

The pages turn themselves in this perfect summer read. Rowan Coleman has written a time-bending mystery with a huge heart. I loved it

—— Paul McVeigh

The Summer of Impossible Things is captivating, thought-provoking and beautifully written. Rowan Coleman has written a book to savour, and characters to care about. I loved it.

—— Hazel Gaynor

A romantic holiday read with substance…a timeless love story…heart-wrenching

—— Liz Earle Magazine

You're going to love, The Summer of Impossible Things...A rollercoaster ride back and forward through time...enthralling

—— My Weekly

A wonderful story

—— Prima

magical and fresh...totally unexpected

—— Saga Magazine

A sparkling novel of hope and sacrifice’

—— Glasgow Herald

Magical, heart-warming and time-bending story.

—— Mslexia
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