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San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe, a young woman from a good family, is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him, but when the couple are married, it soon transpires that Drew's charm is only skin-deep, and that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women, including Georgia's maid Maura and jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia and Maura fall pregnant, both women decide to escape to be with the men they love, providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew - and much more besides. London, 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia, she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed, Prudence claims that Chrissie's mother Vanessa and her late father Aaran are brother and sister. As the truth unfurls, the passion, emotion and astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed, and three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
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what a fantastic unputdownable book as always from freda normally I dont like it when writers jump from one era to another but freda does it superbly you just cant put this book down & even though I thought I had a good idea of ending ........... the twist was was such a shock amazing !!!!! I really didnt see that coming cant recommend this book enough a fabulous good read
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SECRETS AND PROMISES
2 Nov 2011
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THE PROMISE doesn't quite fulfill the requirements of being an epic saga since the time period involved in this story does not span the requisite number of decades that I associate with those words. It is, however, one of those dual time period family tales that fans of writers like Kate Morton are familiar with. Freda Lightfoot's THE PROMISE falls into a genre somewhere between historical fiction and romance novel and explores the relationships between mothers and their grown daughters,sisters and friends, and husbands and wives, while detailing many of the ignominious social pressures suffered by women in the early twentieth century.
With its multi-layered perspective, this is a narrative filled with betrayal, loss, family secrets and a cast of well developed and interesting, if not necessarily likable, characters populating a story that seamlessly moves between time periods and locations...in this instance San Francisco and England. THE PROMISE delivers both a captivating tale that keeps the reader turning those pages and an ending that was, for this reader at least, thoroughly surprising and unexpected. I just love endings that you can't see coming from a mile away and Freda Lightfoot really delivered an unusual, yet satisfying, "reveal" with this one.
This is my first experience with Freda Lightfoot, but it will certainly not be my last. Oh, and one other thing. Don't start this book at bedtime or you will find yourself reading into the wee hours of the morning.
With its multi-layered perspective, this is a narrative filled with betrayal, loss, family secrets and a cast of well developed and interesting, if not necessarily likable, characters populating a story that seamlessly moves between time periods and locations...in this instance San Francisco and England. THE PROMISE delivers both a captivating tale that keeps the reader turning those pages and an ending that was, for this reader at least, thoroughly surprising and unexpected. I just love endings that you can't see coming from a mile away and Freda Lightfoot really delivered an unusual, yet satisfying, "reveal" with this one.
This is my first experience with Freda Lightfoot, but it will certainly not be my last. Oh, and one other thing. Don't start this book at bedtime or you will find yourself reading into the wee hours of the morning.
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