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Coventry»rank: 416par: Helen Humphreys
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The Frozen Thames»rank: 2470par: Helen Humphreys
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The Frozen Thames»rank: 6220par: Helen Humphreys
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Lost Garden»rank: 32934par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:Though The Lost Garden, the third novel by Kingston-based writer Helen Humphreys, is set in England in 1941, it takes place far from the bombs of the Blitz. Gwen Davis, a sad, shy employee of the Royal Horticultural Society who's spent much of her adulthood studying diseased parsnips, leaves London to lead young members of the Women's Land Army on an estate in the Devon countryside. She arrives amid great confusion, but soon realizes that she's inherited a gaggle of Land Girls who are less interested in growing potatoes for ... |
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Leaving earth»rank: 6911par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of open throttle. The single figure in the rear cockpit waves as the plane flies low over the harbor airfield and then pulls up into a vertical climb. Up and up, the line so straight it could have been drawn with a ruler, could have been a harp string, the plane a note ascending.' Grace 0'Gorman, the star-bright aviatrix of Helen ... |
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Afterimage»rank: 36845par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:A new world unfolds before Annie Phelan, a beautiful but poor lrish maid, when she arrives at the home of her new employers, lsabelle and Eldon Dashell, in Helen Humphreys's Afterimage. ln contrast to the strict home where she worked before, Annie finds herself serving lsabelle, a wealthy, childless, convention-breaking photographer bent on becoming recognized by society. Her cartographer husband, Eldon, perpetually laments the fragile health that prevents him from joining expeditions to the most inhospitable ends of the earth. lsabelle needs a muse and a willing model for her ... |
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Wild Dogs»rank: 119293par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:Amazon.ca:A new world unfolds before Annie Phelan, a beautiful but poor lrish maid, when she arrives at the home of her new employers, lsabelle and Eldon Dashell, in Helen Humphreys's Afterimage. ln contrast to the strict home where she worked before, Annie finds herself serving lsabelle, a wealthy, childless, convention-breaking photographer bent on becoming recognized by society. Her cartographer husband, Eldon, perpetually laments the fragile health that prevents him from joining expeditions to the most inhospitable ends of the earth. lsabelle needs a muse and a willing model for her ... |
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Leaving Earth»rank: 160971par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of open throttle. The single figure in the rear cockpit waves as the plane flies low over the harbor airfield and then pulls up into a vertical climb. Up and up, the line so straight it could have been drawn with a ruler, could have been a harp string, the plane a note ascending.' Grace 0'Gorman, the star-bright aviatrix of Helen ... |
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Wild Dogs»rank: 221034par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of open throttle. The single figure in the rear cockpit waves as the plane flies low over the harbor airfield and then pulls up into a vertical climb. Up and up, the line so straight it could have been drawn with a ruler, could have been a harp string, the plane a note ascending.' Grace 0'Gorman, the star-bright aviatrix of Helen ... |
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The perils of geography»rank: 418815par: Helen Humphreys
Chroniques et points de vue:From :'The plane slips from a spool of blue, stitches a confident loop in the sky. Willa stands by the hangar as the Moth roars above her head, growl of open throttle. The single figure in the rear cockpit waves as the plane flies low over the harbor airfield and then pulls up into a vertical climb. Up and up, the line so straight it could have been drawn with a ruler, could have been a harp string, the plane a note ascending.' Grace 0'Gorman, the star-bright aviatrix of Helen ... |