The Last Lifeboat, page 30
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1876. Among the depravity of Covent Garden’s flower markets, orphaned Irish sisters Flora and Rosie Flynn sell posies of violets and watercress to survive. When they become separated, their lives are set on very different paths …
1912. Twenty-one-year-old Tilly Harper leaves her native Lake District to work at one of London’s homes for orphaned and crippled flower girls. It’s a fresh start for her, a chance to leave her troubled past behind.
And there, hidden between the pages of a lost notebook, she finds a heartbreaking tale of loss and separation, of a woman desperate to find her long lost sister. And when she sets out to discover what happened, she is lead into unexpected places, including the depths of her own heart …
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About the Author
Hazel Gaynor is the New York Times, USA Today, and Irish Times bestselling author of nine novels, including The Bird in the Bamboo Cage and The Girl Who Came Home. Known for her deeply moving historical novels which explore the defining events of the twentieth century, Hazel is a previous winner of the RNA Historical Novel Award and is an HWA Gold Crown and Irish Book Awards shortlisted author. Her novels are translated into 20 languages. Originally from Yorkshire, she now lives in Ireland with her family.
Also by Hazel Gaynor
The Girl Who Came Home
A Memory of Violets
The Girl from the Savoy
The Cottingley Secret
The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter
The Bird in the Bamboo Cage
With Heather Webb
Fall of Poppies
Last Christmas in Paris
Meet Me in Monaco
Three Words for Goodbye
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