Amy Wingates Journal

Amy Wingate is a typical retired schoolmistress - single, living alone in the seaside house she inherited from her aunt and somewhat patronised by her married neighbours. But on closer inspection - and as we read her diary - we come to learn that Amy's past, and her present, hold some surprises. She might know everything about the goings-on of her friends, but there's a lot they don't know about her ...

In this latest early novel from bestselling author Marcia Willett, Mathilda Rainbird bequeaths her home to three unknown relatives: twenty-two-year-old Tessa, who misses her dead parents and brother but has learned to live alone; Will, a widower, who is drawn to Mathilda's housekeeper, Isobel; and Beatrice, a retired prep-school matron who thinks the idea of living with her cousins is preposterous. Deeply moving and utterly real, "Second Time Around" features the shining honesty that Willett's fans have come to love.""

La cinquantaine plutôt revêche, Amy Wingate vit seule dans une étroite bicoque victorienne du bord de mer. Pour chasser ses idées noires, elle s'arme de son journal intime et dissèque la vie des autres. D'abord, il y a cet imbroglio sentimental autour de Francesca et Simon, couple de trentenaires souvent ridicules qui se piquent d'offrir à Amy une vie sociale. Puis, cette complicité qui la lie à Gary, un jeune voleur à l'étalage. Amy observe, écoute, retranscrit. Affronte ses vieux démons et, mine de rien, remet tout le monde dans le droit chemin. Comment fait-elle ? Il n'y a qu'à lire par-dessus son épaule pour le savoir.

Eighth-century martyr St Boniface, tennis player and TV presenter Sue Barker, painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, actor Sir Donald Sinden, Boer War commander Sir Redvers Buller, radio and TV presenter Ed Stewart and round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester are among personalities through the ages who have been born in Devon. The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, including Scott of the Antarctica, Agatha Christie, Parson Jack Russell (of terrier fame) and Wayne Sleep. The Elizabethan explorers Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh were all Devonians, as were party leaders Michael Foot and David Owen. This book, by renowned local author John Van der Kiste, features mini-biographies of all these and many more.

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The first part of this study, published in 1984, recounts congregational growth from a brush arbor meeting to a thriving church adjacent to a bustling college campus. Carolyn Gaddy reconstructs the congregation¿s evolution as it confronted missionary and education controversies, the Civil War, industrialization and depression, and modern times. Jerry Surratt deals with the 25 years preceding the church¿s bicentennial in 2010. It is a deeper probing into challenges of ministry, growth, building renovations, denominational change, and gender issues. The congregation expands its ministry to local needs, regional disaster relief, and the plight of abandoned street children in Ukraine.

Clarissa really falls in love with the house - a beautiful Tudor manor in the Welsh marches: marrying Thomas is simply the best way to get it. But life there isn't quite the idyll she expects. Thomas is so busy with the farm that he doesn't see the need for a social life, and his two elderly, eccentric aunts- though charm itself - aren't the most stimulating companions. When Evan appears on the scene, Clarissa is ripe for a little diversion, but the complications that ensue demand Welsh magic to unravel them.