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The Phoenix

Pages
583
Published
2013
Language
English

Synopsis

In the wake of the 1931 Wall Street crash, the Morland family faces a desperate fight to keep their ancestral home. While Polly Morland struggles against financial ruin, her siblings and cousins seek new beginnings in York and London to escape the shadows of the Great Depression. This chapter of the Morland Dynasty follows a new generation as they navigate a rapidly changing Britain on the brink of a new era.

About the author

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Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles was born on 13 August 1948 in Shepherd's Bush, London, England, where was educated at Burlington School, a girls' charity school founded in 1699, and at the University of Edinburgh and University College London, where she studied English, history and philosophy. She had a variety of jobs in the commercial world, starting as a junior cashier at Woolworth's and working her way down to Pensions Officer at the BBC. She wrote her first novel while at university and in 1972 w...

Characters

Polly MorlandProtagonist
Jack MorlandProtagonist
Robert MorlandProtagonist
Charlotte MorlandProtagonist
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