Claire Rayner - Böcker

Finding you, loving you and doing what's best for you is the greatest gift you can give to self. Be Coming Me, the first of a two-part series teaches you how to work with basic and fundamental values by making choices that are best for all concern...

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Without her husband Frank - the victim of a fatal accident, Tilly Quentin's decision to turn 17 Brompton Grove into lodgings is a brave one, for it is against the rigid Victorian social code for a lady to go into trade.

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The sequel to 'London Lodgings'. Tilly Quentin has successfully turned Quentin's into a thriving guest house. But with the demanding guests, particularly the handsome Silas Geddes, and her beloved son, Duff, falling into unsuitable company, her pr...

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Maggy Dundas is a star jazz pianist with looks, style, and a keen business brain. And when her hated mother Dolly dies, she is free at last from the memories that mar it all - from the woman whose wanton selfishness threatened to keep her from suc...

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Her name was Abigail Winterburn - at least that's what the newspapers said. They also said that she was wanted in connection with the disappearance of her stepson. But Abigail couldn't remember her stepson - she couldn't even remember being marrie...

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The man admitted to casualty was a Polish seaman - an emergency - in urgent need of an abdominal operation. Four hours later, he died 'accidentally'. From then on, the 'accidents' became more frequent - and more violent.

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She was born in 1893, in the slums of London. The daughter of immigrants, the descendant of exiles, she was part of a people doomed to wander, forever strangers in the lands they had chosen as home. But Hannah Lazar was different. She was born and...

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Originally published in 1967 as 'A Starch of Aprons', 'The Hive' is a nursing drama in which the author, a former nurse, convincingly evokes the claustrophobic atmosphere of the wards of the Royal Hospital in London. Elizabeth Manton, a new Matron...

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How many hearts will a woman break tor each the top? Lexie Asher had talent and looks, and nerve - but more than that she had charm. And she knew how to get her own way. She could will her own way out of the slums and onto the West End stage. She ...

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Ruthie Lee is seven and England is at war. Brought back from the countryside to live with her mother and baby brother in London, she spends summer in the hot dusty streets and the warm companionship of the East End Jewish community. As if air raid...

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No one had seen her leave. Numbed by the inexplicable events of the evening, Harriet Darnell found herself running down the dark path away from the bleak mansion she hated, away from the cruel husband she feared. There was no time to question, no ...

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At 7am, on her twelfth birthday, Miranda Hallam is found dead in bed at Bluegates school, but her's is only the first death. For some time, Ben Pitman has been dedicated to his work towards a breakthrough antiviral cure at Minster Hospital. Jessie...

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In a hushed courtroom, the scene is set for one of the most celebrated trials of recent years. A trial caused by a bitter family wrangle. A trial that, as it unfolds, will reveal the dramatic story of the turbulent lives and careers of its three c...

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Laura's in Soho' is the fashionable place to meet and eat. Only a select few can guarantee an advance booking... The food is good, the ambiance attractive, buts its success is due to one woman alone, and that is Laura herself. But now Soho is chan...

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It is New Year's Eve 1948, and Maddie Braham's birthday party. She sees Jay Kincaid, a handsome American in London on business, and immediately falls wildly in love with him. Spoiled from childhood, what Maddie wants she gets, but the price of obs...

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Medical decisions can kill or cure, and this book documents one month in a hospital where staff are challenged by such decisions. Problems are faced daily by people like Kate Sayers, a surgeon whose dedication to her work makes any private life di...

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A novel of discovery, guilt and betrayal by the author of 'Maddie' and 'Clinical Judgements'. A celebrated film-maker is determined to make a film on the survivors of concentration camps. He comes to London and discovers a sinister cover-up of an ...

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A novel that provides an insight into the moral risks involved in scientific efforts to control human life. After Dr Briant masterminds the birth of the world's first test-tube baby, he must defend his ethics when his experiment dramatically alter...

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A woman researcher discovers a cancer cure and finds it difficult to escape the resultant publicity.

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For a widow with small children, a job at the local school should be ideal, but Hattie joins the Foundation with misgivings, to help look after the first intake of girls in the sixth form. There are problems with the teachers, and with the girls, ...

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Nurse Avril Gardner had one great ambition, to become a Gold Medalist, even if it meant losing her friends and rejecting the love of Dr Dickon Bartlett. She knew she was right, especially when the handsome new Registrar agreed with her. Before lon...

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Sister Barbara Hughes was disappointed to leave London's busy Royal Free Hospital because of health reasons. But when she begins work at the hospital in Sandleas, she finds it interesting - especially when she meets Geoffrey.

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Dr Phillipa Fenwick accepted a post as a GP in a large group practice, the only woman on an all-male team. While some of the doctors were prepared to accept her, Dr Max Lester was not. He made it plain that he disapproved of women doctors in gener...

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Nurse Isabel Cameron had taken a job for six months at the Cadiz, a luxury hotel in Majorca. Leaving an unhappy love affair behind her in London, she swore that there would be no emotional complications in Spain, but that was before she met Biff S...

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A hospital romance about a lonely young girl, who leaves behind her sheltered upbringing when she begins training as a nurse and discovers an exciting new life within the hospital's social circle. Originally published under the name of Sheila Bran...

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Dr Paul Martin wanted to marry Sister Harriet Brett, but she had different ideas. Trained as a nurse, Claire Rayner turned to writing in the 1960s. Since then, she has written almost 90 books on a broad range of subjects.

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Student nurse Tricia Oxford wanted to work in the operating theatres at the Royal Hospital. To her dismay she found herself posted to ward duty in the private patients' wing, where the registrar was well aware of her disdainful preconceptions.

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Running a fruit barrow? Dead-easy thought the younger members of the Jackson and Cooper clan marooned in London for a hot and dusty summer. Even Jane, ever sober and practical, thought it could be done. Richard was dubious, but the thought of some...

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The early 1800's. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse's intervention changes their lives forever. The fate of Abel Lackland...

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Abel Lackland, rescued from the gutter as a child, has achieved great success as a surgeon. His eldest son, Jonah refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. He secretly nurtures a desire to act on the stage. Lilith Lucas, saved from destitution ...

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