Gloria Cook 5 Books Collection Set (Leaving Shades, Reflections, Never Just a Memory, A Stranger Light, A Whisper of Life)

Leaving Shades

After a tragic miscarriage, Beth Tresaile returns to Owles House, the place of her miserable childhood, accompanied by her best friend, Kitty Copeland. Beth is determined to get revenge on her estranged mother, Christina, who neglected and abandoned her. But Beth slowly begins to discover that much of her childhood was built on deception.

Kitty is captivated with Cornwall, and Beth reluctantly becomes involved with the locals. However, there are fresh troubles ahead when her married lover, Kitty's brother, wants to come back into her life...

Reflections

Beth Tresalie has been happily reconciled with her estranged mother for over a year, and is looking forward to her best friend Kitty Copeland spending Christmas with them. But Beth is thrown into turmoil when Kitty requests that her brother Stuart joins them. Beth and Stuart were once lovers and Beth lives in fear of Kitty discovering her secret, but Stuart's arrival sets in motion events that nobody could have expected.

Never Just a Memory

1944: War lashes the Harvey family. Emilia, now happily married to Perry Bosweld and expecting his child, worries about her son Will in the RAF, while Ben Harvey is horrified when he's suddenly faced with the daughter he'd turned his back on.

When Emilia and Ben hurl painful truths at each other, Ben takes it badly, and disappears as a Special Operative Executive behind enemy lines in France. As the war puts lives in danger, secrets from the past continue to overwhelm the Harveys.

But, as ever, new arrivals to Cornwall and fresh passions act as unpredictable catalysts in the family's chemistry...

A Stranger Light

In the aftermath of the Second World War, Faye Harvey struggles against the stigma of being a single mother. Then Mark Fuller, badly ravaged by his POW experiences in the Far East, arrives in Cornwall to see the three children under the guardianship of Faye and her uncle Tristan. Mark, about to enter an amicable divorce, still needs nursing. Faye is drawn to him - but then the father of her son, a Scottish laird, turns up, offering marriage now his wife is dead.

A Whisper of Life

It is 1948, and the village of Hennaford is struggling to recover from the war – the Harvey family along with it.

Johnny Harvey is disillusioned; injured in the war and disturbed at the changing society; life seems to be passing him by. Jill Harvey, finally pregnant after four years of marriage, befriends sixteen-year-old Kate Viant, crippled with polio and abandoned by her family. Tess, left behind by society, might just prove her worth when something threatens the life of Jill’s unborn child…