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[[Category:1997 Releases]][[Category:Historical Romance]][[Category:20th Century Historical Romance]][[Category: Post First World War I]][[Category:Widows/Widowers]]
 
* '''Author''': [[Polly Forrester]]
 
* '''Author''': [[Polly Forrester]]
* '''Publisher''': [[Mills and Boon|Mills & Boon]]
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* '''Publisher''': [[Mills and Boon Historical Romance By The Numbers|Mills & Boon Historical Romance #550]]
 
* '''Year''': 1997
 
* '''Year''': 1997
 
* '''Setting''': England, just after the end of the First World War, India, then England again
 
* '''Setting''': England, just after the end of the First World War, India, then England again
* '''Amazon Listing''' - [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0263801268/202-7852057-3217405?v=glance&n=266239]
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* '''Amazon Listing''': [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0263801268/202-7852057-3217405?v=glance&n=266239 Changing Fortunes]
  
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==Book Description==
 
Widowed Flora Westbury is cook at Alvoe Court, home of the Duke and Duchess of Alvoe. She catches the eye of both Captain William Pritchard, to whom she is attracted, and Ralph, the Alvoe heir. Flora knows her station and thinks she can never marry William, but Ralph's actions create a crisis.
 
Widowed Flora Westbury is cook at Alvoe Court, home of the Duke and Duchess of Alvoe. She catches the eye of both Captain William Pritchard, to whom she is attracted, and Ralph, the Alvoe heir. Flora knows her station and thinks she can never marry William, but Ralph's actions create a crisis.
  
 
The issues of class, and the changes beginning to affect English society are important, as are the effects of women having little knowledge of sexual matters, an issue which [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wstopes.htm Marie Stopes] was seeking to remedy.
 
The issues of class, and the changes beginning to affect English society are important, as are the effects of women having little knowledge of sexual matters, an issue which [http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Wstopes.htm Marie Stopes] was seeking to remedy.

Latest revision as of 12:17, 27 June 2008

Book Description

Widowed Flora Westbury is cook at Alvoe Court, home of the Duke and Duchess of Alvoe. She catches the eye of both Captain William Pritchard, to whom she is attracted, and Ralph, the Alvoe heir. Flora knows her station and thinks she can never marry William, but Ralph's actions create a crisis.

The issues of class, and the changes beginning to affect English society are important, as are the effects of women having little knowledge of sexual matters, an issue which Marie Stopes was seeking to remedy.