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Elizabeth Cadell

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Born January 1, 1903
Died January 1, 1989 (86 years old)
Kolkata, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Also known as: Harriet Ainsworth, Elizabeth CADELL
43 books
3.7 (33)
481 readers

Description

Elizabeth Violet Cadell, aka Harriet Ainsworth, was born in 1903 in Calcutta, India. During the Great War she studied music in London, but refused a musical career and returned to India where she married and had two children. After she was widowed ten years later, she returned to England. Elizabeth wrote her first book 'My Dear Aunt Flora' during the Second World War in 1946, thereafter producing another 51 light-hearted, humourous and romantic books which won her a faithful readership in England and America. She moved to Portugal in 1960 and subsequently set many of her books in that country. She died in 1989, aged eighty-five.

Books

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The waiting game

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As they await word about college, three iseparable friends who are the force behind their high school football team explore the nature of their special relationship.

I love a lass

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The bright young creatures that inhabit Elizabeth Cadell’s world have never been more charming than in this light-hearted story of doubtful doings in France. Sebastian, a rich young English Bachelor, has spent his life driving fast cars and dodging hopeful mothers; his friend Joss is a quietly unorthodox good guy; and Jessica is a pleasant prospect for anybody’s hand – or money. And the mystery ingredient, Gallic enchantress Tante Francine, a young woman of effortless poise, young of heart but old of intuition. The characters, events and antics combine to make for pleasurable reading.

Game in diamonds

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Lydia and Paul, both visiting parents in an English village, become interested in an archeological puzzle -- and in each other.

Language of the Heart

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Edmund Forth, a wealthy architect with an estate in Portugal, is being manoeuvred into marriage with a girl whom he admires for her social graces and her titled mother. But then the appearance of Fran, so simple and so penniless awakes in him for the very first time a feeling of genuine – and most disturbing – emotion.

Sun in the morning

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A memorable story of three delightful girls, growing up against the exotic background of India. The two English girls and the lovely French girl, contrasting strongly with each other and with the exotic, teeming life of Calcutta. Inseparable, they shared a joyous, carefree girlhood. Parted during the war, when they met again they were young ladies in a newer, more modern India. An India where there seemed to be a great many more young men, and it wasn't long after their arrival that some of those young men became aware that new girls had been added to the city's meager total.

Be my guest

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On holiday in Portugal, to take their daughter’s mind off a troubled love affair, the Channing family are befriended by the hospitable Baronesa Narvao—but soon find her hospitality something of an embarrassment. (

Money to burn

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Michael Centella is a rising star at Wall Street investment bank Saxton Silvers. Everything is going according to plan until the love of his life, Ivy Layton, vanishes on their honeymoon in the Bahamas. Seven years later, Michael's got undercover FBI agents afoot, spyware on his computer, and mysterious e-mails from a "JBU." Embroiled in corporate espionage, he's desperate to clear his name. He doesn't want to believe it, but the signs point to his first wife, Ivy. Could she be back from the dead to destroy him?

Six impossible things

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The village of Greenhurst, headquarters for the Wayne family, is aflutter with excitement and festivity in anticipation of Miriam Arkwright's coming marriage to an Italian count. All the Waynes descend on brother Nicholas, including red-headed Julia, who had been sent to Italy to become a concert pianist, and returns home not quite sure what she wants to be. She is no longer the child Nicholas remembers, but is still enough of a scatter-brain to mix up her luggage...thereby involving Nicholas in the most wonderful love of his life. The luggage in question ends up in the hands of Elaine Morley, the most beautiful young woman Nicholas has seen in many a year. Elaine, however, to her increasing dismay, is already engaged -- to a most determined and quite nasty fellow who refuses to let her go... Julia, so intent on solving the romantic problems of others, suddenly realizes she has not one -- but two of her own. One is a new arrival in town; the other, Derek Arkwright, who has always seemed just the boy next door...And even Nicholas' rather formidable secretary, Miss Stoker, is caught up in he shower of orange blossoms.

Green Empress

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The Green Empress coaches specialized in taking clients of wealth or importance across Europe in luxury. When Angus Graham became "liaison officer" for one of these coaches, he did so lightheartedly, but the dangers and difficulties of the journey were compensated for only by the charming presence of Lord Lorrimer's daughter Angela.

The fox from his lair

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A ROMANTIC REUNION Soon Annabelle Baird would be the wife of Philip Ancell, a dynamic international businessman whose work took him to the most glamorous capitals of Europe. But first he wanted her to meet his employers, and so she flew to Portugal for a sunny reunion with her absentee fiance. Instead she met icy stares. And a handsome playboy mysteriously returned from her past. And an enchanting little Portuguese boy whom only she could protect from nameless danger...

The toy sword

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HOLIDAY FOR LOVE Edmund Forth was handsome, successful and dull. He had everything, including a cool, titled fiance. Then he went on vacation to bright, hot Portugal -- and Francesca Nash suddenly came storming into his life. She was lithe, tanned beauty from another world. Edmund defended himself as best he could from her onslaughts. Finally it took a scandal that rocked London for Edmund to realize that the language Francesca spoke was the language of the heart. Also published as "Language of the Heart"

Home for the wedding

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Spirited and beautiful Stacey Marsh made a mistake -- she should never have come home for her wedding. She had forsaken her hometown of Dorsham, England, long ago because it was too quiet, too provincial, not at all the kind of place for the likes of Stacey. In sophisticated Paris she had met sophisticated Jules Charbonnier, the man she planned to marry. So why hadn't she just married him in Paris instead of insisting upon an English wedding? As soon as Stacey returns to Dorsham, she senses something wrong. The town simply doesn't look the way it is supposed to. The quiet village she had yawned over is now frantic with community activity. Her family, the gentle and stable people she had always relied upon, are clearly not themselves, claiming that Stacey's grandfather's ghost has come back to haunt them; and and for Nigel -- the boy next door -- well, he is simply too handsome and aggressive for his own good. Things become even more complicated when, with only one week to go til the wedding, Jules and his formidable grandmother, Madame Charbonnier, arrive in England. Not only is Stacey completely incapable of explaining the strange behavior in Dorsam, she is having difficulty interpreting her peculiar behavior. Stacey has but a few days to decide whether what she is feeling is merely homesickness or whether it is something else, for why does Dorsham seem gayer then gay Paris? Why does her family seem so much more colorful than before? And what makes the boy next door so much more attractive than the boy next door should look?

Mrs. Westerby changes course

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Gail Sinclair was young, attractive and intelligent. She led a well-ordered and enjoyable life in London. But an innocently granted favour plunges her into a totally different world. It started with Anita Stratton, a seemingly charming and modest writer. Gail obligingly agreed to drive her from Bordeaux to a remote Basque village. But even before Gail left England on the car-ferry to France, she began to regret her generosity. The writer's breezy, eccentric sister-in-law and Julian Meredith, the latter's man-about-town godson, entered forcibly into her life. There seemed an odd hostility between the two ladies, though on the surface there was no sign of this hidden friction. And then, in the wilds of Southern France, a stunning revelation caps a series of vaguely sinister events. The friction generates into high-voltage and Gail relises that an old score is about to be paid - with the ultimate price. Also published as The Stratton Story