Erica James
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Description
Erica James, née Sullivan was born in 1960 in Surrey, England, UK and she grew up on Hayling Island, Hampshire since 4 years. She began writing after attending a creative writing course at the Arvon Foundation, and published her first novel in 1996. In 2006, her novel Gardens of Delight won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the Romantic Novelists' Association. Divorced, she has two grown-up sons, Edward and Samuel, and lives between Cheshire and Lake Como in Italy.
Books
Two Great Novels
Gardens of Delight
The 'Gardens of Delight' brochure offers the opportunity to visit some of the most enchanting gardens in the Lake Como area of Northern Italy. Lucy Gray, Helen Madison-Tyler and Conrad Truman all decide to go on the tour - but for very different reasons!
Time for a change
Alexandra Morton has a special gift - she can tell instantly when two people are meant for each other. She knew the moment she met her husband, Gil, that he was the man for her and never once in twenty-five years of marriage has he let her down. Then Gil is wrongly accused of molesting a woman in the office and, unable to prove his innocence, he is sacked. With her husband's confidence in tatters and her family facing hostility from locals, Lex must pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. Struggling to make ends meet, Lex realises it's time for a change. She must go out to work and where better than at Leiceister's local marriage bureau? With Lex's talent for matchmaking, love soon blossoms among the clients and business goes from strength to strength. But only when Gil's name is cleared and he can once again walk proud will Lex be truly happy.
It's the little things
A look at the lives of three tsunami survivors three years later.
Song of the skylark
In een modern Engels verzorgingstehuis ontmoet Lizzie, die een moeilijke periode in haar leven meemaakt, een oude vrouw die door verhalen over haar verleden te vertellen, Lizzie ook weer hoop op betere tijden geeft.
The Hidden Cottage
Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home in the village of Little Pelham, a happy, stable marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children to whom she's devoted. But appearances are deceiving; the truth is that it's all a precarious balancing act. When the family gather for her son's thirtieth birthday, Daisy, her youngest daughter, drops a bombshell in only the way Daisy can. Once again Mia finds herself cast in the role of peacemaker. It's a role she's tired of. Not surprisingly, Mia longs for escape.
Three Great Novels
Hidden talents
When thirteen-year-old Martin arrives at an alternative school for misfits and problem students, he falls in with a group of boys with psychic powers and discovers something surprising about himself.