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Grand Affair

Written by: Charlotte Bingham

Category: Fiction, Romance, Historical Romance

Book Details:ISBN 10: 0553505009 ISBN 13: 9780553505009 Format: Paperback Page Count: 480 Publisher: Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random Hou Date Published: United Kingdom, August 1st, 1997 Language: English Edition:

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Synopsis:Ottilie Cartaret is born in London into a family of boys dominated by their genial mother, Ma O'Flaherty. For the first four years of her life, all Ottilie knows is love until, that is, the erring father of the boys, the ever absent Mr O'Flaherty, sends enough money from America for the O'Flahertys to move to what Ma imagines will be rural bliss in Cornwall. True, St Elcomb is by the sea and in 1950s Britain is certainly rural but, for the O'Flahertys, it is not bliss. Never mind their poverty or the damp cottage which Ma has bought for them, the enmity of the local people is what proves insuperable. The family unit having been destroyed by Ma's death, Ottilie is adopted by Mr and Mrs Cartaret, a wealthy couple who run the Grand Hotel in St Elcomb. It is to these palatial surroundings that Ottilie is removed, away from her brothers and everything which she lov...