The Separation Series
Clare Flynn brings together four fabulous novels into this captivating collection.
Travel from England to America, India to Borneo, in these four gripping tales exploring sacrifice, hope and the strength of love separated by worlds and oceans.
Featuring The Gamekeeper’s Wife, Letters from a Patchwork Quilt, Green Ribbons and Kurinji Flowers, this series is sure to keep you turning to the next page.
Read more about each novel below.
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The Gamekeeper’s Wife
In post-World War I England, an unlikely romance defies societal boundaries:
Martha Walters is an impoverished widow with a troubled past.
Christopher “Kit” Shipley is the wealthy heir to the country estate where Martha lives.
As forbidden love blossoms, a devastating secret threatens to shatter their world. Believing Martha lost to him forever, Kit escapes to the jungles of Borneo, haunted by grief and unanswered questions. Will their love prove strong enough to overcome the chasm of class and circumstance?
The Gamekeeper’s Wife is a captivating tale of love across class divides, sacrifice, and the strength of the human heart. From manicured English gardens to Edwardian London and the untamed wilderness of Borneo, this gripping story explores how true connection can transcend societal expectations and physical separation.
Letters from a Patchwork Quilt
Pressured by his family to join the priesthood, a young man escapes to pursue a new life, in this powerful and moving love story.
England 1875, Jack Brennan, runs away from home to take up a teaching job and follow his dreams of becoming a poet.
Arriving in the thriving port city of Bristol, Jack loves his new teaching job. When he falls passionately in love with a fellow teacher, Eliza Hewlett, their future together looks bright. But everything changes when the daughter of Jack’s landlord falsely accuses him of fathering the child she is expecting. Unable to convince the parish priest and his powerful landlord, Jack is in an intolerable position.
Desperate, Jack and Eliza decide to risk everything by emigrating to America. As they stand hand-in-hand on the deck of their ship on the Liverpool quayside, the couple are excited about the adventure ahead. But just as the ship is about to weigh anchor, police come on board to arrest Jack, while preventing Eliza from disembarking with him. Eliza is left alone en route to New York with just a few shillings in her pocket, while Jack is taken back to Bristol to face a shotgun wedding.
Will Jack be forced to marry his accuser? Will he fulfil his dream of becoming a poet? How will Eliza cope alone and penniless when she arrives in New York? Will the heartbroken lovers ever be reunited?
The Green Ribbons
Oxford, 1900. When her parents die in a tragic accident, Heppie Wildman, homeless and penniless, must find her way alone in the world.
A post as governess at Ingelton Hall offers the chance to rebuild her life, and she quickly forms a bond with her eight-year-old charge and a close friendship with the local parson, Meritt Nightingale.
Heppie is irresistibly drawn to the handsome and elusive Thomas Egdon, the son of her employer. But life at Ingleton Hall is not as idyllic as it first seems. Who is the mysterious woman who appeared in her bedroom in the middle of the night? What is Thomas Egdon concealing from her? How can she escape the lecherous advances of her employer, Sir Richard?
In attempting to protect herself and her future, Heppie unleashes a chain of events with disastrous consequences for her own life and the lives of those she holds most dear.
Kurinji Flowers
A society scandal. A convenient marriage. A love that could set her free
1936. Ginny Dunbar, a debutante yearning for love and freedom, finds herself ostracized from London society. The exhibition of a nude portrait, painted by her manipulative older lover, leaves her reputation in tatters and her dreams of a grand wedding shattered. Desperate to salvage her daughter’s future, Ginny’s ambitious mother coerces her into a hasty marriage with Tony Tilman, a tea planter from South India.
Colonial life proves to be a gilded cage for the spirited Ginny. Stifled by the shallow expatriate community and overwhelmed by the lush, mysterious beauty of India, she struggles to find her place in this alien world – until she meets the enigmatic Jag Mistry, whose passion for his homeland awakens Ginny’s heart.
As Ginny navigates the complexities of love, cultural barriers, and her own inner turmoil, the looming shadow of World War II threatens to tear apart everything she’s come to cherish.
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