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AGAINST THE TIDE

\pause{1500}Author: Aitken, Rosemary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7838 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 9.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Family Stories
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Twins Winnie and Dora are used to conflict. Professionally, their father cuts a controversial figure with his modern fishing techniques, whilst at home his temper rules the household. His one ambition for his daughters is that they should marry well, which pleases Winnie, but Dora wanted to fulfil her own dreams.

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BIRDCAGE, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Willett, Marcia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6705 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Love Stories
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First called 'The Birdcage' by Felix, the strange quirky household in Bristol is where Lizzie lived as a child with her flamboyant mother, Angel. Felix himself lived in his family home on Exmoor, Michaelgarth, with his wife and son. Many years later Lizzie visits Michaelgarth and finds a family in trouble, needing her help to heal themselves.

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CORNISH HARVEST

\pause{1500}Author: Aitken, Rosemary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7026 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Family Stories
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Lizzie Treloweth is from a large family, who have to struggle to run their father's butcher's shop in Penzance, when he enlists in the army at the start of WW1. When Lizzie trains as a nurse she meets and befriends Tamsin Beswetherick, the daughter of the local gentry.

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COUNTRY CHILD, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Uttley, Alison
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7895 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 7.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Susan was born and brought up in an old farmhouse in remote Derbyshire. The furniture, which had been handed down through generations spoke to her. Being sensitive and imaginative she listened to the trees, the wind, and the hills that surrounded her.

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COURTYARD, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Willett, Marcia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6704 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
\pause{1500}Additional subject: Love Stories
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Henry Morley knows that good fortune have given him his wife and his family home. After converting the stables into cottages he is delighted to welcome a group of occupants, but as the recession starts to bite disaster strikes!

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DIPPER, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Willett, Marcia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 6659 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Three couples living in the heart of Dartmoor turn to each other in a time of need and learn important lessons in life. Quentin and Clemmie fear the onset of old age; Phillida and Alistair are struck by a great sorrow; and whilst Claudia and Jeff may appear the perfect couple they are hiding from the truth of their marriage.

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ECHOES OF THE DANCE

\pause{1500}Author: Willett, Marcia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7500 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 10
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Twenty-five years after giving up a successful ballet career after a tragic accident, Mim finds history repeating itself: Daisy, her prot+g+, is suffering from injuries and is sent to Mimãs family home in Cornwall. There she begins an affair with Mimãs brother.

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GOLDEN CUP, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Willett, Marcia
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7085 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 12
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Family Stories
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Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannians. Honor Trevannian, frail and bedridden, is very distressed at the arrival of a young American and asks her grand-daughter to find a cache of letters. After her death, the family faces revelations which could tear them apart.

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GRANITE CLIFFS, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Aitken, Rosemary
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7839 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 8
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 8.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: Love Stories
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Victoria is the vicar's only daughter, and she is beginning to chafe against the Edwardian conventions that restrict her life. With the local mining industry in decline, the story is a glimpse of life, love and loss in Cornwall in the 1900s.

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HOWARDS OF CAXLEY, THE

\pause{1500}Author: Read, Miss
\pause{1500}Catalogue number: \S+ 7046 \S*
\pause{1500}Number of cassettes: 6
\pause{1500}Time (hours): 0.00
\pause{1500}Main subject: General Fiction
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Starting in 1939, this is the story of two families as they live through the Second World War, hoping for happier times ahead.

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