A Woman of Experience

On the day Janey Blackman finishes school she discovers that her life is a lie: the man her mother married is not her father. Stunned and betrayed, Janey leaves home to build a different life.

In 1950s London, Janey takes a room in a boarding house, acquires a job and falls head-over-heels for gallery owner David Foley, who is engaged to Posy Bantley-Brown, her old school-nemesis.

After David and Posy marry, Janey learns that her birth-father finally wants to meet her. Now Janey wonders if Frank Blackman, the man who married her mother knowing she carried another man's child, is a truer father.

AWARDS:
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A Woman of Impulse

In 1950s London, Allison Campbell faces an overprotective divorced father and an unhappy mother while surrounded by a world of glitz. On the rebound from a whirlwind affair with theater critic, Hal Esterbrooke, Allison meets Quentin Dobson, a quiet, imperturbable solicitor whose socks rarely match.

Quentin is smitten. Allison isn't. Busy with her designer boutique and the London Fashion scene, Allison's heart is still entangled with Hal, yet she is determined not to end up like her parents.

Quentin moves on. But when he learns Allison has been in an accident, he reaches out to her. Now divorced himself, Quentin is no longer the reserved man Allison remembers. But is there any more room in her heart for a man who isn't Hal?

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