The Warrender Saga (2-5, 9, 12) by Mary Burchell
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Overview: Ida Cook (Mary Burchell) was born on 1904 at 37 Croft Avenue, Sunderland, England. With her eldest sister Mary Louise Cook (1901), she attending the Duchess’ School in Alnwick. Later the sisters took civil service jobs in London, and developed a passionate interest in opera. The sisters helped 29 jews to escape from the Nazis, funded mainly by Ida’s writing. In 1965, the Cook sisters were honored as Righteous Gentiles by the Yad Vashem Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority in Israel.
Genre: Romance
2. The Broken Wing
WAS SHE ALWAYS TO BE OVERSHADOWED.
Although blessed with the voice of an angel. Tessa Morley was exceedingly shy. Her outgoing twin sister, the beautiful bewitching Tania, seemed forever to be in the limelight. When success was the only thing that seemed to matter to her employer, how would the hidden talents of crippled Tessa ever be revealed while she was overshadowed by her beautiful, bewitching twin, Tania? And now it looked as it Tania would ever rob Tessa of the man she loved. Tania had always had everything — would she now win the love of the temperamental Quentin Otway? Only one person seemed capable of rectifying the situation — the famous Oscar Warrender!
3. When Love is Blind
Antoinette Burney, a more than promising music student, is disappointed and furious when the famous concert pianist Lewis Freemont fails her in an exam. To make matters worse, he tells her forthrightly that she will never make the grade as a professional pianist. Her hopes and dreams of success and notoriety are all destroyed in a single blow. She doesn’t think she’ll ever be able to forgive him.
But it would seem that fate has other ideas and the tables are quickly turned, making Antoinette the innocent cause of the accident that, in destroying Lewis Freemont’s sight, destroys his career as well. Subdued by his debilitating condition and the knowledge that he will never play the piano again, Lewis quickly becomes a shell of his former self. Horrified and remorseful, when Antoinette gets a chance to make some sort of amends — by becoming Lewis’s secretary — she seizes it with both hands.
Just when she thought life couldn’t get any more complicated, Antoinette soon finds herself falling in love with the man that only a few weeks ago, she despised. But what will Lewis do when, as inevitably he must, he discovers who she really is?
Full of hope and broken dreams, When Love is Blind is a heartfelt tale about never giving up.
4. The Curtain Rises
Nicola was looking forward to marrying violinst Brian when he came back from his tour of Canada. However Brian became ill and died suddenly. Months later Nicola had the opportunity to meet Brian’s boss Julian a world famous conductor. Nicola finds that she likes Julian very much but is later dismayed to find that Julian is instrumental in Brian’s death. Her job as secretary to a world-famous opera singer brought her into contact with a lot of interesting people — but it also threw her into the company of the one man in the world she had cause to hate! Can she ever forget and forgive?
5. Child of Music
Felicity Grainger had not liked Stephen Tarkman of the Tarkman Musical Foundation when she had once sat next to him at a dinner party. He had the air, she felt, of a man who wields power and enjoys the fact and she had rather made plain her dislike. Then she found she must go to Stephen and try to persuade him to accept one of her pupils for the Foundation.
9. Remembered Serenade
Joanna Ransome was hoping to embark on a singing career–and with the great conductor Oscar Warrender taking an interest in her she could hardly fail!
But how could she manage to convince Elliot Cheam that she was not just a cheap little gold digger?
12. Masquerade with Music
She couldn’t reveal her true identity
Nor could Kate reveal it had been her ambition to become an opera star that prompted her to take a job in London with her famous uncle, Oscar Warrender.
Two men were prepared to help her: Carlo, a handsome baritone who saw Kate as a way of furthering his own career; and Van, a musical journalist who seemed to want the best for her — but on his own terms.
She needed them both… but her heart could choose only one.
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