Late harvest / Fiona Buckley.
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TextPublisher: London : Severn House Large Print, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First large print editionDescription: 345 pages (large print) ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780727894953Subject(s): Smuggling -- England -- Exmoor -- Fiction | Smugglers -- Fiction | Exmoor (England) -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George III, 1760-1820 -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Historical fiction. | Large type books. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: Exmoor, 1800. When farmer's daughter Peggy Shawe meets the charismatic Ralph Duggan, son of a so-called "free trader", it's love at first sight. Determined to prevent the match, Peggy's widowed mother sends her daughter to live with the Duggans for six weeks, believing she will be put off marriage to Ralph when she discovers what life is like among a smuggling family. Matters take a dramatic turn however when Ralph's brother Philip is suspected of murder, and Ralph and Philip are despatched to distant relatives across the Atlantic. Heartbroken, Peggy vows to be reunited with her lover one day. But it will be several years before she and Ralph are destined to meet again -- and in very different circumstances.
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"A passionate West Country saga" -- Cover.
Exmoor, 1800. When farmer's daughter Peggy Shawe meets the charismatic Ralph Duggan, son of a so-called "free trader", it's love at first sight. Determined to prevent the match, Peggy's widowed mother sends her daughter to live with the Duggans for six weeks, believing she will be put off marriage to Ralph when she discovers what life is like among a smuggling family. Matters take a dramatic turn however when Ralph's brother Philip is suspected of murder, and Ralph and Philip are despatched to distant relatives across the Atlantic. Heartbroken, Peggy vows to be reunited with her lover one day. But it will be several years before she and Ralph are destined to meet again -- and in very different circumstances.
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