

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A Langley stood the legacy of three
remarkable and indomitable women.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>There
was Charlotte who had survived the Afghan war in Victorian times--Alexandra who
had bravely carved a life for herself on a Cornish farm--and Cara, who was
Alexia^s mother and who was tough and resourceful and a terrific worker on all
kinds of committees. The trouble was that Alexia, with the example of three
wonderful women behind her, wasn^t brave or extraordinary at all.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>She was nervous and shy and wasn^t
particularly good at anything except cooking.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp;
</span>She was totally unsuited for the free-wheeling world of the 60s, and
when Martin Angus made a bee-line for her she let herself fall wildly and
gratefully in love.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">&nbsp; </span>At last, someone
really liked her, in spite of what she was. It took just over a year for her to
discover his betrayal--for her to realize that from now on she had to fight,
for herself, her future, and the future of her child. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">About
the Author</span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Joanna
Trollope </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:107%;
font-family:&quot;Open Sans&quot;,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">was born on 9 December 1943 in
Minchinhampton, United Kingdom. She is an English writer. She has also written
under the pseudonym of Caroline Harvey. Her novel Parson Harding^s Daughter won
1980 the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists^
Association.</span></p>

