Books by Fiona McIntosh

Dr Isla Fenwick has a life that most modern women of 1933 might envy - hercareer gives her status, her pedigree adds freedom, and her oldest crush, JovianMandeville, has reappeared in her life with a marriage proposal. Her life isbeginning to feel complete. However, she insists o...n keeping a private promise she made to her latemother to work at the coalface of medicine in India before committing to lifeas a dutiful wife. With Jove's blessing, Isla sails to Calcutta to set up a newmidwifery clinic. What she can't anticipate is how India will test everythingshe relies upon within, challenging her professionalism and her loyalties. But it is the fateful meeting of enigmatic ProfessorSaxon Vickery that will call into question what she trusts most about herself.When the pair travel into the foothills of the Himalaya for a stay on a tea plantationoutside Darjeeling, Isla must make the most important choice of her life. Andat the roof of the world - where heaven and earth collide - a price will beexacted for glimpsing heaven. From England's squally seaside town of Brighton toIndia's slums of Calcutta and breathtaking Himalayan mountains, this is aheartbreaking story about the pursuit of passion by the bestselling author of The Chocolate Tin.
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By the bestselling author of The Tailor's Girl. Amidst the carnage of Gallipoli, British nurse Claire Nightingale falls in love with Australian Light Horseman Jamie Wren. Their flame burns bright and carries them through their darkest hours, even when war tears them apart. When J...amie encounters Turkish soldier Acar Shahin on the bloodstained battlefield, their chance meeting leaves a precious clue to Jamie's whereabouts for Claire to follow. Come peacetime, Claire's desperate search to find Jamie takes her all the way to Istanbul, and deep into the heart of Acar's family, where she attracts the unexpected attention of a charismatic and brooding scholar. But by the nail-biting conclusion, who will be left standing to capture Nurse Nightingale's heart? A breathtaking novel of heartbreak and heroism, love and longing by a powerhouse Australian storyteller. 'Dreamily romantic and historically fascinating, this is McIntosh at her best.' Brisbane News 'A book for readers who enjoy a fairytale romance.' Books+Publishing
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Lavender farmer Luc Bonet is raised by a wealthy Jewish family in the foothills of the French Alps. When the Second World War breaks out he joins the French Resistance, leaving behind his family's fortune, their home overrun by soldiers, their lavender fields in disarray. Lisette... Forestier is on a mission of her own: to work her way into the heart of a senior German officer - and to bring down the Reich in any way she can. What Luc and Lisette hadn't counted on was meeting each other. When they come together at the height of the Paris occupation, German traitors are plotting to change the course of history. But who, if anyone, can be trusted? As Luc and Lisette's emotions threaten to betray them, their love may prove the greatest risk of all.
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Alexandra Frobisher is a modern-thinking woman with hopes of a career in England's famous chocolate-making town of York. She has received several proposals of marriage, although none of them promises that elusive extra - love. Matthew Britten-Jones is a man of charm and strong so...cial standing. He impresses Alex and her parents with his wit and intelligence, but would an amicable union be enough for a fulfilling life together? At the end of the war, Captain Harry Blakeney discovers a dead soldier in a trench in France. In the man's possession is a secret love note, tucked inside a tin of chocolate that had been sent to the soldiers as a gift from the people back home. In pursuit of the author of this mysterious message, Harry travels to Rowntree's chocolate factory in England's north, where his life becomes inextricably bound with Alexandra and Matthew's. Only together will they be able to unlock secrets of the past and offer each other the greatest gift for the future. From the battlefields of northern France to the medieval city of York, this is a heartbreaking tale about a triangle of love in all its forms and a story about the bittersweet taste of life ...and of chocolate.
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A spate of seemingly unconnected murders in southern England prompts a high-profile taskforce to be formed and led by DCI Jack Hawksworth, one of the Force's new rising stars who combines modern methods with old-school instincts. The victims appear as disparate as their style of ...death; the only link that Hawk and his team can pull together is that all the murdered are men of identical age. With that platform as their only way forward, the taskforce has nothing tangible but cold cases of decades past to comb through in the hope that they might find a clue to who might be behind the savagery.But with little progress frustrating everyone and his most trusted detective threatening to betray him while the public and police force are pressuring for results, Jack must confront his own ability and conduct as the morgue fills and media hysteria builds.An emotional tale of brutal revenge with a chilling twist that profoundly affects the lives of all the people involved in its shocking climax.
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