Mansion By the Mersey [Paperback]

Anne Baker (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 19, 2004

It's July 1930 and Lorna Mathews couldn't be happier. She thought she was about to lose her job but instead the business's new owner, Mr Wyndham, wants to keep her on. Lorna's mother, though, is horrified by the news and finally confesses that Lorna was the result of an affair with Oliver Wyndham, whose family cast her out when Oliver died and the pregnancy was revealed. Shocked to the core to learn that the man she has always thought to be her beloved father simply adopted her at birth, Lorna resolves to find out everything she can about the past and especially about the tragic death of Oliver Wyndham. Working with the Wyndhams, she soon begins to stir up old secrets and the truth starts to emerge. But Lorna hasn't reckoned with falling in love with a member of the family she should hate...

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Anne Baker now lives with her husband on Merseyside.

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Headline Paperbacks (January 19, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0755301366
• ISBN-13: 978-0755301362
• Product Dimensions: 4.4 x 1.1 x 7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,870,230 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I love Anne Baker's books, September 9, 2008

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Bronwyn Rykiert (Buderim Qld Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mansion By the Mersey (Paperback)

I did not want to put this book down as I had to find out this family's secrets as much as Lorna wanted to.

It's 1930 and 20 year old Lorna Matthews couldn't be happier, instead of losing her job the new owner of the business wants her to stay on. When her mother Alice finds out that Lorna will be working for the Wyndham family she reluctantly tells her that Oliver Wyndham was her natural father.

Alice tells her this to stop her going because the family had treated Alice badly after the death of Oliver but this makes Lorna want to work for them even more.

This family has so many secrets, and had a proud heritage. They had been a wealthy family whose business was slowing down and they could no longer maintain their family home so Lorna was given the job of cataloging the goods and chattels of 200 years so they could be sorted for auction. What she finds I found fascinating and add that to the fact that Johnathon Wyndham falls in love her and she with him well...!

I have enjoyed every book I have read of Anne Baker's so far and I am looking forward to reading some more.