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A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters . . .

Summer 1935. In Margaret Pemberton's Beneath the Cypress Tree best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics degrees.

Kate is desperate to start work on an archaeological dig straightaway and she is thrilled to be given a position at the famous Knossos palace site in Crete. However, she doesn't bargain for working with gruff site director Lewis Sinclair - nor for her own complex feelings towards him.

In Yorkshire, Ella's family expect her to marry Sam, her steady friend who is training to be a doctor, but Ella too feels pulled to the Mediterranean by the promise of freedom. When she meets Christos, life as a country GP's wife seems even less appealing . . .

Daphne however throws herself into London's high society, falling madly in love with diplomat and heir Sholto Hertford - b

Beneath the Cypress Tree

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    A Paperback by Margaret Pemberton

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      Publisher Pan Macmillan
      Published 1/23/2017 12:03:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781447248675
      978-1447248675
      ISBN-10 1447248678
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A war that could turn friends into enemies, lovers into fighters . . .

      Summer 1935. In Margaret Pemberton's Beneath the Cypress Tree best friends Kate Shelton, Ella Tetley and Daphne St. Maur are on the cusp of a new life, having graduated with Classics degrees.

      Kate is desperate to start work on an archaeological dig straightaway and she is thrilled to be given a position at the famous Knossos palace site in Crete. However, she doesn't bargain for working with gruff site director Lewis Sinclair - nor for her own complex feelings towards him.

      In Yorkshire, Ella's family expect her to marry Sam, her steady friend who is training to be a doctor, but Ella too feels pulled to the Mediterranean by the promise of freedom. When she meets Christos, life as a country GP's wife seems even less appealing . . .

      Daphne however throws herself into London's high society, falling madly in love with diplomat and heir Sholto Hertford - b

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