Bøger af Margaret Wood

Madeline has a lot going for her, she is beautiful and bright, but she's undecided about what she wants to do with her life. Hoping to clear her mind, she takes a year out, working in a secluded village inn by the sea. It produced the results she was looking for, and she knew what she wanted and where she was going; that was, until a brief encounter on a secluded beach changes her plans and compels her to stay.

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Makes an important contribution to existing teachers' competence in the area of quality enhancement and presents reflections on practice distilled over a lifetime of work in education.

The light-hearted and entertaining play concerns four elderly actresses passing their days in a Home for Retired Artistes. They bicker and banter, showing the different parts of thier profession. Only Dame Anthea's dresser, Gladys, keeps an observant distance, injecting pithy comments into the actresses' small talk. Needing a man for their projected Christmas play, they enlist the help of newcomer Arthur Pendragon. But it is the dapper Antony Redfern who devises an entertainment ideally suited to their personalities, whilst the redoubtable Gladys in installed as costume mistress, as usual!|5 women, 2 men

The course of true love never did run too smoothly, and it certainly isn't doing so for Meg, housekeeper to the tyranical Trevor Lloyd. Meg is sweet on Trevor's younger brother Hughie, who feels the same about her, but lacks the con dence and imagination to make the first move.

Most people have heard of the Tolpuddle Martyrs of 1834, but what of their wives, the women behind the men in that troubled strife? This is the story of those women, who watched and worried as their husbands banded together to try to get a fair wage, and were then left behind to suffer and manage as best they could when the men were savagely sentenced to seven years' transportation.4 women, 6 men

The story of a camp in Europe and after the war, where the dispossessed still live in a stateless and hopeless condition.-1 woman, 3 men

Life does not hold out much pleasure for either Elizabeth or Elinor: Elizabeth in love with a man of whom her overbearing mother does not approve, Elinor in love with the man Mrs Hartley is determined Elizabeth shall marry. Coincidentally with a social visit by the awesome Lady Charlotte, however, the prospects of both girls are made much brighter - through the machinations of the quiet Miss Jane, who is dismissed as "a person of no consequence" by Lady Charlotte when she is told her surname - Miss Austen.|8 women

The delegates from many governments arrive in an atmosphere of suspect bonhomie. The two cleaners, backed by the troops and ordinary people, take over and announce a slight amendment to international law: in future a formal declaration of any war shall be by the public execution of all members of governments concerned.|8 women, 8 men

Examines six centuries of human history: hunters and gatherers, Southern Tewa people, Hispanic settlers, and Anglo ranches that occupy the land today.