Excerpt from A Winter Romance in Poppy Land, Vol. 9 The face of the girl was unusually interest ing. She impressed you - Well, - as being just the kind of girl one would like to know. Her paleness, as well as her mother's solicitude sug gested the truth; they had come because of her health. That she was not ill, to the extent of having lost interest in life, was indicated by her well-groomed appearance. She wore a natty tail ored suit of brown, topped with a fetching toque. This was set on her golden-brown hair at an indefinable angle which added a somewhat whimsical charm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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'Both lyrical and real, light and darkly full of yearnings for a profound and lifelong love' Good Housekeeping 'Barker gathers confidence and power with each novel, and Poppyland is a rich, confident and emotionally convincing piece of writing' Sunday Times On a freezing cold night in an unfamiliar city, a man meets a woman. The encounter lasts just moments, they part barely knowing one another's names, they make no plans to meet again. But both are left breathless. Five years on they live thousands of miles apart and live totally separate lives, except that they both still think about that night. So when they meet again it seems clear that they will do all they can to try and stay together, but can it be that easy? Will they be able to escape their past? Will they be able to take the risk they know they should?