Pandora: The instant no.1 Sunday Times bestseller

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Ivy was a naive 19-year-old at the time, a doctor’s daughter, who had a yearning love for Edward Tremain, the son of the volatile, violent master of Polneath.

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When I read about jewelry design in the first chapter, I immediately thought that there should be female solidarity towards the end. In such books, the heroine's ally suddenly becomes the most unpleasant female person. So, this will also happen: Uncle's lover, the maid Lottie, who has been treating her for twelve years, suddenly becomes inflamed with friendly feelings. And one duchess there, literally from the first hour of acquaintance, will become on a short leg with our cutie. Britney Spears' estranged husband Sam Asghari shows off his sculpted muscles in clinging tank top... after she posed with NO UNDERWEARJonathan Ross' daughter Honey shows off her figure in a blue underwear set as she lounges in her lavish living room in stunning snaps Created by Hephaestus and released into the world of men to bring both misery and hope, Pandora is a figure whose name conjures an expectation of mythic drama; but Susan Stokes-Chapman’s bestselling debut novel only hints gently at those possibilities. Her Pandora is a young woman living in an attic above her uncle’s shop of fake antiquities in 18th-century London, training herself to become a designer of fine jewellery. Royals DO carry cash (but not enough!) Queen Camilla asks market vendors if she can settle up later after running out of shillings in Nairobi I’m a huge fan of historical fiction & Pandora did not disappoint in that regard. It is a wonderfully descriptive novel in terms of the settings, characters, their mannerisms & costume (particularly Lady Latimer who is a small character with a big personality!). James Haskell looks tense as he leaves podcast recording where he made vile 'jokes' about 9/11 and his sex life with ex Chloe Madeley

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Stormzy 'snubs' Maya Jama's famous annual Halloween bash as she parties until 4am - after the couple's blazing public row King Charles sweetly refers to his 'beloved daughter-in-law' Kate as he shares details of Prince William's proposal to the princess Denise Richards reveals she is trying to talk daughter Sami Sheen, 19, out of getting breast implants because she regrets her own: 'They're toxic'Davina McCall admits her relationship with Kylie Minogue 'is complicated' after 'phone snub' despite once starring in singer's music video Immediately sympathised with the character of Dora and her struggles trying to find independence and freedom in a patriarchal society. Edward was equally wonderful - so good and earnest and the perfect foil to Dora’s detestable uncle - a Thenadier style character - that everyone will love to hate. But what Edward discovers about the vase has Dora questioning everything she has believed about her life, her family, and the world as she knows it... The author’s favourite character is Cornelius Ashmole. What characters did you like, and which did you dislike? Did your opinion change about any of them throughout the course of the novel?

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After the tragic death of her parents during an archaeological excavation, Dora Blake is now living with her uncle, Hezekiah, in her parents’ antiquities shop. But Hezekiah does not have the interest in antiquities her parents had and he is slowly destroying her parents’ once loved business. Dora is desperate to escape from her uncles’ care, and is hoping to turn her love of drawing and jewelry making into a career, giving her the independence she craves. When her uncle imports a Grecian vase, one so old that it predates time itself, Dora feels an immediate connection. While anyone else who touches it or means it harm is instantly cursed, Dora continues to be the only one to open it and she uses its Greek inscriptions and drawings as inspiration for her jewellery. But Hezekiah has darker plans for the vase, and even darker plans for Dora, and when Dora realizes the true importance of the urn, her life is put at greater risk. Coronation Street couple Sally Carman and Joe Duttine put on a cosy display as they attend their co-star Chris Gascoyne's leaving party

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To try and find answers and stop her uncle, Dora befriends Edward, a book binder who wants to become a full-time antiquarian scholar.

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Pandora, an aspring jewellery designer, and her new acquaintance, young book binder Edward Lawrence, are determined to discover her uncle's plans - Pandora so she can free herself from his influence, Edward so that he can write a paper on Hezekiah's treasure and fulfill his ambition of entering the Society of Antiquaries. But Hezekiah will stop at nothing to keep his secret safe. There’s a sense that Pandora holds the moral high ground in this novel, not because she does good things but because she is suffering under her uncle’s tyranny. Virtue via suffering is apt for this time period, but it’s also a device that sometimes makes her bland. Meanwhile, her uncle is purely despicable – he too tends to be flat. Tyler Christopher's Charmed co-star Alyssa Milano and fellow General Hospital actor Bryan Craig lead tributes to the star after his death at 50 Ambitious, inquisitive Dora longs to be a jewellery designer for the beau monde, but she’s also determined to unravel the mysteries behind the vase.One thing I will say is that the author has left me with some interesting questions that I need answering! Chrishell Stause sports a prosthetic male torso as she and her partner G Flip recreate Troye Sivan's new drag music video for Halloween A nation of wheeler dealers: Half who sold a car online did so to an online buying service... and three-quarters were HAPPY with the experience!