Rosemary Aitken, écrivant sous le pseudonyme de Rosemary Rowe, mêle avec brio des décors historiques à des mystères captivants. Sa série policière, située dans la ville romaine de Glevum, met en scène le personnage singulier de Libertus, un paveur dont l'expertise en motifs de mosaïque reflète habilement son talent pour résoudre des crimes déroutants. Cette approche souligne sa fascination pour l'intersection de l'art, de l'histoire et de la déduction. Au-delà de ses romans policiers, Aitken explore également la fiction historique, créant des récits se déroulant dans un village fictif de Cornouailles qui offrent aux lecteurs des voyages immersifs dans le passé.
Lizzie Treloweth is one of ten children. With the outbreak of World War I, their father enlists and the family struggle to run his butcher's shop in Penzance. Lizzie trains as a nurse under Tamsin Beswetherick, daughter of the local gentry, and their friendship with the four Jago brothers develops.
Carie Tremble leaves here beloved Terrase in Penvaris to go to Penzance and go into service. Despite fitting in with this unfamiliar way of life, she long to go backk to Penvaris. The onset of War rocks the comminty, but is this Carrie's chance to escape bak to Penvaris?
When Katie Waren's mother dies in childbirth Katie is forced to abandon her dreams of working as a pupil-teacher. Instead she goes into service at the big house with her sister, Fanny. Soon, and against her will, she finds herself growing fond of the shy but kind son of the house, George Trevarnon. But the intervention of George's unscrupulous brother leads to the sisters' dismissal and Katie and George are separated -Katie to struggle for a living in the alien city of Truro, and George, to bury his emotions in the dangers and devastations of the Boer War. When the two meet again, each is married to another but fate contrives to bring them together again -in the deceptive peace of an Edwardian summer...
A comprehensive analysis of form and function, with suggestions for presentation and practice of structures in context and a review of common learner errors for each tense. Contains photocopiable material