Claire Rayner (1931–2010), ausgebildete Krankenschwester, war in verschiedenen Londoner Krankenhäusern tätig, bevor sie 1960, nach der Geburt ihres ersten Kindes, anfing zu schreiben. Sie hat zahlreiche Bücher – Sachbücher über Sexualerziehung und häusliche Krankenpflege ebenso wie Romane –, zudem unzählige Artikel in Zeitungen und Zeitschriften veröffentlicht. Darüber hinaus ist sie als führende »Briefkasten-Tante« des Landes bekannt geworden, die regelmäßig im britischen Rundfunk und Fernsehen auftrat.
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Claire Rayner: Mord im OP
Im Royal Hospital zu London häufen sich rätselhafte Todesfälle. Die verantwortlichen Ärzte sind ratlos. Noch zögert Sir James, der Leiter des angesehenen Hospitals, die Polizei einzuschalten. Doch …
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Claire Rayner: Das Haus im Fenn
Harriet fährt nach London und tut alles, um die Spuren ihrer Fahrt zu verwischen: sie will ihren jähzornigen Mann für immer verlassen. Tags darauf wird dieser in dem einsam gelegenen Haus im Fenn tot …
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Claire Rayner: London Lodgings
Without her husband Frank – the victim of a fatal accident, Tilly Quentin’s decision to turn 17 Brompton Grove into lodgings is a brave one, for it is against the rigid Victorian social code for a …
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Claire Rayner: Reprise
Maggy Dundas is a star jazz pianist with looks, style, and a keen business brain. And when her hated mother Dolly dies, she is free at last from the memories that mar it all – from the woman whose …
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Claire Rayner: Death on the Table
The man admitted to casualty was a Polish seaman – an emergency – in urgent need of an abdominal operation. Four hours later, he died ‘accidentally’. From then on, the ‘accidents’ became more …
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Claire Rayner: Family Chorus
How many hearts will a woman break tor each the top? Lexie Asher had talent and looks, and nerve – but more than that she had charm. And she knew how to get her own way. She could will her own way …
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Claire Rayner: Burning Summer
Ruthie Lee is seven and England is at war. Brought back from the countryside to live with her mother and baby brother in London, she spends summer in the hot dusty streets and the warm companionship …
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Claire Rayner: Virus Man
At 7am, on her twelfth birthday, Miranda Hallam is found dead in bed at Bluegates school, but her’s is only the first death. For some time, Ben Pitman has been dedicated to his work towards a …
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Claire Rayner: Sisters
In a hushed courtroom, the scene is set for one of the most celebrated trials of recent years. A trial caused by a bitter family wrangle. A trial that, as it unfolds, will reveal the dramatic story …
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Claire Rayner: Maddie
It is New Year’s Eve 1948, and Maddie Braham’s birthday party. She sees Jay Kincaid, a handsome American in London on business, and immediately falls wildly in love with him. Spoiled from childhood, …
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Claire Rayner: Clinical Judgements
Medical decisions can kill or cure, and this book documents one month in a hospital where staff are challenged by such decisions. Problems are faced daily by people like Kate Sayers, a surgeon whose …
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Claire Rayner: Postscripts
A novel of discovery, guilt and betrayal by the author of ‘Maddie’ and ‘Clinical Judgements’. A celebrated film-maker is determined to make a film on the survivors of concentration camps. He comes to …
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Claire Rayner: Final Year
Nurse Avril Gardner had one great ambition, to become a Gold Medalist, even if it meant losing her friends and rejecting the love of Dr Dickon Bartlett. She knew she was right, especially when the …
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Claire Rayner: Cottage Hospital
Sister Barbara Hughes was disappointed to leave London’s busy Royal Free Hospital because of health reasons. But when she begins work at the hospital in Sandleas, she finds it interesting – …
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Claire Rayner: Nurse in the Sun
Nurse Isabel Cameron had taken a job for six months at the Cadiz, a luxury hotel in Majorca. Leaving an unhappy love affair behind her in London, she swore that there would be no emotional …
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Claire Rayner: Lonely One
A hospital romance about a lonely young girl, who leaves behind her sheltered upbringing when she begins training as a nurse and discovers an exciting new life within the hospital’s social circle. …
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Claire Rayner: Gower Street (Book 1 of The Performers)
The early 1800’s. Jesse Constam, a highly respected spice merchant, lives in fashionable Gower Street. Saved from poverty himself, he rescues two children from the gutter. Jesse’s intervention …
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Claire Rayner: Haymarket (Book 2 of The Performers)
Abel Lackland, rescued from the gutter as a child, has achieved great success as a surgeon. His eldest son, Jonah refuses to follow in his father’s footsteps. He secretly nurtures a desire to act on …
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Claire Rayner: Soho Square (Book 4 of The Performers)
In 1851 Lydia Mohun, the daughter of the famous actress, Lilith Lucas, comes to live in Soho Square. She dreams of the same success on the same stage and when Jonah Lackland’s daughter Phoebe is …
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Claire Rayner: Bedford Row (Book 5 of The Performers)
The Crimean war is raging a world away from London. Martha Lackland, Abel Lackland’s daughter, astonishes her family and friends by announcing her intention to go to the Crimea to work amongst the …
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Claire Rayner: Charing Cross (Book 7 of The Performers)
Sophie Lackland is the granddaughter of the great surgeon, Abel Lackland. She is twenty-one, alone in the world and virtually penniless. A letter tells her of the death of her step-grandmother and of …
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Claire Rayner: Strand (Book 8 of The Performers)
They have all come a long way since their childhood days as part of a Jewish family in the East End of London. Orphaned during the war years, each has sought to escape her humble background in a …
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Claire Rayner: Chelsea Reach (Book 9 of The Performers)
Martha Lackland dies in 1905. Her great-niece, Letty attends the funeral. Here she meets Luke O’Hare, an aspiring actor with plans to start a theatre for the poor of London. Letty falls under the …
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Claire Rayner: Shaftesbury Avenue (Book 10 of The Performers)
The powerful, personal stories of Shaftesbury Avenue are set against the dramatically changing social and political background of post-Great War Britain. The war has ended but Theo Caspar, devastated …
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Claire Rayner: Piccadilly (Book 11 of The Performers)
The troubled 30’s leading to the outbreak of the Second World War form the background for a further episode of ‘The Performers’ family saga. Harry Lackland meets Leah Landis, but because of their …
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Claire Rayner: Jubilee (Book 1 of The Poppy Chronicles)
The marriage between Mildred Amberly and Lizah ‘Kid’ Harris, a Jewish boxer from the East End seems a union doomed to failure. Their daughter Poppy’s first memory is of Queen Victoria’s Jubilee in …
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Claire Rayner: Flanders (Book 2 of The Poppy Chronicles)
It is 1911. At sixteen, Poppy is becoming a woman herself, and she can appreciate that the Suffragette Movement seems to promise a fairer future for all women. Then in 1914 The First World War breaks …
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Claire Rayner: Flapper (Book 3 of The Poppy Chronicles)
During the First World War Poppy finds freedom and real love. She marries, but is widowed after a brief but idyllically happy marriage. She is left to cope with Chloe, her determined and …
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Claire Rayner: Blitz (Book 4 of The Poppy Chronicles)
London in the Blitz. Poppy is a mature and capable woman. She struggles to enable her family to lead normal lives. The problems they create are known to all mothers-a daughter torn between two men …
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Claire Rayner: Festival (Book 5 of The Poppy Chronicles)
1951. The Festival of Britain announces a time of post-war optimism and hope in the future for the country as shortages come to an end. Poppy is beginning to have some success running her own …
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Claire Rayner: Sixties (Book 6 of The Poppy Chronicles)
It is the Sixties. Poppy is devastated at the loss of her mother. But with typical resolve she faces the future with courage and determination. Poppy has steered herself and her family to great …
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Claire Rayner: Paying Guests
The sequel to ‘London Lodgings’. Tilly Quentin has successfully turned Quentin’s into a thriving guest house. But with the demanding guests, particularly the handsome Silas Geddes, and her beloved …
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Claire Rayner: Lady Mislaid
Her name was Abigail Winterburn – at least that’s what the newspapers said. They also said that she was wanted in connection with the disappearance of her stepson. But Abigail couldn’t remember her …
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Claire Rayner: Running Years
She was born in 1893, in the slums of London. The daughter of immigrants, the descendant of exiles, she was part of a people doomed to wander, forever strangers in the lands they had chosen as home. …
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Claire Rayner: Hive
Originally published in 1967 as ‘A Starch of Aprons’, ‘The Hive’ is a nursing drama in which the author, a former nurse, convincingly evokes the claustrophobic atmosphere of the wards of the Royal …
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Claire Rayner: House on the Fen
No one had seen her leave. Numbed by the inexplicable events of the evening, Harriet Darnell found herself running down the dark path away from the bleak mansion she hated, away from the cruel …
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Claire Rayner: Lunching at Lauras
Laura’s in Soho’ is the fashionable place to meet and eat. Only a select few can guarantee an advance booking… The food is good, the ambiance attractive, buts its success is due to one woman alone, …
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Claire Rayner: Meddlers
A novel that provides an insight into the moral risks involved in scientific efforts to control human life. After Dr Briant masterminds the birth of the world’s first test-tube baby, he must defend …
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Claire Rayner: Time to Heal
A woman researcher discovers a cancer cure and finds it difficult to escape the resultant …
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Claire Rayner: Dangerous Things
For a widow with small children, a job at the local school should be ideal, but Hattie joins the Foundation with misgivings, to help look after the first intake of girls in the sixth form. There are …
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Claire Rayner: Doctors of Downlands
Dr Phillipa Fenwick accepted a post as a GP in a large group practice, the only woman on an all-male team. While some of the doctors were prepared to accept her, Dr Max Lester was not. He made it …
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Claire Rayner: Childrens Ward
Dr Paul Martin wanted to marry Sister Harriet Brett, but she had different ideas. Trained as a nurse, Claire Rayner turned to writing in the 1960s. Since then, she has written almost 90 books on a …
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Claire Rayner: Private Wing
Student nurse Tricia Oxford wanted to work in the operating theatres at the Royal Hospital. To her dismay she found herself posted to ward duty in the private patients’ wing, where the registrar was …
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Claire Rayner: Shilling A Pound Pears
Running a fruit barrow? Dead-easy thought the younger members of the Jackson and Cooper clan marooned in London for a hot and dusty summer. Even Jane, ever sober and practical, thought it could be …
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Claire Rayner: Paddington Green (Book 3 of The Performers)
In the early years of Queen Victoria’s reign Abel Lackland’s children are grown up. Two of his sons have followed their father into medicine. The other, Jonah, now married to Lilith’s daughter, has …
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Claire Rayner: Long Acre (Book 6 of The Performers)
Orphans Amy and Fenton arrive in London determined to find fame and fortune on the stage, like their grandmother, the legendary Lilith Lucas. However, Amy also harbours another desire – to discover …
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Claire Rayner: Seven Dials (Book 12 of The Performers)
It is 1946 and London is still reeling from the destruction and suffering of the Second World War. The formidable Letty Lackland helps to raise funds for Queen Eleanor’s Hospital, destroyed in the …
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Claire Rayner: Sista sömnen
Stämningen på sjukhusavdelningen blir hätsk när ett par mystiska dödsfall inträffar i snabb följd. Är det tjänstefel eller kanske rentav slarv? Till synes rutinmässiga operationer borde inte sluta …
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Claire Rayner: Arvegods
År 1892 är det dags för den nya generationen Lackland att göra sitt intåg i Londons societetsliv. Abbys barnbarn Miriam är debutant vid årets debutantbal och familjen har samlats för att betrakta …
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Claire Rayner: Cirkeln sluts
Året är nu 1946 och andra världskriget har äntligen nått sitt slut. Familjerna Lackland och Lucas har lidit stora förluster och sorgen blandas nu med ett försiktigt hopp om framtiden. Peter kämpar …
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Claire Rayner: Gatans arv
Familjen Lackland är splittrad. Abel har blivit hård och vresig; han kommer inte överens med sönerna William och Rupert om hur sjukhuset ska skötas och har inte längre kontakt med sina äldsta barn …
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Claire Rayner: Nya tidens barn
Sophie Lackland har bott i Haworth i hela sitt liv. Haworth är tryggt, välbekant och frustrerande tråkigt. Sophies kärlek till den by som så länge varit hennes hem räcker inte för att stilla hennes …
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Claire Rayner: I tidens tecken
En grå dag i mars 1905 möts hela släkten Lackand för att gå på Martha Lacklands begravning. Där träffas Lettice Brotherton Lackland och Lucas O”Hara. Letty studerar medicin på Queen Eleanor, precis …
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Claire Rayner: Intill tredje led
Phoebe har vuxit upp med sin moster Abby och hennes man Gideon. Abbys son Freddy har sedan barnsben varit hennes följeslagare och gode vän. Men deras relation får sig en törn när Phoebe avböjer …
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Claire Rayner: Skuggor från förr
Den tjugonde oktober 1866 anländer syskonen Amy och Fenton Lucas till England. Med ärvda pengar har de tagit färjan från Boston och köpt sitt första hem i London. Både Amy och Fenton är skådespelare, …
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Claire Rayner: Teaterbarn
Abel Lackland har sedan länge lämnat livet på gatan bakom sig, och han är numera både välbärgad och en högt ansedd kirurg med ett eget sjukhus. Men trots sin framgång är han inte lycklig. Han har …
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Claire Rayner: Gatans barn
Weean har levt på gatan så länge han kan minnas, han är en av de bästa ficktjuvarna i stan och drömmer om att en dag bli gatuförsäljare. Jesse Constam tillhör stadens elit, men besöker regelbundet …
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Claire Rayner: Till fjärran land
Året är 1854 och i östlandet rasar Krimkriget. Phoebe och Oliver har tagit över sin fars Taverna. Abel Lackland jobbar fortfarande på sitt sjukhus och Martha, Abels dotter, arbetar uttröttligt med …
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Claire Rayner: Skymningstider
Året är 1934. Hitler har tagit makten i Tyskland och oron börjar sprida sig genom Europa. I London gifter sig Harry Haversham Lackland, brorson till Letty Lackland, med Leah Landis. Paret är upp över …
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Claire Rayner: Scenens barn
Den elfte november 1918 tjuter sirenerna. Samma sirener som tidigare uppmanat Londonborna att söka skydd undan fallande bomber betyder nu slutet på första världskriget. För många är det en glädjens …
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