AN APPLE FROM EDEN: When Bridie gets a job as a maid on the grand estate of Sir Ian of Seaton, against her better judgment, she finds herself falling in love with Sir Ian_s brother's step-son, also called Ian. Ian naively feels that his father will let them marry, but Bridie expects what she gets dismissal, with Ian threatened with the loss of his inheritance. When Ian is killed during a burglary on the estate, Bridie decides she can't bear to live without him. 472 + 320PP.THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN - When she was sixteen, Shelia Beattie knew exactly what her future would be. She would marry her sweetheart Eric, a fisherman like her father, and they would raise their family and dream their simple dreams in the village in which they'd been born. But she was sixteen - and about to discover that in this world there is northing certain but change. No-one and nothing to be trusted but the voice of your own heart.