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A brilliant debut from Melanie Moore, Are You Staying, Mandy Boyle? will have you laughing, crying, and aching with the frustrations and joys of taking huge risks and falling in love big time. Mandy Boyle is thirty-five, still living with her stepfather in his rent-stabilized apartment, and...

“A profoundly compassionate novel of devastating power and emotional complexity.” ―Bernardine Evaristo A beautiful portrait of a seemingly ordinary woman’s life, transformed by extraordinary love. When Paulette arrived in England as a young girl, she left behind a grandmother in St...

Helen DeWitt’s 2000 debut, The Last Samurai, was “destined to become a cult classic” (Miramax). The enterprising publisher sold the rights in twenty countries, so “Why not just, ‘destined to become a classic?’” (Garth Risk Hallberg) And why must cultists tell the uninitiated it has...

Während Schneemassen die Stadt zudecken, dringen lang gehegte Familiengeheimnisse ans Licht Buffalo, 1977: Dichter Schneefall liegt über der Stadt und der Polizist Geno St. John ist spurlos verschwunden. Für Harmon Pond, Inhaber einer verschuldeten Lokalzeitung, ist das keine gute Nachricht: Geno ist sein Gläubiger, der Fall reißt alte, komplizierte Verbindungen zwischen den beiden Familien wieder auf. Auch für Harmons Frau Pauline ist das Verschwinden Genos zutiefst beunruhigend: Es ruft eine Vergangenheit wach, die sie ihrem Mann und den drei Kindern jahrzehntelang verschwiegen hat.

It is the autumn of 1945 and identical twins Joy and Gillian Lawrence are on their way home to Liverpool, having been evacuated to Devonshire five years earlier. Their mother has been killed in the Blitz but the girls hope that with their beloved father's help they will be able to manage without assistance. All goes well until there is a terrible accident and Joy loses her sight. At first she is bitter and resentful whilst Gillian is racked with guilt.

Sisters Mattie, Nell and Renie have all managed to escape their oppressive and bullying father, but now separated, the girls must draw upon their strength and courage to build new lives for themselves. Renie, the youngest sister, is living with Nell, happy in her waitressing job at the King's Head Hotel. But a shadow falls over her the day Mr Judson arrives as assistant manager. Feeling increasingly harassed by him and also eager to escape from Nell's unpleasant husband, Renie is delighted when she is offered a new job in London.

1916. Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her bullying family. As she wonders who she can turn to for help when she needs it most, she finds herself at the gates of Honeyfield.

Endlich: Das größte Geheimnis der Verlorenen Töchter wird gelüftet! Der atemberaubende Abschluss der Nr.-1-SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Reihe: Wir erfahren vom Schicksal der Frau, die den Heldinnen der sieben Vorgängerbände in deren schwersten Zeiten beistand und Erbstücke für deren Töchter versteckte. London, Gegenwart: Mia hält das letzte Kästchen, das sie in Hope's House gefunden hat, in ihren Händen.

“I’m very picky about romance, but Melissa completely won me over—her writing is sharp, charming, and just incredibly readable in the best way.” —Mindy Kaling A brilliant spine surgeon gains the power to perfectly recall her past—only to discover that some memories are better left...

Award-winning author Lauren E. Rico’s intense psychological thriller plumbs the depths of trauma and identity in an emotional story about twin sisters set against the murky backdrop of the Everglades. Dr. Jennifer Flores swore she’d never return to Miami—not after her mentor nearly...

From the million-copy bestselling author of The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay, this is a joyful festive read about family, forgiveness, and finding your way home for the holidays. Snow is drifting over the harbour, a twinkling Christmas market is headed to Seahaven Bay, and Rita Jory is about...

A emotional romance from Alison Roberts One tiny baby. Two guarded hearts. A second chance at family Smoke, danger and split-second decisions are all in a day’s work for firefighter Jason Halliday. But nothing has prepared him for the tiny baby abandoned at the station doorstep…or the...

What would you do if your "mostly fine" life suddenly flipped upside down, leaving you at a crossroad you never saw coming? Enter Maddie Brown: slightly frazzled empty nester, and, thanks to a class reunion, now smack-dab in the middle of a swirling mess of old flames, family drama, and one impossible-to-ignore second chance.

La découverte d'une grande autrice de sagas. Pour la première fois traduite en France, Tara Haigh – l'égale des Sarah Lark, Lucinda Riley, Anne Jacobs ou autres Corinna Bomann –, nous entraîne en Malaisie sur les pas d'Elsa, à la recherche de ses origines... Hambourg, 1898. Elsa, jeune...

Ein romantischer Thriller der Bestsellerautorinnen Colleen Hoover und Tarryn Fisher. Charlize, genannt Charlie, und Silas, beste Freunde seit der Kindheit und heimliches Paar gegen den Willen ihrer Familien, wachen auf und erinnern sich an ... nichts. Beider Erinnerungen sind wie weggewischt...

A trio of novels by the award-winning author, dramatised with full casts for BBC Radio Carlisle-born author Margaret Forster wrote over 25 acclaimed novels, as well as numerous memoirs and biographies. She was best known for her classic Georgy Girl, a zeitgeist tale of Swinging Sixties London...

En cette année 1938, Berlin vit au rythme de la terreur nazie. Pour la famille Landau, des Juifs possédant un petit magasin de musique, il devient presque impossible de survivre. Et lorsque la terrible Nuit de Cristal éclate, avec ses assassinats et ses déportations, Rachel la fille aînée...

Discover an emotional, uplifting read from Jane Crane Grace Watson has built a life that looks perfect from the outside. A successful career in Mayfair. A long-term relationship. A future that feels safe and certain. But beneath the surface, nothing is quite as it seems. When a devastating...

Second chances are on the menu at Orchid Island. With her new restaurant thriving, Paisley believes she's finally stepping into her own. But desire is messier than recipes, especially when her heart is torn between the steadfast Noah she can't have and the dashing chef Lex, whose young daughter...

A moving, sharp and irresistible story of women rewriting the rules In the warm refuge of a neighbourhood cafe, five women with nowhere else to turn begin to find one another. Each has a story she is not ready to tell-and a question she cannot answer alone. Mira has built a refuge from the ruins...