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England, 1941. Reunited briefly with her husband-to-be before he returns to fighting, Lily Baker now finds her mundane army office work dreary. But when her boss asks her to keep watch on the happenings at the depot, she quickly suspects a new weapons supplier of fraud. As she trains her sharp eye on the potential cheat, she agrees to help an unmarried colleague with an unexpected pregnancy. But when, without evidence, she is accused of being the one with child, she faces hard decisions.

Santa Montefiore keert terug naar het prachtige Ierland in het zesde, los te lezen boek over de familie Deverill. Cavan Court, 1865, Ballinakelly, Ierland. Eliza Fairfield is niet zoals haar drie oudere zussen, die ervan dromen te trouwen met een van de knappe, welgestelde broers Deverill en het huishouden bestieren op het statige kasteel. Eliza droomt liever weg in haar eigen sprookjeswereld. Maar dan raakt ze verstrikt in een onmogelijke driehoeksverhouding, waarin ook de Deverills een rol spelen. 1925.

Matriarch Kitty Conlon is missing her son Patrick, proud but fearful of the fate of his Spitfire, while spinster Mavis welcomes a new lodger, WAAF Anna Carswell who is delighted by the Weaver Street welcome after a loveless childhood. At number nine, Maggie Stubbs worries nightly as her daughter Lily patrols the streets to protect the neighbours during air raids in her role as ARP Warden, and when an unexploded bomb is discovered at the allotment, danger comes terrifyingly close to Weaver Street.

Though the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean’s hopes of being a wife and mother are dashed to pieces. Her fiancé dead from tuberculosis, Mira resigns herself to being a spinster schoolteacher—until Gordon Covington shows up. No longer the boy she knew from school, Gordon is now a preacher who is full of surprises. First, he asks Mira to come to Sourwood in Eastern Kentucky to teach at his mission school. Second, he asks her to marry him. Just like that.

El último libro de la arrolladora serie histórica de la autora número 1 en ventas del Sunday Times. Marrakech, 1966. En la oscuridad del traqueteante tren nocturno que atraviesa Marruecos, la estudiante Vicky Baudin busca la verdad sobre su misteriosa abuela, que dio a su padre en adopción décadas atrás. Clemence Petier vive en una kasbah en lo alto del Atlas, donde guarda celosamente su pasado. Mientras se prepara para recibir a una nieta desconocida, aparece alguien de su infancia que amenaza su identidad y su libertad.

Wealthy landowner, Hadan Rose, is dying. His daughter, May, rushes to his country estate, Rose Park, with her daughter, Rachel, to nurse him through his final days. In the afternoons, while Hadan sleeps, May tells Rachel about her wartime experiences.

At 25, single, and under threat of redundancy from her job in a local library, Emily feels as though her life is going nowhere—until the day when Carl comes into the library asking for books about tracing family history. Carl is baffled by a mystery about his late grandfather: why is the name by which Carl had always known him different from the name on his old passport?Fascinated as much by Carl himself as by the puzzle he wants to solve, Emily tries to help him find the answers. As their relationship develops, their quest for the truth takes them along a complicated paper-trail.

This historical fiction follows Ayana Kenes, a peasant girl from Kazakhstan in the Soviet Union, who has unexpectedly risen to the top of the Soviet Space program. It is the dawn of the Space Race in 1957 and the Russians are in a race with the Americans. Ayana is tasked with helping to rush Laika, to become the first dog to orbit the Earth. But Ayana is distracted by a quirky, artistic lab technician, Nikolai Yinski, and his affection for Laika and the other dogs in the program.

Melike has it all: a beautiful home in Istanbul, a career as an art historian, an attentive husband. But her yearning for more excitement has led her surreptitiously into the arms of other men. On the cusp of her fortieth birthday, Melike is resolute: the affairs must stop. Then she receives a mysterious email from a man named Petro, requesting a tour of Istanbul’s Byzantine churches. Against her better judgement, she accepts. As soon as she sees Petro, with his endearing smile and impeccable charm, Melike knows she is in trouble. But she is not the only one keeping secrets.

Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He’s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen, finds that she is pregnant, Patrick throws her out of the family home and Flora goes with her. After wandering the Derbyshire countryside for miles, they find shelter on a farm, working for their keep. When Flora must return to her job as a buffer girl in Sheffield’s cutlery trade, she is reunited with her friend, Evelyn Bonsor.

Een hartverscheurende roman voor de lezers van De jongen in de gestreepte pyjama en De tatoeëerder van Auschwitz. Gebaseerd op een waargebeurd verhaal. Vrijwel niemand komt levend uit de hel die Auschwitz heet. Mala, gevangene 19880, begrijpt dat op het moment dat ze de trein uit stapt. Als tolk voor de ss heeft ze een iets hogere status dan de andere gevangen, een positie die ze gebruikt om zo veel mogelijk levens te redden. Edward, gevangene 531, is een kampveteraan en een politiek gevangene. Hij zit in het ondergrondse verzet. En hij heeft een ontsnappingsplan.

Having done her duty as an ATS girl, Lance Corporal Ruth Cox is moving on to new challenges and has signed up to work as a gunner girl, helping to keep the skies clear of enemy planes and safe for our brave boys in blue. But on the way to her new barracks, Ruth meets handsome Sargeant Sam Johnson. Ruth isn’t looking for romance, and she knows she has a dangerous job ahead, but there is a connection between her and Sam that she can’t deny.

1944, à 40 kilomètres de Florence. Alors que les troupes alliées gagnent du terrain et que les bombes tombent sur la campagne toscane, Ulysses Temper, un jeune soldat anglais, fait la connaissance d’Evelyn Skinner, célèbre historienne de l’art qui parcourt le pays pour sauver les oeuvres des décombres. Dans la cave à vin en ruine d’une somptueuse villa, au milieu des débris et des bouteilles de vin, naît une amitié qui va profondément marquer le jeune homme. La guerre terminée, Ulysses rentre à Londres et retourne à sa vie d’avant.

Die Birken des Nordens. Oldenburg, 1914: Luise reist nach Estland, wo die adelige Wilhelmine einen jungen deutschbaltischen Baron heiraten soll. Nicht wissend, dass es sich um den Zukünftigen ihrer Herrin handelt, trifft Luise auf Julius und verliebt sich in ihn. Die beiden Frauen fassen einen verwegenen Plan, aber ihr Glück steht auf Messers Schneide, denn schon bald bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus.

Als sich Clara und Viktor im Sommer 1965 begegnen, wissen sie nicht, dass sie sich schon einmal als Kleinkinder an einem tragischen Ort begegnet sind, und jeweils nur dank ihrer unfassbar mutigen Mütter überlebt haben. Die beiden jungen Menschen spüren, dass sie ineinander die wahre Liebe gefunden haben. Doch jetzt gibt es Ost und West. Sie riskieren alles und wagen die Flucht aus der DDR. Sie mündet in einer unsagbaren Katastrophe: Claras wird denunziert und landet im berüchtigten Frauen-Gefängnis Hoheneck.

Augsbourg, 1939. Dans une Europe menacée par la guerre, la famille Melzer traverse une sombre période. Depuis l'arrivée de Hitler au pouvoir, Marie s'est exilée avec son fils à New York, et l'usine textile de Paul fait l'objet de convoitises nazies. Sans sa femme, qu'il soupçonne d'avoir refait sa vie aux États- Unis, Paul doit affronter seul ses inquiétudes et ses doutes, et prendre des décisions qui mettent en péril tout ce qu'ils ont bâti ensemble.

When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.

'You're everything to me. I'd have to lose my life before I'd lose you.' This is the vow Silas made to Cathleen on the day he asks her to marry him. Throughout their childhood their love has grown stronger and now, in 1900, they start to plan a life together. But a jealous woman is determined to ruin their happiness and uses Silas's father – a good and honest man – to do so, forcing him to make an impossible sacrifice. As a dutiful son, Silas has no choice but to obey his father, and Cathleen must pay the bitter price.

Barbie France has known Edward Steyne all her life - indeed they were childhood sweethearts. Charming, spirited, debonair, he is the ideal companion. Everyone, especially Edward, assumes they will marry one day. But Barbie is uneasy. Edward sometimes behaves very oddly. There are his sudden, huge winnings on the racecourse and the strange affair of Aunt Amalie's emerald ring. And last, but not least, Barbie is puzzled by his reaction to the handsome stranger she meets at a wedding; for suddenly easy-going Edward becomes hostile and unfriendly . . . Can Barbie discover the truth?

Bill Stanhope a young Squadron Leader in Pathfinder Force Bomber Command in World War 2, with a great deal of luck, has survived a staggering number of missions. Falling in love with Jane Curtis, a nurse tending his wounded Observer, Harry Watt, he proposes, expecting his next operation to be his last. Fifty percent never came back from the terror-filled skies over war-torn Europe. They marry. She had fallen for him too. Four days later, his Lancaster is shot up, a doomed fireball.