検索キーワード： 著者 "Kayte Nunn" すべてのカテゴリー

L'insegnante Thea Rust, al suo arrivo in un esclusivo collegio nella campagna britannica, non ha idea di quello che la aspetta. Da oltre centocinquanta anni, infatti, la"Casa della seta" è un rifugio per ragazze in difficoltà. È un antico edificio dal passato travagliato, dove le ombre nascondono più misteri di quanti lei possa immaginare. Thea ancora non lo sa, ma il suo destino sta per intrecciarsi con la sua storia. È la fine del 1700 e Rowan Caswell lascia il suo villaggio per lavorare nella casa di un mercante di seta inglese.

Discovery. Desire. Deception. A wondrously imagined tale of two female botanists, separated by more than a century, in a race to discover a life-saving flower . . . In Victorian England, headstrong adventuress Elizabeth takes up her late father's quest for a rare, miraculous plant. She faces a...

Isole Scilly, 1951. Esther Durrant, una giovane madre, viene internata per volere del marito. La struttura, situata nelle remote isole a sud della Cornovaglia, rischia di trasformarsi per lei in una prigione. Ma grazie alla gentilezza del dotto Richard Creswell, uno psichiatra con idee all'avanguardia, quel luogo sembra trasformarsi in un rifugio per Esther. 2018. La scienziata marina Rachel Parker si imbarca per un progetto di ricerca nei mari inglesi, quando un violento temporale la costringe trovare riparo su un'isola.

Mattie Cameron thinks she's got it all figured out: she's got an impressive career in London, a gorgeous boyfriend and brilliant friends....

With her heart in tatters, Rose Bennett swaps her hometown of London for sunny Australia, but arrives to find the Shingle Valley shrouded in winter. As the weather improves, Rose starts to unlock the secrets of the valley - from bonfire ceremonies and wine-making traditions, to eccentric locals and their histories.... And soon, Rose falls in love with the valley, the wines, the two children she’s caring for and with the handsome and brilliant Mark Cameron, owner of the troubled Kalkari Wines estate.

Australian history teacher Thea Rust arrives at an exclusive boarding school in the British countryside only to find that she is to look after the first intake of girls in its 150-year history. She is to stay with them in Silk House, a building with a long and troubled past, where the shadows hide more mysteries than she could ever imagine.

A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island in this mysterious love story in the tradition of the novels by Kate Morton and Elizabeth Gilbert. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a...

Five women come together at a New Year's Eve's party after decades apart, in this thrilling story of desire, revenge and courage, based on a brave group of Australian and British WWII servicewomen Burma, 1945. Bea, Plum, Bubbles, Joy and Lucy: five young women in search of adventure, attached to the Fourteenth Army, fighting a forgotten war in the jungle. Assigned to run a mobile canteen, navigating treacherous roads and dodging hostile gunfire, they become embroiled in life-threatening battles of their own. Battles that will haunt the women for the rest of their lives.