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Married couple, Miranda and David, move out of London into a beautiful country house with an idyllic garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present.

A stunning story of loss, love and the summer that changed everything from the number one best-selling author of Songs of Love and War. 1958. Celestria, the charismatic daughter of an aristocratic family, lives in Pendrift Hall, a pale stone mansion with gardens that tumble down to the Cornish sea. It is summer, and the weeks ahead hold the promise of self-discovery and the thrilling possibility of illicit love affairs. 

When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion-dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no idea she had even owned it and becomes determined to discover the story behind the painting. This mystery sends him on the trail of his own history, back to the French village of his childhood. There he hopes to uncover the origins of the Gypsy Madonna; he never expects to find himself.

She hardly knew her Italian mother, and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. She despises country life almost as much as she despises her stepmother and stepsisters. On board the houseboat named after her dead mother, Alba's life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. But the discovery of her mother's portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find her family - and the truth about Valentina. 

The war has ended, and Rita Fairweather is waiting for George Bolton, her childhood sweetheart, to return home to Devon. She wants their future to be a continuing reassurance of their past. But George comes back as a man changed by the horrors he has experienced. Unable to settle back into a small-town life, George decides to travel to Argentina. And Rita promises to wait. But George faces irresistible temptation and an agonising choice. As the years pass, Rita keeps her word, but how long should she wait for the love of the life?

Audrey Garnet lives a sheltered life in the exclusive Argentinian community of Hurlingham. That is, until Cecil and Louis Forrester arrive, travelling from England to make their fortunes. Admired by all for her beauty and grace, Audrey quickly catches the eyes of both brothers, but it is talented-but-troubled outsider Louis with his musical flair whom she is drawn to most. Cecil, however, is a better match – a decorated war hero who has charmed the entire community, including Audrey’s parents, forcing Audrey to keep her true feelings a secret.

Federica is moved from Chile to Cornwall when her parents separate, and all she has left of the relationship she cherished with her father is a wooden box, which has a secret beauty hidden within. Swiftly embraced into the eccentric Appleby family, it isn’t long before Federica falls for her friend’s older brother, Sam, who barely notices the little girl until it is too late. Years later, from the sanctuary of a seemingly perfect marriage, Federica embarks on a painful journey of self-discovery. Will she finally learn the true lesson of the butterfly box?

1937. De jonge Grace Hamblin trouwt met haar jeugdliefde Freddie, maar intussen koestert ze heimelijk een vurige liefde voor een knappe aristocraat van wie ze weet dat hij nooit van haar zal zijn. Als Freddie acht jaar later uit de oorlog terugkeert als een gebroken man die bovendien een groot geheim met zich meedraagt, loopt het huwelijk stuk. 1973. Trixie Valentine is verliefd op Jasper, zanger van een Britse rockband die de zomer doorbrengt op het kleine eilandje bij de kust van Cape Cod waar Trixie is opgegroeid.

Over two hundred years ago, in the dark of night, a child vanished from his bed never to be seen again - and Pixie must discover the truth of those final moonlit hours. As the story undulates between the past and the present, secrets are revealed, love affairs exposed and, ultimately, Pixie will be forced to make a devastating choice that will change everything.

Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America, as did so many in those times of hardship and famine.

Deel 1 van "De tuinen van Devon"-serie, waarin een van de personages uit "Onder de Italiaanse zon" terugkeert. In een dorpje aan de zuidkust van Engeland staat Darnley Manor, een schitterend landhuis met uitgestrekte tuinen - en bijbehorende tuinmannen. Flappy Scott-Booth is de trotse bewoonster van het huis, samen met haar man Kenneth, een succesvolle zakenman die in zijn jonge jaren fortuin maakte met een fastfoodketen en die nu al zijn tijd spendeert op zijn eigen golfbaan. Ondanks haar zestig jaar ziet -Flappy er nog stralend uit; haar leven lijkt een perfecte droom.

Een indrukwekkend verhaal met een Nederlands tintje over de allesoverstijgende kracht van liefde. Gulliver's Bay, Cornwall, 1944 Als Rupert Dash sneuvelt tijdens de Slag om Arnhem, is zijn vrouw Florence er kapot van. Ze kan niet accepteren dat hij voor altijd uit haar leven is verdwenen. Wanneer ze een gedicht met de titel Wacht op mij vindt in een oud boek, gelooft ze dat het een teken van haar man is. Een belofte dat hij bij haar terug zal komen.

Cornwall, 1944. When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead during the Battle of Arnhem, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She can’t accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called ‘Wait for Me’ hidden in an old book, she believes it’s a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her. London, 1988. Since childhood Max has suffered from a recurring nightmare. Surrounded by the horrific chaos of war, he has an urgent mission he knows he must complete.

Binoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London, delightful no doubt but they do need to know their place. Who better to teach them the ways of this close-knit community than Flappy herself? But Flappy has other distractions. An ardent admirer, a New Year’s Ball to organize and manifold appearances to be kept up. How much time and effort it all takes!

Romantic secrets and hidden sorrows abound in the spellbinding new novel from Santa Montefiore. Can the shadows of the past be laid to rest, and will Evelina, robbed of her one true love in war torn Italy, ever find happiness again?

Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn’t until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And now she wants to meet the man who shares her fair hair and blue eyes. Robert is a very lucky man. A big house, beautiful wife, three handsome sons. Eighteen years ago, he made a mistake. A brief fling that resulted in a daughter nobody else knows about. Robert must finally tell his family the truth. Will they ever be able to forgive him and accept Madison as one of their own?

Na het einde van haar affaire met Charles probeert Flappy nieuw leven in haar relatie met Kenneth te blazen. En Flappy zou Flappy niet zijn als ze zich niet zou bezighouden met het vertier in de buurt: ze gaat een Nieuwjaarsbal organiseren. Zelfs haar zoon Jasper en zijn onuitstaanbare vrouw Briony komen over uit Australië en zullen zich misschien permanent vestigen in Badley Compton. Flappy komt weer voor meerdere uitdagingen te staan. Zo is er een nieuw stel in de buurt komen wonen, Molly en Jim, en zij pakken de dingen net even anders aan.

Een prachtig verhaal over de vele vormen van liefde – maar vooral over die ene, ware, eeuwigdurende. In het Noord-Italië van de jaren dertig groeit Evelina op als knappe jongste dochter van de familie Pierangelini. Ze is verliefd op Ezra Zanotti, de muzikaal getalenteerde zoon van een Joodse stoffenhandelaar. Tussen de twee ontluikt een geheime romance, maar als in 1939 Mussolini een verbond sluit met Hitler komt hun toekomst op losse schroeven te staan. Als overtuigd patriot denkt Ezra's vader dat de nazi's hem en zijn familie met rust zullen laten maar ze worden allemaal gevangengenomen.