'An intelligent and moving novel' The Times

 What happens when you fall in love with the one person you shouldn't?

 In the aftermath of a family tragedy, Jess Arrowsmith is powerless to resist her attraction to Rob, twenty years her junior, and the person she has reason to hate most in the world. As their love affair threatens to blow her family apart, Jess finds herself in a desperate struggle to defuse a crisis that puts at risk all she holds dear.

Every Woman Knows a Secret

Très loin de son Angleterre natale – et d'un chagrin d'amour auquel elle ne pourra jamais vraiment échapper –, Connie (Constance) s'est créé une nouvelle vie à Bali, dans un endroit idyllique à la végétation luxuriante. Mais lorsqu'elle reçoit un appel de sa soeur Jeanette, mourante, elle se doit de retourner à Londres. Pourtant les sentiments qui les lient ne sont pas des plus simples. L'une était ténébreuse, l'autre, un véritable soleil. Jusqu'à ce qu'elles tombent amoureuses du même homme… Avec l'amertume de la trahison entre elles, les deux soeurs doivent apprendre à se pardonner. Pourront-elles retrouver les liens partagés lors de leur enfance et dépasser les mensonges ?

Constance

Sometimes the victims of tragedy are the ones who surviveFrom the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl

 Annie and Steve are from different worlds. She is a wife and mother, he is a wealthy executive with a stream of broken relationships in his wake. They do not know each other exists until one morning, on a shopping expedition, they becomes victims of a bomb blast, thrown together in the debris to fight for their lives.

 As they lie in the darkness and the rubble, the hours slowly tick by. To ward off fear and death they talk: of everything they have to live for, of their disappointments, loves, failures and their hopes. And so a bond is created that binds them deeper than family, than friends, than lovers. With such strange intimacy, such strange trust, how can they get through the future without each other?

Strangers

« Rosie Thomas écrit avec une sensualité enchanteresse. » - The Times

Ruby, une adolescente en pleine rébellion, vient chercher refuge au Caire dans la vieille maison d'Iris Black, sa grand-mère de 82 ans qu'elle connaît à peine. Alors que tout les oppose, un lien étonnant s'établit lentement entre elles tandis que Ruby aide Iris à se remémorer ses souvenirs du Caire scintillant et cosmopolite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elles retracent ainsi peu à peu l'histoire du grand amour d'Iris - l'énigmatique capitaine Alexander Molyneux - que les ravages du conflit lui ont arraché.

Déterminant dans la vie d'Iris, dans celle de sa fille et de sa petite-fille, cet amour perdu les affectera à nouveau, toutes les trois, d'une façon qu'elles n'auraient jamais imaginée.

Trois femmes, trois générations, une histoire d'amour et de perte, tout en nuances.

Les brumes du Caire

An epic love story and adventure set against the stunning backdrop of Antarctica.

 Alice Peel is a geologist. She believes in observation and proof. But now she stands alone on the deck of a rickety Chilean ship as a stark landscape reveals itself. Instead of the familiar measurable world, everything that lies ahead of her is unknown and unpredictable.

 Six weeks earlier her life was comfortably unfolding in an Oxford summer. Then, with her relationship suddenly in pieces, she accepted an invitation to join a group working at the end of the earth: Antarctica.

 James Rooker is a man on the run. He's been running since his childhood in New Zealand. Now, there is nowhere further to go. He has taken a job working on the same small Antarctic research station.

 Alice discovers an ice-blue and silver world, lit by sunlight. Nothing has prepared her for the beauty of it, or the claustrophobia of a tiny base shared with eight men and one other woman. The isolation wipes out everyone's past, and tension crackles in the air. But there is a jolt of recognition between Alice and Rooker that is like nothing she has ever known. And it is in Antartica that she discovers something else that will change her life forever . if she survives.

Sun at Midnight

A collection of three stunning ebooks from the author of the runaway bestseller, THE KASHMIR SHAWL.

 MOON ISLAND: On a small stretch of wild coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May, arriving for the summer, feels isolated and resentful. Leonie, next door, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets. Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl. As she immerses herself in the past, she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girl's footsteps.

 SUNRISE: It was a love forbidden but never forgotten. When Harry returned to Wales, Angharad found paradise - despite her father's violent warnings. For she and Harry were in love, untouchable until a shocking revelation drives Angharad to flee, pregnant and penniless, to London. There, she resolves to put the past behind her, joy and heartache alike. But neither time nor success can banish her memories.

 FOLLIES: They were three modern women, who came to Oxford University full of hopes and dreams and would leave forever changed. Helen: shy, quiet and hopelessly in love. Chloe: glamorous and confident, abandoning a high-powered career, obsessively drawn to her philandering English professor. Pansy: stunning heiress and aspiring actress, driven to prove she is more than an irresistible magnet to the men around her. Together for one unforgettable year, they would share a lifetime of emotions and a very special friendship.

Rosie Thomas 3-Book Collection - Moon Island, Sunrise, Follies

Ruby, une adolescente en pleine rébellion, vient chercher refuge au Caire dans la vieille maison d'Iris Black, sa grand-mère de 82 ans qu'elle connaît à peine. Alors que tout les oppose, un lien étonnant s'établit lentement entre elles tandis que Ruby aide Iris à se remémorer ses souvenirs du Caire scintillant et cosmopolite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elles retracent ainsi peu à peu l'histoire du grand amour d'Iris l'énigmatique capitaine Alexander Molyneux que les ravages du conflit lui ont arraché. Déterminant dans la vie d'Iris, dans celle de sa fille et de sa petite-fille, cet amour perdu les affectera à nouveau, toutes les trois, d'une façon qu elles n'auraient jamais imaginée.Trois femmes, trois générations, une histoire d'amour et de perte, tout en nuances.

Les Brumes du Caire

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.

 On a small stretch of untamed coast, five old clapboard houses gaze out to sea. Fourteen-year-old May Duhane, arriving with her father and sister for the summer, feels isolated and resentful.

 Leonie Beam, staying in the neighbouring house with her husband's family, shares May's isolation for she is unhappy in her marriage. She confides in Elizabeth Newton, an aging widow who keeps the beach's secrets.

 Meanwhile, May has discovered the diary of a dead girl, her own age. To unravel its story, she must immerse herself in the past. As she does so, she begins to feel she is destined to follow in the dead girl's footsteps.

Every Woman Knows a Secret

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