'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

Rich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of old Cairo, and the vast, foreboding desert surrounding it - 'Iris and Ruby' is a stirring story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family.Stiflingly quiet and claustrophobic, Iris Black's Cairo house is suddenly disturbed by the unexpected arrival of her troubled and wilful granddaughter, Ruby. Teenage Ruby has run away from England to seek solace with the grandmother she hasn't seen for many years. An unlikely bond is formed as the two open themselves up to one another.Ruby helps Iris document her deteriorating memories of the glittering, cosmopolitan Cairo of World War Two, a time when she lost her heart to her one true love - the enigmatic Captain Xan Molyneux - and then lost him to the ravages of the war.Iris' early devastation shapes her own heart and that of her daughter and granddaughter in turn.- and leads the two women into terrible danger in the Egyptian desert.

Iris and Ruby

From the bestselling author of Iris and Ruby comes a novel of a group of friends. They were wild in the 60s; but now they face turning sixty themselves.

 Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in her crumbling country house is not for her. Reviving a university dream, she invites five of her oldest friends to come and join her to live, and to stave off the prospect of old age. All have their own reasons for accepting.

 To begin with, omens are good. They laugh, dance, drink and behave badly, as they cling to the heritage they thought was theirs for ever: power, health, stability. They are the baby boomers; the world is theirs to change. But as old attractions resurface alongside new tensions, they discover that the clock can't be put back.

 When building work reveals an Iron Age burial site of a tribal queen, the outside world descends on their idyllic retreat, and the isolation of the group is breached. Now the past is revealed; and the future that beckons is very different from the one they imagined.

Lovers and Newcomers

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl

 In London, on the brink of the Sixties, two runaways plunge into the whirl of Soho nightlife.

 Mattie faces the hard slog of repertory companies and a sleazy strip-club in search of fame as an actress. But, when it comes, stardom is not enough, and the love that Mattie desires seems to elude her.

 Julia choose marriage and Ladyhill, a beautiful Dorset manor house. Then, after the tragedy, she realises that to achieve true independence she will have to risk her marriage and her child.

 Though each has to make her own choices, their friendship - despite the guilt and betrayal - endures over three turbulent decades.

Bad Girls Good Women

A vingt-sept ans, Bell Farrer a enfin acquis la célébrité : un seul article signé de son nom suffit à lancer un cru ou un restaurant. Ambitieuse, elle a décidé de tout sacrifier à ce métier qu'elle adore. Lorsqu'on lui propose un reportage dans le bordelais, c'est avec enthousiasme qu'elle boucle sa valise. L'enjeu est de taille : pour la première fois, le baron Charles de Gillesmont, héritier d'un des plus prestigieux crus d Médoc, a accepté une interview. A Château Reynard, Bell découvre avec émerveillement une tradition et un savoir-faire exceptionnels. Mais surtout, elle tombe amoureuse de Charles... Pourtant bientôt, travail oblige, Bell s'envole pour l'Amérique, où l'attend l'irrésistible Valentin Gordon, propriétaire d'un vignoble californien. Sur les plages du Pacifique, saura-t-elle reconnaître le véritable amour ?

Célébration

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

 Sadie's life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She has come to believe that she has everything she wants, or deserves.

 But now her father is dying: the vital, elusive man who spent his life creating perfumes for other women is slipping away from her. When she realises that she can never make her peace with him, Sadie begins to look back over her childhood. In pursuing his separate life, Sadie's father ignored her, subjecting her to succession of 'aunties', leaving her loveless and alone.

 As Sadie confronts the truth about her father, her relationship with her son Jack appears to be breaking down and she is intent on saving it. Then the arrival of one of those fleeting women from her father's past starts a train of events that even Sadie cannot control.

If My Father Loved Me

Un soir de tempête, dans un aéroport canadien, Sam est fasciné par une inconnue. Elle marche dans le vent, les jambes nues, insensible à la neige qui fouette les visages. De tels coups de foudre peuvent mener très loin... Sam suivra Finch jusqu'au sommet de l'Everest. Par amour pour cette femme passionnée d'alpinisme, il découvre un univers où le froid et le vent sont mortels ; où la neige cache des gouffres sans fond. Mais comment Finch pourrait-elle aimer Sam, quand, face à lui, se dresse l'impressionnant Al Hood, le chef de l'expédition ? Un aventurier taciturne, mystérieux, fascinant. La lutte s'annonce inégale. Déchirés par leurs sentiments, les " fous de l'Everest " vont pourtant devoir rester solidaires pour revenir vivants de ce périple vertigineux...

White - Occasion

Prix du Grand roman

Pays de Galles, 1940.

Jeune mariée, Nerys Watkins quitte la campagne galloise pour accompagner son mari missionnaire affecté en Inde. Alors que la guerre du Cachemire éclate, elle découvre Srinagar, la ville au bord du lac, où les Britanniques habitent de luxueux bateaux et dansent, flirtent et cancanent comme s'il n'y avait pas de guerre. Nerys est entraînée dans une dangereuse amitié et, au moment où elle retrouve son mari, l'innocente épouse galloise n'est plus la même femme.

Des années plus tard, alors que Mair Ellis débarrasse la maison de son père, elle découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d'enfant. Se rendant au Cachemire sur les traces de ses grands-parents, Mair se lance dans une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie.

Ce récit épique mêle secrets de famille, amour sur fond de guerre et liaisons dangereuses. Avec comme toile de fond une évocation vivante et superbement documentée de l'Inde des années 1940, cette saga familiale bouleversante a connu un grand succès populaire et critique outre-Manche.

Every Woman Knows a Secret

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