Constance - Occasion

Inde, 1940. Jeune mariée, Nerys a quitté la campagne galloise pour accompagner son mari missionnaire. Alors que la guerre du Cachemire éclate, elle découvre Srinagar, la ville au bord du lac, où les Britanniques dansent et flirtent de manière insouciante.Angleterre, de nos jours. En faisant du tri dans la maison de son père, Mair découvre un éblouissant châle ancien et une boucle de cheveux d'enfant. Intriguée par leur provenance, elle se lance dans une quête qui changera à jamais sa vie.

Le Châle de Cachemire

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

Modern fictionRich and alive with descriptions of the bustling streets of old Cairo and the vast desert surrounding it, this is a stirring story of mothers, daughters and the distance between three generations of one family.

Iris and Ruby

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

 Olivia Giorgiadis has left her English roots behind. She lives on a tiny Greek island, married to a local man, mother to two small sons. Year on year, island life has followed a peaceful unchanging rhythm.

 Until now. An earthquake ravages the coast, its force devastating the island. In the aftermath comes a stranger: an Englishwoman, destitute but for the clothes she wears.

 Olivia welcomes the stranger into her home, the potter's house. But as Kitty melts into the family and the village community, so Olivia begins to sense that her mysterious visitor threatens all she holds dear.

The Potter’s House

« 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

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

 Harriet Peacock has everything. What more could she possibly want? She has come a long way. From small shopkeeper and betrayed wife, she has made herself the City's darling, her name linked in gossip columns with film star Caspar Jensen. She has come a long way from Simon Archer, the man who invented a brilliantly simple game of chance and skill in a prison camp forty years ago, a game that is the foundation of Harriet's business empire. She has come a long way from her family, friends and former lovers. But when things start going wrong, Harriet finds that in love, as in the game, the quickest way to a goal can be the riskiest.

A Woman of Our Times

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.

Moon Island

The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Iris and Ruby.

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