White

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

From the bestselling author of The Kashmir Shawl

 Born into an aristocratic family, beautiful Amy Lovell leads a whirlwind life of extravagant parties and debutante balls.

 But Amy, curious about the world beyond the narrow confines of her class, is ill-suited to a life of indulgence. Eagerly embracing a nursing career, she is drawn into the radical politics of the day.

 As the spectre of war looms, Amy's bittersweet love for the proud miner Nick Penry - a love which defies the differences between them - leads them to the conflict in Spain, where love and pain become inseparable agonies.

The White Dove

Grace et Clio, telles qu'en elles-mêmes, Pilgrim les a fixées dans un portrait aussi original que controversé : Janus le dieu au double visage. Si la ressemblance entre les deux cousines, nées toutes deux à la fin du XIXe siècle, a de quoi surprendre, leur caractère est à l'opposé.
Certes le cercle magique de l'enfance a su préserver élans et complicités mais lorsque arrive l'adolescence, la rivalité entre les deux jeunes filles éclate. Rien ne peut empêcher le pouvoir d'attraction de Grace. Rien ne saurait arrêter le besoin d'indépendance de Clio... Alors qu'éclate la guerre, Grace se lance dans la politique à Londres ; Clio assiste à la montée de l'antisémitisme à Berlin...
Chronique en clair-obscur où les passions et les drames y sont à la mesure de ce siècle...

Le poids des souvenirs - 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

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

Constance

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 The Kashmir Shawl. Available on ebook for the first time.

 Jake, Clio and Julius Hirsh and their cousin Lady Grace Stretton formed a charmed circle in those lost innocent days before the Great War - united against the world.

 Old now, Clio recounts their story for her biographer: Jake's wartime experiences, which moved him to work as a doctor in the London slums; Clio and Grace, flappers flitting through bohemian Fitzrovia to emerge as literary lion and pioneering Member of Parliament respectively; the music that drowned for Julius the crash of jackboots in thirties Berlin.

 But for herself, Clio remembers a different story. Desperate lies and bitter secrets, hopeless love and careless betrayal, jealous loyalties more like fetters. And above all, the truth about Grace, beautiful, destructive siren at the centre of the circle.

All My Sins Remembered

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.

White

Résumé

Plus de livres de Rosie Thomas

Critiques

Ce livre n'a pas encore de critiques