La belle conquérante - Occasion

Ruby, adolescente au caractère bien trempé, obstinée et pétulante, entretient des relations tendues avec sa mère. Elle quitte alors l'Angleterre et trouve refuge au Caire, chez sa grand-mère, Iris, apportant avec elle un vent de fraîcheur, de désordre et d'exubérance dans le quotidien de cette dame de 82 ans. Pourtant un lien très fort s'établit entre elle deux, alors que la jeune fille amène Iris à se remémorer ses souvenirs de jeunesse dans le Caire scintillant et cosmopolite de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Et surtout, l'énigmatique et charmant capitaine Xan Molyneux, son amour perdu, emporté par les drames du conflit. Une passion éteinte trop tôt qui, pourtant, a déterminé la vie d'Iris, et aussi celles de sa fille et de sa petite-fille. Et qui va les affecter à nouveau, aujourd'hui...

Les brumes du Caire - Occasion

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

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

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

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

 It was a love forbidden but never forgotten

 When Harry Cotton returned to Wales, Angharad Owain found paradise - despite her father's violent warnings against the Cottons of Llyn Fair. For she and Harry were in love, untouchable.

 Until a shocking revelation drives Angharad to flee, pregnant and penniless, to London. There, struggling to make a new life for herself and her child, she resolves to put the past behind her, joy and heartache alike.

 But neither time nor success can banish her memories. In the end, Angharad must confront the sinister shadows that lie between her and Harry - the man she will always love, but may never have .

Sunrise

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

 For Bell Farrer, rising wine journalist, it was the break of her career. To interview both reclusive Baron Charles de Gillesmont of Chateau Reynard in Bordeaux and business genius Valentine Gordon of California's Dry Stone Wineries; compare Old World and New, passion and profit, centuries of tradition and the very latest technology.

 But suddenly Bell's career is the last thing on her mind. Because Charles and Valentine are not just opposites but enemies, locked in lethal rivalry by their only common bond, the women they choose to love. Once, Charles's wife now Bell.

 How can Bell, loving one, still feel the draw of the other? Yet only by throwing herself into both worlds in turn can she finally recognize her own.

Celebration

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

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.

La belle conquérante - Occasion

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