La belle conquérante - Occasion

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.

 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

A stunning novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE KASHMIR SHAWL

 London 1919Born into a down-at-heel family, Nancy Wix is more than her past dictates - more ambitious than the daughter of a faded showman, more original than a woman who will be confined by polite conventions. The end of the Great War has left a stricken London on the brink of an uncertain future, and with their hard-won freedoms now in doubt Nancy and her fellow suffragettes must strive all over again for the right to control their own destinies.

 At a time when shattered families are struggling to let go of their dead, Nancy discovers she has a gift that offers hope to the loved ones of the lost generation, and a chance encounter reveals a way in which she might use it for her own ends.

 As Nancy struggles to break free from the rigid bonds of society and find her place in the world, the only thing that could hold her back is her love for an unattainable man.

Daughter of the House

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

Constance

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 ?

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.

Le Châle de cachemire

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.

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