Le terrible secret d'une femme peut-il en sauver une autre des décennies plus tard ? Une virée entre amis s'achève en tragédie. Une jeune veuve trouve un bébé abandonné sur le pas de sa porte. Une mère se bat pour sauver son fils de la maladie. Alors que ces destinées brisées par le temps nous plongent dans des tourbillons d'émotion, la force de l'amour leur permettra de se croiser et de s'unir sous le sceau d'un secret enfin révélé.

Il était un secret

Un soir de novembre 1956, Amy, une jeune femme désespérée par la mort de sa mère, tente de se noyer. Le lendemain, son père prend la décision de l'emmener à Ambergate, un austère hôpital psychiatrique. Pour Amy, qui est loin d'être folle, ce sera le théâtre de terribles drames, et aussi d'amours interdites. Cinquante ans plus tard, Sarah se met à fouiller les vestiges d'Ambergate en vue d'écrire un livre. L'asile abandonné va alors livrer ses plus sombres secrets. Et si tout commençait par une simple clé ? La clé qui offrira l'amour et la paix intérieure à celles qui les ont tant recherchés...

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Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. When she comes across an old letter in the pocket of a second-hand suit, her decision to read it will alter the course of her life for ever...
Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. The letter he sits down to write on 4th September 1939 will change his future in more ways than he can ever imagine...
THE SECRET
Mary has been nursing a secret. Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear.
Beth is searching for answers. When she finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock... The Secret.
THE KEY
1956: It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate Hospital. When she meets a young woman admitted by her father, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change both their lives for ever...
2006: When Sarah discovers a suitcase belonging to a patient who entered the now abandoned Ambergate fifty years earlier, the shocking contents will lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy and lost love, and the chance to make an old wrong right . . .
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We each of us strive for domestic bliss, and we may look to Delia and Nigella to give us tips on achieving the unattainable. Kathryn Hughes, acclaimed for her biography of George Eliot, has pulled back the curtains to look at the creator of the ultimate book on keeping house.

 In Victorian England what did every middle-class housewife need to create the perfect home? 'The Book of Household Management'. 'Oh, but of course!' Mrs Beeton would no doubt declare with brisk authority. But Mrs Beeton is not quite the matronly figure that has kept her name resonating 150 years after the publication of 'The Book of Household Management'.

 The famous pages of carefully costed recipes, warnings about not gossiping to visitors, and making sure you always keep your hat on in someone else's house were indispensable in the moulding of the Victorian domestic bliss. But there are many myths surrounding the legend of Mrs Beeton. It is very possible that her book was given so much social standing through fear as she was believed to be a bit of an old dragon.

 It seems though that Mrs Beeton was a series of contradictions. Kathryn Hughes reveals here that Bella Beeton was a million miles away from the stoical, middle-aged matron. She was in fact only 25 years old when she created the guide to successful family living and had only had five years experience of her own to inform her. She lived in a semi-detached house in Pinner with the bare minimum of servants. She bordered on being a workaholic, and certainly wasn't the meek and mild little wife that her book was aimed at - more a highly intelligent and ambitious young woman. After preaching about wholesome and clean living, Bella Beeton died at the age of 28 from (contrary to her parent's belief) bad hygiene. Kathryn Hughes sympathetically explores the irony behind Bella Beeton's public and private image in this highly readable and informative study of Victorian lifestyle.

The Short Life and Long Times of Mrs Beeton (Text Only)

«   C'est la clé d'un coffre.
- Oui, je m'en doute, mais qu'y a- t-il dans ce coffre ?
- Je l'ignore, répond-il en haussant les épaules. En tout cas, quoi que ça puisse être, ça vous a attendu là pendant trente-sept ans. » Manchester, 2018. Tara Richards se sent seule depuis son divorce. Un jour, un avocat de Londres lui écrit pour lui remettre la clé d'un coffre, ainsi qu'une lettre, datée de 1981. Des mots inespérés qui dévoilent ce qui est arrivé à sa mère Violet, près de quarante ans après sa disparition.
De Manchester au coeur de l'Espagne, Sa dernière promesse est un sublime voyage émotionnel, un roman déchirant, où se croisent les époques, sur la façon dont l'espoir peut renaître grâce au pouvoir rédempteur de l'amour.La narration est magnifique et les personnages prennent vie au fil de ces deux intrigues qui se font écho superbement. Prima.Traduit de l'anglais (Grande-Bretagne) par Pascale Haas.

Sa dernière promesse

This highly praised biography is the first to explore fully the way in which her painful early life and rejection by her brother Isaac in particular, shaped the insight and art which made her both Victorian England's last great visionary and the first modern.

 An immensely readable biography of the 19th century writer whose territory comprised nothing less than the entire span of Victorian society. Kathryn Hughes provides a truly nuanced view of Eliot, and is the first to grapple equally with the personal dramas that shaped her personality - particularly her rejection by her brother Isaac - and her social and intellectual context. Hughes shows how these elements together forged the themes of Eliot's work, her insistence that ideological interests be subordinated to the bonds between human beings - a message that has keen resonance in our own time. With wit and sympathy Kathryn Hughes has written a wonderfully vivid account of Eliot's life that is both moving, stimulating and at times laugh-out-loud funny.

George Eliot - The Last Victorian (Text Only)

Au crépuscule de sa vie, Jenny se réfugie dans ses souvenirs. Chaque jour, elle ouvre presque religieusement un ancien coffret qui contient des lettres, des photos et des coupures de presse jaunies remontant aux années 1940. Jenny sait que le temps est venu désormais de se mettre en paix avec les fantômes de son passé. Et de réparer ses erreurs. Elle doit enfin retourner en Italie, dans ce petit village perché sur la côte méditerranéenne, qu'elle n'a pas revu depuis quatre-vingts ans. C'est dans cet endroit enchanteur que, pendant la guerre, elle a vécu ses plus belles années et ses plus tragiques moments. Peu à peu, les souvenirs d'une histoire d'amour et de trahison remontent à la surface. Un secret qui a hanté Jenny et a tragiquement bouleversé les destins de deux familles pendant des décennies...

Il était un secret

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