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Au début des années soixante, dans le cadre oppressant d'une bourgade du sud des États-Unis, Peyton, douze ans, s'efforce de trouver sa place entre un père trop distant et une tante étouffante. Se sentant profondément différente de ses camarades, elle ne trouve de réconfort qu'auprès de ses compagnons du club des Losers, qui compte trois membres en tout, dont elle-même... Survient alors Nora, une lointaine cousine. Belle, pétillante, exubérante à souhait, elle fume des cigarettes et conduit une Thunderbird rose fuchsia. D'abord méfiante, Peyton se laisse rapidement séduire. De son côté, Nora se prend d'affection pour cette rebelle en herbe et entreprend de l'aider à passer le cap délicat de l'adolescence. Elle décide également de secouer l'immobilisme de la petite ville en jouant de son arme favorite : la provocation...

Nora, Nora - Occasion

Although Hill Towns is a coming-of-age story, it's no Romeo and Juliet. There are no young lovers flirting and bedding each other, thinking they've invented the act--this novel centers around adults. The main characters have been married for more than 20 years and believe they know each other absolutely. A trip to Italy shows them there is still much to learn.  Catherine "Cat" Gaillard narrates her own story, beginning with a gothic childhood of the sort that inspires folk ballads and tasteless jokes. Orphaned at age 5 when her parents are killed in a freakish accident, Cat chooses to live on Morgan's Mountain as the ward of chilly, crazy grandparents, though saner family members are willing to take her in. She reasons that, "From there I would always know what was coming. From there I would see it long before it saw me." The rest of the story follows Cat and her husband, Joe, on their journey of midlife discovery. They both flirt with the possibility of an affair, they bicker, challenge assumptions, make new friends, drink too much, eat fabulous food, and tour Rome, Florence, and Venice. It's like being there. Siddons lets you inhabit Cat's mind and experience her struggle to overcome agoraphobia, her uncertainties about Joe, and, most of all, her neophyte-traveler's view of Italy.

La saison chaude

"An outstanding multigenerational novel... We are hooked from the moment we meet Maude."  --New York TimesAn unforgettable story of love, acceptance, and tradition from New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons. When Maude Chambliss first arrives at Retreat, the seasonal home of her husband's aristocratic family, she is a nineteen-year-old bride fresh from South Carolina's Low Country. Among the patrician men and women who reside in the summer colony on the coast of Maine, her gypsy-like beauty and impulsive behavior immediately brand her an outsider. She, as well as everyone else, is certain she will never fit in. And of course, she doesn't...at first. But over the many summers she spends there, Maude comes to cherish life in the colony, as she does the people who share it with her. There is her husband Peter, consumed with a darkness of spirit; her adored but dangerously fragile children; her domineering mother-in-law, who teaches her that it is the women who possess the strength to keep the colony intact; and Maine native Micah Willis, who is ultimately Maude's truest friend. This brilliant novel, rich with emotion, is filled with appealing, intense, and indomitable characters. Anne Rivers Siddons paints a portrait of a woman determined to preserve the spirit of past generations-and the future of a place where she became who she is...a place called Colony.

Colony

Hill Towns is a classic novel of remarkable emotional power, insight, and sensitivity from Anne Rivers Siddons, whose books live on the New York Times bestseller list and in the hearts of millions of her adoring fans. One of the acknowledged masters of contemporary Southern fiction-the author of such phenomenally popular works as Nora, Nora; Outer Banks, Islands; and Sweetwater Creek-Siddons carries the reader from the mountains of Tennessee to the breathtaking Tuscany countryside as she brilliantly chronicles the unraveling of a marriage. Pat Conroy (The Prince of Tides) says, "She ranks among the best of us, " and Hill Towns is the proof.

Hill Towns - Novel, A

"Captures the richness and complication of female friendships in a way few writers have done.

Outer Banks

Anny, trente-cinq ans, dirige à Charleston, en Caroline du Sud, une association venant en aide aux enfants en détresse. Après une jeunesse difficile, elle a décidé de consacrer son temps à l'enfance déshéritée, en essayant d'oublier qu'elle-même n'a jamais eu de famille... Jusqu'au jour où elle fait la connaissance de Lewis Aiken, un médecin qui lui ouvre les portes de son cercle d'amis. Inséparables, ceux-ci se retrouvent le plus souvent possible dans la maison qu'ils ont achetée ensemble, et Anny comprend qu'elle a enfin trouvé un havre de paix et d'amitié. Pourtant, quand une série de malheurs commence à décimer le groupe, la jeune femme découvre que cette amitié sans nuages pourrait bien cacher des secrets insoupçonnés... Source : 4ème de couverture de l'édition "Presses De La Cité" Traduit par Eveline Charlès

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Up Island

The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same .

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