Deborah Moggach Libri

Nella Amsterdam del 1636, animata dal culto del denaro e da quello della bellezza, tra le botteghe dei commercianti e dei pittori più straordinari, gli speculatori spingono alle stelle il prezzo dei bulbi di tulipano. Pare facilissimo arricchirsi senza fatica, e la città palpita di nuove e attraenti possibilità. Cornelis Sandvoort, un ricco e maturo mercante, decide di commissionare il ritratto della sua sposa, la bella Sophia, a un promettente pittore dal talento eccezionale, Jan van Loos. È un incontro fatale, segnato da una sensualità travolgente ma anche dai mille pericoli che i due amanti dovranno affrontare, nel clima surriscaldato di un'euforia finanziaria al limite della follia.

From the author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, an irresistible collection of stories, now published in one volume číst celé

Always a rebel, Marianne was the first girl in her class to bleach her hair and learn how to smoke. A few boyfriends and one abortion later she falls in love with Salim, the proud and elegant Pakistani with eyes like traeacle. East meets West in a passionate mixed marriage. However, Marianne knows little of the Islamic view of motherhood. When his wife proves unfaithful, Salim reasons that she is morally incapable of bringing up her children and kidnaps them while she is at work. . . . .

James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips, and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily chortling over cuckoo clocks and television soaps? Then something happens that throws everything into new relief, and Phoebe and Robert discover that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly. It just moves onto a very different plane - changing all the stories they thought they knew so well.

Young love, heartbreak and growing up - the first novel, newly republished, by Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach, author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

Claudia's husband has left her for somebody softer and more doting. When Claudia meets Steve Mullen, a cosmetics rep, over a quiet drink, the consequences are astounding.

‘Nobody in the world knows our secret... that I’ve ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine.’ Petra’s romantic life has always been a car-crash, and even in her sixties she’s still capable of getting it disastrously wrong. But then she falls in love with Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The fatal catch? Jeremy is her best friend’s husband. But just as Petra is beginning to relax into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she’s been betraying so spectacularly. Meanwhile, on opposite sides of the world, two other women are also struggling with the weight of betrayal: Texan Lorrie is about embark on the biggest deception of her life, and in China Li-Jing is trying to understand exactly what it is her husband does on his West African business trips. . . It turns out that no matter where you are in the world, everyone has something to hide. Can Bev – can anyone – be trusted?

Meet Pru. Recently dumped, and on the hunt for a new man. A nice, wealthy widower will do... From the author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL comes a darkly funny novel of life, loneliness and the foibles of friendship

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelMeet Buffy.With three ex-wives, a failing career and only his dog George for company, Buffy's bachelorhood is looking worryingly confirmed.Until he meets Celeste.Dazzled by love, Buffy has no idea that Celeste is systematically researching his ex-wives, children and step-children, and unearthing secrets that will change all their lives…