At Home Place, the windows are blacked out and food is becoming scarce as a new generation of Cazalets takes up the story. Louise dreams of being a great actress, Clary is an aspiring writer, while Polly, is burdened with knowledge and the need to share it. This is the sequel to The Light Years .
A sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way. How she chooses to answer will unknowingly alter the course of both their young lives.So begins the mesmerizing story of split-second choices and courageous acts that propel Victoria away from the only home she has ever known and towards a reckoning with loss, hope and her own untapped strength.Gathering all the pieces of her small and extraordinary existence, spinning through the eddies of desire, heartbreak and betrayal, she will arrive at a single rocky decision that will change her life forever.Go as a River is a heart-wrenching coming-of-age story and a drama of enthralling power. Combining unforgettable characters and a breathtaking natural setting, it is a sweeping story of survival and becoming, of the deepest mysteries of love, truth and fate.
Gennaio 1558, Kingsbridge. Ned Willard torna a casa e scopre che il suo mondo sta per cambiare radicalmente. La cattedrale rimane l'unico simbolo di stabilità in una città dilaniata dal conflitto religioso. Figlio di un mercante protestante, Ned desidera sposare Margery Fitzgerald, figlia del sindaco cattolico, ma il loro amore è ostacolato dalle divisioni religiose. Costretto a lasciare Kingsbridge, Ned viene assunto da Sir William Cecil, consigliere di Elisabetta Tudor, futura regina d'Inghilterra. Dopo la sua incoronazione, Elisabetta I affronta l'opposizione dell'Europa cattolica, in particolare di Maria Stuarda, regina di Scozia. Per proteggersi dagli attacchi dei nemici, Elisabetta crea una rete di spionaggio, e Ned diventa un membro chiave del primo servizio segreto britannico. Per quasi cinquant'anni, il suo amore per Margery sembra destinato a rimanere irrealizzabile, mentre gli estremisti religiosi seminano violenza. In gioco ci sono non solo le convinzioni religiose, ma anche gli interessi dei tiranni che cercano di imporre il loro potere su chi crede nella tolleranza e nel compromesso.
Lush, green, fragrant: the Indian hills of Assam are full of promise. But eighteen-year-old Clarissa Belhaven is full of worry. The family tea plantation is suffering, and so is her father, still grieving over the untimely death of his wife, while Clarissa's fragile sister, Olive, needs love and resourceful care. Beautiful and headstrong, Clarissa soon attracts the attention of young, brash Wesley Robson, a rival tea planter. Yet before his intentions become fully clear, tragedy befalls the Belhavens and the sisters are wrenched from their beloved tea garden to the industrial streets of Tyneside. A world away from the only home she has ever known, Clarissa must start again. Using all her means, she must endure not only poverty but jealousy and betrayal too. Will the reappearance of Wesley give her the link to her old life that she so desperately craves? Or will a fast-changing world and the advent of war extinguish hope forever? Revised edition: This edition of The Tea Planter's Daughter includes editorial revisions.
Fin février 1979, Chosen, petite ville étriquée et appauvrie, en passe d’être repeuplée par de riches New-Yorkais. George Clare rentre chez lui et trouve sa femme assassinée. Leur fille de trois ans, seule dans sa chambre, est saine et sauve. Pour le shérif Travis Lawton, George est le premier suspect. Huit mois plus tôt, le couple avait acheté la ferme des Hale pour une bouchée de pain, George omettant de dire à sa femme que les anciens propriétaires, acculés par les dettes, s’y étaient suicidés, laissant trois orphelins, Eddy, Wade et Cole. Dans les angles morts est aussi l’histoire des frères Hale, et celle de la maison de leur enfance.
It's been eight months since Mickey Bolitar witnessed the tragic death of his father. Eight months of lies, dark secrets and unanswered questions. While he desperately wants answers, Mickey's sophomore year of high school brings on a whole new set of troubles. Spoon is in hospital, Rachel won't tell him where he stands, his basketball teammates hate him . . . and then there's Ema's surprise announcement: she has an online boyfriend and he's vanished. As he's searching for Ema's missing boyfriend (who may not even exist!), Mickey also gets roped into helping his nemesis, Troy Taylor, with a big problem. All the while, Mickey and his friends are pulled deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Abeona Shelter, risking their lives to find the answers - until the shocking climax, where Mickey finally comes face-to-face with the truth about his father.
Polly has always been the high-flier of the family, with the glamorous lifestyle to match. Clare is a single mum with two children, struggling to make ends meet in a ramshackle cottage. The two sisters are poles apart and can’t stand each other. But then Polly’s fortunes unexpectedly change and her world comes crashing down. With no money and nowhere to go, she’s forced back to the village where she and Clare grew up, and the sisters find themselves living together for the first time in years. With an old flame reappearing for Polly, a blossoming new career for Clare and a long-buried family secret in the mix, sparks are sure to fly. Unless the two women have more in common than they first thought?
