Rose-Marie Vassallo-Villaneau Libri

One of Australia’s most celebrated novels: one woman’s journey from Australia to London Nora Porteous, a witty, ambitious woman from Brisbane, returns to her childhood home at age seventy. Her life has taken her from a failed marriage in Sydney to freedom in London; she forged a modest career as a seamstress and lived with two dear friends through the happiest years of her adult life. At home, the neighborhood children she remembers have grown into compassionate adults. They help to nurse her back from pneumonia, and slowly let her in on the dark secrets of the neighborhood in the years that have lapsed. With grace and humor, Nora recounts her desire to escape, the way her marriage went wrong, the vanity that drove her to get a facelift, and one romantic sea voyage that has kept her afloat during her dark years. Her memory is imperfect, but the strength and resilience she shows over the years is nothing short of extraordinary. A book about the sweetness of escape, and the mix of pain and acceptance that comes with returning home.

The siblings endure a car accident, a terrible smell, a deadly serpent, a long knife, a brass reading lamp, and the re-appearance of a person they hoped to never see again.

Now a Netflix original movie starring Millie Bobby Brown, Henry Cavill, and Helena Bonham Carter! Meet Enola Holmes, teenaged girl turned detective and the younger sister to Sherlock Holmes. When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess, fleeing murderous villains, and trying to elude her shrewd older brothers—all while attempting to piece together clues to her mother’s strange disappearance. Amid all the mayhem, will Enola be able to decode the necessary clues and find her mother?

Sfuggire al detective più brillante del mondo sembrerebbe un'impresa persa in partenza: nessuno ha abbastanza arguzia per superare Sherlock Holmes... Nessuno tranne sua sorella Enola. Che infatti non ha la minima intenzione di farsi rinchiudere in casa per diventare una signorina a modo, come vorrebbero Sherlock e Mycroft. Del resto, Enola se la cava benissimo da sola. E adesso che ha iniziato a lavorare presso lo studio del dottor Ragostin, illustre detective di Londra, sa di aver trovato la sua strada. È proprio qui che per la prima volta sente parlare di lady Cecily. Bellissima e corteggiatissima giovane che dal giorno alla notte svanisce misteriosamente nel nulla. Che si tratti di fuga d'amore? O peggio... di omicidio? Le tracce sono indecifrabili, le strade di Londra insicure, Scotland Yard brancola nel buio. Enola però non si perde d'animo: è pronta a prendere in mano le indagini e infrangere tutte le regole, pur di risolvere il caso. Sempre che questo non la trasformi nella prossima vittima... Tra incredibili travestimenti e fughe rocambolesche, continuano le avventure di Enola, un'eroina intelligente e caparbia, capace di farla sotto il naso dello stesso Sherlock Holmes. Età di lettura: da 12 anni.