Ben Heywood aveva solo dodici anni quando sua sorella fece il salto nelle tenebre. Era stata una questione di secondi: Ben aveva attraversato di corsa la strada per comprare un fumetto e un po' di mentine. Senza accorgersi che lei lo aveva seguito e si era fermata con l'amichetta in mezzo alle automobili sfreccianti. Il tempo si era fermato per un attimo, poi quello schianto atroce... Ora la bambina è in coma, e Ben sta morendo dentro. Ma la dottoressa Elizabeth Chase ha scoperto come oltrepassare il confine tra il nostro mondo e quello che c'è al di là. Un viaggio delicato e impossibile che soltanto Ben potrà affrontare. Per morire con la sorellina o risorgere.
Robert Mawson Libri
Robert Mawson crea avvincenti thriller storici, esplorando spesso il profondo impatto degli eventi bellici sulle vite individuali. Il suo stile narrativo è contraddistinto da meticolosi dettagli storici e da un profondo focus sulla resilienza umana in periodi drammatici. Attraverso le sue opere, offre ai lettori racconti avvincenti che fondono suspense e profonde intuizioni sulla psiche umana. I suoi romanzi sono celebrati per la loro capacità di trasportare i lettori nel passato, inducendo alla riflessione sulle conseguenze durature dei conflitti storici.







1943. The sleepy Suffolk village of Bedenham is jerked into the twentieth century and the harsh realities of war by the arrival on its doorstep of an American bomber base and its three thousand inhabitants. For Billy Street, fourteen, a London evacuee uneasily billeted with the village blacksmith, the American invasion is heaven sent - unlimited opportunities and acceptance at last within a community he loves. Yet a concealed past threatens his new happiness. Billy's schoolteacher, Heather Garrett, awaits word of a husband missing for eighteen months. A stranger to Bedenham, Heather's sense of isolation - and village suspicions - are heightened when troubled American pilot John Hooper, reaches for her friendship. And daily the skies fill with the bombers and their ten-man crews who, during that bleak autumn of 1943, suffered losses on a catastrophic scale. For Hooper, tormented by earlier loss, leading Misbehavin' Martha and her disorderly crew safely through their 25 designated bombing missions becomes a personal crusade.
Upon Dark Waters
- 448pagine
- 16 ore di lettura
31st December 1942. In the middle of the North Atlantic, the deadly 'gap' where aircraft cannot protect them, a destroyer and 4 corvettes are shepherding a convoy of ships from America to Britain. But as midnight passes, the New Year is marked by a white flash on the horizon - a German torpedo. What follows is a night scarred forever in the memory of its survivors. But for Michael Villiers, officer on the HMS Daisy, it is just another chapter in an extraordinary life. The son of a beautiful socialite and a British diplomat, Michael is brought up in Sombreado, Uruguay alongside his guardian's daughter Maria, and the pair are inseparable. Even when he is sent to school in England, the family ranch remains Michael's home and when his schooling is complete, there is never any doubt that he will return to Sombreado, to Maria. But when Michael returns to Montevideo in 1939, his steamer crosses paths with a German warship - an ominous sign of the conflict to come. And though Uruguay is neutral in the coming conflict, Michael is to be allowed no such the British Legation want him to make the most of his family connections. In a war, the English ambassador explains, everyone has to take sides . . .
Was macht ein Mensch, der stets dachte, er sei vom Schicksal begünstigt, und der plötzlich erkennen muss, wie tief man sinken kann? Ein hochaktueller und dabei menschlich anrührender Roman über einen Mann, der seinen hochdotierten Job verliert und sich der Erkenntnis stellen muss, dass sein bisheriges Leben völlig inhaltsleer gewesen ist.
Rodina Haywoodovvých se nečekaně ocitá před problémem, jehož velikost a dosah lze jen stěží dohlédnout. Automobilová nehoda sedmileté Frankie náhle propůjčí všemu jiné rozměry, nevyřešené manželské neshody ztrácejí svůj osudový význam. Holčička leží napojená na přístrojích a její bratr, který byl přímým svědkem celé tragédie, je zřejmě zasažen víc, než se na první pohled zdá. Jeho duševní svět jakoby se vzdaloval tomu fyzickému a on balancuje někde na hraně mezi skutečností a světem, v němž snad pobývá jeho sestra. Přestože narážíme na jevy téměř napozemské, dramatické události kolem záchrany malé Frankie mají velmi reálné základy. Soudcem celého zápasu o návrat do života se stává doktorka Elizabeth Chaseová, poznamenaná smrtí svého mladšího bratra. A právě z tohoto dávného otřesu vyvěrá její neuvěřitelná síla a paličatost, která přináší naději všem dětem, jejichž čára života byla násilně přerušena.