Deirdre Purcell Ordine dei libri

From a cherished Irish author comes a moving seasonal tale of a mother, a daughter and affairs of the heart

The Husband is a gripping human story of love in its many guises, of losing everything and ultimately of rediscovering the meaning of family.

Ein gebrochenes Herz. Ein lang gehütetes Geheimnis. Ein Traum, der niemals starb … Irland in den 20er-Jahren. Pearl Somers lebt mit ihren Eltern und Geschwistern im Torhaus des Kilnashone Castle, wo ihr Vater als Chauffeur von Lord und Lady Areton arbeitet. Die Familie ist glücklich. Doch eines Nachts kommt es zu dramatischen Ereignissen, die das Leben aller Bewohner für immer verändern. Mehr als 40 Jahre später, Pearl ist eine erfolgreiche Autorin geworden, wird sie durch Zufall mit den Ereignissen von damals konfrontiert. Sie versucht, sich ihrer Vergangenheit zu stellen. Doch ist es für Pearl bereits zu spät, ihr Glück noch zu finden?

The moving and powerfully engaging story of three sisters marked by a family tragedy. In 1920s' rural Ireland, Pearl Somers lives happily with her parents, her sisters Opal and Ruby, and her little brother Willie, in the gate lodge of Kilnashone Castle, where her father is chauffeur to Lord and Lady Areton. But one dreadful night, a series of dramatic events unfold and the lives of all - elite and ordinary - are changed forever. Over 40 years later, Pearl has become a successful writer. Yet there is one story she has never told, until her young cousin Catherine confesses a secret of her own that opens a door to Pearl's past - one she thought had been firmly sealed forever. When Catherine discovers Pearl's story of heartbreak and yearning, she determines to do her best to reconcile past and present. But is it too late for Pearl to find her own happy ending?

A novel told in the voices of two narrators: Violet, who in 1944 is imprisoned in the tower of a rambling country house by her family; and Claudine, a modern-day property negotiator who becomes involved in handling the sale of the derelict Whitecliff in 2004.

Five o'clock in the morning. The phone rings in Arabella Moraghan's Dublin bedsitter. The call is one she thought she'd never get: a message from the mother who abandoned her and her two siblings nearly forty years ago.

Was passiert, wenn das Liebste, das eine Mutter haben kann, in Gefahr ist? Spannend und lebensnah erzählt die irische Erfolgsautorin Deirdre Purcell von der extrovertierten Eily und der zurückhaltenden Sophie. Ihre Freundschaft aus Kindertagen und die Liebe zu ihren Männern stehen auf dem Prüfstand, als eine unheimliche Krankheit ihr Lebensgefüge ins Wanken bringt. 'Ein dichter Roman, mit überraschenden Wendungen – und einer so heillosen wie heilsamen Verwirrung der Gefühle.' Buchjournal

Sophie and Riba have known each other since childhood. Though they couldn't be more different - Sophie is elegant and diffident, while Riba is flamboyantly extrovert - the bond between them seems unbreakable. Then Riba's teenaged daughter Zelda falls gravely ill. Frustrated by the limitations of conventional medicine, Riba pins all her hopes on alternative methods. Sophie is torn between her loyalty to her friend and her fear that Zelda, whom she loves like the child she cannot have, will not get the help she desperately needs. United in their distress, Sophie and Riba's husband Brian find themselves drawn to each other. Time is running out for Zelda, for two marriages, and for a friendship...