For many readers, summer holidays are a treat. Reading outside, at an idyllic spot, on holidays or not, listening to the birds or just at a café in town enjoying a sunny day. No matter what your summer looks like, you will hopefully have a chance to read. I really loved this list from Goodreads... Continue Reading →
The publisher’s summary Paris, 1942: In the midst of the Nazi Occupation, Annabel Marceau begins stealing from Germans and funnelling money to the French Resistance. But when she takes a pair of valuable bracelets from a high-ranking Nazi officer, she finds herself - and her two young daughters - in the line of fire, with... Continue Reading →
La présentation de l’éditeur Hambourg, 1886. Lily Karsten est la fille d’un riche armateur. Distraite et insouciante, elle se rêve écrivaine. Mais l’avenir de Lily est tout tracé : elle épousera l’aristocrate Henry von Cappeln et se consacrera à l’éducation de ses enfants car c’est la seule place qui est réservée aux femmes.Lily s’est faite... Continue Reading →
La présentation de l'éditeurJenny Malmström, une jeune veuve intelligente et pétillante, vit avec son père pasteur près de Turku au sud-ouest de la Finlande. En cette fin du XIXe siècle, le pays est en plein essor industriel, ce qui se traduit dans la ville de Turku par la présence économique dominante d’une fabrique de coton... Continue Reading →
The publisher's presentation:Jayne Ferguson has always been a keeper of secrets, most especially her own . . .If there’s one thing Jayne Ferguson has learnt in her life, it’s that every blessing comes with a curse. She married the most handsome man on the isle of St Kilda - but he’s a bully. She inherited... Continue Reading →
The publisher's summary: Can one house hold a lifetime of secrets? Corfu, 1930The moment Thirza Caruthers sets foot on Corfu, memories flood back: the scent of jasmine, the green shutters of her family’s home — and her brother Billy’s tragic disappearance years before.Returning to the Greek house, high above clear blue waters, Thirza tries to... Continue Reading →
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