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Le troisième tome de l'éblouissante saga irlandaise best-seller qui comblera les lectrices de Lucinda Riley et Kate Morton !
Nous sommes en 1939 et la paix chèrement acquise depuis la Grande Guerre vit ses dernières heures. Pour la famille Deverill, beaucoup de choses ont changé et une nouvelle génération attend en coulisses : Martha Wallace a quitté son Amérique natale pour Dublin afin de retrouver sa mère biologique. Mais au lieu de cela, elle est tombée follement amoureuse du très charmant JP Deverill et a découvert que sa mère vient du même endroit que ce dernier.

In de levendige setting van de Gilded Age in New York keert Pixie Tate terug in een meeslepend verhaal vol mysterie, liefde en een ontdekking die haar leven zal veranderen. Pixie Tate wordt gevraagd naar het weelderige Aldershoff Hotel op Fifth Avenue te komen. Ooit was dit een van de mooiste familiehuizen van New York uit de Gilded Age maar nu is het net een spookhuis. Pixie wordt gevraagd om te onderzoeken wat er in het verleden met Lord Ravenglass is gebeurd. Ondertussen verlangt Pixie naar de man op wie ze verliefd is geworden, Cavill Pengower.

Irlande, 1925. Sur les vertes collines de West Cork, le château de Deverill a été brûlé par les rebelles. Mais la jeune et nouvellement riche Celia Deverill est déterminée à rendre sa splendeur d’antan à la demeure de ses ancêtres, et ainsi à restaurer le berceau de tous ses souvenirs d’enfance en compagnie de sa cousine Kitty et de leur amie Bridie Doyle.

The moment Pixie Tate steps inside the opulent Aldershoff Hotel in Manhattan, one of the last relics of New York's Gilded Age, she senses instantly that its elegant walls hide a dark secret. Pixie knows that she must use her unique gift to travel back in time in order to discover the mysteries of the past, and as she slips back over a hundred years, she's shocked to find herself in the midst of one of the most famous events in history.

Irlande, 1900. L’année marque le début d’un nouveau siècle et la naissance de deux jeunes femmes bien différentes : Kitty Deverill, une noble anglo-irlandaise intrépide aux flamboyants cheveux roux, et Bridie Doyle, la timide fille de la cuisinière qui aspire à une vie meilleure.

Cornwall, 1944. When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead during the Battle of Arnhem, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She can’t accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called ‘Wait for Me’ hidden in an old book, she believes it’s a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her. London, 1988. Since childhood Max has suffered from a recurring nightmare. Surrounded by the horrific chaos of war, he has an urgent mission he knows he must complete.

Binoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London, delightful no doubt but they do need to know their place. Who better to teach them the ways of this close-knit community than Flappy herself? But Flappy has other distractions. An ardent admirer, a New Year’s Ball to organize and manifold appearances to be kept up. How much time and effort it all takes!

Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn’t until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And now she wants to meet the man who shares her fair hair and blue eyes. Robert is a very lucky man. A big house, beautiful wife, three handsome sons. Eighteen years ago, he made a mistake. A brief fling that resulted in a daughter nobody else knows about. Robert must finally tell his family the truth. Will they ever be able to forgive him and accept Madison as one of their own?

Romantic secrets and hidden sorrows abound in the spellbinding new novel from Santa Montefiore. Can the shadows of the past be laid to rest, and will Evelina, robbed of her one true love in war torn Italy, ever find happiness again?

Deel 1 van "De tuinen van Devon"-serie, waarin een van de personages uit "Onder de Italiaanse zon" terugkeert. In een dorpje aan de zuidkust van Engeland staat Darnley Manor, een schitterend landhuis met uitgestrekte tuinen - en bijbehorende tuinmannen. Flappy Scott-Booth is de trotse bewoonster van het huis, samen met haar man Kenneth, een succesvolle zakenman die in zijn jonge jaren fortuin maakte met een fastfoodketen en die nu al zijn tijd spendeert op zijn eigen golfbaan. Ondanks haar zestig jaar ziet -Flappy er nog stralend uit; haar leven lijkt een perfecte droom.

Een Italiaanse kookcursus in een Toscaans palazzo heeft verstrekkende gevolgen Als de achtenzestigjarige weduwe Gracie een advertentie voor een kookcursus in een Toscaans castello ziet, boekt ze de reis zonder aarzelen. Iedereen in het gehucht in Devon waar ze woont is stomverbaasd: Gracie is al veertig jaar haar dorp amper uit geweest. Vooral haar dochter Carina kan haar oren nauwelijks geloven. Om een oogje in het zeil te houden besluit ze mee te gaan, en ze neemt haar eigen zeventienjarige dochter ook mee.

Tegen de wensen van zijn halfzus Kitty Deverill in, verkoopt JP Deverill het familiekasteel aan een grote hotelketen. Ook nodigt hij de jonge Margot Hart uit om op het landgoed te komen logeren. Margot werkt aan een boek over de geschiedenis van de familie Deverill en JP ziet dat boek als de ideale manier om zijn rekeningen met verscheidene familieleden te vereffenen. JP's zoon Colm kan zich allerminst vinden in de plannen van zijn vader. Hij heeft na de scheiding van zijn ouders alle contact met zijn vader verbroken, maar nu JP van plan is de vuile was over de familie buiten te hangen, voelt Colm zich geroepen om in actie te komen.

Gracie Burton is a grandmother living quietly in Devon. She has rarely left the village over the past 40 years. Her daughter, Carina, is immensely high-powered, with her own fast-paced business in London. She has very little time for her 17-year-old daughter, Anastasia, away at boarding school, and even less time for her ageing mother. In many ways, the three of them barely know each other.

Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America, as did so many in those times of hardship and famine.

Margot Hart travels to Ireland to write a biography of the famous Deverill family. She knows she must speak to the current Lord Deverill—JP—if she is to uncover the secrets of the past. A notorious recluse, JP won’t be an easy man to crack. But Margot is determined—and she is not a woman who is easily put off.

Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word. Her life is a reflection of herself—impossibly perfect. Until the day that Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into the village. Into an even grander home than hers. Taking the front seat on the social scene, quite literally.

Sofia Solanas grows up on a beautiful ranch in the middle of the Argentine pampa. In a world of old-fashioned values, she carves out a place as a rebellious and passionate young woman. But eventually, her stubborn nature leads her to trouble. When Sofia’s mother Anna discovers that Sofia has embarked on a forbidden love affair, she must act in order to save the family from shame. She sends Sofia to Europe - away from her friends and family and the man Sofia loves.

Married couple, Miranda and David, move out of London into a beautiful country house with an idyllic garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their bucolic dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then a mysterious Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present.

A stunning story of loss, love and the summer that changed everything from the number one best-selling author of Songs of Love and War. 1958. Celestria, the charismatic daughter of an aristocratic family, lives in Pendrift Hall, a pale stone mansion with gardens that tumble down to the Cornish sea. It is summer, and the weeks ahead hold the promise of self-discovery and the thrilling possibility of illicit love affairs.

When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion-dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no idea she had even owned it and becomes determined to discover the story behind the painting. This mystery sends him on the trail of his own history, back to the French village of his childhood. There he hopes to uncover the origins of the Gypsy Madonna; he never expects to find himself.