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Erica James De verborgen tuin
In de zomer van 1981 is heel Engeland in de ban van de bruiloft van Prins Charles en Diana, maar Libby is met andere dingen bezig. Nadat ze haar eigen verloofde in bed heeft aangetroffen met haar beste vriendin, verruilt ze Londen voor het platteland van Suffolk. Daar staat Larkspur House, het huis – en de tuin – van de bekende tuinontwerper Elfrida Ambrose, en van Libby's oudtante Bess. Maar als levenslange vriendinnen Bess en Elfrida hun geliefde Libby willen helpen een nieuw pad voor de toekomst...
Nederlands | 12 uur 38 minuten (728 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024
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Laura Spence-Ash In de verte, de zee
Als de Duitse luchtmacht tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog een reeks bombardementen op Londen uitvoert, maken Millie en Reginald Thompson een onmogelijke keuze: ze evacueren hun elfjarige dochter Beatrix naar Amerika. Bea vertrekt per boot naar derotsachtige kusten van New England. Ze wordt opgenomen in een welvarende familie en algauw voelt het leven in Amerika natuurlijker aan dan het stille leventje dat ze in Engeland leidde. Jaren later, na de oorlog, keert ze terug naar Londen, maar de herinnering...
Nederlands | 12 uur 13 minuten (703 MB) | Signatuur, Amsterdam | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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C E Rose The Shadows of Rutherford
'Layers of secrets are gradually peeled back in this brilliantly absorbing tale.' Marion Todd, author of Old Bones Lie Darkness lies at the heart of this family... In 1959 Milly starts her new life as a housemaid at Rutherford House, working for the aristocratic Rutherford-Percy clan. Entranced by her new mistress, Vivienne, she becomes deeply embroiled in the household and the keeper of dark secrets the family conceals beneath the mansion’s grand exterior. In the present day, Christie is working...
Engels | 9 uur 31 minuten (438 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis I Stopped Time
What if the villain of your childhood turned out to be someone really rather extraordinary? A disgraced politician, Sir James Hastings is living out his retirement in a secluded Surrey village. He is unmoved by his centenarian mother's death - a woman he emotionally buried upon her abandonment. Raised by his father, a charismatic war-hero turned racing driver, the young James, torn between self-blame and longing, eventually dismissed her. But when he inherits her life's work - an incredible photography...
Engels | 10 uur 31 minuten (469 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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