The UK number one hardback bestseller from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Line of BeautyThe Sunday Times Novel of the Year`With The Stranger`s Child, an already remarkable talent unfurls into something spectacular` Sunday TimesIn the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet, to visit his family home. Filled with intimacies and confusions, the weekend will link the families for ever, having the most lasting impact on George`s sixteen-year-old sister Daphne.As the decades pass, Daphne and those around her endure startling changes in fortune and circumstance, reputations rise and fall, secrets are revealed and hidden and the events of that long-ago summer become part...
ISBN: 9780330483278
Издательство:
Pan Macmillan
Дата выхода: январь 2020
Miss Emily Fido Faithfull is a woman of business and a spinster pioneer in the British women`s movement, independent of mind but naively trusting of heart. Distracted from her cause by the sudden return of a once-dear friend, the unhappily
ISBN: 978-1-4472-1259-1
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
Tess Leonard thought matrimony was for life, but her husband has decided that their marriage is the relationship equivalent of a starter home: cramped, claustrophobic and something he`s definitely outgrown. Now, at thirty-five, Tess is in the biggest mess of her life. Known to all her friends as `Tip Top Tess` because of her dogged pursuit of the perfect home, the perfect marriage and the perfect career, she`s now a candidate for How Clean Is Your House? And it`s all because Barney has walked out. But there`s a life raft on the horizon: The Divorce Survival Class. It may be uncomfortable, overcrowded and nearly sinking under the weight of excess baggage, but it`s a boot-camp for the broken-hearted. Over eight weeks, Tess and her...
ISBN: 978-0-7528-6458-7
Издательство:
Orion Books
Дата выхода: октябрь 2011
In these wonderfully illustrated tales, renowned storyteller Howard Pyle journeys back to the age of King Arthur and his Round Table to chronicle the powerful, enthralling story that has delighted generations of readers fascinated by chivalry, magic, and the unforgettable drama of medieval times.
ISBN: 0-451-52488-8
Издательство:
Penguin USA
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
In her warm and compelling signature style, the "New York Times" - bestselling author tells the story of a small-town yarn store owner and cancer survivor who shares life-affirming lessons with her customers through knitting classes.
After ten years of marriage, Kit and Port Moresby have drifted apart and are sexually estranged. Avoiding the chaos of Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, they travel to the remote North African desert. Port hopes the journey will reunite them, but although they share similar emotions, they are divided by their conflicting outlooks on life. Kit fears the desert while Port is drawn to its beauty and remoteness. Oblivious to its dangers, he falls ill and they discover a hostile, violent world that threatens to destroy them both.
ISBN: 0-14-118191-5
Издательство:
Penguin Books
Дата выхода: апрель 2004
