The rector of Turnham Malpas, Peter, his wife Caroline and their twin girls move to Africa for a year to run a mission. Facing life without their rector is difficult for the inhabitants of the village but the Women's Institute...
Domestic fiction
- Auteur:SHAW, RebeccaSommaire:
- Auteur:Birdsell, SandraSommaire:
One chilly spring morning, Joe Beaudry and his wife Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge a saint. They are on the lam in a stolen motor home on the edge of a Wal-Mart parking lot in Regina, Saskatchewan. Joe is trying...
- Auteur:Gaffney, PatriciaSommaire:
Après Les quatre Grâces, Patricia Gaffney offre cette merveilleuse histoire de solidarité entre mères et filles, et un portrait attendrissant de l’amour immense qui les unit. Veuve depuis peu, Carrie est plongée dans une grave...
- Auteur:JONKER, JoanSommaire:
Jenny and Laura Nightingale are as different as chalk and cheese. While Jenny and her friend Janet are being pursued by Mick and John, the local heart-throbs in their street, Laura's resentment towards Jenny's happiness is...
- Auteur:ROBERTS, NoraSommaire:
Kelsey Byden's family had always told her that her mother was dead, but she discovers on the same day her divorce becomes final, that she is in prison for murder. Hurt from the betrayal of her father, Kelsey decides to visit her...
- Auteur:COX, JosephineSommaire:
Louise and Ben Hunter have a happy, loving marriage, marred only by their unfulfilled longing for a child. But, when Ben's father, Ronnie dies, their whole world changes.
- Auteur:PICOULT, JodiSommaire:
When Daniel Stone was a child, he was teased mercilessly, but he fought back and became a 'bad kid', full of anger, until he got a girl pregnant and reinvented himself. However, fifteen years later when his daughter is date...
- Auteur:JONKER, JoanSommaire:
Continues the heartwarming and hilarious story of Molly Bennett and Nellie McDonough and is guaranteed to bring out the sunshine of your smile.
- Auteur:RAYNER, ClaireSommaire:
The glitter of theatre and the debutante season are starkly contrasted with a surgeon's experience of poverty, prostitution and disease in London a century ago.
- Auteur:PILCHER, RosamundeSommaire:
Set in London and Cornwall from WWII to the present day, this is the story of the Keeling family and of the passions and heartbreak that have held them together for three generations.
- Auteur:WINTON, TimSommaire:
Fred Scully can't wait to see his wife and daughter. He's got them all worked out. He's sweated on this reunion. The doors hiss open. Scully's life falls apart.
- Auteur:Hunt, Angela ElwellSommaire:
En route from New York's LaGuardia Airport to Tampa International, Flight 848 bursts into flames and crashes into Tampa Bay. All 261 passengers and crew are killed.
- Auteur:Bohjalian, ChrisSommaire:
In a dusty corner of a basement in a rambling Victorian house in northern New Hampshire, a door has long been sealed shut with 39 six-inch-long carriage bolts. The home's new owners are Chip and Emily Linton and their twin ten-year-old...
- Auteur:EDWARDS, KimSommaire:
A New York Times Bestseller. Forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins, Dr. David Henry makes a split second decision - he keeps the healthy boy and tells the nurse to bring the girl, who has Down's Syndrome, to an institution...
- Auteur:SEBOLD, AliceSommaire:
This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family...
- Auteur:PEMBERTON, MargaretSommaire:
In September 1962 four very different girls from different worlds meet on their first day at school. For seven years they are inseparable, and when they leave school and move into a flat in London together it seems the life can only...
- Auteur:Galsworthy, JohnSommaire:
The three novels that make up this trilogy have long been recognized as masterpieces of 20th-century literature, and Galsworthy as one of its leading exponents. But don't let that be the reason you put off listening to this wonderful...
- Auteur:VINE, BarbaraSommaire:
Famous novelist Gerald Candless dies of a heart attack. Before his death, his daughter had been commissioned to write his biography. She soon discovers that her father was not who he seemed, and that he had once assumed someone else...
- Auteur:BURGH, AnitaSommaire:
Winter, 1901. The ancient facade of Cresswell Manor surveys a vast and rich estate - but the land has fallen into decay. When Stanislas von Ehrlich, a self-made man of fortune, moves into the neighbourhood, the natural order of things...
- Auteur:Miller, Linda LaelSommaire:
Determined to honor an old promise, an undercover investigator struggles to shield a childhood friend from danger while resisting the pristine allure of the woman she's clearly become. But he may have underestimated the distraction of...