Tome 1 Entre 1910 et 1955, trois femmes issues de milieux différents habitent le village de Sainte-Élisabeth. Menant leur vie en parallèle, elles subissent l’influence de la toute puissante religion qui régissait tout jusqu’à la première moitié de ce siècle. Éva, née en 1910 à l’île de Miscou au Nouveau-Brunswick, est donnée à une riche famille de la côte. Exploitée comme domestique, elle entrera chez les Trappistines. En compagnie de sa soeur, Éva fuira le monastère et s’établira à Sainte-Élisabeth où elle mariera un veuf afin d’assurer sa sécurité. Eugénie, née en 1916 à Sorel, appartient à une famille à l’aise. Vivant avec une mère hautaine et froide, Eugénie trouve refuge dans la religion, la pratiquant à outrance. Mariée à un cultivateur de Sainte-Élisabeth, elle poursuivra sa quête religieuse, allant jusqu’à sacrifier l’avenir de son fils. Marguerite, née en 1930 à Montréal, tel un papillon, est attirée par les boîtes de nuit et le plaisir facile. Elle payera un lourd tribut pour ses folles aventures. Naîtra Lili, une boiteuse que la société refuse d’accepter. Marguerite déménagera à Sainte-Élisabeth où elle formera une famille décriée par la société puriste. Un homme, quêteux de son métier, bouleversera l’existence de ces femmes. Le curé du village, gardant les paroissiens sous sa coupe, s’octroie un rôle important dans le quotidien du magnifique village de Sainte-Élisabeth.

Alberto Ventura has travelled to Chile to attend the funeral of his father, Roberto. A man hated and loved both by his family and the local people, Roberto was known in the village as an enigma, a rake, a controversial boss, and a quick-tempered thug. It's said that he has destroyed the family land by mass-farming eucalyptus trees, and he's known to have killed a local boy in a fit of rage. Yet as Alberto delves into the rumours that obscure his father's death - was it natural causes, vengeance, murder, or self-sacrifice? He finds the reputation at stake is his own. In a breath-catching story of race and identity, rife with Chile's centuries-old tension between natives and local landowners, Mauricio Segura's Eucalyptus investigates the flashpoint of one village community in an expanding world.

Lou's dad has been addicted to painkillers since an accident left him unable to work. He's a good, loving dad, but kind of useless. Lou's mother, Zoe, a successful novelist, abandoned Lou at birth and showed no interest in her until three years ago, when Lou was twelve. Their relationship since then has been strained, but when Lou's dad has a stroke, there is nowhere else for her to go while he recovers. Lou struggles to find her bearings and figure out why her mom left her all those years ago. She is convinced the answers are in Zoe's fiction, but when Lou's grandmother, Heather, appears at a reading, Lou realizes she may have misjudged her mother.

Kat is a tough, independent woman who makes her living as a professional poker player in this work of fiction.

After a chance meeting, Jed Perry begins to stalk author Joe Rose. Driven by religious zeal and misdirected love, the strange young man will slowly unravel each strand of Joe's life.

After her father's death, Emily discovers she has Cousin Jimmy and Aunt Elizabeth at New Moon Farm and other new friends. From the author of Anne of Green Gables.

In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who fights for money when he has to, but who otherwise just wants to be left alone to raise his children. When a local landowner shows up on their doorstep, their precarious existence is threatened, and a series of actions is set in motion that can only end in violence. Steeped in the natural world of northern England, this is a lyrical commentary on the bonds of siblings and fatherhood, and on the meaning of community in the modern world. Elmet marks the launch of a major new voice in literary fiction.

What if your beloved fiancé, he of the crinkly smile and the irresistible British accent, had kept a life-changing secret from you? And what if, just a week before your dream wedding, you discovered it? When these questions become realities for bride-to-be Georgia Ford, she does the only thing that seems to make sense. She runs. She hops in her car and drives through the night, from Los Angeles to Sonoma, to her safe haven, to her messy and loving family, and their acclaimed family winery. Georgia craves the company of those who know her best, and whom she truly knows. And, on the eve of the harvest, Georgia knows she'll find solace--and distraction--in familiar rituals. But when Georgia arrives home, nothing is at all familiar. Her parents, her brothers, the family business, are all unrecognizable. It seems her fiancé isn't the only one who's been keeping secrets. And, much to Georgia's dismay, it seems likely that this harvest may be the family's last.

Roly Carradine has found refuge in Cornwall, in the mellow stone house of his childhood. A broken marriage made Roly remove himself from his busy London life, and here in Cornwall he welcomes Kate, also seeking refuge from the grief of losing her husband, and young Daisy Quin, a dancer recovering from a back injury. Roly's son Nat, a garden designer with his own secret burden to bear, lives not far away and is plagued by the unsympathetic visits of his mother Monica, Roly's ex-wife. Roly, Kate, Daisy and Nat all try to find resolution in the beauty and peace of the Cornish countryside.