Santa Montefiore

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It is 1925 and the war is long over. But much has been lost and life will never truly be the same again. Castle Deverill, cherished home to the Deverill family in the west of Ireland for hundreds of years, has burned to the ground. But young and flighty Celia Deverill is determined to restore the sad ruin to its former glory. Celia married well and has the wealth, after all, to keep it in the family and she cannot bear to see it stand neglected. But dark shadows are gathering once more, as the financial markets start to shake. And everything that felt so certain is thrown once again into doubt.

"Miranda and David move out of London into a beautiful country house with a magical garden. But Miranda insists on tottering across the wet lawn in kitten heels, David is never there, and the children won't tear themselves away from the telly. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives. With the wisdom of nature he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? His secret lies in the deepest recesses of the garden, for a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit not just season after season, but generation after generation."--Publisher description.

A priceless Titian masterpiece. A sumptuous French chateau with a deadly secret. And a mystery hidden in a Bordeaux village that will change their lives forever. 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. Lose yourself in this story of epic romance and dark mystery set against the backdrop of occupied France and post-war America.

Na de dood van haar zoontje is een vrouw in diepe rouw; de logeerpartij van een neefje lijkt ze dan ook niet te kunnen verdragen.

In an Anglo-Argentine community in Buenos Aires, two sisters - Isla and Audrey - spend their days playing tennis, riding horses and enjoying picnics in the summer heat. They have everything to look forward to, until one day everything changes ... When two handsome brothers arrive, Audrey loses her heart to one of them. Louis Forrester, a troubled man and gifted pianist, composes a brilliant piece of music for her: the forget-me-not-sonata.

Het is inmiddels 1939 en de vriendschap tussen de drie vrouwen, Kitty, Bridie en Celia, is inmiddels lang niet meer zo sterk als eerst.

Ireland, early 1939. Much has changed for the Deverill family and a new generation is waiting in the wings. But eyes are once again turning towards Europe where the storm clouds of war are building. In Dublin, Martha Wallace's feelings of rejection have turned, in an instant, to happiness. Martha came home from America, desperate to track down her birth mother. But instead she has lost her heart to the impossibly charming JP, scion of the Deverill family. Bridie Doyle has come a long way from her humble roots. Now Countess di Marcantonio and mistress of Castle Deverill, she is determined to make the splendid surroundings her home. Her flamboyant husband Cesare has other ideas. And, as his eye strays away from his wife, those close to the couple begin to question his true identity. Kitty Deverill believed that life with her husband Robert and their two children was her destiny, until the return of Jack O'Leary, her first love, as irresistible to her now as he was when they met, years before. But this time Jack's heart belongs elsewhere ...

En la barcaza sobre el Tamesis que llama hogar, Alba vive una juventud alocada pero vacia. Durante toda su vida, la figura de la madre que no conocio la ha atormentado. Ahora ha llegado el momento de enfrentarse al pasado: a la verdad sobre lo que sucedio en un pequeno pueblo italiano, casi treinta anos antes, una historia de amor apasionado en tiempos de guerra, de tragedia, crimen y mentiras que ha quedado enterrada en el silencio.--Amazon.com. In a barge on the Thames he [sic] calls home, Alba lives a wild but empty youth. Throughout her life, the figure of her unknown mother had tortured her. Now it's time to face the past: the truth about what happened in a small Italian town, nearly thirty years ago, a story of a passionate love in times of war, of tragedy, of crime and lies have been buried in there.--Amazon.com.

Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she know her mother won't follow her - to her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret - and a future she never knew she might have. Meanwhile, Caitlin Macausland is mourning the future she can never have. She died tragically in what the village thinks is suspicious circumstances, and now she is stuck in a limbo, unable to move on. And between the two of them is an old lighthouse - the scene of so much tragedy. Can each woman find the peace she so desperately longs for? And can they find the way to live again?