Resultados para "The French Girl" en Romántica

Summer 1939 - When war breaks out, Sylvie is marooned with her cousin Nell's family in the Chiltern hills and cannot return to her Normandy home. During the early days of rationing, blackouts, and the threat of bombers in the skies, Sylvie and Nell have to grow up quickly. Yet as the war rages around them, it's the competition and jealousy between the two that dominates their lives. When the girls fall in love with the same man, their relationship is truly tested. But the war pulls them all apart and changes the course of their lives – until their secrets are revealed.

It was supposed to be a final celebration for six British graduates, the perfect French getaway - until Severine arrived. Her beauty captivates them, and in the summer heat, tension simmers and years of jealousy and longing rise to the surface. Then Severine disappears. A decade later, her body is found - and for Kate Channing, the discovery brings up unwelcome memories. As police suspicion mounts against the friends, Kate becomes desperate to resolve her shifting understanding of that time.

Running for her life from the Nazis, Monique, a 17-year-old Jewish girl, escapes through the streets of Paris, searching for a place to hide. In a dark basement deep within the city, Philip, a man of the Resistance, offers her a deal in order to save her life by changing her identity. In return, she needs to provide information about the Germans by becoming acquainted with them.

Elle a dit oui, mais... Heather vient de se fiancer à son petit ami, mais un léger détail compromet ses plans : Kurt. Une simple formalité administrative lui révèle qu'elle est toujours unie à ce guitariste sexy qu'elle a épousé il y a huit ans, à Las Vegas. Une folie de jeunesse. Heather se rend alors au plus vite à Nashville, capitale de la musique, pour obtenir le divorce. Les retrouvailles entre les anciens amants s'avèrent aussi explosives que troublantes.

When everyone is watching, survival will be her greatest performance ... A gripping, utterly absorbing novel about survival and art as defiance on the 1930s Berlin stage, from the bestselling author of The Woman from Saint Germain Berlin 1932: With Germany in chaos, Monika Varády, a young...

In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks...

"Narrator Stephanie Racine instills an enthusiastic tone of wonder at the transformative quality of books in this tale with a beautiful dreamlike quality." -- AudioFile Magazine For fans of Amélie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside...

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a compelling story of murder, mystery, and mutiny on the high seas - and a love so intense it can overcome two different cultures. You never know what the sea will give you ... or what it will take back. When Mair McCrae follows her island tradition...

From bestselling author Jackie French comes a book about the secrets we carry, those that we unearth - and those that are too dangerous to tell. The once impoverished medical student Agnes Glock is now the fabulously wealthy Mrs Mulberry. Her estate in the mountains is magnificent, a haven for...

Three women from very different backgrounds, bound by friendship, separated by destiny It was impossible, but in full view of the church, the Governor and wedding guests ... The bride had vanished. Some girls are born to be loved, some are born to be useful. Some girls are born to be bad...

-Winner of the 2022 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize (Romance) -Indigo Books Most Anticipated Rom-Com -Zoomer Magazine: Read and Recommended When a new teacher arrives in a tiny fishing village, she realizes the most important lessons are the ones she learns outside the classroom. It’s 1985. Rachel...

What happens when fate says 'go'? Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best efforts. Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the...

Brought to you by Penguin. The hilarious No. 1 bestseller by comedian and author of Because of You and According to Yes, Dawn French. Everyone hates the perfect family - so you'll love the Battles. Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old...