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When Will Hastie finally decides to retire from the military and return home to Scotland, he intends to settle down on his family estate and learn to become a farmer. But back home, the death of his best friend and neighbour, Rae, during World War II is still strongly felt. In particular, Rae's sister, Patty, has been brooding for the past 10 years over Rae's final letter home from France. When she decides to share the letter with Will, it sends him off to France to discover for himself the circumstances of Rae's death. His discovery there changes the lives of all those left behind.

After the tragic death of her little brother, Josephine travels to the Black Forest to heal. There she discovers a feeling of freedom astride a brand-new invention called the "velocipede". The very idea of a woman on a bicycle is beyond taboo - it is indecent and even illegal - but Josephine will not be deterred. She simply needs to find a way to ride without provoking a scandal. Back home, Josephine has the brilliant idea of riding under cover of night, while the world is still asleep.

It's 1945 and the war is finally over. For the Devlin family in Liverpool, the wartime years have been almost too much to bear. But at long last sisters Grace and Chrissie can return to their normal lives. Level-headed and hard-working, Grace wants nothing more than to meet a nice man and settle...

Some journeys aren't about finding your way back. They're about finding a way forward. Claire Morgan thought she knew what her future would look like—until the world she built shattered in a single moment. Carrying little more than grief and a quiet promise made to her best friend, Claire leaves behind everything familiar and boards a plane bound for Scotland. She isn't searching for a new life. She isn't searching for anything at all. She just needs to keep breathing.

In the aftermath of a personal decision, Shea O’Byrne has retreated to Melbourne, abandoning her career as a vet nurse to counsel women through pregnancy loss - a pain she understands all too well. When her father’s genealogical research uncovers a long-buried scandal involving the family’s forgotten ancestor, Samuel O’Byrne, Shea reluctantly agrees to help investigate.

Fighting for success in 17th century Amsterdam, a female artist must risk everything - and make enemies along the way. Defying convention, gifted artist Clara becomes a pupil to the renowned painter Osias Beerts. But when the highly prized patronage won from the powerful Burgomeister Fabritius turns to hostility, Clara has to make sacrifices and risk everything to pursue her craft. Together with her fellow pupil, Nico, she finds herself surrounded by dangerous secrets and powerful enemies. But in the face of so much past pain, can something as fragile as love survive?

London, 1951. Für Nanette ist es eine Zufallsbegegnung, für John ist es Liebe auf den ersten Blick. Doch John steht kurz vor seiner Auswanderung nach Brasilien. Ginge es nach ihm, würde er seinen Plan ändern, aber Nanette, die mit Anne Frank befreundet war und als Einzige ihrer Familie Bergen-Belsen überlebt hat, fürchtet sich vor dem Glück. Als sie einander Brief um Brief schreiben, gesteht sie sich langsam ein, dass sie mit ihm zurück ins Leben finden kann. Ein Buch über die rettende Kraft der Liebe.