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The doorbell rings, just days after my beloved husband’s sudden death. I don’t recognise the woman on our doorstep, with her blonde highlights, a diamond bracelet identical to my own and a bouncing baby boy in her arms. As I show her inside, I notice her eyes grow wide as she takes in our spacious hallway, and the big squashy sofas that we all used to pile on. She glances at the silver-framed family photos and my little daughter hiding behind my skirts. She looks at me, her blue eyes serious. ‘I’m sorry’ she says. ‘I am your husband’s girlfriend. And this is his son.'

Elly, bambina dalla personalità vivace e dall'animo sensibile, racconta la propria infanzia e i dolorosi eventi che ne segnano il passaggio all'adolescenza. Cresce tra Camogli e l'entroterra ligure, accudita dai nonni materno e paterno, dalla zia Cleofe, sorella di sua madre, e dallo zio Ugo, il rude ma giusto segretario comunale. La nonna paterna, Eleonora, è la sua confidente e consolatrice, colei che le insegna l'arte del ricamo e della cucina. Il nonno materno, Giuseppe, uomo di cultura poliedrica, le trasmette l'amore per i libri e la passione per la musica.

You think you can trust the ones you love most. But what if one secret could make you question everything? Every day, a woman like Louise passes you in the street: elegant, confident, determined. But underneath, she’s struggling. She doesn’t know her sister, Alice, has been scared of leaving the house since their mother died. She doesn’t know when Alice babysits her little boy, Archie, he sometimes sees things he shouldn’t. She doesn’t know Archie has a secret. A secret that could send cracks through the heart of Louise’s carefully constructed life....

Lila è scomparsa. Esagerata, come sempre, ha cancellato ogni traccia. Ed Elena, l'amica di tutta la vita, inizia a raccontare la storia del legame viscerale che le ha unite per sei decenni. Tra inconfessata rivalità e profondo affidamento, la ragazzina geniale e ribelle e l'amica studiosa attraversano gli anni dell'adolescenza, sullo sfondo di un rione della Napoli anni Cinquanta ritratta nella sua cruda epicità. Prima parte della tetralogia "L'amica geniale".

We met at my older brother’s house and instantly I knew that he was trouble. He kissed me, right there in the bathroom without a care in the world. And from that moment on, I was his. We were young, brave and naïve when we met. Sneaking around and falling in love. Giuliano Ferrara was perfection. A beautiful, crazy mistake. With his big brown eyes and his boyish charm.

Hot Wax is “a propulsive father-daughter story” (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad) and a journey of self-discovery that “captures the joy and danger of rock ’n’ roll” (Publishers Weekly) through one woman’s reckless mission to make sense...

The men in the secret society known as the Lords think they rule the world. And in a way, they do. Each has sold their soul to the devil at a young age in exchange for power and wealth. Like anything else, they have different levels of success. The more they’re willing to serve, the more power they have. Among them are the Spade brothers, who run Carnage. It’s where the Lords who have not held up their oath go to live out the rest of their lives in shackles. Tucked away from the world as if they never existed.

When one of the world’s most horrific assassins unleashes a worldwide campaign of terror, American covert operative, Chase Fulton, and his team of elite warriors must stop him before the carnage falls too close to home.

A collection of psychological thriller novels featuring a woman with a dangerous past, a moral code she can't ignore, and a talent for uncovering what others want hidden. These are psychological thrillers that build. Tension simmers. Danger creeps. Secrets unravel minute by minute.

Pre-order this twisty psychological thriller, for fans of Claire Douglas and Lisa Jewell now. Who can you trust when you can’t trust yourself? In retreat from the world, psychologist Eilish Culpepper is jolted from her solitude when her old friend Alex knocks on her door. Ten years have passed...

'Evocative, compulsive, beautifully written – a real page-turner' Sophie Hannah Pre-order this gripping, twisty psychological thriller for fans of Adele Parks and Claire Douglas now. EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS. SOME ARE DEADLY. Eve returns to the windswept Scottish island of her childhood, drawn...

As a little girl, Sam had no idea that her life was different than anyone else's. Her days consisted of playing in a nearby pond, banished to the forest until supper by her mother. Thankfully, she wasn't alone out in the woods...her brother, Charlie, was always there to guide and protect her from anything that may bring harm—however, who was going to protect her from him?

This BBC Radio collection includes the Booker nominated A Month in the Country. Be transported to the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where, in the aftermath of the First World War, survivor Tom Birkin spends a summer uncovering a medieval mural in the local church.

Depuis l'ère de l’uniformité. Depuis l’ère de la solitude et de la doublepensée. Depuis l’ère de Big Brother… Moi, Winston Smith. Je vous salue… Nous sommes en 1984 et la vie a radicalement changé. Big Brother vous observe en permanence et personne ne peut lui échapper. Sauf, peut-être, Winston Smith. Il travaille au ministère de la Vérité, où il réécrit l’histoire, mais en secret, il rêve de liberté. Et dans un monde où l’amour et le sexe sont interdits, où il est difficile de savoir qui est un ami ou un ennemi, il rencontre Julia et O’Brien et jure de se rebeller.

"Carlotta mia, io dell’arancio amaro conosco solo le spine e ormai non mi fanno più male. Ma il profumo del suo fiore bianco è il tuo, è quello della libertà." A cosa serve essere giovane e piena di progetti, se sei nata nel tempo sbagliato? Tre protagoniste straordinarie fronteggiano la sfida più grande: trovare il senso del proprio essere donne in un mondo che vorrebbe scegliere al posto loro. Nardina, dolce e paziente, che sogna di laurearsi ma finisce intrappolata nel ruolo di moglie. Sabedda, selvatica e fiera, che vorrebbe poter decidere il proprio futuro ma è troppo povera per poterlo fare.

"Je m'appelle Renée, j'ai cinquante-quatre ans et je suis la concierge du 7 rue de Grenelle, un immeuble bourgeois. Je suis veuve, petite, laide, grassouillette, j'ai des oignons aux pieds et, à en croire certains matins auto-incommodants, une haleine de mammouth. Mais surtout, je suis si conforme à l'image que l'on se fait des concierges qu'il ne viendrait à l'idée de personne que je suis plus lettrée que tous ces riches suffisants. Je m'appelle Paloma, j'ai douze ans, j'habite au 7 rue de Grenelle dans un appartement de riches."

Innsbruck, 1897: Josefa vertraut fest darauf, dass ihr Stiefvater Rupert nur ihr Bestes will, als er die Heirat mit dem wohlhabenden Geschäftsmann Berthold arrangiert. Doch bereits auf der Hochzeitsreise zeigen sich erste Risse in der Fassade ihres Ehemanns. Josefa versucht verzweifelt, ihrer Rolle als Ehefrau gerecht zu werden, doch ihr Lebenstraum ist ein anderer: Sie möchte Kunstgeschichte studieren. Berthold hat eigene Pläne für seine Frau und die Situation eskaliert dramatisch.

Tout commence par un incendie, un bébé et... un sanglier. Paris est transformé par des travaux titanesques, le cœur d’un homme est écartelé, le monde rural menacé, des femmes sortent de l’oubli, et les membres de la famille Pelletier, toujours plus proches de nous, marchent inexorablement vers leur destin. Au terme d’un effroyable dilemme moral, ce sera l’effondrement ou l’apothéose. Par bonheur, le chat Joseph veille encore.

"Il est une chose admirable qui surpasse toujours la connaissance, l'intelligence, et même le génie, c'est l'incompréhension." En juin 2021, un événement insensé bouleverse les vies de centaines d'hommes et de femmes, tous passagers d'un vol Paris-New York. Parmi eux : Blake, père de famille respectable et néanmoins tueur à gages ; Slimboy, pop star nigériane, las de vivre dans le mensonge ; Joanna, redoutable avocate rattrapée par ses failles ; ou encore Victor Miesel, écrivain confidentiel soudain devenu culte.

The Marshalls have a problem. There's nothing wrong with their 15,000-square-foot Beverly Hills Mansion, their brand-new endorsement deal with Red Bull or their status as one of the richest and most glamorous families in the world. The Marshalls are about to have their reality TV show cancelled and they will do ANYTHING to get renewed.