Category: Romance Literary Fiction

Anwen and Idwal are only those that fall in love – other than that Anwen is Idwal's sister...

Of The 9th Verse is decided within the idyllic yet claustrophobic atmosphere of the hills of North Wales. whilst Idwal is born Anwen sees him as an outsider in her contented adolescence. yet because the pair get older, in addition they develop nearer. Anwen is Idwal's protector, his consultant and his idol - later she's going to turn into his lover.

This booklet clarifies a few of the mysteries of existence whereas grabbing the whole diversity of your feelings. Lila Mae and her husbands are unforgettable. every one guy narrates a part of Lila Mae’s lifestyles as he studies her. the unconventional additionally explores social and religious subject matters that run within the history of Lila Mae’s existence. There are earthy passages, sacred inspirations and awesome surprises. Lila’s existence displays loose will, visioning and the implications of either. reliable consuming abounds. yet another factor: You perform this novel. Enjoy!

The liked vintage novel, the foundation of the vintage movie starring Nicole Kidman and Sandra Bullock.

As little ones, sisters Gillian and Sally have been endlessly outsiders of their small New England city, teased, taunted and avoided for the air of magic that turns out to glitter within the air round them. All Gillian and Sally ever sought after used to be to get away. 

and finally they do - one marries, the opposite runs as faraway from domestic as she will be able to manage.

Years later, besides the fact that, tragedy will carry the sisters again jointly. And they’ll locate that it doesn't matter what else could occur, they’ll regularly have one another. a fascinating story of affection, forgiveness and relations, Practical Magic is loved of readers of all ages.

*~*~*Readers love useful Magic*~*~*
 
‘[A] delicious fantasy of witchcraft and love in a global the place gardens odor of lemon verbena and happy endings are possible’ Cosmopolitan

‘What do you do while your lengthy misplaced little sister exhibits up in your suburban entrance step… a lifeless guy within the Oldsmobile that’s blockading your driveway? …You support her bury him on your yard, beneath a wilting lilac bush that might without notice spring again to lifestyles, bearing lots of heady flora that remind each person who passes through of desires they inspiration they’d lengthy on the grounds that stifled’ Vogue

‘Dark comedy and a mild touch hold the tale alongside to a really Gothic climax, entire with heaving skies and witchery at the garden’ New York Times

'A scrim of magic lies lightly over [this] fictional international, within which lilacs bloom riotously in July, a lovesick boy's elbows sizzle on a diner countertop and a toad expectorates a silver ring...' Publishers Weekly
 

On a chilly January night in 1990, Margot’s idyllic existence with Geoff, the lead singer of a winning difficult rock band from England, alterations irrevocably. within the fight to recapture what they'd and locate their footing back, Margot and Geoff locate themselves stuck in a devastating process occasions that ends up in her go back to the States. 



Then, 9 years later, Geoff reenters Margot’s lifestyles whilst the band hires her small, yet flourishing, public kinfolk enterprise. yet rather than the harmless reunion she thinks it is going to be, Margot unearths herself ultimately confronting what occurred on that iciness evening, and what fairly triggered her courting with Geoff to end.

Le destin de quatre générations de femmes artistes.
Une saga romanesque en four tomes sur tout le XXe siècle.
Alice, Ariane (fille d'Alice) puis Anaïs et Ava vivent ardour, amour et déchirements, tout en parvenant à faire évoluer leur art.

Montréal, 1951. Anaïs a dix ans. Après un début de vie difficile, l. a. fille adoptive d'Ariane Calvino reprend tout juste pied quand elle est confrontée à los angeles mort de Marcel, un homme qu'elle adore et considère comme son père. Pour s'évader de son chagrin, elle trouve safe haven dans une ardour excessive pour l'art dramatique. los angeles scène et le cinéma mettent un baume sur ses plaies. Devenir quelqu'un d'autre qu'elle-même los angeles comble... Dotée d'un expertise d'exception, l'enfant vedette connaît un succès considérable qui lui redonne confiance. Mais un drame fera de nouveau basculer sa vie. Bouleversée, par l'agression dont elle a été victime, elle tentera l'impossible pour échapper aux séquelles du traumatisme.

Émotivement fragilisée, elle connaît des hauts, mais surtout des bas. Elle n'a pas dix-huit ans lorsqu'elle quitte ses proches pour s'exiler en mystery à Toronto avec son amoureux. Longtemps, elle ne donne aucune nouvelle à sa famille. Nourrissant ses rêves de réussir comme comédienne, elle vivote, consomme et fuit ses responsabilités. Elle devra traverser plusieurs années éprouvantes avant de rentrer au bercail et de renouer avec le succès.

Loin de lui apporter le bonheur, l. a. vie de vedette éloigne Anaïs de ce qu'elle cherche : l'amour, le vrai. Mais pour l'atteindre, elle devra affronter l. a. vérité...

The lives and loves of 3 sisters, Anna, Kathleen and Kitty intertwine throughout the fateful summer time of 2001.

Pressed to assist a chum in desire, Anna, the oldest sister, for a price paid by way of her brother-in-law, Doug, gives you to aid reconcile his failing marriage to her sister, Kathleen. yet Anna has difficulties, too. She's trapped in a loveless marriage with Alex Karin, a prosperous and politically bold engineer and industrialist. whereas assisting fix her sister's fractured marriage, Anna meets a good-looking Marine officer, significant Varnay, falls in love and starts off a tempestuous affair. She is familiar with the affair is natural folly, harmful and toxic yet she cannot carry herself to forestall it, both. Then, the tragic occasions of 11th of September intrude and she or he realizes she needs to make an irrevocable selection among her family members and her lover.

Kitty, the youngest of the 3 sisters, as soon as in love with significant Varnay, turns to Albert Mason, a tender legal professional. Albert, whose previous quests for non secular enlightenment have left him neither enlightened nor chuffed reveals salvation now not in asceticism yet in generosity and kindness. after all, it truly is his kindness and gentility that win Kitty's center.

Doug, Kathleen's untrue husband, by no means loses his fascination with Kari, the younger girl who virtually destroyed his marriage. He faces huge, immense difficulties at paintings the place company politics and infighting threaten to smash his profession.

The look for love, forgiveness, knowing and happiness leads every body down paths and into areas a long way faraway from the tasteless safeguard in their earlier. nationwide politics, company politics, and the issues, petty and profound, of affection within the new millennium all conspire to impact the lives of Anna, her sisters and their households in methods by no means anticipated.

De jonge en ambitieuze econoom Chris wordt vanuit zijn geboortestad Den haag als intermediair uitgezonden naar Qingdao, China. Eenmaal ter plekke gaat hij aanvankelijk kopje-onder in de vloedgolf van geuren en kleuren, maar ondanks alle nieuwe en soms ook verwarrende indrukken lacht leven hem toe.Via een collega leert hij Jelai kennen en vanaf dat second is zij voor hem de belangrijke persoon in de bruisende parade die dagelijks aan hem voorbij trekt.

Jelai fascineert hem mateloos, geduldig hoort ze zijn verhalen aan en lacht om zijn grapjes, hoewel ze die niet altijd begrijpt. Maar op al te persoonlijke vragen reageert Jelai bijzonder fel, soms uitgesproken vilein.Hoe dichter Chris en Jelai tot elkaar komen, des te zwaarder drukt haar onvoorspelbare gedrag op hun relatie. Jelai’s persoonlijkheid werkt op Chris in met de kracht van een eeuwenoude chinese language bezweringsformule. De jonge en onervaren Chris dreigt zich lelijk te branden voor hij weet – echt weet – wat vuur is.

Bedwelmd is een liefdesverhaal vol passie, humor en intimiteit, die bloeit en bekneld raakt tussen twee culturen, die van het bekende Nederland en die van het deels onbekende China. Uitgegeven in 2004.

Set in a paradisiacal Caribbean island, an unsatisfied building employee with constrained customers, Jeremy Barnes, by chance unearths an historical clay item at a piece website. quickly after, existence takes a flip for the higher for him and his relatives.

Years later, his son Michael makes a decision to dedicate his lifestyles to the recent Church by way of turning into considered one of its Helpers. Michael fast discovers despite the fact that that folks aren't so "good" in the end. He does not comprehend that the mischievous clay artefact has whatever to do with it and that his father, 20 years past, had made a pact with the clay imp -- the satan himself.

Michael is confirmed as Helper and has to determine no matter if he'll fall prey to evil or champion the reason for strong. His selection after all contains absurdism and existentialism as philosophical colleges of idea underlying the radical -- a visit into corruption, deceit, adultery, paedophilia and evil at its such a lot refined, in addition to absolute innocence.