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Erica James De verborgen tuin
In de zomer van 1981 is heel Engeland in de ban van de bruiloft van Prins Charles en Diana, maar Libby is met andere dingen bezig. Nadat ze haar eigen verloofde in bed heeft aangetroffen met haar beste vriendin, verruilt ze Londen voor het platteland van Suffolk. Daar staat Larkspur House, het huis – en de tuin – van de bekende tuinontwerper Elfrida Ambrose, en van Libby's oudtante Bess. Maar als levenslange vriendinnen Bess en Elfrida hun geliefde Libby willen helpen een nieuw pad voor de toekomst...
Nederlands | 12 uur 38 minuten (728 MB) | De Fontein Romans & Spanning, Utrecht | 2024
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Carrie Turansky Het dagboek van Longdale Manor
'Het dagboek van Longdale Manor' is een fascinerende historische roman van Carrie Turansky met een dubbele tijdlijn. Een oud dagboek herbergt een familiegeheim van honderd jaar geleden. In 1912 ontdekt Charlotte Harper na haar vaders dood wat haar familie jarenlang verborgen heeft gehouden. Ze kan haar geheim met niemand anders delen dan haar dagboek. Honderd jaar later wordt het dagboek gevonden door kunsthistorica Gwen Monroe, die door haar grootvader naar Longdale Manor is gestuurd om een ernstige...
Nederlands | 12 uur 39 minuten (722 MB) | KokBoekencentrum Fictie, Utrecht | 2023
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Barbara Comyns Our Spoons Came from Woolworths
´I defy anyone to read the opening pages and not to be drawn in, as I was... Quite simply, Comyns writes like no one else.´ - Maggie O'Farrell, author of "Hamnet". Pretty, unworldly Sophia is twenty-one years old and hastily married to a young painter called Charles. An artist's model with an eccentric collection of pets, she is ill-equipped to cope with the bohemian London of the 1930s, where poverty, babies (however much loved) and her husband conspire to torment her. Hoping to add some spice...
Engels | 5 uur 41 minuten (255 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter
'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...
Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
Luisterboek (digitaal)
Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead
That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...
Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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Jane Davis Small Eden
Secrets shared can bind hearts, but secrets concealed? That's a tale of its own. The year is 1884. Robert Cooke and his pregnant wife Freya tragically lose their two sons to scarlet fever, sending Freya into self-imposed isolation for the safety of their unborn child. Cut off from each other, their shared grief becomes a silent, destructive foe. A decade later and now a successful businessman, Robert conceives a poignant tribute to his lost sons - a pleasure garden. But in withholding his vision...
Engels | 10 uur 55 minuten (496 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023
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