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East Berlin, 1982. When Greta Schneider meets Henry Henderson, she is instantly smitten. An engineer on a work visa from Britain, Henry offers Greta a taste of the world beyond the Iron Curtain, a world that she yearns to explore as a translator once she finishes university. For Henry, Greta is simply perfect—bold and beautiful, adding a vital spark to his everyday life.

“The story of true innocents caught up in the machinery of war. Exquisitely researched, beautifully told, this tiny corner of Scotland came alive for me in all of my senses and I found myself rooting for the central characters with all my heart.” —Mary Beth Keane, author of Ask Again, Yes...

Marina and Hugh were once madly in love. But after the loss of their beautiful little daughter, grief has created a distance between them that feels impossible to bridge. Marina knows leaving Italy is the only way they will be able to move on, but Thorncliffe Hall, Hugh's family home in England, is so grey and unwelcoming.

1952. In the fragile atmosphere of post-war Paris, Sophie Bernot is training as a heart surgeon. A young woman in a man's world, Sophie is determined to bury her past and forge her medical career, whatever the costs. Across the channel, Sebastian Ogilvie is burning with ambition for his first architectural project. As his schemes lead him to France, and to a chance encounter with Sophie, his future seems full of promise.

“‘But who are we, if we forget everything that came before?’ Roza wonders in The Jilted Countess. This moving story of one woman finding a new life and new love in the aftermath of WWII answers this question, in the process taking on themes of PTSD, communism, and the plight of being an...

In the 1920s, three young girls enter a strict, cheerless convent school in a quiet London suburb. Six years later they leave, to change the world … Maureen was the movie star, whose role as Tarzan’s Jane helped rewrite the rules of cinema censorship. Sonia was the aspiring writer who became George Orwell’s wife and the guardian of his literary legacy. And Vivien was the actress as iconic as the roles she played, from Cleopatra to Scarlett O’Hara. Together their careers encompassed glamour and tragedy, triumph and scandal.

In the tradition of Jennifer Robson and Hazel Gaynor, this unforgettable debut novel is a sweeping tale of forbidden love, profound loss, and the startling truth of the broken families left behind in the wake of World War I. 1921. Survivors of the Great War are desperately trying to piece...

Mexiko, 1925: Die 17-jährige Frida will Ärztin werden, doch ein Busunfall macht diese Träume zunichte. Dann verliebt sie sich in das Malergenie Diego Rivera, der sie in ihrem eigenen Schaffen ermutigt - und der sie betrügt. Frida ist zutiefst verletzt und stürzt sich erst recht ins Leben. Die Pariser Surrealisten liegen ihr genauso zu Füßen wie Picasso und Trotzki.

Träume aus Seide. Hamburg, 1949: Obwohl es an allem fehlt, ist Paula fest entschlossen, die Schönheit in ihr Leben zurückzuholen - das Trümmergrau soll endlich Farbe weichen. Mit technischem Geschick und Gespür für die modischen Sehnsüchte der Frauen wird Paula die rechte Hand eines Strumpffabrikanten und will den Frauen wieder ihre heißbegehrten Nylons verschaffen. Zwischen Schwarzmarkt und Berlin-Blockade gelingt es Paula, sich in der patriarchalen Welt der Modeindustrie durchzusetzen.

Schon früh begehrt Simone de Beauvoir gegen die bürgerlichen Regeln auf - sie will mehr, als die Tochter aus gutem Hause und später Ehefrau und Mutter zu sein. Sie will stattdessen studieren und Lehrerin werden, um ihr Leben in Freiheit zu leben und - vor allem - um schreiben zu können. Der Wunsch nach persönlicher Weiterentwicklung treibt sie an, doch die großen Widerstände, denen sie sich als selbständige Frau ausgesetzt sieht, lassen sie immer wieder zweifeln.

Sommer 1938: Ein Wendepunkt im Leben von Frida Kahlo kündigt sich an. Frida hat es satt, als malende Ehefrau des großen Künstlers Diego Rivera angesehen zu werden und auch seine ständigen Affären kann sie nicht mehr ertragen. Als sie eine Einladung nach New York erhält, ergreift sie daher die Gelegenheit mit beiden Händen: Eine Einzelausstellung ruft! Endlich wird ihr Schaffen in der Kunstwelt anerkannt. Mehr als das, Frida erobert nicht nur New York, auch Paris liegt ihr zu Füßen. Und der Fotograf Nick Murray lässt sie eine neue, tiefe Form der Liebe erfahren. Als sie nach Mexiko zurückkehrt, tritt sie Diego als eine andere gegenüber.

New River, Virginia. 1904. Lizbeth Bennet longs to preserve her family’s farm, securing a future for her and her sisters, a difficult task in their Appalachian coal mining town. Money is scarce, and Lizbeth is determined to find a way without giving up treasured pieces of her family’s legacy. But when the mine is put up for sale, it’s clear change is approaching. A contingent of coal barons descends on the town to investigate whether the mine is worth their investment, among them a young man rumored to be a very rich, eligible bachelor.

The sweeping new saga of strong heroines and family secrets from the bestselling author of The Paris Model. While searching for her lost sister, art historian Wren Summers takes on the glittering world of New York's auction houses. A missing girl, a hidden masterpiece, and the search for the...

Liverpool, 1925. Fourteen-year-old Lillian Taylor has spent her childhood in a loveless orphanage after the death of her mother. When a well-dressed young woman claiming to be her aunt arrives and whisks her away to her large townhouse, Lillian hopes it signals a change in her fortunes. However there's more to Aunt Joan than meets the eye and when Joan discovers Lillian's budding romance with one of her coworkers she swiftly threatens his family. Events take a tragic turn when Joan becomes ill and reveals the secrets she's been keeping that will change Lillian's life forever....

From the London pop scene, to the opera stages of Europe; from a tiny Greek island, to a stifling manor house full of secrets and deceptions; from the sun-drenched Queensland coast, to the silent outback; Angela and Ellie are two women both looking for something. One in search of her identity and her memory; the other in search of the love that she had and lost; theirs is a duet whose last note will not be sung until the heart-stopping climax, when a shadow from the past returns to claim them both.

Grace Fitzgerald, a fiery-haired dreamer, longs to escape the confines of her windswept Dingle fishing village. Across the Atlantic, Richard Lewis, heir to a Savannah banking fortune, suffocates under the weight of societal expectations he can't quite understand. When their worlds collide through a twist of fate, Grace and Richard uncover a bond so profound it shakes the very foundations of their existence. As Europe inches towards chaos, they find themselves caught in a whirlwind of discovery, challenging everything they thought they knew about themselves and each other.