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Revenge, redemption...and pastry. The witty new novel from the author of Hotel du Barry. In the winter of 1912 on the wild West Coast of Tasmania, Wolfftown's most notorious heiress and murderess, Sasha Torte, tells the tale of her own spectacular downfall. Forsaken by her parents and raised by criminals and reprobates, Sasha becomes a world-famous pastry chef at the tender age of 17. Entanglement with the disreputable Dasher brothers leads to love, but also to a dangerous addiction.

Australia is the Lucky Country, and Joey Driscol knows it. It’s a far cry from his native Ireland, but he believes this is the place he and his wife can forget the troubles of the past. There’s a good life, a new house, regular work and, in time, they welcome their new son Marti into the world. Joey’s wife has been struggling, their marriage is on the rocks and suddenly, she disappears taking Marti with her.

When Gill and Gabe's eldest son drowns overseas, they decide they must hide the truth from their desperately unwell teenaged daughter. But as Gill begins to send letters from her dead son to his sister, the increasingly elaborate lie threatens to prove more dangerous than the truth. Told through alternating perspectives, and moving between Tasmania and London, this is a story about family, food, grief and hope.

Jude is the owner of a unique antiques shop in Cambridge. She makes it her mission to match customers with the special something that they are missing, a talisman to bring them what their heart desires. Unfortunately, Jude’s life is not overflowing with love. However, when she 'inherits' a niece that she never knew existed, doubling her meagre family overnight, Jude's life is soon set to get a lot less lonely and a lot more interesting.

Vom gefeierten Autor der "Sörensen-Reihe" kommt jetzt ein Hörbuch über Generationenkonflikte: Väter und Söhne, Kinder, die Eltern werden und Eltern, die wieder zu Kindern werden. Moritz Liebig ist 38 und steht mit beiden Beinen fest im Leben. Eigenes Café, eigene Frau, eigener Sohn. Zwanzig Jahre lang hatte er keinen Kontakt zu seinen Eltern. Dann steht plötzlich sein Vater Karlheinz vor der Tür: Mama ist tot. Seit drei Monaten schon. Karlheinz hat den letzten Rest seines Lebenswillens verloren, ist müde, verbraucht und verbittert. Er will nicht mehr.