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Consider Yourself Kissed
Consider Yourself Kissed is a love story like no other: charming, warm, heartfelt and funny but with a truly razor-like authenticity. I absolutely loved every moment and didn’t want it to end!
€ 20,95 -
De erfgenamen
In deze grootse familiesaga komt de familie Brooke bijeen in hun achttiende-eeuwse landhuis in Sussex, Engeland voor de begrafenis van de pater familias, Philip: vader, grootvader, echtgenoot, landeigenaar, voormalig hippie, filantroop, en het middelpunt om wie alle andere familieleden heen cirkelden. Zijn oudste dochter, Frannie, droomt ervan het landgoed te laten verwilderen en aan de natuur terug te geven - een laatste poging iets tegen de klimaatverandering te doen. Milo wil het landgoed ombouwen tot een luxueus verblijf voor de allerrijksten. Beiden geloven dat hun eigen plan is goedgekeurd door hun vader en dat leidt tot spanningen. Isa, de jongste dochter, heeft haar vader altijd een egoïst gevonden en is alleen teruggekeerd om te ontdekken of haar huwelijk barsten vertoont vanwege een oude liefde op het landgoed. Weduwe Grace vraagt zich af of ze na een liefdeloos huwelijk van vijftig jaar eindelijk voor zichzelf kan gaan kiezen. En dan is er Clara, net aangekomen uit Amerika, die een geheim heeft dat al hun dromen dreigt te vernietigen. ‘Ze jongleert behendig met bovengenoemde intriges en plotwendingen en nog een paar meer.’ – Het Parool ‘Grote dromen en botsende belangen, daar is deze heerlijke familiesaga van doordrenkt.’ – Margriet ‘Hope schetst kleurrijke, meestal net niet clichématige personages.’ – Het Parool ‘Hope jongleert behendig met alle intriges en plotwendingen’ – Het Parool 'Downton Abbey meets Succession, inclusief de bijbehorende jaloezie en spreekwoordelijke lijken die maar uit de kast blijven komen.' – LINDA ‘minstens net zo goed als Verwachting’ – LINDA.nl ‘Grote dromen en botsende belangen, daar is deze heerlijke familiesaga van doordrenkt.’ – Margriet ‘De uitgebalanceerde stijl van de schrijfster zorgt ervoor dat je als lezer langzaam maar heel zeker en zonder dat ze je loslaat, deze vraag onder ogen ziet: wie zijn de erfgenamen van onze planeet?’ * * * * – De Limburger ‘Anna Hope dient de verwikkelingen rond een erfenisdrama verrukkelijk op.’ – Trouw ‘Boek van de maandag’ – Mezza ‘Een heerlijk vakantieboek vol familiezeer.’ – Mezza ‘Anna Hope beschrijft de geschiedenissen en het decor zo detailleerd dat het erom smeekt verfilmd te worden.’ – Mezza ‘Het broeit van het begin tot het eind’ – Mezza ‘Hope beschrijft de verhoudingen bloemrijk.’ – Mezza ‘sterke plotwendingen.’ – Mezza ‘een meeslepend familie-epos waar de lezer van zal genieten’* * * * – Hebban
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Albion
Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma - without telling the reader what to think ... I closed Albion with a delicious sense of uncertainty
€ 20,95 -
Whale Harbour
'TENDER, IMMERSIVE AND EXQUISITELY WRITTEN' FLORENCE KNAPP'I COULDN'T STOP READING' RODDY DOYLE 'AN EXQUISITE FAMILY EPIC' CLAIRE LYNCHAn immersive multi-generational family story from the beloved and bestselling author of Ask Again, Yes. Inspired by the author's own family history, Whale Harbour follows the fortunes of eleven brothers, whose lives are set on different paths in the wake of a sudden tragedy. Whilst the younger brothers remain in Ireland, the older ones head overseas to Montana and New York, where they find work and build lives and families of their own. When one brother mysteriously disappears and becomes estranged from the family, it sparks a lifelong quest to find him.
€ 21,50 -
Albion
An addictive family saga exploring inheritance, class privilege, and the responsibility that accompanies it in a changing world. The Brooke family gathers for four days at their 18th-century English country estate to bid farewell to Philip--the patriarch around whom their lives have orbited. Frannie, the eldest daughter and heir, seeks to transform the property into a nature sanctuary in the face of a world in decline. Milo, by contrast, dreams of turning it into a paradise for the ultra-rich, while Isa--the youngest sister, estranged from Philip for years--arrives at the funeral in the midst of a marital crisis. The secrets and emotions that surface during those days force them to re-evaluate the roles they have occupied within the family until that moment. *Albion* is a luminous and profoundly contemporary novel that delves into family dynamics and the lingering wounds of colonialism; in it, Anna Hope breathes new life into the classic English country-house novel, while also examining the roots of privilege, the responsibility it entails, and the importance of the values we pass on to our children.
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La roccia bianca
A due o trecento metri dalla spiaggia di San Blas, in Messico, si trova una strana roccia bianca che sorge dall'oceano come un miraggio. Per i nativi è il luogo di origine del mondo. Immobile e silenziosa, nel corso dei secoli la roccia è stata testimone di spietate missioni di conquista, deportazioni verso i campi dello Yucatán, vagabondaggi psichedelici e pellegrinaggi laici come quello della scrittrice inglese che inaugura il racconto. È tornata alla roccia bianca per ringraziare di una preghiera esaudita. Ma davanti all'oceano si rende conto che le sue ragioni non sono così limpide e che anche lei è arrivata fin laggiù per rubare qualcosa. È l'inizio del 2020 e, mentre dall'Europa arrivano notizie allarmanti sul dilagare di un nuovo coronavirus, un gruppo di sconosciuti attraversa il Messico a bordo di un pulmino soffocante. La meta? San Blas, una sonnolenta cittadina sul Pacifico, e più in particolare la roccia bianca da cui, secondo i nativi di quelle zone, ha avuto origine il mondo. Fa parte del gruppo anche una scrittrice senza nome. È lì per rendere grazie per la nascita della figlia, ma anche per fare ricerche per un libro. A quella roccia dal profilo mutevole sono infatti legate tante storie poco note ma degne di essere raccontate. Nel 1969 un cantante rock si rifugia all'insaputa di tutti in un albergo lì vicino, a metà strada tra la giungla e l'oceano. Vuole sfuggire a una fama ormai ingombrante, ma i suoi demoni e le sue dipendenze lo seguono. San Blas è, nel 1907, anche l'approdo di due ragazzine yoeme. La loro, però, non è una scelta volontaria: sono state portate lì con la forza e, ad attenderle dopo una sfiancante marcia sulle montagne, non c'è che il lavoro forzato nei campi dello Yucatán. Una sorte tanto tragica quanto comune, un genocidio che affonda le radici nel colonialismo. E San Blas, a fine Settecento, è proprio un avamposto delle forze di conquista spagnole e il punto di partenza di un'ambiziosa missione esplorativa. Poco prima di levare gli ormeggi, però, uno degli ufficiali dei tre vascelli pronti a risalire la costa sembra impazzire. Colpa del caldo e della stanchezza oppure, magari per maggiore lungimiranza e sensibilità, ha visto qualcosa che agli altri sfuggiva o non interessava? Mescolando realtà e fantasia, vicende personali e temi universali, Anna Hope crea quattro storie disposte a matrioska che, oltre alla roccia del titolo, hanno al cuore il complesso groviglio di bene e male che muove e condiziona gli esseri umani.
€ 33,50 -
La sala da ballo
€ 22,50 -
Wir sind das Leben
Über Freundschaft, Liebe und die Familie, die wir uns suchen Wie aus dem Nichts tritt die achtzehnjährige Nim in Jules' Leben. Im Nachtclub von Jules' Ex-Mann Leon schmeißt sie bald die Bar und wirkt auch sonst viel souveräner, viel unabhängiger als andere Frauen ihres Alters. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz lässt sie sich heimlich mit Leon ein - und wird bald schwanger. Während Nim davor zurückschreckt, Mutter zu werden, keimt in Jules die fast begrabene Sehnsucht nach einem Kind wieder auf. 'Unverstellt, originell und provokant - Saba Sams ist die aufregendste Debütautorin Großbritanniens.' Vogue 'Sams schreibt mit der entwaffnenden Stimme eines gelangweilten Teenagers mit einem Talent für Einzeiler und überraschende Momente der Poesie.' The Guardian 'Eine einnehmende Geschichte über Liebe und die weicher werdenden Grenzen dessen, was Familie sein kann.' Sheena Patel 'Ein literarisches Wunderkind ... Genau beobachtet und mit glasklarem Fokus.' Harpers Bazaar
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Albion
A finely crafted, propulsive, and nuanced story of family, inheritance, and accountability that shakes the country house novel to its foundations from the internationally acclaimed author of Expectation.
€ 27,50 -
Wo wir uns treffen
Drei Geschwister, ein großes Erbe und ein zweifelhaftes Vermächtnis - eine packende Familiengeschichte von Anna HopeAls der Egomane Philip Brooke stirbt, kommen seine Kinder Frannie, Milo und Isa für fünf Tage auf dem gewaltigen Familienanwesen in Sussex zusammen. Haupterbin Frannie hat hier vor Jahren die Führung übernommen. Sie will die Ländereien renaturieren und für ihre siebenjährige Tochter eine Zukunft schaffen. Doch der unstete Milo hat andere Pläne - und den Segen seines Vaters dafür. Isa kämpft gegen innere Dämonen, sie hat die Tochter von Philips langjähriger Geliebter zur Beerdigung eingeladen. Und die kennt das wahre Erbe der Brookes aus den Zeiten des Empire. "Wo wir uns treffen" ist ein meisterlich komponierter Familienroman über die Beziehungen, die uns für immer prägen, über ererbten Besitz und historische Verantwortung - feinsinnig, klug und packend bis zum Schluss.
€ 25,00 -
Albion
FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATIONAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb ... Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe'Beautiful . . . As provocative as it is tender' Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceThe Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home - twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone - to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other.Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they've built their lives.'The English country house novel reimagined for our times ... Exceptionally well-drawn' Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground'A book that asks important questions about legacy - familial, historical and global - and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose' Elizabeth Day'Wise and beautiful, with amazing nature writing to boot' India Knight'Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become' Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing
€ 21,50 -
Chance Encounters
"An honest, poignant, and thought-provoking book of poetry. In her vulnerability, the author challenges her readers to look for God's hand in their lives"--
€ 23,00