Dinah Jefferies
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#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • 1920s Ceylon: A young Englishwoman marries a charming tea plantation owner and widower, only to discover he's keeping terrible secrets about his past, including what happened to his first wife, that lead to devastating consequences
In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married Laurence, the seductively mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in colonial Ceylon, after...
In this lush, atmospheric page-turner, nineteen-year-old Gwendolyn Hooper has married Laurence, the seductively mysterious owner of a vast tea empire in colonial Ceylon, after...
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Francia, 1944
En pleno valle del Dordoña, en una antigua casa de campo lindando con un precioso pueblo, tres hermanas ansían que acabe la guerra.
Hélène, la mayor, intenta con todas sus fuerzas mantener a su familia a salvo, aunque la amenaza de la ocupación nazi no hace más que crecer.
Elise, la rebelde, está decidida a ayudar a la Resistencia, cueste lo que cueste.
Y Florence, la soñadora, anhela un mundo en el que Francia sea libre.
Una...
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Una hija rebelde
1923. Entre los antiguos muros de color miel de la diminuta isla de Malta, gente extraña se desliza entre las sombras y cualquiera puede comprar un nuevo nombre. Rosalie Delacroix huye de París para trabajar como bailarina en los clubes bohemios de sus sinuosas calles.
Una hermana con un secreto
1944. Florence Baudin tiene ante sí una nueva vida después de escapar de la brutalidad de la guerra en Francia. Pero su madre, con la...
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A sweeping, breathtaking story of love and betrayal from the internationally bestselling author of The Tea Planter's Wife
Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child.
While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot...
Ceylon, 1935. Louisa Reeve, the daughter of a successful British gem trader, and her husband Elliot, a charming, thrill-seeking businessman, seem like the couple who have it all. Except what they long for more than anything: a child.
While Louisa struggles with miscarriages, Elliot...
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Daughters of war volume 1
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"In an old stone cottage, on the edge of a beautiful French village, three sisters long for the end of the war. Hélène, the eldest, is trying her hardest to steer her family to safety, even as the Nazi occupation becomes more threatening. Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost. And Florence, the dreamer, just yearns for a world where France is free. Then, one dark night, the Allies come knocking for help....
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Daughters of war volume 3
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In 1960s Marrakech, a young girl travels to meet her estranged grandmother. Vicky Baudin steps onto the train through Morocco looking for the truth about the woman who gave her father up for adoption decades before. Clemence Petier lives in a kasbah on the edge of the Atlas Mountains, her background shrouded in mystery. But the past holds secrets that threaten them both. A face from Clemence's childhood threatens to expose everything she has built...
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Daughters of war volume 2
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In 1944 war-ravaged France, Florence Baudin receives a desperate request from her estranged mother to find her vanished sister, who went missing years before, and is drawn into a world of betrayals, secrets, lies, and silence.