Joanna Trollope Livres

Dans la ville rustique d'Aldminster, une crise se profile. Les fonds sont insuffisants et la cathédrale nécessite des réparations majeures. Certains espèrent financer les travaux en abolissant le coûteux chœur de garçons, tandis que d'autres sont horrifiés par cette idée. Sally Ashworth, la mère solitaire d'un jeune choriste de dix ans, se retrouve entraînée dans cette lutte. Elle est ancrée uniquement par son amour inattendu pour le brillant maître de chœur et par son jeune fils, dont la voix mélodieuse pourrait être la seule chose capable d'unir une communauté divisée. L'histoire explore les thèmes de l'amour, de la musique sacrée et des tensions communautaires, tout en offrant une bande sonore riche et délicate sur les pages de ce récit magnifiquement construit.

Rachel a trois fils : Ralph, Edward et Luke. Entièrement dévouée à ses enfants à présent adultes, elle contrôle leur vie avec poigne et conviction. Le jour où une crise éclate dans le mariage de l'un d'eux, elle se frotte aux nouvelles allégeances de ses garçons, désormais époux avant d'être fils, et dont les femmes sont fermement décidées à imposer leurs propres règles. Mais Rachel entend bien prendre les choses en main. Entre elle et ses belles-filles, la guerre ne fait que commencer.

Chrissie a toujours su que Richie les aimait, elle et leurs trois filles, ainsi que leur joyeuse existence rythmée par la musique. Un seul bémol : Richie ne l'a jamais épousée, et pour cause, il n'a jamais divorcé de Margaret, la mère de son premier fils. Quand il meurt brutalement, tout bascule ; Margaret et son fils, qui figurent sur le testament, font une soudaine réapparition. Pour Chrissie et ses filles, tout se fissure irrémédiablement.

Elles sont sueurs et pourtant aussi différentes que le jour et la nuit. Elinor, étudiante en architecture, est discrète, modeste et trop raisonnable. Marianne est impulsive, passionnée et rêve de devenir artiste. Mais un jour, leurs caractères et leurs certitudes sont mis à rude épreuve. Elinor doit-elle rester stoïque quand l'homme qu'elle aime s'abandonne dans les bras d'une autre ? Et il n'est pas sûr que la foi de Marianne en l'amour survive à sa rencontre avec le célibataire le plus séduisant de la région... Au fil de leurs aventures, les deux jeunes femmes apprennent la vie. Et dans un monde où la vie privée est exposée sur Internet, l'amour a bien du mal à triompher du scandale...

C'est Éléanor qui initie les vendredis soirs. De sa fenêtre, elle observe deux jeunes femmes, avec de petits enfants, se séparer, lutter et se sentir visiblement seules. Elle décide de les inviter et de voir ce qui se passe. Peu à peu, un groupe se forme, composé de six femmes différentes qui deviennent un cercle d'amies. Elles varient en âge, de Jules, vingt-deux ans et aspirant DJ, à Éléanor elle-même, une professionnelle à la retraite qui marche avec une canne. Ce groupe inclut une épouse, trois mères, trois célibataires et cinq femmes actives. Chacune d'elles attache de l'importance à ces vendredis soirs. Puis l'une d'elles rencontre un homme - un homme énigmatique - et toute la dynamique change. Les liens tissés avec soin sont mis à l'épreuve, et certains se rompent. Avec humour et chaleur, Joanna Trollope explore les complexités, les sabotages et les courants changeants de l'amitié moderne.

The BP Portrait Award, now in its twenty - fourth year, is one of Britain's most prestigious art prizes, and is the leading showcase for artists throughout the world specialising in portraiture. Last year more than 255,000 people visited the exhibition, which is based on the competition open to all artists aged eighteen and over from around the world. The catalogue features sixty works from an international list of artists, which together display a diverse range of styles and painterly techniques. It also includes a fascinating essay by bestselling novelist, Joanna Trollope, and interviews with the prizewinners by Richard McClure give further insight into the artists behind the portraits.

The second of the six 'Barsetshire Novels, ' is Trollope's most popular work and one of the classics of English fiction. Here Trollope continues the story of Mr. Harding and his daughter Eleanor, adding to his cast of characters that oily symbol of progress Mr. Slope, the hen-pecked Dr. Proudie, and the amiable and breezy Stanhope family. The central questions of this moral comedy-Who will be warden? Who will be dean? Who will marry Eleanor? - are skillfully handled with the subtlety of ironic observation that had won Trollope such an appreciative readership.

1988--As the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellious, and longing for excitement. Throwing away all the privileges that could have been his, he enlisted as a trooper--only to find himself loving the beautiful war-torn country of Africa and finally falling in love with a girl on the enemy side. Will Marriott, his cousin, was an officer who believed in England's greatness and the glory of battle. But as his comrades were maimed and killed, as he himself was wounded, and then betrayed by a one-time friend, so his values began to change. The one thing that never changed was his love for Frances, Matthew Paget's sister. Hendon Bashford was an upstart social climber, a swindler and a cheat. Half English, half Boer, he owed allegiance to no one while creating havoc in the lives of more honourable men. As the passage of war unfolded, so the lives of these three young men, and women they loved, moved towards a tumultuous climax.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems. The selfish, difficult but heart-stoppingly beautiful daughter of a failed tea-planter in India devoted herself to pleasure. But when her father was sent to Burma, and she had to accompany him, she became embroiled in an exotic world of political intrigue. Her friendship with the Queen - a dangerous and unpredictable figure - and her growing closeness to Archie Tennant, a young man who has come east to seek his fortune after the ruin of his family business, brought her both danger and the key to her destiny.

Classic / British English Becky Sharp, an intelligent young lady with no family or money, becomes a governess. But this type of life is not enough for her. She has big plans for herself. Is she clever enough to find success? Will she marry and be happy? Or will life be unkind to her?

The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land and sent their sons to war (and even, latterly, to commerce) in a way of life that seemed timeless. But in 1870 a new generation is about to take control - Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive, deeply caring about his inheritance, and his sister Catherine, intelligent, humorous, but frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man's world. Tom marries, and agricultural depression hits the estate. And suddenly it seems that everything which was so secure can no longer hold. Stretching in time from the 1870s to the outbreak of the second world war, and in distance from Crete to East Africa, this warmly satisfying novel is a triumph of storytelling.

This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.

A sweeping historical from the national bestselling author of Marrying the Mistress and Other People's Children. A young woman living in a crumbling villa on the Mediterranean island of Malta endures the deprivation and devastation of wartime bombing -- and learns that while life doesn't always go as planned, neither does love....

A romantic saga set in Florence at the turn of the century, telling the story of a young English girl growing up, falling in love and trying to escape her fortune-hunting husband. Caroline Harvey is a pseudonyn of Joanna Trollope, author of "A Legacy of Love" and "A Second Legacy".

The Bloomsbury Birthday Quids are small editions of short stories by major writers, in a format and style of the Bloomsbury Classics. Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors' items. This title is Faith by Joanna Trollope.

"What a mess, she thought now . . . what a bloody, unholy mess the whole family has got itself into." It's been 25 years since Gus and Monica left England to start a new life in Spain, building a vineyard and wine business from the ground up. However, when Gus suffers a stroke and their idyllic Mediterranean life is thrown into upheaval, it's left to their three grown-up children in London to step in . . . Sebastian is busy running his company with his wife, Anna, who's never quite seen eye-to-eye with her mother-in-law. Katie, a successful solicitor in the city, is distracted by the problems with her long-term partner, Nic, and the secretive lives of their three daughters. And Jake, ever the easy-going optimist, is determined to convince his new wife, Bella, that moving to Spain with their 18-month-old would be a good idea. As the children descend on the vineyard, it becomes clear that each has their own idea of how best to handle their mum and dad, as well as the family business. But as long-simmering resentments rise to the surface and tensions reach breaking point, can the family ties prove strong enough to keep them together?

The Reverend Henry Harding was a handsome and prepossessing man. Unfortunately fate had seen fit to bless him with a family of extremely plain and unprepossessing children. Caroline was the least plain, according to Lady Lennox, but the entire Lennox family also admitted that Caroline was the least significant person in Dorset. Caroline, already twenty-six and bullied by her sister, was nervous in company and had no prospects at all. She had one golden memory, of an admirer when she was eighteen, but John Gates, nephew to the Lennox family, had gone to India and forgotten her. Or so she thought. When Caroline was summoned by Lady Lennox to be told that Johnny Gates had sent a proposal of marriage, Caroline first declined. But within a few weeks tragedy had overtaken her. The little security and contentment she had known vanished from her life and left her no option but to accept Lady Lennox's offer. In the October of 1776, Caroline Harding set sail for India, to a new life and a man she had not seen for eight years.

Anna Bouverie is the rector's wife. She irons his surplices (badly), delivers the parish newsletter, and scrimps to get by on a pittance, all the while keeping up appearances. She rarely complains and rarely rebels. But now-as she watches her children do without, as her husband withdraws further into his work, and her frustration mounts into fury-Anna realizes that she's willing to do whatever it takes to save herself..."A novel of large ideas and small touches," ( Boston Globe ) The Rector's Wife "will be quickly devoured and long remembered" ( USA Today ).

This sixth edition has seen this well-established text the subject of reorganisation. The insistence on the study of the law of the European Union in its wider social and economic context has been maintained and much should remain familiar to the regular reader.

Readers of Elizabeth Noble, Erica James, and Amanda Prowse will be captivated by this gripping tale of love, marriage, and the ties that bind us, from bestselling author Joanna Trollope. With her keen portrayal of rural, middle-class life and astute characterisation, she reveals the seductive allure of financial security, conformity, and marriage, while also highlighting their fragility. The story revolves around Alice Jordan, who believes she has achieved the perfect life with her loyal yet dull husband, three children, and the ideal house. However, as her family settles into village life, Alice feels an unsettling void that escalates into a scandal, shaking the community and unearthing past wounds. This upheaval forces Alice to confront her reality, ultimately leading her to discover hope, humor, understanding, and compassion as she embarks on the journey of rebuilding her life. Critics praise the novel as an outstanding exploration of human relationships and conflicting loyalties, with readers noting its rich texture and readability. It’s a compelling narrative that prompts the question: Would you take a chance to set something in motion that could change everything?

A network of deep friendships connects the members of two families in the village of Whittingbourne - intelligent, healthy, recognizable families. In this novel about friendships and betrayal, teenagers ache for stability and unwed grandmothers find true love at eighty.

The Logans were an enchanting and admirable couple. Archie had snatched Liza from her own engagement party to someone else, wooed her, swept her off to his father in Scotland, and finally married her. Now bedded firmly into country life-three children, Archie the village doctor, Liza a teacher, everything comfortable, funny, affectionate,—they awaited the arrival of Archie's father, the brilliant Sir Andrew Logan, a widower for over thirty years.When his city-clean Rover stopped in the drive, Sir Andrew was not alone. Beside him was a golden lady in caramel suede, a warm, witty, desirable widow whom everyone—except Archie—adored at once. Archie saw his father's mistress as the worm in the bud of his perfect life—a life that was to be wrenched apart before he and Liza could re-create their world.

Alice is 38 and has a house, a husband, two teenage children and a part-time job. She thinks she ought to be happy, but he isn't. Instead she feels that she has vanished, that she is like something lost down the back of the sofa. Because Alice has a secret that is never spoken of in the she can't read. Now timid, quiet Alice must start out on her own brave journey, and for it she chooses the strangest companion. For the first time in her life, she knows what she wants and she is going to get it. With the help of the book boy.

Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Lizzie is the twin who has everything, husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house and worries about Frances who seems to lead a solitary life in London ricocheting from one disastrous man to the next. Lizzie just wants Frances to share in her own satisfying life.

Set in the heart of English farmland, this novel portrays a family at a tragic crossroads. Caro's death causes each member of the family to feel vulnerable to time and change, but they all underestimate Zoe's power as a catalyst for a transformation.

Julia and Kate have, it seems, each found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. That is until the appearance of elderly spinster Miss Beatrice Bachelor, who sets off a chain of events in which many suppressed discontents and frustrations emerge.

Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope, if he can't? How much, indeed, can Alexa, Dans wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfilment to serve his commitment to a way of life that demands everything not just of him, but of her and the children as well? This novel takes a keen look at the home lives of the modern Army. What happens, these days, when love and a vocation collide, head on?

Two Families. One Proposal. A decision that could pull them apart. The twenty-first novel from the number one bestselling author of City of Friends.

When Captain Edgar Drummond learns he is to serve his first commission in the Crimean war, he brings with him his two sisters, Blanche, the beauty, and Sarah, the bright, eager intelligent one. It will, after all, only be a skirmish. Slowly, as the horrors of the Crimea begin to pervade their lives, the sisters true qualities begin to emerge. Blanche discovers her physical beauty and unabashed frivolity have no place in the harsh world of war and she behaves disgracefully. Edgar, stiff and conventional, finds his obsession with reason and order ineffectual amidst the chaos of war. He cannot cope with his job, not looking after his sisters. Only Sarah finds the courage to take an active role in the war, to protest against the horrors to which the common soldiers are subjected. Her love for the unconventional newspaper man who opens her to reality is thwarted first by her wicked, winsome sister, then by the vagaries of war, but eventually they are brought together in a dirty, slum like room on the quayside at Scutari.

Susie Moran is a success . She has founded and run her own highly profitable company, and now her three daughters are all involved in the business. Rooted in the traditions of the Stoke-on-Trent potteries, and producing charming, useable objects of distinctive design, Susie is justly proud of her family and her achievement – and has no intention of letting it change. But what of the men in the family? Susie's husband, a musician and artist, has always seemed happy to take a back seat. One of her sons-in-law has few ambitions outside the home. Another daughter, though, has brought her husband into the company - and they want to change things, much to Susie's distress. And then, into the mix arrives Susie's father, an ageing hippy who abandoned Susie as a baby. Now he's alone, and wants to build bridges , although Susie's daughters are outraged at the idea. Can the needs of a family business override the needs of the family itself? In wanting to preserve her business, will Susie lose something much more precious?

Nathalie and David have been good and dutiful children to their parents, and now, grown-up, with their own families, they are still close to one another. Brother and sister. Except that they aren't - brother and sister that is.They were both adopted, when their loving parents, found that they couldn't have children themselves. And up until now it's never mattered. But suddenly, Nathalie discovers a deep need to trace her birth parents and is insisting that David makes the same journey. And through this, both learn one of the hardest lessons of all, that sometimes, the answers to who we are and where we come from can be more difficult than the questions ...

Joanna Trollope's most heartfelt and enthralling novel in years explores whathappens when the empty nest is suddenly full again.

The day Stacey Grant loses her job feels like the last day of her life. Or at least, the only life she'd ever known. For who was she if not a City high-flyer, Senior Partner at one of the top private equity firms in London? As Stacey starts to reconcile her old life with the new - one without professional achievements or meetings, but instead, long days at home with her dog and ailing mother, waiting for her successful husband to come home - she at least has The Girls to fall back on. Beth, Melissa and Gaby. The girls, now women, had been best friends from the early days of university right through their working lives, and for all the happiness and heartbreaks in between. But these career women all have personal problems of their own, and when Stacey's redundancy forces a betrayal to emerge that was supposed to remain secret, their long cherished friendships will be pushed to their limits.

From Victorian England through the decades to World War II, bestselling author Joanna Trollope, writing as Caroline Henry, follows three women through four generations of the same family as they each discover the futility of best-laid plans, and the absolute necessity of dreams.

Helen Bradshaw, 26, grapples with various challenges: a tedious job at a women's magazine, a penchant for unsuitable men, and her short stature. Just as she plans to break things off with her frustrating boyfriend Jasper, she receives life-altering news—her father has suffered a heart attack. His death triggers a cascade of chaos in her life, affecting her relationships with her mother, her flatmate Luke, and even her cat. With friends like Tina, who is preoccupied with her new romance, and a self-absorbed landlord Marcus, Helen finds herself increasingly isolated. Meanwhile, Tom the vet seems to be out of reach after a tequila mishap. In another narrative, Simon Stockdale informs his son Jack about his grandfather's shocking decision to leave his grandmother after forty years for a woman he has been having an affair with for seven years. This revelation complicates Jack’s first love and weighs heavily on Simon's wife, Carrie. Lastly, the story of Andy unfolds through diary entries as he navigates the challenges of becoming a house husband in Cork. His reflections touch on the essential aspects of life: love, sex, children, music, and even the Eurovision Song Contest, revealing the humorous yet profound realities of his new role.

Román vypráví o osudech dalších generací rodiny, jejíž tradici založila nekonformní Charlotta. Alexie po krachu svého manželství odchází do Skotska, aby se pokusila naplnit svůj sen o nezávislosti i o nové lásce. Druhá část sleduje tápání Alexiny dcery Karly, která se vydává po stopách legendární Charlotty do Afghánistánu.

Hrdinkou je nepříliš hezká dcera venkovského pastora, rodinou opomíjená dívka, která po otcově smrti odplouvá do Indie, kde se má provdat za téměř cizího člověka. Cestou se spřátelí s dívkou z vyšší společnosti, svěří jí svůj osud a ta jí nabídne útočiště, ale hrdinka nechce být nikomu na obtíž a raději se provdá za bezcharakterního opilce, který jí dělá ze života peklo. Díky přítelkyni se ale dostane mezi kalkatskou společenskou smetánku a svou odvahou a nekonvenčností vzbudí zájem bohatého šlechtice... Ženský román s romantickou zápletkou se odehrává na konci 18. století zčásti v Anglii a zčásti v exotickém prostředí mezi anglickými úředníky v Kalkatě

Romanticko-historická kniha je určena hlavně ženám, které milují nekončící rodinné ságy. Zachycuje životní příběhy hrdinek tří generací v letech 1830 až 1945. Postupně nás zavádí do různých míst autorčiny rodné Velké Británie, ale i do daleké Indie a Afghánistánu. Bouřlivé osudy hrdinek, jejich společenský život i fatální lásky jsou podtrženy barvitým a živým líčením krajiny a přírody, které všem částem knihy dodává nádech romantické skutečnosti i exotiky

In "Herbstlichter" kämpft Anna mit der Entfremdung von ihrem Ehemann und finanziellen Schwierigkeiten, findet jedoch durch einen unkonventionellen Job und die Zuneigung eines anderen Mannes neues Selbstbewusstsein. In "Wirbel des Lebens" wird die harmonische Familie von Liza und Archie durch aufgedeckte Geheimnisse und überraschende Wendungen auf die Probe gestellt.

Alexa ist aufgeregt. Endlich kommt ihr Mann Dan wieder zurück, nach sechs Monaten Afghanistan. Das Haus ist von oben bis unten gewienert und aufgeräumt, die Kinder sind bei Freunden untergebracht, Alexa war bei der Maniküre. Dan wird überglücklich sein. Doch was, wenn alles ganz anders kommt?

Jaké jsou osudy dvou odlišných žen, jež spojuje jediný prvek - obě jsou podstatně mladší než jejich partneři? Julia Hunterová a Kate Bainová našly, jak se zdá, skutečné štěstí s muži, kteří by mohli být jejich otcové. Bezchybná Julie organizuje svého muže Hugha, televizní celebritu, stejně zdatně jako jejich milovanou domácnost a andělská dvojčata. Kate žije už osm let s Jamesem Mallowem, učitelem v důchodu a ačkoliv si ho odmítá vzít, je zřejmě, že ho zbožňuje. Hugh a James jsou celoživotními přáteli a nyní po šedesátce se cítí jako v nebi. Ale věkové rozdíly nemohou být ignorovány navždy. James srazí z kola při své roztržité večerní jízdě deštivým Oxfordem slečnu Beatrici Bachelorovou. Ve chvíli, kdy tato excentrická a velmi nezávislá stará panna vstoupí do jejich života, spustí se řetězec událostí, během kterých vyjde najevo nespokojenost a mnoho frustrací. Kate začne vyhledávat přátele v jejím věku, zatímco Julia najde rozkvět své kariéry přesně v době, kdy její manžel začíná přirozeně upadat. Poklidné životy těchto mužů a dívek jsou silně narušeny novými vztahy a starými pocity úzkosti, které vyplývají na povrch. Cítí, že to už nikdy nebude stejně poklidné jako dřív.

Většina lidí ví, odkud pochází, kam patří. David a Natálie nikoli. Vyrostli společně jako sourozenci, jsou silně závislí jeden na druhém. Každého ovšem porodila jiná matka. Na prahu čtyřicítky v nich zvítězí touha poznat své biologické matky. Není to jednoduchá cesta ani pro Davida a Natálii, není to ovšem stadné ani pro jejich partnery a okolí.

Twee geadopteeerde dertigers met ieder een eigen gezin hebben nog steeds vragen over hun afkomst en gaan op zoek naar hun biologische moeders.

Die junge Alexia muss nach dem Scheitern ihrer Ehe für sich und ihre Tochter allein sorgen. Als sie in Schottland ein halbverfallenes Schloss erbt, sieht sie die Möglichkeit, es zu einem Hotel auszubauen.

Die lebens- und abenteuerlustige Charlotte heiratet 1841 einen englischen Offizier, der in Indien stationiert ist. Sie folgt ihm und begegnet dort der Liebe ihres Lebens.

Als een Engelse rechter zijn vrouw na veertig jaar huwelijk vertelt dat hij wil scheiden, voorziet hij niet wat dit nieuws teweeg brengt in zijn familie.