Maeve Haran élabore des récits captivants qui explorent la complexité des relations humaines et des contraintes sociales. Son œuvre place souvent des protagonistes féminines résilientes dans des décors historiques dramatiques, explorant leurs luttes avec l'amour, le statut et la liberté personnelle. Haran possède une capacité unique à éclairer la vie intérieure de ses personnages et à donner vie au passé à travers des détails riches et une narration immersive. Son approche allie habilement l'authenticité historique à une profonde compréhension des désirs et des conflits humains universels.
Liz Ward believed that it was possible to 'have it all' - a glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family. She wanted it to be possible. But with the chance to become one of the most powerful women in television comes the knowledge that it all could just be a con. Liz accepts the job of programme controller at Metro TV, only to find that it may be the biggest mistake of her life.
From the bestselling author of Having It All Haven't you heard? Sixty is the new forty . . . Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship. They know each other and their lives inside out. Their ambitions, careers, husbands, lovers, children, hopes, fears, the paths taken and not taken . . . Sal had spent a lifetime building a career as a successful magazine editor but she hadn’t banked on the one thing over which she had no control. Claudia loved her urban existence – the thought of the country sent shivers down her spine. But, as many women will know, other people’s needs always seem to come first . . . Ella is ready to try something different. But she hadn’t bargained on quite such a radical change . . . Laura succumbed to the oldest cliché in the book. But it didn’t make it any easier to accept. Outside of the supportive world of their friendships, they find their lives are far from what they expected – the generation that wanted to change the world didn’t bargain on getting old. A truthful, provocative, funny and inspiring novel, The Time of their Lives, asks hard questions about what the world offers women as they get older and finds both moving and joyously uplifting answers in the different ways the four friends celebrate their coming of age . . .
Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly-prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men. Before long, King Charles II falls passionately in love with her and will stop at nothing to make her his mistress.
Sunshine, warmth, lemon blossom . . . Springtime in glorious Southern Italy can go to your head. Especially if you are escaping an overbearing husband, the embarrassingly public loss of your company, an interfering mother who still tries to run your life or the pain of a husband's affair with a girl young enough to be his daughter. As the Italian sun ripens the lemons in the groves that tumble down the hillsides and the Mediterranean dazzles beneath them, assertive Angela, extrovert Sylvie, unconfident Claire and mousy Monica find burgeoning friendship and begin to blossom in quite unexpected ways. Packed with memorable characters--from the acid-tongued Grand Old Man of Modern Art who lives next door--to the aspiring gigolo who thinks nothing of a 40 year age gap, this novel is a witty and entertaining reminder of why going a little mad in the sun can sometimes be exactly what you need.
Good bread, warm towels, crisp mornings, girls' nights out, eating the froth on the cappuccino: these are the ordinary pleasures that make life worth living. This title describes how the little things in life can prove to be the most satisfying. It features hundreds of everyday delights, designed to remind us how joyous life is.
Novel about family life in the 1990s. When Tess's marriage is blown apart she has to face the question she's always dreaded - should you stay together for the sake of the children?.
A compelling story of the passionate love affair between the poet John Donne and his wife Ann set in Tudor England
From the bestselling author of An Italian Holiday comes a humorous, thought-provoking novel about friendship, family and romance.
Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special chateau wedding.
A story on the struggle for control of a family business between the matriarch founder, who is supposed to have retired, and her least favourite daughter, a one-time actress of bohemian habits, who has succeeded her; with the rest of the family, partners and predators standing at the sidelines.
