Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Dans quelques mois, Martin Luther King marchera sur Washington pour défendre les droits civiques. Mais dans le Sud, toutes les familles blanches ont encore une bonne noire, qui a le droit de s'occuper des enfants mais pas celui d'utiliser les toilettes de la maison. Quand deux domestiques, aidées par une journaliste, décident de raconter leur vie au service des Blancs dans un livre, elles ne se doutent pas que la petite histoire s'apprête à rejoindre la grande, et que leur vie ne sera plus jamais la même.
1. La Chute des géants, cinq familles - une américaine, une russe, une allemande, une anglaise et une galloise - se croisent, s'aiment et se déchirent au rythme de la Première Guerre mondiale et de la Révolution russe. 2. L'Hiver du monde raconte la vie de leurs enfants au moment de l'accession au pouvoir des nazis puis des grands drames de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. 3. Aux portes de l'éternité retrace leurs destinées toujours enchevêtrées à l'ère des immenses troubles sociaux, politiques et économiques des années 1960 à 1990
La vie de Lara, 27 ans, part en cacahouète : un fiancé qui la plaque, une entreprise au bord de la faillite, des factures qui s'accumulent... Et cerise sur le gâteau : sa meilleure amie l'a lâchée pour partir vivre en Inde ! Bref, Lara n'a ni le temps ni la patience de s'occuper de cette mystérieuse jeune fille qui semble tout droit sortie des années vingt. Et pourtant, la voilà embarquée dans une chasse au trésor pour le moins rocambolesque...
Four weddings. Three disgruntled ex-boyfriends. Two very effective chicken fillet boob-enhancers. And one gorgeous man. It's tough being a bridesmaidWith less than an hour to go before her best friend, Grace, is to walk down the aisle, Evie is attempting to fulfil her most important bridesmaid role: to deposit the bride at the start-line at the appointed time. But with a bride famed for her chaotic sense of time, and the bride's daughter busy mashing Molton Brown into the expensive hotel carpet, minus underwear, the odds are stacked against her . . . At least she has her new 'chicken fillet' boob-enhancers to make her feel special. That is, until these are spotted poking over the top of her dress. So spotted by Jack - the most ruggedly attractive man Evie has ever laid eyes on. Evie is twenty-seven; a sparkly, down-to-earth journalist. She has never been in love and has started to fret that she never will be. Small wonder, then, that the prospect of being bridesmaid at no less than three impending weddings is one that fills her with trepidation. Things get worse when Evie learns that Jack is her friend Valentina's date. Valentina is beautiful, shallow and self-obsessed. Her dates tend to be mirror-images. Which can mean only one thing: Jack can't possibly be as good as he seems. But as they sit together talking late into the night, Evie finds herself yearning to believe he's all real.
Escape into a world of exotic intrigue and romance. A breathtaking and absorbing novel set in Malaya propelled by the superb storytelling instinct of the author of THE RICE MOTHER. Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has cheated, supplying a different girl's photograph, and Kasu Marimuthu, furious, threatens to send her home in disgrace. Gradually husband and wife reach an accommodation, and the naïve young girl learns to assume the air of sophisticated mistress of a luxurious estate. She even adopts his love child and treats Rubini as her own daughter – a generous act which is rewarded by a long-wished-for son. But it is a life without passion, and Parvathi dreams of loving – and being loved – with complete abandon. When the Japanese invade Malaya, in WW2, they requisition the estate. Marimuthu dies and Parvathi is forced to accept the protection of the Japanese general who has robbed her of her home. For the first time, she experiences sexual ecstasy. And gradually, her sworn enemy becomes the lover she has always yearned for . . .
"Broken-hearted by his wife's infidelity, Nicholas leaves the comfortable life he has known in Dublin for a ramshackle house in rural Cavan. There, the house seems to speak to him, and he catches glimpses of a presence - a fragile lady in blue, a woman trapped in the memory of one regret." "June Fanning came to Cavan from England in 1941 with her Irish husband, the solid but unimaginative Robert. She knows she should be grateful for a release from her previous existence in wartime London but June is a stranger in a foreign land, an outsider. And then Robert leaves to fight in the war. Outside the house lies the orchard, trees ripe with blood red hearts, and on the other side of it is temptation." --Book Jacket.
Ce qu'on appelle un trou noir. Le black-out. Trois ans d'existence purement et simplement passés à la trappe. Entre-temps, Lexi la loseuse, dents de travers et poches percées, flanquée d'un boyfriend passablement minable, a fait place à Lexi-les-dents-longues, wonder woman bien mariée, mal entourée, sapée luxe et manucurée... Où, quand, comment ? Mystère et boule de gomme. Une chose est sûre : sa nouvelle vie ne lui ressemble plus. Remue-méninges en perspective...
