La célèbre actrice Rebecca Bradley est en tournage à Astbury Hall, une très belle propriété anglaise. Quand, elle découvre une ressemblance inattendue avec la grand-mère de l'actuel propriétaire, elle décide d'en savoir plus sur le passé de cette étrange famille. Aidée par un jeune homme originaire de Bombay à la recherche d'informations sur son aïeule, qui aurait vécu à Astbury Hall, Rebecca perce peu à peu les secrets qu'abritent les vieilles pierres du manoir. Une fresque familiale magistrale, qui nous fait voyager des splendides demeures de la campagne anglaise aux palais des maharadjahs du début du XXe siècle !

Ce livre est en gros caractères, corps 16.
Au sein du prestigieux internat privé de St. Stephen, au coeur du Norfolk, se trouve l'austère dortoir de Fleat House, vieille bâtisse victorienne en cruel manque d'entretien. Lorsqu'un élève y est retrouvé mort dans sa chambre, le directeur s'empresse de conclure à un tragique accident. Mais l'enquêtrice londonienne Jazz Hunter n'est pas de cet avis. En tentant de pénétrer le microcosme fermé que constitue le pensionnat, elle se rend vite compte que la victime était un jeune homme arrogant qui avait beaucoup d'ennemis... Lucinda Riley nous embarque dans une histoire captivante, aux côtés d'une héroïne mémorable.

Ce livre est en gros caractères, corps 16 Gassin, sud de la France. Alors qu'elle a tout fait pour prendre ses distances avec ses origines aristocratiques, Émilie de La Martinières se retrouve seule héritière de l'imposant château familial : un cadeau empoisonné dont elle se serait bien passé. Elle comprend très vite que ces vieilles pierres si familières cachent de nombreux secrets. Et quand elle découvre un recueil de poèmes écrit par sa tante dont la seule mention était proscrite dans sa jeunesse, Émilie met au jour la tragique histoire d'amour qui a bouleversé sa famille... Une saga intense et captivante !

Alors qu'une tragédie frappe sa famille, Julia se réfugie dans la serre de la demeure familiale de Wharton Park. Elle va y découvrir un vieux journal intime et partir sur les traces de sa grand-mère pour apprendre la vérité sur une histoire d'amour qui a presque détruit Wharton Park, et découvrir un secret de famille enterré par la Seconde Guerre mondiale.

Dans la campagne du Suffolk, Admiral House trône. C'est la maison de famille de Posy Montague, l'endroit où elle a passé son enfance à courir après les papillons avec son père, avant d'y élever ses propres enfants. À près de 70 ans, elle doit pourtant se résoudre à se séparer de cette demeure. Mais la réapparition soudaine de Freddie, son amour de jeunesse qui lui a brisé le coeur cinquante ans auparavant, va tout bouleverser. Car il se pourrait bien qu'Admiral House n'ait pas encore révélé tous ses secrets... Une captivante fresque multigénérationnelle, combinant personnages inoubliables et secrets déchirants, comme Lucinda Riley en a fait sa spécialité.

Greta revient au manoir de Marchmont Hall après l'avoir quitté il y a une trentaine d'année. Suite à un accident tragique, elle n'a plus aucun souvenir de ce lieu où elle a vécu. Mais durant une promenade dans le parc enneigé, elle trébuche sur une tombe. L'inscription érodée lui indique qu'un petit garçon est enterré là. Cette découverte bouleversante allume une lumière dans les souvenirs de Greta et va entraîner des réminiscences...

Pour échapper à une récente rupture, Grania Ryan quitte New York pour aller se ressourcer en Irlande auprès de sa famille. C'est là, au bord d'une falaise, qu'elle rencontre Aurora Lisle, une petite fille qui va changer sa vie. En trouvant de vieilles lettres datant de 1914, elle se rend compte du lien qui unit leurs deux familles. Les horreurs de la guerre, l'attrait irrésistible du ballet, le destin d'un enfant abandonné, ont fait naître un héritage de chagrin, qui a tour à tour marqué chaque nouvelle génération.
C'est finalement l'intuition d'Aurora qui leur permettra de se libérer des chaînes du passé, et d'aller vers un futur où l'amour triomphe sur la perte.

Rosanna n'a que onze ans lorsqu'elle pose les yeux pour la première fois sur Roberto Rossini, un brillant ténor, aussi beau que charismatique. La fillette se fait alors un serment : un jour, elle l'épousera. Elle ignore qu'un douloureux secret lie déjà leur destin...
Six années plus tard, Rosanna, devenue une belle jeune femme, débarque à Milan. Son talent prodigieux de chanteuse lui permet d'intégrer la célèbre école de La Scala... et de revoir Roberto.
De Milan à New York, en passant par Londres et Paris, commence alors entre les deux artistes une passion tumultueuse et obsessionnelle. Mais les mensonges du passé menacent de faire voler leur vie en éclats.

From the Sunday Times No.1 bestselling author comes the latest instalment in the epic multimillion-selling series, The Seven Sisters. The story of Merope, the missing sister, is waiting to be told . . .

The sudden death of a pupil in Fleat House at St Stephen''s - a small private boarding school in deepest Norfolk - is a shocking event that the headmaster is very keen to call a tragic accident. But the local police cannot rule out foul play and the case prompts the return of high-flying Detective Inspector Jazmine ''Jazz'' Hunter to the force. Jazz has her own private reasons for stepping away from her police career in London, but reluctantly agrees to front the investigation as a favour to her old boss. Reunited with her loyal Sergeant, Alastair Miles, she enters the closed world of the school, and as Jazz begins to probe the circumstances surrounding Charlie Cavendish''s tragic death, events are soon to take another troubling turn. Charlie is exposed as an arrogant bully and those around him had both motive and opportunity to switch the drugs he took daily to control his epilepsy. As staff at the school close ranks, the disappearance of young pupil Rory Millar and the death of an elderly Classics Master provide Jazz with important leads, but are destined to complicate the investigation further. As snow covers the landscape and another suspect goes missing, Jazz must also confront her own personal demons . . . Then a particularly grim discovery at the school makes this the most challenging murder investigation of her career. Because Fleat House hides secrets darker than even Jazz could ever have imagined . . .
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*** 10TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION ***

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Lucinda Riley''s iconic bestselling series, with this dazzling new paperback edition of The Seven Sisters - an epic tale of love and loss that tells the stories of the D''Apliese sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt.

This is Maia''s story. When Pa Salt dies suddenly, the bereaved sisters gather together at their childhood home, a spectacular secluded castle on the shores of Lake Geneva. Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their heritage and Maia finds herself on a journey across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Eighty years earlier, Izabela Bonifacio''s father has aspirations for her to marry into the aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to allow her to first travel to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of the city, Izabela meets an ambitious young sculptor, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

What links these two young women? In the beautiful city of Rio, will Maia find the answers she needs to understand who she truly is?

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Unlocking the past is the key to the future . . .

South of France, present day. After the death of her glamorous, distant mother, Emilie de la Martinieres finds herself alone in the world - and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home.

A notebook of poems leads her to the mysterious and beautiful Sophia, whose tragic love affair changed the course of her family history. As Emilie unravels the story, she too embarks on a journey of discovery, realizing that the chateau may provide clues to her own difficult past.

London, 1943. A young office clerk, Constance Carruthers, is drafted into a special operations team, arriving in occupied Paris during the climax of the conflict. Separated from her contact, she stumbles into the heart of a wealthy family who are caught up in a deadly game of secrets and lies.

Forced to surrender her identity and all ties to her homeland, Constance is drawn into a complex web of deception, the repercussions of which will affect generations to come . . . Lire la suite Fermer

The Midnight Rose is a spellbinding tale of family secrets, sacrifice, and the everlasting power of love, from Lucinda Riley, international bestselling author of the Seven Sisters series.

India, 1911. Anahita Chavan, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of Indian royalty. Becoming the princess''s official companion, Anahita accompanies her friend to England just before the outbreak of the Great War. There, she meets Donald Astbury, reluctant heir to the magnificent Astbury Estate - and his scheming mother.

Eighty years later, Rebecca Bradley, a young American film star, has the world at her feet. But when her turbulent relationship takes an unexpected turn, she''s relieved that her latest role, playing a 1920s debutante, will take her away from the glare of publicity to the wilds of Dartmoor in England. Shortly after filming begins at the now-crumbling Astbury Hall, Ari Malik, Anahita''s great-grandson, arrives unexpectedly, on a quest to uncover his family''s past.

As Rebecca and Ari begin to unravel the dark secrets that haunt the Astbury dynasty, what they discover will change everything . . . Lire la suite Fermer

From the Sunday Times number one bestselling author Lucinda Riley, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt draws the multimillion-copy epic series The Seven Sisters to an unforgettable conclusion.

*Publishing Autumn 2022* *** Praise for The Seven Sisters series:

''The Seven Sisters series is heart-wrenching, uplifting and utterly enthralling'' - Lucy Foley ''Well researched and compelling ... on an epic scale'' - Sunday Express ''There''s something magical about these stories'' - Prima ''Addictive storytelling'' - Woman & Home ''A masterclass in beautiful writing'' - Sun

You can''t alter destiny . . .

Born and raised in a small village on the Yorkshire moors, Leah Thompson grows more beautiful with each passing day. When she catches the attention of the influential, troubled Delancey family, she knows her life will never be the same again.

Years later, Leah has taken the modelling world by storm, travelling from Milan to London and New York and living life in the lap of luxury. But her past follows her like a dark shadow, mysteriously intertwined with the tragic tale of two young siblings in Poland during the Second World War.

As two generations of secrets threaten to explode, Leah is haunted by a fatal, forgotten prophecy from her past, and must fight to challenge the destiny that has been mapped out for her in the stars . . .

Sweeping and evocative, The Hidden Girl is a lost treasure from global number one bestseller Lucinda Riley, reworked and given new life by Harry Whittaker, Lucinda''s son and co-author of the record breaking and international bestselling phenomenon of 2023, Atlas: The Story of Pa Salt. Lire la suite Fermer

Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonising decision. Despite the memories the house holds, and the exquisite garden she has spent twenty-five years creating, the house is crumbling around her, and Posy knows the time has come to sell it.Then a face appears from the past - Freddie, her first love, who abandoned her and left her heartbroken fifty years ago. Already struggling to cope with her son Sam's inept business dealings, and the sudden reappearance of her younger son Nick after ten years in Australia, Posy is reluctant to trust in Freddie's renewed affection. And unbeknown to Posy, Freddie - and Admiral House - have a devastating secret to reveal . . .b>Full of her trademark mix of unforgettable characters and heart-breaking secrets, The Butterfly Room is the new spellbinding, multi-generational story from Sunday Times bestseller Lucinda Riley./b>
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B>The Olive Tree is the number one international bestseller from Lucinda Riley, author of the bestselling Seven Sisters series./b>*This title is also published as Helena's Secret.*A magical house. A momentous summer.It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family.Yet, as soon as Helena arrives at Pandora, she knows that its idyllic beauty masks a web of secrets that she has kept from William, her husband, and Alex, her son. At the difficult age of thirteen, Alex is torn between protecting his beloved mother, and growing up. And equally, desperate to learn the truth about his real father . . .When, by chance, Helena meets her childhood sweetheart, a chain of events is set in motion that threatens to make her past and present collide. Both Helena and Alex know that life will never be the same, once Pandora's secrets have been revealed . . .b>Praise for Lucinda Riley: 'Thoroughly addictive storytelling with a moving, emotional heart' Dinah Jefferies, author of The Tea Planter's Wife/b>
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The Moon Sister is the fifth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by Lucinda Riley.After the death of her father - Pa Salt, an elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from around the globe - Tiggy D'Apliese , trusting her instincts, moves to the remote wilds of Scotland. There she takes a job doing what she loves; caring for animals on the vast and isolated Kinnaird estate, employed by the enigmatic and troubled Laird, Charlie Kinnaird.Her decision alters her future irrevocably when Chilly, an ancient gipsy who has lived for years on the estate, tells her that not only does she possess a sixth sense, passed down from her ancestors, but it was foretold long ago that he would be the one to send her back home to Granada in Spain ...br>In the shadow of the magnificent Alhambra, Tiggy discovers her connection to the fabled gypsy community of Sacromonte, who were forced to flee their homes during the civil war, and to 'La Candela' the greatest flamenco dancer of her generation.From the Scottish Highlands and Spain, to South America and New York, Tiggy follows the trail back to her own exotic but complex past. And under the watchful eye of a gifted gypsy bruja she begins to embrace her own talent for healing.But when fate takes a hand, Tiggy must decide whether to stay with her new-found family or return to Kinnaird, and Charlie . . . The Moon Sister follows The Seven Sisters, The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister and The Pearl Sister.
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*** 10TH ANNIVERSARY COLLECTORS EDITION ***

Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Lucinda Riley''s iconic bestselling series, with this stunning hardback collector''s edition of The Seven Sisters - an epic tale of love and loss that tells the stories of the D''Apliese sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt.

This is Maia''s story. When Pa Salt dies suddenly, the bereaved sisters gather together at their childhood home, a spectacular secluded castle on the shores of Lake Geneva. Each of them is handed a tantalising clue to their heritage and Maia finds herself on a journey across the world to a crumbling mansion in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Eighty years earlier, Izabela Bonifacio''s father has aspirations for her to marry into the aristocracy. But Izabela longs for adventure, and convinces him to allow her to first travel to Paris. In the heady, vibrant streets of the city, Izabela meets an ambitious young sculptor, and knows at once that her life will never be the same again.

What links these two young women? In the beautiful city of Rio, will Maia find the answers she needs to understand who she truly is?

The Seven Sisters is the first book in the spellbinding Seven Sisters series, inspired by the mythology of the famous star constellation. It is followed by The Storm Sister. Lire la suite Fermer

Because somewhere, an angel is listening . . . It''s Christmas Eve. The tree is decorated, the presents are wrapped and it''s a big day for Grace. She is singing a song in the nativity show, and her fisherman daddy has promised to be back in time to watch her. But when a storm blows up at sea, Grace walks out on stage to find Daddy is not there. She''s very worried. But luckily, Grace has someone watching over her. Will Hope, the Christmas Angel, be able to help Daddy get home safely for Christmas morning? A reassuring, timeless story in a beautiful gift-edition hardback, complete with an angel ribbon marker.