Скачать книги Маргарет Лерой

Вторая мировая война все ближе и ближе подступает к Гернси. Вивьен де ла Маре понимает, что придется что-то принести в жертву. Не ради себя, ради двух своих дочерей и свекрови, о которых она заботится, пока муж воюет на фронте. Единственное, чего она не ожидает, так это того, что полюбит загадочного немецкого солдата, поселившегося в доме по соседству. Растет их чувство, растет и давление на Вивьен. С каждой неделей все больше и больше накладывается ограничений на еду и ресурсы. Несмотря на то,...

With you I’m in a different world, what happens in our world can’t harm anyone else…Ginnie Holmes has found something she never intended to find – an overwhelming passion for a man she should not be with. At an abandoned boathouse hidden on the riverbank of the Thames, Ginnie steps into a world that’s just a little bit brighter that her ordinary life.An escape from the crush of an empty marriage and a drifting life. A terrifying event means the lovers’ secret becomes a deadly catastrophe. A...

This book explores why, in these post-feminist days, otherwise confident and assertive women spend hours waiting for the phone to ring when they meet a man they like. It reveals the effects this passivity in courtship and relationships has on women’s sense of themselves, their self-image, concern with appearance, and their disgruntlement with men.Women’s lack of sexual assertiveness, particularly early in relationships, is one of the few areas to remain relatively untouched by feminist ideology....

What really goes on behind closed doors?Catriona has the life she’s always dreamed of: a loving husband, a delightful step-daughter and her own precious little girl, Daisy. When Daisy begins to feel poorly, Catriona seeks help and, in doing so, is forced to look to the past and her own dark and fractured childhood.When Cat is accused of an unspeakable crime, she begins to realise that the life she has now is more fragile than she could ever have imagined.“Margaret Leroy writes like a dream” Tony...

Young single mum Grace is drowning. Her little girl Sylvie is distant, troubled and prone to violent tantrums which the child psychiatrists blame on Grace. But Grace knows there’s something more to what’s happening to Sylvie. There has to be.Travelling from the London suburbs to the west coast of Ireland, Grace and Sylvie embark on a journey of shocking discovery, forcing Grace to question everything she believes in and changing both their lives forever.‘Margaret Leroy writes with candour and...

‘A riveting story of betrayal’ -Stylist1940, GUERNSEYVivienne de la Mare waits nervously for the bombs to drop. Instead comes quiet surrender and insidious occupation. Nothing is safe any more.As her husband fights on the front line, Vivienne’s façade as the perfect wife begins to crack. Her new life is one where the enemy lives next door. Small acts of kindness from one Nazi soldier feel like a betrayal. But how can you hate your enemy when you know his name, when he makes you feel alive, when...