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Joanna Trollope’s much-anticipated contemporary reworking of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility launches The Austen Project and is already one of the most talked about books of the year.Two sisters could hardly be more different.Elinor Dashwood, an architecture student, values discretion above all. Her impulsive sister Marianne displays her creativity everywhere as she dreams of going to art school.But when the family finds itself forced out of Norland Park, their beloved home for twenty years,...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Жанр | Зарубежная современная проза |
Päev, mil Stacey Grant kaotab töö, näib jäävat tema elu viimaseks. Vähemasti viimaseks päevaks tema senises elus. Sest kes ta siis on kui mitte Londoni investeerimisfirma edukas osanik? Kui Stacey püüab kohaneda oma uue eluga, milles pole ei erialaseid saavutusi ega kohtumisi, vaid on pikad kodus veedetud päevad koera ja haiglase ema seltsis, saab ta vähemalt loota Tüdrukutele: Bethile, Melissale ja Gabyle. Tüdrukud, kellest nüüdseks on saanud naised, on olnud tema parimad sõbrad ülikoolipäevist...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Neli energilist ärinaist, ema ja kolm tütart, igaühel oma lapsepõlvetrauma, mis edasi kannustab või – mõnikord – kammitseb. Neli väga erinevat meest, kellel on ehk selles romaanis täita tähtsamgi roll kui edukatel naistel. Millega tegelevad nemad, kui naised on hõivatud äriasjadest? Kuidas kanda hoolt, et järgmise põlvkonna lapsed – kui neid üldse on otsustatud saada – ei tunneks end hüljatuna, kui ema on alatasa kodunt ära? Kas mees, kes otsustab töölt ära jääda, et hoolitseda kodu ja laste...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Жанр | Контркультура |
Would you take a chance and set something in motion that could change everything? The Grey House is the final piece in the jigsaw of Alice Jordan's perfect life. It seems to be the ultimate achievement of her outwardly happy marriage - a loyal, if dull husband, three children, two cars and now the house. So why does she feel as if something is missing? As Alice and her family settle themselves into village life, the something missing becomes something huge and then breaks, scandalizing...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1990 |
One encounter and life is never the same again... 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...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1991 |
Only a miracle can unite a congregation in turmoil... In the gentle precinct of Aldminster Cathedral, crisis looms. The urbane and worldly Dean wants nothing so much as to restore and beautify his beloved Cathedral - even if it means sacrificing the Choir School to pay for it. Alexander Troy, Headmaster of the school, a conscientious man, is determined that nothing and no-one - certainly not the overbearing Dean - should destroy the Choir. As the rift widens to take on immense dimensions,...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1992 |
It's never too late to find your own way For twenty years, Anna Bouverie, as a priest's wife, has served God and the parish in a variety of ways. She has baked for the Brownies, delivered parish magazines, washed and ironed her husband's surplices and clothed herself and her children in jumble-sale items. When her husband fails to gain promotion to archdeacon and retreats into isolated bitterness, and the bullying of her daughter at the local comprehensive reaches an intolerable...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1992 |
At first their ages made no difference... Julia Hunter and Kate Bain have found true happiness with men old enough to be their fathers. Julia organises her husband Hugh and their cherubic twins with ruthless efficiency and Kate has lived with James, for eight years, and although she refuses to marry him, she's apparently devoted to him. Hugh and James, lifelong friends, feel blessed indeed. But age differences cannot be ignored forever and when James accidentally knocks a fiercely...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1993 |
Two lives intertwined and seemingly harmonious. One decision that changes everything. Lizzie and Frances are twins, together forming part of a unit. Or at least that's the way Lizzie sees things. Lizzie is the twin who has everything: husband, children, a flourishing career and a beautiful house. She 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 have a complete and satisfying life, just...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1994 |
Does 'friends' ever really mean just 'friends'? Gina and Laurence have been the best of friends ever since they were teenagers. Love has never been a factor. Now, Gina is married to the exquisitely tasteful Fergus and lives in stylish perfection in a huge house; Laurence is married to down-to-earth Hilary and lives in the Bee House, a home and hotel. When, with elegant disdain, Fergus announces that he is leaving Gina and their teenage daughter, Gina's misery ricochets...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1996 |
A family in crisis. A catalyst that threatens to change everything... The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago, and the whole family feels her loss acutely, none more so than her adopted daughter Judy. ...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1997 |
For eight-year-old Rufus life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new friend Elizabeth. What's even worse is that there are other children too, Matthew's three teenagers, who have been conditioned by their mother Nadine to hate his mother Josie. Matthew's children come to their father for weekends...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 1999 |
Merrion Palmer has been Judge Guy Stockdale's mistress for the last seven years and his wife and two grown-up sons know absolutely nothing about her. Up until now, Guy and Merrion have enjoyed a blissfully, uncomplicated relationship in stolen moments in Merrion's flat, and to the rest of the world, Guy has played the part of model husband, father and grandfather. But now the time has come for things to change. Guy has become conscious of wasted years and he wants to share his...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2001 |
Can long-term hopes and dreams hold fast in the face of an exotic wind of change? Gillon - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-term boyfriend Henry is a wildlife photographer who is finding it hard to commit. Before long Gillon has moved into their flat, replacing Henry's old mate William,...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2003 |
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...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2005 |
When the children have come and gone, can a marriage pick up where it left off? Ben is, at last, leaving home. At twenty-two, he's the youngest of the family. His mother, Edie, an actress, is distraught. His father, Russell, a theatrical agent, is rather hoping to get his wife back. His brother, Matthew, is struggling in a relationship in which he achieves and earns less than his girlfriend. And his sister, Rosa, is wrestling with debt and the end of a turbulent love affair. Meet the...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2007 |
They wouldn't let anything - or anyone - get in the way of their friendship, would they? Friday nights, the best night of the week, the night they all looked forward to more than they cared to admit - talking, drinking, laughing and crying together. They were six female friends, different in age and circumstances, but with one common need: the warmth and support of their Friday nights. It was a time to share secrets and fears, triumphs and tragedies and, above all, to feel safe in the...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2008 |
Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? Then suddenly Richie is no longer there, and without him Chrissie's carefully constructed life is in jeopardy.The one big fact she had always tried to keep from...
| Автор | Joanna Trollope |
| Год | 2010 |