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An icon in the world of television news, Blaise McCarthy seems to have it all: beauty, intelligence and courage. But privately there is a story she has protected for years • Blaise’s daughter Salima, blinded by juvenile diabetes, lives at a year-round boarding school. But when the school suddenly closes, she returns home to Blaise’s New York apartment with her new carer, Simon. As new challenges change the way they see one another, the bond between mother and daughter deepens as never before • Then Blaise’s personal and professional worlds collide, and the well-guarded secrets of her home life are exposed. Suddenly her life is no longer perfect, but real. Can mother and daughter together learn how to face a world they can’t control? • An unforgettable novel about a mother and daughter trading perfect for real – from the incomparable storyteller Danielle Steel

The spellbinding novel from the world's favourite storyteller • Annabelle Worthington, born into a life of privilege, was raised amid the glamour of New York society. But everything changes on a cold April day in 1912, when the sinking of the Titanic alters her world forever • Finding strength within her grief, Annabelle throws herself into volunteer work, nursing the poor and igniting a passion for medicine that will shape the course of her life. But a seemingly idyllic marriage brings more grief, and pursued by a scandal Annabelle flees New York for war-ravaged France. There she finds her true calling, working as an ambulance medic on the front lines • When the war ends, Annabelle begins a new life in Paris - now a doctor and mother, her past almost forgotten

Икона в мире телевизионных новостей, Блейз Маккарти, кажется, обладает всем этим: красотой, умом и смелостью. Но в частном порядке есть история, которую она скрывала в течение многих лет...Дочь Блейза Салима, ослепшая из-за юношеского диабета, живет в круглогодичной школе-интернате. Но когда школа внезапно закрывается, она возвращается домой, в нью-йоркскую квартиру Блейз, со своим новым опекуном Саймоном. По мере того как новые вызовы меняют их отношение друг к другу, связь между матерью и дочерью укрепляется как никогда прежде. Затем личный и профессиональный миры Блейз сталкиваются, и хорошо охраняемые секреты ее семейной жизни раскрываются. Внезапно ее жизнь перестает быть идеальной, она становится реальной. Могут ли мать и дочь вместе научиться смотреть в лицо миру, который они не могут контролировать? "Идеальная жизнь" - незабываемый роман о матери и дочери от несравненной рассказчицы Даниэль Стил

Everything is falling to pieces for Francesca Thayer. Her beautiful, old house is full of leaks and in need of total restoration. Then her relationship with lawyer Todd collapses and he moves out. As the owner of a struggling art gallery she can't possibly manage the mortgage alone, so she is forced to do the one thing she never imagined she would: she advertises for lodgers • First arrives Eileen - a young, attractive schoolteacher. Then comes Chris, a newly-divorced father and graphic designer. Last to arrive is Marya - a famous cookery author who is hoping to rebuild her life after the death of her husband • And so Francesca finds that her house has become a whole new world - and that her accidental tenants have become the most important people in her life

The first man to set foot on the summit of Everest, the man who led a team of tractors to the South Pole, the man who jetboated up the Ganges from the ocean to the sky has, for the first time, gathered all the remarkable adventures of a long life into one volume. But there is more to Edmund Hillary than this. He is also the man who repaid his debt of fame to the Himalayas by inaugurating a programme of building schools, clinics, airstrips and bridges in Nepal. With his still active support, these have gone from strength to strength in the 50 years since he himself mastered the Hillary Step and led his companion Tenzing Norgay up Everest's final summit ridge • View from the Summit is a thoughtful and honest reappraisal of a life spent pushing human ability to its limits and relishing the challenges thrown down by the elements

Can you ever escape your family ties? • Siblings Billa and Ed share their beautiful, grand old childhood home in rural Cornwall. Their lives are uncomplicated. With family and friends nearby and their free and easy living arrangements, life seems as content as can be • But when postcards start arriving from a sinister figure they thought belonged well and truly in their pasts, old memories are stirred. Why is he contacting them now? And what has he been hiding all these years? • The heartwarming and captivating new novel from favourite author Marcia Willett - perfect for fans of Erica James, Santa Montefiore and Victoria Hislop

In Danielle Steels remarkable new novel, one of her most memorable characters comes to terms with unfinished business and long-buried truths as the mother of three very different daughters with three singular fathers • As a young intern at an art gallery in Paris, Isabelle McAvoy meets Putnam Armstrong, wealthy, gentle, older, and secluded from the world. Isabelles relationship with Putnam, and her time at his ch teau on the Normandy coast, are the stuff of dreams. But it turns real when she becomes pregnant, for she knows that marriage is out of the question • When Isabelle returns to New York, she enters a new relationship that she hopes will be more stable and traditional. But she soon realizes she has made a terrible mistake and again finds herself a single mother

в вдохновляющем романе «Падении от благодати» любимой в мире сказочницы Даниэль Стил женщина одна женщина находит в себе силы начать все сначала, когда ее жизнь переворачивается с ног на голову • Очаровательная жизнь Сидни Уэллс исчезает, когда внезапно умирает ее преданный муж. Овдовевшая в сорок девять лет, она обнаруживает, что он не включил ее в свое завещание. Поскольку ее порочные падчерицы контролируют его поместье, и у нее нет денег, Сидни выселяют из ее прекрасного дома, где она прожила шестнадцать лет. Несмотря на предупреждения собственных дочерей, Сидни возвращается в мир моды, где много лет назад онга была талантливым молодым дизайнером. Но ее выбор таит в себя скрытые опасности • Она подвергается эксплуатации со стороны своего босса и сталкивается с уголовным преследованием, будучи слишком наивной и не имея надежных партнеров в этой высококонкурентной индустрии, где все средства хороши

You find strength when you're at your weakest... When Sydney's husband dies, she is dealt another devastating blow. He never changed his will and she is forced to leave the beautiful home they shared. On a flight from Paris to New York, an emergency landing forces her into the arms of Paul Zeller. The pair bond over a shared love of fashion, and before long they go into business together. But Sydney's daughters are less than impressed by their mother's mysterious new acquaintance... Offered a job at Paul's high-street clothing chain, Sydney thinks her luck has turned. But when a scandal hits the company, it's Sydney in the firing line. Humiliated, publicly shamed, destitute - Sydney hits rock bottom. There are only two choices: giving up or starting over

Zoe Morgan's childhood was marked by her younger sister's tragic illness, watching as her parents dedicated themselves completely to her final days and then divorced. As a young woman driven by these painful memories, Zoe sets the bar high for herself, studying hard and pursuing a career in the nonprofit world, where her deep compassion for disadvantaged children finds a focus • When Zoe falls in love and has her own child, she is determined to be a perfect mother as well. But before long, old scars long dormant begin to pull Zoe to the edge of an abyss too terrifying to contemplate • As Zoe is haunted by the ghosts of the past, her story will become a race against time and a tale of psychological suspense that no reader will soon forget

From Manhattan high-society to warn-torn France, Mirror Image is a compelling story about the mysterious bond between twin sisters • For twins Olivia and Victoria, their bond was mysterious, marvellous, and often playful – a secret realm only they inhabited. Shy, serious Olivia, born eleven minutes before her sister, had taken over the role of mother in their lush New York estate. Free-spirited Victoria wanted to change the world, and embraced the women’s suffrage movement, dreaming of sailing to war-torn Europe • Then, in the girls’ twenty-first year, as the First World War escalates overseas, a fateful choice changes their lives forever

From the moment a young Alan Johnson first twanged the strings of his plastic ‘Tommy Steele’ guitar, he was determined to become a rock star • Alan’s life has always been lived to a musical soundtrack. His earliest memories of the bleak, post-war, pre-rock ’n’ roll west London landscape into which he was born are suffused with the melodies that wafted from the rented Bakelite wireless in the slum where he lived with his frail mother and dauntless sister. His love affair with pop music blossomed alongside the music itself, which exploded into being in the mid-1950s and came to embody the iconoclastic spirit of a new era • In this memoir, Alan looks back at his pursuit of rock stardom through the music that accompanied it – on vinyl, cassette tape or blasting from the stages of the Marquee club in Soho or the Wimbledon Palais; the sounds of Chuck Berry and Lonnie Donegan, of the Yardbirds and Dylan, of Bowie, Elvis Costello and Springsteen