Headline Her Last Promise Хьюз Кэтрин

Тина, ищущая спасения от своего несчастливого брака, работает в комиссионном благотворительном магазинчике. Однажды, перебирая сданные вещи, она обнаруживает в кармане поношенного костюма запечатанный конверт. Не в силах побороть любопытство, Тина вскрывает его и находит внутри письмо, написанное три десятка лет назад. Тина берется выяснить, кому было предназначено это письмо, кто его написал и почему оно так и не дошло до адресата… • "Письмо" Кэтрин Хьюз - это роман о любви, утрате и удивительных совпадениях • Книга на английском языке • Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked

Mary has been nursing a secret • Forty years ago, she made a choice that would change her world for ever, and alter the path of someone she holds dear • Beth is searching for answers. She has never known the truth about her parentage, but finding out could be the lifeline her sick child so desperately needs. When Beth finds a faded newspaper cutting amongst her mother's things, she realises the key to her son's future lies in her own past. She must go back to where it all began to unlock...The Secret

A hidden note. A lost love. A second chance • 'A wonderful, enthralling story; one that I didn't want to end' Lesley Pearse on The Key • 'A heartbreakingly powerful read'The Sun on The Key • From the #1 bestselling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes, comes The Key, an unforgettable story of a heartbreaking secret that will stay with you for ever • 1956 • It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate Hospital. When she meets a young woman admitted by her father, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change both their lives for ever • 2006 • Sarah is drawn to the now abandoned Ambergate. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who entered Ambergate fifty years earlier

Restoring a Spanish villa brings Shelly back to the place she and her husband once loved, fulfilling the promise he made that they would return. But as plans to transform the villa into a romantic wedding venue take shape, Shelly discovers her children may need the move more than she does • Her son Jake has begun to question the things he values most: his career as a pilot, his relationship with his girlfriend. Could Spain offer him the change he's seeking? Shelly's daughter Leila arrives with a new-born baby in tow, but then hears some startling news she wasn't expecting. As Casa Maria takes its first booking, will it turn out to be more than a romantic promise made all those years ago? Perhaps a second chance at new beginnings?

1965. A young white female student becomes involved in the fight for civil rights in North Carolina, falling in love with one of her fellow activists, a Black man, in a time and place where an interracial relationship must be hidden from family, friends and especially the reemerging Ku Klux Klan. As tensions rise in the town, she realises not everyone is who they appear to be • 2010. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it's clear that someone is sending her a warning. Who is trying to frighten her away, and why? • Decades later, past and present are set to collide in the last house on the street

2010. A recently widowed architect moves into the home she and her late husband designed, heartbroken that he will never cross the threshold. But when disturbing things begin to happen, it's clear that someone is sending her a warning. Who is trying to frighten her away, and why? • Decades later, past and present are set to collide in the last house on the street

Everyone remembers their first kiss. But what about the last? • 1961. Journalist Rosamund Bailey is ready to change the world. When she meets explorer and man about town Dominic Blake, she realises she has found the love of her life. Just as happiness is in their grasp, the worst happens, and their future is snatched away • 2014. Deep in the vaults of a museum, archivist Abby Gordon stumbles upon a breathtaking find. A faded photograph of a man saying goodbye to the woman he loves. Looking for a way to escape her own heartache, Abby becomes obsessed with the story, little realising that behind the image frozen in time lies a secret altogether more extraordinary

In 1987, Mina Lee flies from Seoul to Los Angeles to start a new life • Thirty years later, Margot Lee speaks to her mother for the last time • Between these two moments extends a lifetime of secrets. These are stories of unexpected loves and devastating losses. Of choices made and those left behind. Of a mother and daughter who have always struggled to understand each other • These are stories waiting to be told, before it's too late • Reminiscent of Celeste Ng's page-turning meditations on identity, this searing mother-daughter story explores the diverse and unsettling realities of being an immigrant in America

She stole her husband. Now she wants to take her life • After the horrors of the past, Louisa Williams is desperate to make a clean start • Her husband Sam is dead. Her children, too, are gone, victims of the car accident in which he died • Sam said that she would never get away from him. That he would hound her until she died if she tried to leave. Louisa never thought that he would want to harm their children though • But then she never thought that he would betray her with a woman like Sophie • And now Sophie is determined to take all that Louisa has left. She wants to destroy her reputation and to take what she thinks is owed her - the life she would have had if Sam had lived • Her husband's lover wants to take her life. The only question is will Louisa let her?

Queenie seemed born to suffer. Her mam died giving birth to her, her drunken father George Kenney ignored her unless he was cursing her, and only beloved Auntie Biddy provided an anchor for the little girl. Growing up in post-war Blackburn, life could be tough when Biddy had to take in washing to make ends meet - at a time when the washing machine began to gain popularity. After Auntie Biddy's death there was only Queenie to care for the home and to earn money, and no one to protect her from the father who blamed his daughter for her mother's death • But Queenie was resilient. And in spite of hardship, she grew up tall and strikingly beautiful with her deep grey eyes and her abundant honey-coloured hair. Love, in the shape of Rick Marsden, might have released her from the burden of the drink-sodden George

Тина, ищущая спасения от своего несчастливого брака, работает в комиссионном благотворительном магазинчике. Однажды, перебирая сданные вещи, она обнаруживает в кармане поношенного костюма запечатанный конверт. Не в силах побороть любопытство, Тина вскрывает его и находит внутри письмо, написанное три десятка лет назад. Тина берется выяснить, кому было предназначено это письмо, кто его написал и почему оно так и не дошло до адресата… Это роман о любви, утрате и удивительных совпадениях