Sphere Other People's Secrets Кэндлиш Луиза

Be careful who you let into your heart - and your home • When Davis Calder moves in next door to Kate Easton and her two children, no one has any idea of the devastation about to be unleashed. With Kate struggling to accept her teenage daughter Roxy's independence and with tensions between Kate and her ex-husband Alistair still very much alive, there's enough family drama to go around already • Before they know it, clever, charismatic Davis is the only one who seems able to keep the peace. Soon Kate has fallen in love and agreed to be his wife. At last she can come to terms with the betrayals of her first marriage. At last she dares hope she has the happy ending she deserves

Some secrets are too dangerous to share • When Emily Marr begins an affair with her married neighbour, the celebrated surgeon Arthur Woodhall, she has no idea of the tragedy and scandal their actions will cause. With shattering speed, she becomes the object of a media witchhunt, her only choice to change her identity and vanish • Soon after, Tabby Dewhurst arrives on the Ile de Re in France, estranged from her family and unable to afford even a room for the night. By chance, she meets Emmie Mason, whose offer of friendship is at odds with her obsession with privacy. As Tabby sinks deeper into Emmie's strange, hidden world, she begins to form suspicions - suspicions that will lead her back to England and to a revelation so shocking she must question everything she knows

Olivia has never quite forgiven her mother for ending her teenage love affair with Richie, even now she's settled with a husband and two sons of her own • So when her mother dies and leaves Olivia a message urging her to find Richie, Olivia's world is turned upside down • Could this be her chance to create the family she should have had all along? • And where does that leave the one she's already got?

A child falls into the river. A stranger jumps in to rescue him. And four lives are changed for ever • On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on the river watch in shock as a small boy falls into the Seine and disappears below the surface. As his mother stands frozen, a stranger takes a breath and leaps • From the internationally bestselling author of Since I Don't Have You comes a spellbinding story of passion, heartbreak and destiny - an unforgettable novel about mothers and daughters, husbands and wives and the extraordinary ways that life and love intersect

One summer can change everything • In the heady swelter of a suburban summer, the Elm Hill lido opens • For teacher Natalie Steele, the school holidays are always spent with her husband Ed and daughter Molly. But not this year • Despite Molly's extreme phobia of water, Natalie is drawn to the lido and its dazzling social scene, led by glamorous Lara Channing. Soon she's spending long days with Lara at the pool and intimate evenings at her home • Real life, and the person she used to be, begins to feel very far away • But is the new friendship everything it seems? • Or has Natalie been swept dangerously out of her depth?

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times • Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong • Martin Amis sustains an unnervingly high degree of suspense as Mary and the reader yearn to grasp what has happened to Mary's past and ponder what its loss has gained her. Unfolding is a metaphysical thriller where jealousy guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Other People is ambitious and accomplished, heralding for Amis an unexpected new direction as a novelist and for the rest of us an experience not to be missed

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 and make it clear how much they loathe Josie. Rufus secretly prefers to be with his father, in his peaceful flat in Bath, where he realises that he doesn't actually hate the idea of a stepmother, if she is peaceful and sane like Elizabeth. But where other people's children are concerned, neat solutions seldom occur

From wronged wives to nosy neighbours, from distant dads to new-found family, from secrets to lies, fresh starts to false endings - and everything in between • A collection of brilliant short stories from the best writers around • This collections contains original stories from Fanny Blake, Louise Candlish, Mike Gayle, Mari Hannah, Sophie Kinsella, Jojo Moyes, Adele Parks, Ian Rankin, Mahsuda Snaith and Keith Stuart

На страницах этого посвящённого Рождеству сборника Луизы Мэй Олкотт читатель узнает, как столь важный праздник справляют Марми Марч и её "маленькие женщины", а также откроет для себя несколько трогательных рассказов из-под пера классика американской литературы • Все желающие поближе познакомиться с аутентичной картиной Рождества в Америке девятнадцатого века по достоинству оценят эти истории, в тексте которых прослеживается сильное влияние жизненного пути писательницы (некоторые персонажи вовсе основаны на её родных) и её опыта борьбы за права женщин и отмену рабства • Луиза Мэй Олкотт родилась в штате Пенсильвания в 1832 году. Она начала писать уже в детстве, а после переезда Олкоттов в Массачусетс на неё оказали влияние друзья её отца, видные американские писатели, в том числе - Натаниэль Готорн, автор "Алой буквы"

Sometimes friendship crosses a line • A group of close friends, their bonds forged at the nursery gates two decades ago, have celebrated, commiserated and grown together: they thought they all knew each other so well • Until the affair • Now a crack appears in everything • Could one betrayal really destroy it all?

Сколько нужно времени, чтобы привычная жизнь разделилась на "до" и "после"? Сколько нужно времени, чтобы реальность разлетелась на осколки? • Еще недавно Фиона Лоусон была обычной разведенной женщиной, жившей в собственном доме с детьми, над которыми они с бывшим мужем Брамом получили совместное опекунство. Теперь же в ее дом пытаются въехать незнакомые люди, а Брам бесследно исчез • Очевидно, что за мошеннической сделкой стоит Брам. Но что вынудило его внезапно пойти на такое преступление? И где он скрывается? Фиона начинает собственное расследование. Она все еще надеется, что произошла какая-то ужасная ошибка, и даже не подозревает, что уже рискует собственной жизнью

Сколько нужно времени, чтобы привычная жизнь разделилась на «до» и «после»? Сколько нужно времени, чтобы реальность разлетелась на осколки? • Еще недавно Фиона Лоусон была обычной разведенной женщиной, жившей в собственном доме с детьми, над которыми они с бывшим мужем Брамом получили совместное опекунство. Теперь же в ее дом пытаются въехать незнакомые люди, а Брам бесследно исчез • Очевидно, что за мошеннической сделкой стоит Брам. Но что вынудило его внезапно пойти на такое преступление? И где он скрывается? • Фиона начинает собственное расследование. Она все еще надеется, что произошла какая-то ужасная ошибка, и даже не подозревает, что уже рискует собственной жизнью