Showing results for "Flora" in Women's Fiction

When Elizabeth's husband dies, leaving her with crippling debt, the only person she can turn to is her friend, Jo. Soon Jo has called in her daughter, Lucy, to help save Elizabeth from bankruptcy. Leaving her old life behind, Lucy is determined to make the most of her fresh start. As life slowly begins to return to normal, these three women, thrown together by circumstance, become fast friends. But then Jo's world is turned upside down when she receives some shocking news. In search of solace, Jo and Elizabeth find themselves enjoying midnight dips in the freezing Irish Sea.

Esme has run the guest house for as long as anyone in Ballycove can remember. But in her declining years, her sight is failing, and when she has a fall on the eve of the summer season, she is forced to take a back seat for the first time in her life. From her chair in the entry hall, not much passes Esme by. There's Cora, the wife visiting indefinitely... without her husband; Niamh, the city professional with a life-changing decision to make; and Phyllie, the grandmother whose family is slipping away from her.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

Kyra was hoping for a peaceful holiday at Bella Flora - a last gathering before a wealthy mystery tenant moves into the home she's been forced to rent out. Instead she must make a life-altering decision by New Year's - a decision that becomes even more difficult when unexpected guests arrive at Ten Beach Road on Christmas Eve. Now Kyra, Maddie, Avery, and Nikki will need to pull together to secure Bella Flora's future as well as their own.

Wenn das Herz weh tut, geh in den Garten. Lou ist eine erfolgreiche Anwältin in einer Berliner Kanzlei. Ein Privatleben hat sie nicht. Doch nachdem ihr Bruder Pip bei einem Autounfall stirbt, gelingt es ihr plötzlich nicht mehr, das hohe Tempo ihres Lebens zu halten. Ihr geht der Garten mit der windschiefen Laube, die Pip kurz vor seinem Tod gemietet hat, nicht mehr aus dem Kopf. Sie fährt immer häufiger dort hin - zunächst, um ihrem Bruder nahe zu sein. Doch mit jedem Frühlingstag und mit jedem Vogelzwitschern merkt sie, dass sie dort auch sich selbst näher kommt.

Former journalist turned journalism teacher Larissa Johanssen moved back to her hometown to escape the violence she once covered on a national stage. Until that violence strikes her high school, her students. Now, she must help her students deal with the type of coverage that drove her to the breaking point. And she must revisit parts of her past she thought long buried - and separate truth from fiction to finally begin to heal.

Henny, issue de la bonne bourgeoisie et entièrement dévouée à son métier de sage-femme, Marike, fervente militante communiste, Ida, aristocrate gâtée qui dissimule une âme rebelle sous le vernis des conventions et Lina, farouchement libre et anticonformiste... Elles sont quatre et rien ne les destinait à se rencontrer. Mais dans le Hambourg de 1919, alors que la guerre laisse enfin la place à un immense appétit de vivre, ces quatre jeunes femmes, nées avec le siècle, vont nouer une amitié indéfectible.