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Viola Smith plays the viola in an orchestra (yes really!), but this year she's been asked to stretch her musical talents to organising Notting Hill's local nativity. Nate Williams isn't looking forward to Christmas, but as his small daughter, Grace, has the starring role in the show, he's forced to stop being a Grinch and volunteer with Viola. With the sparks between them hotter than the chestnuts roasting in Portobello market, Nate and Viola can't deny their feelings. And as the snow starts to fall over London, they find themselves trapped together in more ways than one....

Movie addict Scarlett O'Brien is finally living the jet-setting life she's dreamed of - but it all hangs by a shiny, golden thread. Flying between London and New York, running two businesses, planning her wedding to handsome fiancé, Sean, with best friends Oscar and Maddie - life couldn't be better. But then Scarlett meets paparazzi darling, Gabriella Romero, and life suddenly becomes even more extravagant and glamorous.

The first rule of Sunday Lunch Club is...don't make any afternoon plans.

Every few Sundays, Anna and her extended family and friends get together for lunch. They talk, they laugh, they bicker, they eat too much. Sometimes the important stuff is left unsaid, other times it's said in the wrong way.

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.

"Il Napoleone di Notting Hill", pubblicata nel 1904, è la prima opera di narrativa di Chesterton. Nel romanzo vi è un miscuglio di generi che passano dalla satira al paradossale, dal fantastico alla trovata ingegnosa. Nascosto nell'opera il pensiero dell'autore: bisogna combattere per i propri ideali, dando l'importanza di tutto all'agire.

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.

In a London of the future, the drudgery of capitalism and bureaucracy have worn the human spirit down to the point where it can barely stand. When a pint-sized clerk named Auberon Quinn is randomly selected as head of state, he decides to turn London into a medieval carnival for his own amusement. One man, Adam Wayne, takes the new order of things seriously, organizing a Notting Hill army to fight invaders from other neighborhoods. At first his project baffles everyone, but eventually his dedication proves infectious, with delightful results.

Die Oberschwester lächelte. "Glauben Sie, dass Sie von 9 bis 15.30 Uhr arbeiten können?" Einen Moment lang konnte ich mein Glück gar nicht fassen. Es schien mir nicht richtig zu sein, für so einen kurzen Arbeitstag bezahlt zu werden. Der zweite Weltkrieg ist zu Ende und der Alltag kehrt langsam wieder ein. Die Männer sind von der Front zurück und viele Frauen können zuhause bei ihren Kindern bleiben. Doch das Geld ist knapp und Evelyn merkt schnell, dass sie einen Teilzeitjob finden muss, um über die Runden zu kommen. Zu ihrem Erstaunen wird ihr tatsächlich eine Teilzeitstelle in ihrem ehemaligen Krankenhaus angeboten.

1934 beginnt die junge Evelyn Prentis im Krankenhaus von Nottingham ihre Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester. Weniger weil es ihr Traum ist, sondern vielmehr auf Drängen ihrer Mutter, die ihre Tochter versorgt wissen möchte. Schon bald lernt Evelyn den rauen und harten Krankenhausalltag kennen. Sie muss kochen, putzen, waschen und dabei stets die strenge Hierarchie der Schwestern beachten. Doch zwischen all der Arbeit, der Schikane und den vielen traurigen Schicksalen, erlebt Evelyn auch immer wieder Momente der Hoffnung und des Glücks...

Evelyn schließt ihre Ausbildung zur Krankenschwester erfolgreich ab und überrascht damit nicht nur die anderen Schwestern und ihre Mutter, sondern auch sich selbst. Nie hätte sie sich diese harte Ausbildung zugetraut. Beflügelt von ihrem Erfolg fasst sie den mutigen Entschluss von Nottingham nach London zu ziehen, um dort in ihrem neuen Beruf weiterzuarbeiten. Doch der Krieg hat London bereits fest im Griff und schon bald prägen Bombenhagel, Luftschutzbunker und unzählige Verletzte den harten Alltag der Krankenschwestern...