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Sinéad Moriarty Seven letters

Sarah, moeder van de 7-jarige Izzy en opnieuw zwanger, kampt met ernstige gezondheidsproblemen waardoor haar man Adam en familieleden voor lastige keuzes komen te staan die voor veel spanning zorgen.

Engels | 431 pagina's | Penguin Ireland, UK | 2019

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Hannah Beckerman If only I could tell you

Een gebeurtenis 30 jaar geleden is uitgegroeid tot een familiegeheim dat Audrey en haar van elkaar vervreemde, volwassen dochters Jess en Lily verbindt en uit elkaar drijft.

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Engels | 362 pagina's | Orion, London | 2019

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Jean Pendziwol The lightkeeper's daughters

Tiener Morgan raakt bevriend met de oude en bijna blinde Elizabeth en ontrafelt familiegeheimen tijdens het voorlezen van dagboeken van Elizabeths vader die vuurtorenwachter was op een klein eiland.

Fictie

Engels | 310 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2018

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Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney The nest

De charismatische, roekeloze Leo Plumb veroorzaakt een schandaal dat grote financiële en emotionele gevolgen heeft voor hem en zijn familie.

Fictie

Engels | 382 pagina's | Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, NY | 2017

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Joanna Quinn The whalebone theatre

Kinderen uit een voorname familie van het Engelse platteland proberen hun leven vorm te geven tegen de achtergrond van de roerige gebeurtenissen van de jaren '30 en '40 van de vorige eeuw.

Fictie

Engels | 547 pagina's | Fig Tree, an imprint of Penguin Books, UK | 2022

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Leah Fleming The postcard

Een jonge Australische vrouw gaat in 2002 op zoek naar de afkomst van haar pas overleden vader, die kort na de Tweede Wereldoorlog werd geadopteerd maar alleen een ansichtkaart had uit die periode.

Engels | 405 pagina's | Simon & Schuster, a CBS Company, London | 2014

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Ciara Geraghty Lifesaving for beginners

Wanneer twee vrouwen betrokken raken bij een auto-ongeluk, is een van hen op slag dood. Haar 9-jarig zoontje en de overlevende vrouw vertellen welke impact dit ongeval heeft op het leven van de beide gezinnen.

Fictie

Engels | 441 pagina's | Hodder, London | 2013

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Marita Conlon-McKenna The rose garden

Een Ierse vrouw raakt na de dood van haar man in financiële problemen en loopt kans haar schitterende landgoed te verliezen.

Fictie

Engels | 348 pagina's | Transworld Ireland, London | 2013

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Lina Wolff The Polyglot Lovers

'A singular novel, sometimes brutal, certainly merciless.' - Le Figaro (France) Ferocious and irreverent, this multiple prize-winning novel burns down the pretensions of a pompous literary establishment and takes no prisoners. Ellinor is thirty-six. She wears soft black sweatpants and a Michelin Man jacket. She fights. Smart and unsentimental, she tries her hand at online dating, only to be stranded in a snowstorm with a literary critic. Cut to Max Lamas, an author who dreams of a polyglot lover,...

Engels | 7 uur 54 minuten (356 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alison Ragsdale The Child Between Us

When I first met you, darling Marina, you were just five years old. You took my breath away, with your long, dark waves and pink cheeks. You needed me, and I instantly knew I’d do anything to protect you. When six years ago, my heart was shattered, I was left utterly broken – but I didn’t know just how lost I was until you filled that hole in my heart. You quickly became the centre of my world, your sweet laugh my favourite sound. But then things started to change... I put my pain down to work stress,...

Engels | 9 uur 36 minuten (427 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn If They Knew

"Grips from the first page. An emotive thriller which I couldn't put down." - Carys Jones, author of ´We Are All Liars´. Hannah and Charlie have finally achieved their dream family with their two-year-old daughter, Isabelle, after years of heartbreak. However, their happiness is threatened when a global popstar is found murdered in their sleepy Gloucestershire village, and Hannah's past comes back to haunt her. She is forced to make a dangerous choice - risk everything, even her own life, to protect...

Engels | 10 uur 29 minuten (470 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Sophie Flynn Keep Them Close

She trusted a stranger with her secrets. Now she's paying the price. Frazzled mum, Emily, loves her four-year-old twin daughters. Amidst trying her best to be the perfect mum all while keeping her sanity intact, she finds solace in the anonymous internet forum MumsOnline during her darkest days. But when a newfound friendship takes a dark turn, and her past is exposed, Emily's perfect life is threatened. Can she protect her family from a dangerous stalker? Praise for "Keep Them Close": ´A splendidly...

Engels | 10 uur 11 minuten (452 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Ola Mustapha Other Names, Other Places

"What were we, then, if ‘English’ was a prize out of our reach and ‘Tunisian’ was the mask we wore at home?" Caught between cultures and struggling to find her identity, Nessie, a Londoner with Tunisian roots, navigates the complexities of belonging. With her multiple name - Nesrine, Susu, Nessie - and a yearning for acceptance, she grapples with not being "enough" for anyone. But when Mrs Brown enters their lives, her charismatic presence becomes the glue holding their dysfunctional family together...

Engels | 8 uur 18 minuten (376 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns The Vet's Daughter

'A small Gothic masterpiece... I have read it many times, and with every re-read I marvel again at its many qualities - its darkness, its strangeness, its humour, its sadness, its startling images and twists of phrase' - Sarah Waters. Growing up in Edwardian south London, Alice Rowlands longs for romance and excitement, for a release from a life that is dreary and lonely. Her father, a vet, is harsh and oppressive; his new girlfriend, brash and lascivious. Alice seeks refuge in fantasy, in her...

Engels | 5 uur 4 minuten (224 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Barbara Comyns Who Was Changed and Who Was Dead

That evening the baker's wife ran down the village street in a tattered pink nightgown. She screamed as she ran. Strange things are afoot in the English village where the Willoweed family live. First, the river floods in June. The family wakes to find ducks sailing around the drawing room and dead peacocks bobbing in the garden. But the flood is only the beginning of their troubles. All of a sudden the miller goes mad and drowns himself. Then the butcher slits his throat. A peculiar illness is...

Engels | 4 uur 6 minuten (182 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Alex Kane The Housewife

Even perfect mothers have secrets... Meet Leah, the perfect wife and mum with a closet full of skeletons - and if the secret gets out, her carefully crafted world could crumble. Then there's Annie, the gangster's moll with a sharp mind. She's not afraid to get her hands dirty, but no one knows the devastating secret haunting her. And lastly, Terry, the king of Glasgow gangland. He's ruthless when it comes to growing his empire, but his weakness is women. As their three stories collide, the lives...

Engels | 10 uur 37 minuten (474 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lilac Mills Waste Not, Want Not in Applewell

George can’t throw anything away. But he’s in danger of throwing away a chance at love. George Nightingale is a hoarder with a house full of junk. For years he’s kept it a secret, rarely leaving his house and keeping social interactions to a minimum, but his carefully balanced system is now under threat... Nessa Millbrook can’t wait to get settled into her new home in quaint, rural Applewell. Everyone in the village is so friendly – except her neighbour, George, who wants nothing to do with her....

Engels | 9 uur 11 minuten (409 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Donna Ashcroft The Christmas Countdown

It’s that time of year again, snowflakes are fluttering and the countdown to Christmas has begun! Twenty-seven-year-old Holly Devine has just had her heart well and truly broken. Hurt by the two people she loves the most, she flees to her eccentric Aunt Clara’s cosy cottage to hide away over the winter season. But kind, impulsive Aunt Clara has other ideas... She’s not about to see her favourite niece wallowing in sadness during the most wonderful time of the year. So, with the help of her close...

Engels | 10 uur 18 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Jane Davis Smash All the Windows

"Smash all the Windows" won the inaugural Selfies Book Award in 2019. It has taken conviction to right the wrongs. It will take courage to learn how to live again. London, 22 August 2003. A day that began like any other would end in tragedy. Fifty-eight people set off for work, only to never return. For more than thirteen years, the search for truth has eaten up everything: marriages, families, health, careers and finances. A flawed justice system failed the victims' kin, but hope arises when...

Engels | 10 uur 19 minuten (454 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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Lorraine Wilson This is Our Undoing

Could you condemn one child to save another? In a near-future Europe fracturing under climate change and far-right politics, biologist Lina Stephenson works in the remote Rila Mountains. But when an old enemy dies, Lina's dangerous past resurfaces and puts her family's lives at risk. Trapped with her vulnerable sister and the dead man's family, Lina is facing pressure from all sides: her enemy's eldest son is determined to destroy her in his search for vengeance, whilst his youngest carries a sinister...

Engels | 13 uur 50 minuten (606 MB) | SAGA Egmont, København | 2023

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