Résultats pour "Impossible Book 1 Impossible" dans Fiction historique

On part en montagne pour éprouver la solitude, pour se sentir minuscule face à l’immensité de la nature. Nombreux sont les imprévus qui peuvent se présenter, d’une rencontre avec un cerf au franchissement d’une forêt déracinée par le vent. Sur un sentier escarpé des Dolomites, un homme chute dans le vide. Derrière lui, un autre homme donne l’alerte. Or, ce ne sont pas des inconnus. Compagnons du même groupe révolutionnaire quarante ans plus tôt, le premier avait livré le second et tous ses anciens camarades à la police.

Rupert Carsington, fourth son of the Earl of Hargate, is his aristocratic family's favorite disaster. He's irresistibly handsome and unapologetically irresponsible, & trouble follows wherever he goes. Still, Rupert somehow manages to escape entanglement - emotional or other - with maddening grace! But now he's a prisoner in Cairo's most infamous jail and his only chance out is accepting a beautiful widow's dangerous proposal.

In 1898 three young girls leave a Dublin orphanage to enter a life of domestic service. They are placed in the home of Captain Charles Whitmore. His wife, Georgina, desperate to break free from a violent marriage. Then an organisation that helps women escape abuse makes Georgina an offer. They propose that her house should become a school to train women for employment in the American West. Can the orphan maids dare dream of a better life for themselves?

Ireland, 1879. Maura Doyle has always felt she was meant for more than her life as a poverty-stricken farmer’s daughter in County Laois could provide. Her father has arranged for her to marry into a wealthier local family, but she has more interest in her neighbor, Joseph O’Malley. Forced to leave school at age 16, she takes a full-time job as a maid in the local landlord’s mansion after a family tragedy. But the arrival of the lord’s son upends her role in the house and the equilibrium of the entire community.