Résultats pour "The Tenants" dans Sagas

1935: The Depression bites; beautiful Lindy Gillan dreams of getting away from her boring life in Edinburgh’s impoverished Old Town. At least there is dear Neil, a young writer from the same tenement block, whom she has known for years. But when handsome Rod Connor walks into the shop where Lindy works one day, her world is turned upside down.

Soon she has a difficult choice to make between two men - but once made, will she live to regret it? A new arrival, unexpected opportunities, and war clouds on the horizon all have unforeseen repercussions for Lindy, leading to much soul-searching and heartache before she can hope to find lasting happiness.

Becky, Bernie and Rose - three best friends from very different backgrounds - are working hard to establish themselves in prewar Spitalfields. Becky, the daughter of a Jewish tailor, wants to become a nurse, but her father has more traditional plans for her. Aching to leave the East End and travel the world, Bernie feels trapped by her vast family of poor Irish dock workers. And then there is Rose. Tiny and thin, she lives with her drunken mother and a revolving selection of surrogate fathers who exploit and brutalise them both.

The third and final novel in the Ten Bells Street saga series.

Speel je mee met de vreugde- en gelukclub? Vier vrouwen en hun moeders spelen wekelijks samen mahjong, een traditioneel Chinees bordspel, waar ook hun problemen en gevoelens besproken worden. Maar als volwassen vrouw zit je niet altijd op het advies van je moeder te wachten. Al helemaal niet als zij jouw leven toch niet begrijpt. De vier moeders verhuisden in 1949 vanuit China naar San Francisco, terwijl hun dochters in Amerika zijn opgegroeid. Maar wanneer hun diepste geheimen boven (speel)tafel komen, kent één moeder haar dochter maar al te goed.

In 1920s Leicester, Lewis Eliot must escape the drudgery of a council clerk's office and his provincial lower class background to begin his decades-long rise to power. As the years pass, and Lewis progresses to successful London lawyer, to Cambridge don, to wartime service in Whitehall, to senior civil servant and finally retirement, he faces in his own life and the lives of those around him collapsing marriages, terrible illness, the politics of academia, Nazism, nuclear weapons, the price of power and the ever-present realities of war.