Santa Montefiore

FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR England, 1933: Grace Hamblin is growing up in a rural idyll. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and her future - that is until her father dies and leaves her alone. Alone, that is, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts… Massachusetts, 1973: Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable boy. He's wild and romantic, and in a band that might be going somewhere. But when tragedy strikes and he has to go home to England, he promises to come back to Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him. Both mother and daughter are searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them. To find what they are longing for they must confront the secrets of the past, and unravel the lies told long ago… ***PRAISE FOR SANTA MONTEFIORE*** ‘Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore’ JOJO MOYES ‘An enchanting read overflowing with deliciously poignant moments’ DINAH JEFFERIES on Songs of Love and War ‘Santa Montefiore hits the spot for me like few other writers’ SARRA MANNING ‘One of our personal favourites’THE TIMES on The Last Secret of the Deverills 'One of our personal favourites' The Times ‘Accomplished and poetic’ Daily Mail ‘Santa Montefiore is a marvel’ Sunday Express

Summer is not complete without a new novel from top ten bestelling author Santa Montefiore. Ellen Trawton is running away from it all - quite literally. She is due to get married to a man she doesn't love, her job is dragging her down and her interfering mother is getting on her nerves. So she escapes to the one place she know her mother won't follow her - to her aunt's house in rural Ireland. Once there, she uncovers a dark family secret - and a future she never knew she might have. Meanwhile, Caitlin Macausland is mourning the future she can never have. She died tragically in what the village thinks is suspicious circumstances, and now she is stuck in a limbo, unable to move on. And between the two of them is an old lighthouse - the scene of so much tragedy. Can each woman find the peace she so desperately longs for? And can they find the way to live again? - See more at: http://books.simonandschuster.co.uk/Secrets-of-the-Lighthouse/Santa-Montefiore/9781471100970#sthash.vAngpndt.dpuf

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The summer is not complete without a new novel from top ten bestelling author Santa Montefiore

The irresistible new novel set between 1960s Tuscany and present-day Devon, from the Sunday Times bestseller, Santa Montefiore

A neglected garden. A cottage that holds a secret. A mysterious and handsome Frenchman. Prepare to be "spellbound by the sheer charm" (Daily Express, UK) of Santa Montefiore's tender and powerful novel about passion, loss, and the healing power of love. It begins as Miranda and David Claybourne move into a country house with a once-beautiful garden. But reality turns out to be very different from their dream. Soon the latent unhappiness in the family begins to come to the surface, isolating each family member in a bubble of resentment and loneliness. Then an enigmatic Frenchman arrives on their doorstep. With the wisdom of nature, he slowly begins to heal the past and the present. But who is he? When Miranda reads about his past in a diary she finds in the cottage by the garden, the whole family learns that a garden, like love itself, can restore the human spirit, not just season after season, but generation after generation. Wise and winsome, poignant and powerfully moving, The French Gardener is a contemporary story told with an old-fashioned sensibility steeped in the importance of family and the magical power of love.

Set in London during the swinging sixties and Italy's Amalfi coast after Word War II, Last Voyage of the Valentina is an epic romance with a dark uncercurrent of suspense from an author the Daily Mail (UK) has declared "is the new Rosamunde Pilcher." Exotically beautiful but desperately unhappy, Alba lives on a houseboat on the Thames, where she enjoys a life of leisure and entertains an endless and unfulfilling succession of lovers. But then she discovers a portrait of her dead mother, Valentina--a woman she'd hardly known, whose story has been kept from her by her still grieving father. Determined to learn the truth about Valentina, Alba returns to the olive groves of the Amalfi coast of Italy. There she uncovers a mysterious tale of decadence, deception, murder, and betrayal involving partisans and Nazis, peasants, and counts. Alba's journey leads her not only to the truth of her mother's hidden past but to the possibility of happiness in her own future.

En kjærlighet som trosser tiden ... Da Pixie Tate vender tilbake til Cornwalls ville kyst for å løse et mysterium på et gammelt teater, aner hun ikke at det samtidig skal bli et møte med hennes egen fortid. Da hun oppdager at teateret ligger bare noen kilometer fra stedet der hun møtte sitt livs kjærlighet, forstår hun at det ikke er snakk om en tilfeldighet. Mens det nærmer seg premiere for teaterets siste oppsetning, må Pixie velge mellom å gi slipp og holde fast ved fortiden. Det er et valg som vil koste henne dyrt. Dette er den tredje og avsluttede boken i den nye, storslåtte serien om Pixie Tate fra bestselgende Santa Montefiore. En gripende fortelling om tap, håp og den ene kjærligheten som aldri slipper taket.

Et hav av stjerner er andre bok i en ny, spektakulær serie fra bestselgende forfatter Santa Montefiore, som har solgt over 485 000 bøker i Norge. En skjebnesvanger natt. Et siste løfte. Fra det øyeblikket Pixie Tate går inn i det storslåtte Aldershoff Hotel på Manhattan, merker hun at noe mørkt skjuler seg bak de elegante veggene. For å avdekke hotellets hemmeligheter må hun bruke sine unike evner og som konsekvens blir hun del av en av vår tids viktigste hendelser. Pixie innser raskt at tiden til dem rundt henne, er i ferd med å renne ut, men da hun plutselig står ansikt til ansikt med en mann hun trodde hun hadde mistet for alltid, må Pixie velge: Vil hun holde løftet sitt eller risikere å endre fremtiden for godt?

En kjærlighet som trosser tiden ... Da Pixie Tate vender tilbake til Cornwalls ville kyst for å løse et mysterium på et gammelt teater, aner hun ikke at det samtidig skal bli et møte med hennes egen fortid. Da hun oppdager at teatret ligger bare noen kilometer fra stedet der hun møtte sitt livs kjærlighet, forstår hun at det ikke er snakk om en tilfeldighet. Mens det nærmer seg premiere for teatrets siste oppsetning, må Pixie velge mellom å gi slipp og holde fast ved fortiden. Det er et valg som vil koste henne dyrt. Dette er den tredje og avsluttede boken i den nye, storslåtte serien om Pixie Tate fra bestselgende Santa Montefiore. En gripende fortelling om tap, håp og den ene kjærligheten som aldri slipper taket.

Et hav av stjerner er andre bok i en ny, spektakulær serie fra bestselgende forfatter Santa Montefiore, som har solgt over 485 000 bøker i Norge. En skjebnesvanger natt. Et siste løfte. Fra det øyeblikket Pixie Tate går inn i det storslåtte Aldershoff Hotel på Manhattan, merker hun at noe mørkt skjuler seg bak de elegante veggene. For å avdekke hotellets hemmeligheter må hun bruke sine unike evner og som konsekvens blir hun del av en av vår tids viktigste hendelser. Pixie innser raskt at tiden til dem rundt henne, er i ferd med å renne ut, men da hun plutselig står ansikt til ansikt med en mann hun trodde hun hadde mistet for alltid, må Pixie velge: Vil hun holde løftet sitt eller risikere å endre fremtiden for godt?