wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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A Sea-Grape Tree
ISBN: 9781504007702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann s classic "The Ballad and the Source" The year is 1933. After a heart-wrenching betrayal by her married lover, Rebecca Landon leaves London for a tiny island in the Caribbean. There, she meets a colony of expatriates, including the voluble Captain Cunningham and his wife, Ellie, who were the first white settlers on the isle. She also meets Johnny, a married former pilot who was crippled in the war and now lives as a recluse. Drawn together by their mutual pain and sorrow, he and Rebecca are soon...
A woman searches for a fresh start on a remote Caribbean island in this sequel to Rosamond Lehmann s classic "The Ballad and the Source" The year is 1...
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70,82 zł |
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The Swan in the Evening: Fragments of an Inner Life
ISBN: 9781504003148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Rosamond Lehmann s only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter Rosamond Lehmann was born during a violent February thunderstorm and lived a sheltered, privileged life with her parents, brother, and sisters. Writing from the distance of decades, she reveals why no adult would ever apologize to a child, shares thoughts on her first conscious memory, and discusses the taboo subjects of birth, death, physical and sexual functions. Later, she recounts the tragedy that rocked her world as a mother. A blackbird with a...
Rosamond Lehmann s only autobiographical work recreates the events that shaped her life from childhood to motherhood to the death of her daughter Rosa...
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70,82 zł |
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The Gipsy's Baby: And Other Stories
ISBN: 9781504003209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of stories by one of Britain s most beloved novelists depicts domestic life during World War II as seen through the eyes of both children and adults In The Red-haired Miss Daintreys, four six-foot-tall sisters capture the imagination of young Rebecca when she and her family are on holiday. Beautifully crafted and informed by Lehmann s eye for telling detail, it is a moving meditation on familial ties, romantic love, and the end of an era. In When the Waters Came and A Dream of Winter, both the deprivations of war and a swarm of bees take their toll on the inhabitants of a...
This collection of stories by one of Britain s most beloved novelists depicts domestic life during World War II as seen through the eyes of both child...
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70,82 zł |
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A Note in Music
ISBN: 9780860682486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her external life of dreary routine fails to match up to her lush, wistful and dreamy internal life. Norah, her energetic and chaotic friend, is equally settled in her own marriage to an irritable university professor. Then Hugh Miller and his sister Claire descend upon the quiet town. On all four, the hypnotic charm of these two visitors exerts an enchanting spell. And after their departure, life - having been violently disrupted - will never be...
Grace Fairfax lives with her dull, conventional husband Tom in a grey manufacturing town in the north of England. At thirty-four she finds that her ex...
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146,31 zł |
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The Ballad and the Source
ISBN: 9781504007757 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain s best-loved authors Sibyl Jardine, the former best friend of Rebecca Landon s grandmother, has recently returned to the Priory, her home at the top of a hill. Rebecca is instantly drawn in by Sibyl s magnetic personality and blunt, shocking manner. Decades earlier, Sibyl had left her husband Charles for another man and, as a result, lost her daughter Ianthe. Now she is finally about to meet her three grandchildren, who will become an integral part of Rebecca s life as she journeys...
A young girl befriends an elderly woman during the First World War in this remarkable novel by one of Britain s best-loved authors Sibyl Jardine, the ...
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104,17 zł |
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The Echoing Grove
ISBN: 9781504003179 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two sisters fall in love with the same man in this World War II era novel drawn from Rosamond Lehmann s experience with an ill-fated affair of her own Rickie Masters is married to Madeleine, who is sitting out the war in the country with their children. Their domestic serenity is shattered when Rickie falls in love with Madeleine s sister, Dinah, and they begin a clandestine, guilt-ridden affair. When Madeleine discovers their infidelity, accusations are hurled and hard choices are made. Then, a year before the war officially ends, tragedy strikes, and it is only after an estrangement of...
Two sisters fall in love with the same man in this World War II era novel drawn from Rosamond Lehmann s experience with an ill-fated affair of her own...
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cena:
104,17 zł |