Ergebnis für "Das Hörbuch Live" in 20. Jahrhundert

Schwarzwald, 1959: Die in Island geborene Liv Benediktsdóttir reist in das kleine idyllische Dorf Vierbrücken, um eine Antwort auf die Frage zu finden, wie ihre Zukunft aussehen soll. Keiner der Einwohner ahnt, wer sie wirklich ist. Und dann ist da auch noch der junge und gut aussehende Tierarzt Ben Schuster, der sie ziemlich durcheinanderbringt. Schließlich überschlagen sich die Ereignisse, zumal einer der Dorfbewohner Livs Geheimnis auf die Spur kommt... Ein Wohlfühlroman mit Charme, Herz und einer Prise Lebensweisheit.

What happens to a young couple when the first flush of love fades? Alice and Amos Bell marry in 1925, when flappers and jazz prosper. Alice and her sister are ardent suffragists who live by their own rules, while their world overflows with parties, music, and dancing. But their struggle increases with the Depression years, followed by the World War II. Amos Bell does not deal with the stormy relationships with his children or his wife. As Alice’s health declines Amos’ infidelity dramas explode, with the German bombs dropping on Yorkshire being the least of their troubles.

1918: Freddie was destined for a different life, determined to make his fortune in the plantations of Ceylon. But just as the great war comes to an end, the eldest brother and heir to Coombe Hall, Edward, doesn’t return. Torn between duty and freedom, Freddie must now sacrifice his own dreams to keep the estate – and the future of Coombe – alive. And now he must now marry for an heir, not for love. But the turmoil of war didn’t end on the battlefield; the country faces upheavals like never before.

It is 1946 in Birmingham: the Second World War is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . . Read by Penelope Freeman (Her Wartime Secret) Katie O'Neill's childhood has been dominated by her temperamental mother and by frightening secrets...