Ergebnis für "Held" in Familienleben

Eine neue Zeit, eine große Liebe und eine mutige Frau, die ihren Weg geht. Um ihre Familie zu retten, folgt Elise von Achenthal ihrer Pflicht und heiratet den Londoner Fabrikantensohn Fletcher Cunningham. Die Hochzeitsreise führt sie über den Atlantik zu Plantagen im Süden der USA, wo Elise die Schrecken der Sklaverei aus erster Hand miterlebt. Doch Fletcher sieht in der Ausbeutung von Sklaven und Arbeitern nur seinen Vorteil. Und damit nicht genug: Um die schwangere Elise zu „schonen“, kauft er sich eine junge Sklavin und nimmt sie zu seinem Vergnügen mit nach England.

In ihrem neuen Werk erzählt die preisgekrönte Bestsellerautorin Melanie Metzenthin die bewegende Geschichte von Helen Mandeville, der Mutter des Arztes Fritz Ellerweg aus "Im Lautlosen". England 1896: Von der eigenwilligen Helen Mandeville erwartet ihre Familie vor allem eine standesgemäße Heirat. An ihrer Verlobung mit James Mitchell, einem schneidigen Anwalt mit besten Verbindungen, geht kein Weg vorbei. Aber dann verliebt Helen sich auf einer Bildungsreise in den deutschen Arzt Ludwig Ellerweg. Für ihn riskiert sie es, für immer mit ihrer Familie zu brechen.

WINNER OF THE GILLER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE A NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL OF THE YEAR A breathtaking and ineffable new novel from the author of the international bestsellers Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault—a novel of love and loyalty across generations...

Gripping, insightful and deft, Maggie O'Farrell's third novel is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives. It won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man she hasn't seen for many years, but instantly recognises. Or thinks she does...

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award, THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE is a gorgeously written story of love and motherhood, a tour de force from one of our best loved novelists. When the bohemian, sophisticated Innes Kent turns up by chance on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait...

"In diesem Haus wohnen alte Geschichten." Frankfurt, 1984: Pias Mutter liegt im Krankenhaus. Sie soll sich um die Pension an der Nordsee kümmern, doch zu schwierig ist das Verhältnis zur Mutter, geprägt von jahrelangem Schweigen. Schließlich fährt Pia doch und trifft auf eine Schar Sommergäste - und eine rätselhafte Sammlung kaputter Puppen.

Melanie Henderson's life is a lie. The scandal of her birth and the identity of her true parents is kept from her family's small, conservative Colorado town. Not even she knows the truth: that her birth mother was just 14 and unmarried to her father, a local boy who drowned when he tried to take a shortcut across an icy river. Thirty-five years later, in Denver, Melanie dabbles in affairs with married men while clinging to a corporate job that gives her life order even as her tenuous relationships fall apart. She still hasn't learned that the woman who raised her is actually her aunt.

Katy Walton spent her life trying to be a good girl, or at least giving the appearance of one. When she marries into a long family line of Southern Baptist preachers, it becomes her job to maintain the image of the perfect family in the perfect church with a perfect future ahead. When the facade starts to crumble and even her best intentions fail to fool anyone, she finds herself alone and abandoned. It's not until she realizes how much living in the shadows of secrets and shame has damaged her daughter, Ivy Rose, that she learns to let go of all she once held.

Gripping, insightful and deft, THE DISTANCE BETWEEN US by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACE. It was a Sunday Times Top Ten bestseller (2005) and won the Somerset Maugham Award. On a cold February...

A town of nine square blocks surrounded by wheat fields in eastern North Dakota makes an intense and magical world for Line, Marty, and Paul, the children of the Lutheran pastor and his wife, the Mikkelsons. The Cold War feels very far away, and optimism reigns. Nevertheless, Mother and Dad are alarmed by the inroads of popular culture upon their high-minded Scandinavian world, and Paul's young life is threatened with a bout of polio, which calls upon all their extended family's resources.