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Wie aus dem Nichts bricht Niclas Hunters Welt zusammen. Gerade noch war er ein erfolgreicher Staatsanwalt, doch nach einer Nacht mit einer attraktiven Frau steht er vor den Trümmern seines Lebens. Nachdem seine machthungrige Konkurrentin Gillian Mulhare es auf legalem Weg nicht schaffte, ihn auszustechen, brachte sie Niclas mit einer sorgsam eingefädelten Intrige zu Fall. Um dem darauffolgenden Skandal und der Belagerung durch die Presse zu entkommen, flüchtet Niclas nach Cape Cod, wo er im Familiensitz Sunset Cove zur Ruhe kommen will.

Wie aus dem Nichts bricht Niclas Hunters Welt zusammen. Gerade noch war er ein erfolgreicher Staatsanwalt, doch nach einer Nacht mit einer attraktiven Frau steht er vor den Trümmern seines Lebens. Nachdem seine machthungrige Konkurrentin Gillian Mulhare es auf legalem Weg nicht schaffte, ihn auszustechen, brachte sie Niclas mit einer sorgsam eingefädelten Intrige zu Fall. Um dem darauffolgenden Skandal und der Belagerung durch die Presse zu entkommen, flüchtet Niclas nach Cape Cod, wo er im Familiensitz Sunset Cove zur Ruhe kommen will.

To the Lighthouse is Virginia Woolf’s arresting analysis of domestic family life, centering on the Ramseys and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland in the early 1900s. Nicole Kidman ( Moulin Rouge, Eyes Wide Shut), who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Woolf in the film adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, brings the impressionistic prose of this classic to vibrant life.

To the Lighthouse is a landmark work of English fiction. Virginia Woolf explores perception and meaning in some of the most beautiful prose ever written, minutely detailing the characters thoughts and impressions. This unabridged version is read by Juliet Stevenson.

In einem kleinen Dorf in Schottland, mitten auf dem Festland, steht ein Leuchtturm. Im Inneren der alten Gemäuer, die dick genug sind, um Sturmfluten zu trotzen, befindet sich ein kleines Antiquariat. Hier, umgeben von alten Büchern, hat Rachel vor vielen Jahren einen Neuanfang gewagt – und Freunde gefunden. Luisa hat sich aus dem Leben zurückgezogen – sie leidet unter ihrer unerträglichen Chefin, hat ihren Traumjob als Landschaftsarchitektin abgeschrieben und trauert immer noch um ihren Mann, den sie vor vielen Jahren verloren hat.

In einem kleinen Dorf in Schottland, mitten auf dem Festland, steht ein Leuchtturm. Im Inneren der alten Gemäuer, die dick genug sind, um Sturmfluten zu trotzen, befindet sich ein kleines Antiquariat. Hier, umgeben von alten Büchern, hat Rachel vor vielen Jahren einen Neuanfang gewagt – und Freunde gefunden. Sie verbringt ihre Tage mit Literatur, Kaffee und Shortbread, beobachtet ihren Chef Cullen und seinen Freund Ron beim Schachspiel oder schlichtet die Streitigkeiten ihrer ewig zankenden Stammgäste Edie und Ezra.

For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland, and they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms, the integrity of family and society will be fatally challenged. The novel's use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives it an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered

Sisters Alice and Jenny are in their early 20s when the Germans occupy their home of Jersey. Alice, a nurse, is called to work in the German hospital, unaware that she will find a great love but that she will make an even greater sacrifice and be sent to a place across the seas where she will witness unbearable suffering. Meanwhile her sister, Jenny, is drawn into a circle of islanders who decide to rise up and resist the occupiers. For both sisters, the war will cause them to make extraordinary choices, experience unimaginable heartbreak and emerge forever changed....

At the heart of a tiny community in a remote village just inland from the Aberdeenshire coast stands an unexpected lighthouse. Built two centuries ago by an eccentric landowner, it has become home to the only bookshop for miles around. Rachel is an incomer to the village. She arrived five years ago and found a place she could call home. So when the owner of the Lighthouse Bookshop dies suddenly, she steps in to take care of the place, trying to help it survive the next stage of its life.

Sandybridge is the perfect English seaside town: home to gift shops, tearooms and a fabulous fish and chip shop. And it's home to Grace - although right now she's not too happy about it. Grace grew up in Sandybridge, helping her parents sort junk from vintage treasures, but she always longed to escape to a bigger world. And she made it, travelling the world for her job, falling in love and starting a family. So why is she back in the tiny seaside town she'd long left behind, hanging out with Charlie, the boy who became her best friend when they were teenagers?

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny, and bitterness. Its use of stream of consciousness, reminiscence, and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate, poetic essence, and at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian and Edwardian literary values.

When Jamie’s mother inherits a small island and moves her little family from Harlem to Ireland, her troubled son sees a chance to start over, far away from the bullies and the pitying stares. Cancer has left Jamie without an arm or the will to speak. But Muck Island is no sanctuary, and it offers more than solitude and sea views. Jamie learns that he is heir to an ancient title—Laird of Muck, Guardian of the Passage—and certain otherworldly responsibilities.

Married to her childhood sweetheart for over 12 years, Elise feels like starting a family is the next natural step. However her husband, Gary, has other ideas. Suddenly single, Elise is completely heartbroken and struggling to start over on her own. But when she's enlisted to be bridesmaid to her best friend, Sarah, she has to put on a brave face, put her own feelings aside and find a way to get over Gary. Fast. So when she meets handsome, recently divorced Daniel, she thinks he could be just what she needs. But why can’t she shake the feeling that he must be too good to be true?