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Na het einde van haar affaire met Charles probeert Flappy nieuw leven in haar relatie met Kenneth te blazen. En Flappy zou Flappy niet zijn als ze zich niet zou bezighouden met het vertier in de buurt: ze gaat een Nieuwjaarsbal organiseren. Zelfs haar zoon Jasper en zijn onuitstaanbare vrouw Briony komen over uit Australië en zullen zich misschien permanent vestigen in Badley Compton. Flappy komt weer voor meerdere uitdagingen te staan. Zo is er een nieuw stel in de buurt komen wonen, Molly en Jim, en zij pakken de dingen net even anders aan.

Binoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London, delightful no doubt but they do need to know their place. Who better to teach them the ways of this close-knit community than Flappy herself? But Flappy has other distractions. An ardent admirer, a New Year’s Ball to organize and manifold appearances to be kept up. How much time and effort it all takes!

Madison has always known she had a different father to her siblings. But it wasn’t until she turned eighteen that she learned his name. And now she wants to meet the man who shares her fair hair and blue eyes. Robert is a very lucky man. A big house, beautiful wife, three handsome sons. Eighteen years ago, he made a mistake. A brief fling that resulted in a daughter nobody else knows about. Robert must finally tell his family the truth. Will they ever be able to forgive him and accept Madison as one of their own?

When elegant Anouk, a dealer in American antiques, dies unexpectedly, she leaves the Metropolitan museum an uncatalogued, multimillion-dollar painting by Titian. Her son, Mischa, had no idea she had even owned it and becomes determined to discover the story behind the painting. This mystery sends him on the trail of his own history, back to the French village of his childhood. There he hopes to uncover the origins of the Gypsy Madonna; he never expects to find himself.

She hardly knew her Italian mother, and her English father acts as if Valentina never existed. She despises country life almost as much as she despises her stepmother and stepsisters. On board the houseboat named after her dead mother, Alba's life is little more than a selfish search for fun and pleasure. But the discovery of her mother's portrait sends the girl back to Italy to find her family - and the truth about Valentina.

Celeste is mourning the tragic death of her young son, Jack, who died from leukaemia. So when she learns that her nephew is coming to stay, she doesn't think she can bear to have another child in the house. But when Bruno arrives, she has no choice but to make him feel welcome and loved, even though her heart is breaking. And when he starts to show some insight into what Jack was like, Celeste dares to dream there might be something more than meets the eye....

Celeste is mourning the tragic death of her young son, Jack, who died from leukaemia. So when she learns that her nephew is coming to stay, she doesn't think she can bear to have another child in the house. But when Bruno arrives, she has no choice but to make him feel welcome and loved, even though her heart is breaking. And when he starts to show some insight into what Jack was like, Celeste dares to dream there might be something more than meets the eye....

Een echte Montefiore: een meeslepend verhaal over familie, liefde en levensbepalende keuzes. Marigold woont met haar man Dennis en hun jongvolwassen dochter Suze in een klein dorpje op het Engelse platteland, waar iedereen elkaar kent. Wanneer ook haar negentigjarige moeder bij hen intrekt, omdat ze te oud wordt om alleen te wonen, en hun andere dochter Daisy met een gebroken hart terugkeert uit Milaan, waar ze zes jaar heeft gewoond, lijkt de drukte Marigold een beetje boven het hoofd te groeien. Of is haar toenemende verstrooidheid aan iets anders te wijten?

Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word. Her life is a reflection of herself—impossibly perfect. Until the day that Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into the village. Into an even grander home than hers. Taking the front seat on the social scene, quite literally.

Nous sommes en 1939 et la paix chèrement acquise depuis la Grande Guerre vit ses dernières heures. Pour la famille Deverill, beaucoup de choses ont changé et une nouvelle génération attend en coulisses : Martha Wallace a quitté son Amérique natale pour Dublin afin de retrouver sa mère biologique. Mais au lieu de cela, elle est tombée follement amoureuse du très charmant JP Deverill et a découvert que sa mère vient du même endroit que ce dernier. Son destin semble scellé...

Irlande, 1925. Sur les vertes collines de West Cork, le château de Deverill a été brûlé par les rebelles. Mais la jeune et nouvellement riche Celia Deverill est déterminée à rendre sa splendeur d’antan à la demeure de ses ancêtres, et ainsi à restaurer le berceau de tous ses souvenirs d’enfance en compagnie de sa cousine Kitty et de leur amie Bridie Doyle.

Irlande, 1900. L’année marque le début d’un nouveau siècle et la naissance de deux jeunes femmes bien différentes : Kitty Deverill, une noble anglo-irlandaise intrépide aux flamboyants cheveux roux, et Bridie Doyle, la timide fille de la cuisinière qui aspire à une vie meilleure.

Santa Montefiore keert terug naar het prachtige Ierland in het zesde, los te lezen boek over de familie Deverill. Cavan Court, 1865, Ballinakelly, Ierland. Eliza Fairfield is niet zoals haar drie oudere zussen, die ervan dromen te trouwen met een van de knappe, welgestelde broers Deverill en het huishouden bestieren op het statige kasteel. Eliza droomt liever weg in haar eigen sprookjeswereld. Maar dan raakt ze verstrikt in een onmogelijke driehoeksverhouding, waarin ook de Deverills een rol spelen. 1925.