Joanna Trollope Boeken

Twintig jaar lang had Anna Bouverie, de vrouw van de predikant, God en de parochie op vele manieren gediend. Zij had koekjes gebakken voor de jaarlijkse wedstrijd, kerkblaadjes rondgebracht, het huishouden gedaan en zichzelf en de kinderen in tweedehands kleding gestoken. Wanneer haar echtgenoot zijn promotie misloopt en zich verbitterd in zichzelf terugtrekt, en als het verzet van haar jongste dochter ondraaglijke vormen aanneemt, komt Anna ineens in opstand. Ze neemt een baantje als cassière bij de plaatselijke supermarkt om in ieder geval het gevoel te hebben zelf geld te verdienen. hetgeen in het dorp een schok teweeg brengt. Terwijl zij steeds meer geisoleerd raakt in het dorp én in haar gezin, wordt Anna met toenemende belangstelling gadegeslagen door drie bijzondere mannen, die ieder een rol zullen spelen in haar leven. Joanna Trollope beschrijft de onderstroom en dynamiek binnen een gemeenschap die te maken krijgt met een vrouw die niet in de rol blijft die haar werd toebedacht.

Twee geadopteeerde dertigers met ieder een eigen gezin hebben nog steeds vragen over hun afkomst en gaan op zoek naar hun biologische moeders.

1988--As the rumblings of dissent and racial resentment began to erupt into a savage war between Boer and Briton, so three young men found their lives drawn together. Matthew Paget, son of an archdeacon, was turbulent, rebellious, and longing for excitement. Throwing away all the privileges that could have been his, he enlisted as a trooper--only to find himself loving the beautiful war-torn country of Africa and finally falling in love with a girl on the enemy side. Will Marriott, his cousin, was an officer who believed in England's greatness and the glory of battle. But as his comrades were maimed and killed, as he himself was wounded, and then betrayed by a one-time friend, so his values began to change. The one thing that never changed was his love for Frances, Matthew Paget's sister. Hendon Bashford was an upstart social climber, a swindler and a cheat. Half English, half Boer, he owed allegiance to no one while creating havoc in the lives of more honourable men. As the passage of war unfolded, so the lives of these three young men, and women they loved, moved towards a tumultuous climax.

On the fifteenth of February, 1879, the day on which Queen Supayalat of Mandalay ordered eighty members of of royal family to be clubbed to death, Maria Beresford celebrated her twenty-first birthday. On that day Maria knew nothing of Mandalay, the fairy-tale City of Gems. The selfish, difficult but heart-stoppingly beautiful daughter of a failed tea-planter in India devoted herself to pleasure. But when her father was sent to Burma, and she had to accompany him, she became embroiled in an exotic world of political intrigue. Her friendship with the Queen - a dangerous and unpredictable figure - and her growing closeness to Archie Tennant, a young man who has come east to seek his fortune after the ruin of his family business, brought her both danger and the key to her destiny.

A classic, set during the Napoleonic wars, giving a satiricl picture of a worldly society and revolving around the exploits of two women from very different backgrounds.

The Taverners had lived at Buscombe, the mellow stone manor house in Wiltshire, for generations. They had farmed the land and sent their sons to war (and even, latterly, to commerce) in a way of life that seemed timeless. But in 1870 a new generation is about to take control - Tom Taverner, dedicated, impulsive, deeply caring about his inheritance, and his sister Catherine, intelligent, humorous, but frustrated by the limited opportunities open to women in a man's world. Tom marries, and agricultural depression hits the estate. And suddenly it seems that everything which was so secure can no longer hold. Stretching in time from the 1870s to the outbreak of the second world war, and in distance from Crete to East Africa, this warmly satisfying novel is a triumph of storytelling.

This novel explores the myths, the realities and the difficulties of trying to deal simultaneously with present relationships, past relationships and, above all, with other people's children.

A sweeping historical from the national bestselling author of Marrying the Mistress and Other People's Children. A young woman living in a crumbling villa on the Mediterranean island of Malta endures the deprivation and devastation of wartime bombing -- and learns that while life doesn't always go as planned, neither does love....