Hannah Beckerman Boeken

From bestselling author Hannah Beckerman comes a moving story about memory, secrets, and what it really means to feel that you’re one of the family.When Nell’s father makes a deathbed declaration that hints at a long-held secret, it reignites feelings of isolation that have plagued her for years. Her suspicions about the family’s past only deepen when her mother, Annie, who is losing her memories to dementia, starts making cryptic comments of her own.Thirty-five years earlier, Annie’s life was upended by a series of traumas—one shock after another that she buried deep in her heart. The decisions she made at the time were motivated by love, but she knew even then that nobody could ever understand—let alone forgive—what she did.As the two women’s stories unravel, a generation apart, Nell finally discovers the devastating truth about her mother’s past, and her own.In this beautifully observed and emotionally powerful story of identity, memory and the nature of family, Hannah Beckerman asks: To what lengths would you go to protect the ones you love?

From the bestselling author of If Only I Could Tell You comes the story of two women determined to uncover the truth. But how can you trust the present if you can't remember the past? "Left me gasping. Brilliant." --Alex Michaelides "Has one of the best story twists I have ever read...superb writing." --Ruth Jones "Resonates long after you turn the final page." --Rosamund Lupton When Anna Bradshaw wakes up in a hospital bed in London, she remembers nothing, not even her loving husband, Stephen. The doctors say her amnesia is to be expected, but Anna feels cut adrift from her entire life. In Bristol, Livvy Nicholson is newly married to Dominic and eager to get back to work after six months' maternity leave. But when Dominic's estranged mother appears, making a series of unnerving claims, Livvy is sucked into a version of herself she doesn't recognise. A hundred miles apart, both women feel trapped and disorientated, and their stories are about to collide. Can they uncover the secret that connects them and reconstruct their fractured lives?

Audrey's family has fallen apart. Her two grown-up daughters, Jess and Lily, are estranged, and her two teenage granddaughters have never been allowed to meet. A secret that echoes back thirty years has splintered the family in two, but is also the one thing keeping them connected. As tensions reach breaking point, the irrevocable choice that one of them made all those years ago is about to surface. After years of secrets and silence, how can one broken family find their way back to each other?

Rachel, Max and their daughter Ellie had the perfect life - until the night Rachel's heart stopped beating. Now Max and Ellie are doing their best to adapt to life without Rachel, and just as her family can't forget her, Rachel can't quite let go of them either.

Zwei Schwestern, die innig verbunden sind. Und ein einziger Moment, der alles zerstört. Seit 30 Jahren haben die Schwestern Jess und Lily kein Wort mehr gewechselt. Seit einer traumatischen Nacht in ihrer Kindheit, die sie entzweit hat. Heute sind sie so unterschiedlich wie Tag und Nacht: Die eine bangt als künstlerische Single Mom jeden Monat um die Miete, die andere führt ein Leben wie in einem Hochglanzmagazin. Ihr Leben wird erneut auf den Kopf gestellt, als ihre Mutter Audrey nur noch wenige Monate zu leben hat. Sie setzt alles daran, ihre beiden Töchter zu versöhnen, womit ein unvorstellbares Geheimnis ans Licht zu kommen droht …

Es ist Liebe auf den ersten Blick, als Bex und David sich auf einer Party treffen. Sie sind füreinander bestimmt, heiraten bald und gründen eine Familie. Aber die perfekte Fassade bröckelt, und zwar jeden Tag ein bisschen mehr. Denn David ist Alkoholiker. Davor können sie nicht länger die Augen verschließen, wenn sie ihre Ehe retten wollen. Und das wünschen sie sich von ganzem Herzen. Weil sie an sich und ihre Liebe glauben.