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Jenny Tanner opens the box she has cherished for decades. Contained within are her most precious mementoes, amongst them a pebble, a carving and a newspaper cutting she can hardly bear to read. But Jenny knows the time is finally here. After the war, in a mountainside village in Italy, she left behind a piece of her heart. However painful, she must return to Cinque Alberi. And lay the past to rest. After a troubled upbringing, Candice Barnes dreams of a future with the love of her life - but is he the man she believes him to be? When Candice is given the opportunity to travel to Italy with Jenny, she is unaware the trip will open her eyes to the truth she's been too afraid to face. Could a place of goodbyes help her make a brave new beginning?

"Storytelling at its finest with characters that come alive and a plot that dances with intrigue. An absolutely first-class read that does not disappoint" --Prima "A gripping summer read" --Woman & Home Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother. Years later, when Tara receives a letter from a London solicitor its contents shake her to the core. Someone has left her a key to a safe deposit box. In the box lies an object that will change everything Tara thought she knew and lead her on a journey to deepest Spain in search of the answers that have haunted her for forty years. Violet Skye regrets her decision to travel abroad leaving her young daughter behind. As the sun dips below the mountains, she reminds herself she is doing this for their future. Tonight, 4th June 1978, will be the start of a new life for them. This night will indeed change Violet's destiny, in the most unexpected of ways... Fall in love this summer with Her Last Promise, a page-turning, heart-wrenching story of how hope can blossom in the ruins of tragedy and of the redeeming power of love from No. 1 bestselling author of The Letter, Kathryn Hughes.

When the radical journalist Marian Evans went to live with her lover, liberal Victorian society decreed that she would never again be invited to dinner. But exiled in suburbia, the 37-year-old Marian finally found the courage to start writing the novels which had haunted her imagination since childhood. As George Eliot she won fame, fortune and the kind of social acceptance which had Queen Victoria asking for an autograph. But the one person whose approval mattered to Marian was the one person who refused to give it. For over twenty years Isaac Evans refused to acknowledge the younger sister whose unconventional religious and domestic life had destroyed his carefully crafted facade of provincial respectability. In this new biography of George Eliot, Kathryn Hughes explores the connections between Marian Evans's fractured early family life and her spectacular rejection of the lies, secrets and silences which choked Victorian England. Yet Marian Evans was typical of her times in wanting rules and continuity too. In her novels she returned again and again to the agricultural communities of her youth. In their social and moral cohesion she found an emotional warmth which was missing from the secular, scientific age which she and her radical intellectual friends had worked so hard to create. In this fascinating psychological study, George Eliot emerges as Victorian England's most acute and qualified chronicler. Cosmopolitan and skeptical, she nonetheless retained a deep understanding of the ties of feeling and memory which kept her millions of readers nourished by their personal and collective past.

1956. It's Ellen Crosby's first day as a student nurse at Ambergate County Lunatic Asylum. When she meets a young woman committed by her father, and a pioneering physician keen to try out the various 'cures' for mental illness, little does Ellen know that a choice she will make is to change all their lives forever ... 2006. Sarah is drawn to the abandoned Ambergate Asylum. Whilst exploring the old corridors she discovers a suitcase belonging to a female patient who was admitted fifty years earlier. The shocking contents lead Sarah to unravel a forgotten story of tragedy, lost love and an old wrong that only she may have the power to put right

Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband. She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him, also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home. While going through the pockets of a second-hand suit, she comes across an old letter, the envelope firmly sealed and unfranked. Tina opens the letter and reads it -- a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever ... Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool, but hopes he can put things right. On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future. It does -- in more ways than he can ever imagine ... The Letter tells the story of two women, born decades apart, whose paths are destined to cross and how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation.

"A groundbreaking account of what it was like to live in a Victorian body from one of our best historians ... brings the Victorians back to life and helps us understand how they lived their lives"--Publisher's description.

'Remarkable' Literary Review 'Startlingly original' Amanda Foreman Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era.

V minulosti jednej ženy je kľúč v budúcnosti druhej ... Zdravotná sestra Ellen Crosbyová nastúpi do zamestnania v Ambergatskej nemocnici pre duševne chorých. Nevie, čo ju tam čaká, no je plná elánu, lebo im chce pomáhať. Keď spozná mladú ženu, ktorú do ústavu privezie otec, netuší, že čoskoro urobí rozhodnutie, ktoré navždy zmení ich životy. Sarah priťahuje opustený Ambergate. Pri jednom prieskume objaví kufor pacientky, ktorá tam prišla pred päťdesiatimi rokmi. Šokujúci obsah kufra, ktorého sa pol storočia nikto nedotkol, jej pomôže rozmotať zabudnutý príbeh o tragédii, stratenej láske a príležitosti napraviť dávnu krivdu.