Meet the Bird family. They live in a honey-colored house in a picture-perfect Cotswolds village, with rambling, unkempt gardens stretching beyond. Pragmatic Meg, dreamy Beth, and tow-headed twins Rory and Rhys all attend the village school and eat home-cooked meals together every night. Their father is a sweet gangly man named Colin, who still looks like a teenager with floppy hair and owlish, round-framed glasses. Their mother is a beautiful hippy named Lorelei, who exists entirely in the moment. And she makes every moment sparkle in her children's lives. Then one Easter weekend, tragedy comes to call. The event is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear the family apart. Years pass as the children become adults, find new relationships, and develop their own separate lives. Soon it seems as though they've never been a family at all. But then something happens that calls them back to the house they grew up in -- and to what really happened that Easter weekend so many years ago. Told in gorgeous, insightful prose that delves deeply into the hearts and minds of its characters, The House We Grew Up In is the captivating story of one family's desire to restore long-forgotten peace and to unearth the many secrets hidden within the nooks and crannies of home.
Claire Allouch Boeken



The best thing that never happened to me
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Everyone remembers their first love. Holly certainly remembers Alex. But she decided ten years ago that love wasnâe(tm)t about mix tapes and seizing the moment âe" though sheâe(tm)s not exactly sure itâe(tm)s about secret dates with your boss, either. But what if the feelings never really went away? Alex wants to make every moment of his new job count. Itâe(tm)s a fresh start in a big city, and heâe(tm)s almost certain that moving to London has nothing to do with Holly. Almost. How do you know if it was meant to beâe¦ or never meant to happen at all? A brilliantly funny, feel-good story of first love, second chances and everything inbetween, perfect for fans of romantic comedies like Love Actually, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones.
Parbleu... Les couleurs !
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Attrape les objets au fil des pages et apprends les couleurs en t'amusant ! Une promenade à Versailles, à la cour du roi, avec des pièces à manipuler pour les petites mains, parbleu !