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"A DELICIOUS STEW OF CRIME, PASSION, HIGH FASHION, AND TRAGIC LOVE." —Affaire de Coeur A reclusive couturiere of originality and passion, Maria Cazarès is a legend shrouded in mystery. Around her swirl rumor and counterrumor, whispers of shocking secrets and taboos broken. . . . "COMPULSIVELY READABLE AND UTTERLY ENGROSSING." —The Times (London) When the glitterati assemble in Paris for the new collections, a fatal passion established three decades before in sultry New Orleans fulfills its tragic destiny. Two journalists, Rowland McGuire and Gini Hunter, pick up the heady scent of an unfolding scandal. . . . "SUSPENSEFUL AND COMPLETELY ENTERTAINING." —Booklist As the world waits breathlessly for the new Cazarès collection, the search for a missing innocent will reach its pulsingly suspenseful climax. And at last, blood red truths will be revealed. . . . A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild® and the Doubleday Book Club®

Het is zomer 1967. In een oud, vervallen huis in Suffolk maakt een kunstschilder een portret van de dertienjarige Maisie en haar twee zussen. Tijdens het poseren vertelt Maisie hem over haar familie en haar idool Daniel, een jonge zigeuner uit het dorp. Is haar idyllische verhaal echter wel de juiste weergave van de werkelijkheid ? Die zomer verandert het leven van de drie zussen onherroepelijk en verschrikkelijk. Na meer dan twintig jaar keert Daniel terug naar het dorp , belaagd door wanhopige herinneringen en schuldgevoelens.

In 'Rebecca' van Daphne du Maurier trouwt een meisje met een rijke, oudere man en moet concurreren met diens overleden beeldschone eerste vrouw. Twintig jaar later duikt een op Rebecca lijkende jongeman op.

Een jonge vrouw heeft er haar eigen redenen voor om de familie, die haar na de dood van haar vader liefdevol heeft opgenomen, te gronde te willen richten.

In het huwelijksleven van een oudere man en een jong meisje doet de invloed ten kwade van de eerste vrouw zich gelden via haar vroegere kamenier en vertrouwde.

Sally Beauman is the author of the bestselling REBECCA'S TALE. First published in 1987, DESTINY is an international bestseller and has been widely translated. schovat popis

Traces the development of the Royal Shakespeare Company from its opening in 1879 to the present and examines its productions of the classic plays of Shakespeare

The first time Rebecca set eyes on Cal Ryder, she took a dislike to him. And her dislike flared into anger at their next meeting. But on a tiny Greek island you cannot avoid people, and gradually she realised her anger had hidden a passion of a different kind... She could almost taste the danger! Now, here's trouble, Rebecca thought the day mystery author Cal Ryder invaded Paxos and took a villa on the most inaccessible part of the Greek island. Then passion flared between them in a blaze of excitement that threatened to consume them both. But Rebecca noticed something secretive and watchful in his eyes, anger even, that made her feel shed blundered into his life at the worst possible moment. Whatever Cal was involved in was unfolding at a breakneck pace, and Rebecca's reactions were confused--partly emotional, partly sensual....

In this collection of suspenseful tales in which fantasies, murderous dreams and half-forgotten worlds are exposed, Daphne du Maurier explores the boundaries of reality and imagination.

'If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing - Maisie's maze - and I hate it. I need to be informed ...' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-year-old Maisie and her elder sisters, beautiful Julia and bookish Finn. Maisie embarks on a portrait of her own: she begins an account of her family and of her village friend Daniel Nunn, a young man she idolises, whom she watches over the chasm of a class divide. But is Maisie's description of a summer idyll all it seems? This is the summer when the three sisters' lives will irrevocably, and terribly, change. features in a major retrospective. Daniel Nunn, haunted by the vanished England of his childhood, obsessed by the three sisters and newly determined to understand what happened that last summer, pursues the ghosts of his past.