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De buit van de tijd Reeks

Deze meeslepende familiesaga volgt het leven van een invloedrijke Londense familie door de turbulente 20e eeuw. Van sprankelende feesten tot persoonlijke tragedies, de boeken verkennen hoe personages omgaan met een snel veranderende wereld. De verhalen zitten vol dramatische wendingen, formidabele vrouwelijke hoofdrolspelers en diep psychologisch inzicht. Duik in een wereld van geheimen, liefde en een onverzettelijke geest.

Into Temptation
Something dangerous
No Angel

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  1. No Angel

    • 640bladzijden
    • 23 uur lezen

    With more than 3.5 million copies sold, Penny Vincenzi is one of the world's preeminent writers of popular fiction-and American readers no longer have to miss out on the fun. With the publication of No Angel , a novel introducing the engaging cast of characters in the Lytton family, Overlook opens a thrilling new dimension to this author's already illustrious career. No Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others-her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed by Celia's intrusion; as well as Oliver's daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and Sebastian Brooke, for whom Celia makes the most dangerous decision of all. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of London and New York in the First World War, No Angel is, as British Good Housekeeping wrote, "an absorbing page-turner, packed with believable characters and satisfyingly extreme villains, eccentrics, and manipulators." Readers of Maeve Binchy, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Anita Shreve will fall in love with this epic, un-put-downable novel.

    No Angel1
    4,2

  2. Something dangerous

    • 723bladzijden
    • 26 uur lezen

    From the international bestselling novelist Penny Vincenzi comes SOMETHING DANGEROUS, the second novel in her highly acclaimed SPOILS OF TIME trilogy. 'Reading her is an addictive experience' Elizabeth Buchan The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller, rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton, is clever, ambitious, and a complete contrast to the twins - and she faces temptation of the most unexpected kind...

    Something dangerous2
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  3. Into Temptation

    • 672bladzijden
    • 24 uur lezen

    London 1953. Nach den Schrecken des Zweiten Weltkriegs ist in das Leben der Lyttons endlich wieder eine gewisse Normalität zurückgekehrt. Doch dann folgt ein Paukenschlag: Die unlängst verwitwete Lady Celia verkündet, dass sie den Lytton-Verlag verlassen und wieder heiraten wird. Völlig vor den Kopf gestoßen, fragen sich ihre Kinder, was diese Entscheidung für ihre Leben, ihre Karrieren und ihr Erbe bedeutet. Die Machtverhältnisse verschieben sich im Familiengefüge und im Verlag – und schließlich muss Celia erkennen, dass nicht weniger als das Vermächtnis der Lytton-Dynastie auf dem Spiel steht ...

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    4,0