Deborah Moggach Knihy

Sophia Sandvoortová žije poklidným životem se svým postarším, ale bohatým manželem. Ten jednoho dne navrhne, aby se dali portrétovat, a tak do jejich domu přichází malíř Jan van Loos. Přestože Sophia cítí ke svému manželovi náklonnost, zamiluje se do Jana a přes výčitky svědomí se s ním začne scházet. Aby ji nikdo nepoznal, když večer vychází z domu, používá oblečení služky Marie. Marie čeká nemanželské dítě, ale protože přišla na nevěru své paní, začne Sophii vydírat. Sophia tedy vymyslí plán, který má pomoci služce, ale i jí a Janovi. Ví, jak její manžel touží po potomkovi, a tak předstírá, že je těhotná. Jan dostává doporučení na spolehlivého doktora, který na jejich riskantní hru přistupuje. Protože k realizaci svých záměrů potřebují peníze, začíná Jan spekulovat s tulipánovými cibulkami, neboť celé Holandsko je v té době zasaženo tulipánovou horečkou. Blíží se doba Mariina porodu a právě tehdy má dojít k vyřešení situace ke spokojenosti všech. Jenže všechno se vždy naplánovat nedá.

From the author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL, an irresistible collection of stories, now published in one volume číst celé

Always a rebel, Marianne was the first girl in her class to bleach her hair and learn how to smoke. A few boyfriends and one abortion later she falls in love with Salim, the proud and elegant Pakistani with eyes like traeacle. East meets West in a passionate mixed marriage. However, Marianne knows little of the Islamic view of motherhood. When his wife proves unfaithful, Salim reasons that she is morally incapable of bringing up her children and kidnaps them while she is at work. . . . .

Because I am a girl I am less likely to go to school Because I am a girl I am more likely to suffer from malnutritionBecause I am a girl I am more likely to suffer violence in the homeBecause I am a girl I am more likely to marry and start a family before I reach my twenties.

Seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. Her family receives a ransom note demanding half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins. The family loses their house, their wealth, and disintegrates under the pressures of guilt and poverty, forced to confront their true selves.

From the bestselling author of The Best Exotic Marigold HotelAt school they called her Porky on account of the pigs her family kept outside their bungalow near Heathrow. Only a child robbed of her childhood can know too late what it means to be loved too little and loved too much...

James is getting on a bit and needs full-time help. So Phoebe and Robert, his middle-aged offspring, employ Mandy, who seems willing to take him off their hands. But as James regales his family with tales of Mandy's virtues, their shopping trips, and the shared pleasure of their journeys to garden centres, Phoebe and Robert sense something is amiss. Is this really their father, the distant figure who never once turned up for a sports day, now happily chortling over cuckoo clocks and television soaps? Then something happens that throws everything into new relief, and Phoebe and Robert discover that life most definitely does not stop for the elderly. It just moves onto a very different plane - changing all the stories they thought they knew so well.

Young love, heartbreak and growing up - the first novel, newly republished, by Sunday Times bestselling author Deborah Moggach, author of THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL

Beautiful, bright and ambitious, Natalie is stuck in a dead end job, living her life through wild weekend, yearning for something more. When she sees a chance to change her life, she takes it. After all, its only a minor crime. Nobody will be hurt, will they? But Colin gets hurt. He's the man who Natalie marries.

Amsterdam i 1630'erne: Sophia Sandvoort sidder model sammem med sin meget ældre mand. Da hun forelsker sig i maleren, breder ulykkerne sig som ringe i vandet