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.

"The Palestine Festival of Literature was established in 2008. Bringiong together writers from all corners of the globe, it aims to help Palestinians break the cultural siege imposed by the Isreali military occupation, to strengthen their artistic links with the the rest of the world."--Book flap

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

Take an ordinary, well-off family like the Prices. Watch what happens when one Sunday seventeen-year-old Hannah disappears without a trace. See how the family rallies when a ransom note demands half a million pounds for Hannah's safe return. But it's when Hannah comes home that the story really begins.

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. . . . .

'Nobody in the world knows our secret... that I've ruined Bev's life, and she's ruined mine.' Petra's love life is a bit of a car-crash, even in her sixties. But then she falls for Jeremy, an old chum, visiting from abroad. The catch? Jeremy is her best friend's husband. And just as Petra is beginning to relax (albeit slightly guiltily) into her happy ever after, she finds herself catapulted to West Africa, and to Bev, her best friend who she's been betraying so spectacularly. It turns out that no matter where you are in the world, everyone has something to hide. Can Bev - can anyone - be trusted?

Sometimes you have to go a long way to find what you're looking for. And sometimes a little beginner's luck is all you need...

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

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