Anna Hope Knihy

The story unfolds during the Brookes family's gathering to bury Philip, the patriarch whose legacy shapes their lives. Frannie dreams of rewilding their estate amidst climate concerns, while Milo envisions a utopian retreat for the wealthy. Isa, the estranged daughter, seeks closure with her childhood love, and Grace contemplates her long-suffering marriage. The arrival of Clara from America introduces secrets that threaten to unravel their carefully constructed dreams, revealing the complexities of family ties and personal aspirations.

Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way: Hettie, who dances for sixpence a waltz at the Hammersmith Palais; Evelyn, who toils at a job in the pensions office, and Ada, a housewife who is beset by visions of her dead son. One day a young man comes to her door. He carries with him a wartime mystery that will bind these women together and will both mend and tear their hearts. A portrait of three intertwining lives caught at the faultline between empire and modernity, Wake captures the beginnings of a new era, and the day the mood of the nation changed for ever.

What happened to the women we were supposed to become?Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come. They are electric. They are the best of friends.Ten years on, they are not where they hoped to be. Amidst flailing careers and faltering marriages, each hungers for what the others have. And each wrestles with the same question: what does it take to lead a meaningful life?The most razor-sharp and heartbreaking novel of the year, EXPECTATION is a novel about finding your way: as a mother, a daughter, a wife, a rebel.

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016 'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I've ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife 'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer 'Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking' Sunday Express 5/5 'Moving, fascinating' Times 'A tender and absorbing love story' Daily Mail 'Unsentimental and affecting' Sunday Times 'Exquisitely good' Metro 1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet It is a dance that will change two lives forever. Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.

The White Rock stands, ancient and sacred, off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Four people, across four centuries, each navigating ruptures to the world they know, are irresistibly drawn to it. 2020: A British writer travels with her husband to give thanks for the birth of their child. 1969: An American rock star runs from the law in the final act of his self-destruction.1907: A Yoeme girl is torn from her homeland and taken by force to the coast.1775: A Spanish naval officer prepares to set sail to continue the conquest of the Pacific coast.

In Anna Hopes neuem Roman sind vier Menschen aus verschiedenen Jahrhunderten schicksalhaft verbunden. Eine Schriftstellerin, ein Rocksänger, ein indigenes Mädchen und ein spanischer Leutnant erleben, wie ein heiliger Fels vor der Küste Mexikos ihr Leben entscheidend verändert.

Inghilterra, 1911. In un manicomio al limitare della brughiera dello Yorkshire, dove uomini e donne vivono separati gli uni dagli altri da alte mura e finestre sbarrate, c'è una sala da ballo grandiosa ed elegante, con tanto di palcoscenico e orchestra. In questo luogo sognante e raffinato, i pazienti si ritrovano una volta alla settimana per danzare: qui hanno la possibilità di sentirsi liberi, di mostrare i sentimenti, di muovere i loro corpi in libertà. I desideri lungamente messi a tacere tornano ad agitare con prepotenza i cuori dei protagonisti. Proprio nella sala da ballo Ella Fay, una giovane operaia ricoverata contro la sua volontà per una crisi isterica, conosce John Mulligan, un uomo dalla sensibilità fuori del comune, che soffre di depressione in seguito a un trauma. Complice del loro incontro è Clem, una paziente affetta da manie suicide, che aiuta Ella a leggere i messaggi di John. A occuparsi di loro c'è il dottor Fuller, un medico ossessionato dall'eugenetica e fermamente convinto che la musica e la danza possano aiutare nella cura delle malattie psichiatriche. Quattro personaggi che intrecciano le loro storie in un affresco originale e carico di significati profondi: i loro dolori e le loro frustrazioni sono anche i nostri, come pure la danza liberatoria, il coraggio di gridare, la voglia di cambiare.