Résultats par auteur "Jojo Moyes"

Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life - steady boyfriend, close family - who has never been farther afield than her tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after an accident. Will has always lived a huge life - big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel - and now he's pretty sure he cannot live the way he is. Will is acerbic, moody, bossy - but Lou refuses to treat him with kid gloves, and soon his happiness means more to her than she expected.

Lou Clark knows a lot of things. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop, and she might not love her boyfriend Patrick. Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live, and now everything feels small and joyless. What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

Sarah's grandfather was a horseman of rare talent - only the exceptional are allowed into France's elite riding academy, Le Cadre Noir. But life took an unexpected turn, and now from a council estate in east London, the Captain hopes to train his granddaughter towards a better life.

How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started.

Suppose your life sucks. A lot. Your husband has done a vanishing act, your teenage stepson is being bullied, and your math-whiz daughter has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that you can't afford to pay for. That's Jess' life in a nutshell - until an unexpected knight-in-shining-armor offers to rescue them. Only Jess' knight turns out to be Geeky Ed, the obnoxious tech millionaire whose vacation home she happens to clean. But Ed has big problems of his own, and driving the dysfunctional family to the Math Olympiad feels like his first unselfish act in ages...maybe ever.

Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the super-rich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New York life within this privileged world.

France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War I, Edouard’s portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer’s dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything - her family, her reputation, and her life - to see her husband again.

Le temps était clément, offrant cette lumière de début de printemps qui insuffle de la beauté jusque dans les décors les plus usés ; dehors, des hirondelles se chamaillaient bruyamment dans les haies. Sa première pensée lucide fut : "Cette maison est comme nous. Elle a été désertée, abandonnée. Maintenant, elle va veiller sur nous, et nous la ramènerons à la vie." Lorsque son mari meurt sans crier gare, lui laissant une montagne de dettes, Isabel Delancey doit radicalement changer de train de vie.

Quand Lou s'envole pour New York, elle est certaine de pouvoir vivre pleinement cette aventure malgré les milliers de kilomètres qui la séparent de Sam. Elle rejoint la très fortunée famille Gopnik, se jette à corps perdu dans son nouveau travail, et découvre les joies de la vie new yorkaise. C'est alors que sa route croise celle de Joshua, un homme qui éveille en elle des souvenirs enfouis. Troublée par cette rencontre, Lou s'évertue à rassembler les deux parties de son cœur séparées par un océan.

When Alice Wright agrees to marry handsome American Bennett Van Cleve and leave behind her stifling life in England for a new adventure in Kentucky, she’s soon disenchanted by her newlywed status and overbearing father-in-law, owner of the local coal mine. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, the smart-talking, self-sufficient daughter of a local criminal, a woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.

Un an et demi après avoir exaucé le vœu de Will, qui souhaitait bénéficier du suicide assisté, Lou quitte sa ville natale où elle est la cible de critiques. Elle commence une nouvelle vie à Londres, mais elle a du mal à se conformer aux dernières volontés de Will qui lui recommandait de profiter de la vie.

The only place Suzanna Peacock finds comfort is her shop, which provides a haven for the misfits in town. But she is forced to confront events of the past and her family that have been haunting her for so long. And she discovers that the key to her happiness may have been in front of her all along....

Australia, 1946: 650 brides are departing for England to meet the men they married in wartime. But instead of the luxury liner they were expecting, they find themselves aboard an aircraft carrier, alongside a thousand men. On the sun-baked decks, old loves and past promises become distant memories, and tensions are stretched to the limit as brides and husbands change their minds. And for Frances Mackenzie, it soon becomes clear that the journey is more important than the destination....

La novela en la que se basa una de las películas de amor más bonitas. Una historia que necesitas experimentar. Yo antes de ti reúne a dos personas que no podrían tener menos en común en una novela conmovedoramente romántica con una pregunta: ¿Qué decidirías cuando hacer feliz a la persona a la que amas significa también destrozarte el corazón? Escucha para mas.... 

A sophisticated, pause-resistant double love story spanning 40 years - an unforgettable Brief Encounter for our times. It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing - not the tragic car accident, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon an impassioned letter, signed simply "B", asking her to leave her husband. Years later, a journalist named Ellie discovers the same enigmatic letter in a forgotten file in her newspaper's archives....

"J'ai cru que c'était la fin du monde. J'ai cru que rien de bon ne pourrait plus m'arriver. Je ne mangeais plus, je ne sortais plus. Je ne voulais plus voir personne. Mais j'ai survécu. Contre toute attente, j'ai fini par surmonter l'insurmontable et, petit à petit, la vie m'a paru vivable."

The Spanish House is a mixture of designs, Georgian, Gothic and Moorish, as if whoever started it had simply got bored. It has long been known as an architectural folly to locals, and is now nearly derelict to boot. When its reclusive owner dies intestate, the Spanish House is left to his city-dwelling niece. For Isabel, recently widowed, the house is a potential lifeline - the only hope she has of providing for her two children without having to sell her most treasured possession.

Lou est une fille ordinaire qui mène une vie monotone à souhait. Quand elle se retrouve au chômage, dans ce trou paumé de l'Angleterre dont elle n'est jamais sortie, Lou accepte un contrat de six mois pour tenir compagnie à un handicapé. Malgré l'accueil glacial qu'il lui réserve, Lou va découvrir en lui un jeune homme exceptionnel, brillant dans les affaires, accro aux sensations fortes et voyageur invétéré. Mais depuis l'accident qui l'a rendu tétraplégique, Will veut mettre fin à ses jours. Lou n'a que quelques mois pour le faire changer d'avis.

Liza McCullen weiß, dass sie ihrer Vergangenheit nicht entfliehen kann. Doch in dem beschaulichen Örtchen Silver Bay an der Küste Australiens hat sie für sich und ihre Tochter Hannah ein Zuhause gefunden. Die unberührten Strände, der Zusammenhalt in der kleinen Gemeinde und die majestätischen Wale, die in der Bucht vor Silver Bay leben, bedeuten ihr alles. Täglich fährt sie mit ihrem Boot raus aufs Meer und bietet Walbeobachtungstouren an. Doch das ruhige Leben gerät in Gefahr, als sich der Engländer Mike Dormer in der Pension von Lizas Tante einquartiert.

Nell is 26 and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away - to anywhere - before. Traveling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up for their mini vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone - including herself - wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed: independent and intrepid. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life?