Résultats par auteur "Jojo Moyes"

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. 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, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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....

Merham is a well-ordered 50s seaside town - the kind of town where everyone knows their place (and those who don't are promptly put in it). Lottie Swift is an evacuee who has grown up with the respectable Holden family and loves Merham. The Holden's daughter Celia, however, chafes against the constraints on the town and longs to escape....

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....

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.

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.

1937: Hals über Kopf folgt die Engländerin Alice ihrem Verlobten Bennett nach Amerika. Doch anstatt im Land der unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten findet sie sich in Baileyville wieder, einem Nest in den Bergen Kentuckys. Mächtigster Mann dort ist der tyrannische Minenbesitzer Geoffrey Van Cleve, ihr Schwiegervater. Neuen Lebensmut schöpft Alice erst, als sie gemeinsam mit vier anderen Frauen für die mobile Bücherei zu arbeiten beginnt - eine der Bibliotheken auf dem Lande, die auf Initiative der Präsidentengattin Eleanor Roosevelt gegründet wurden.

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.

Lou Clark tiene muchas preguntas: ¿Por qué ha terminado trabajando en el pub irlandés de un aeropuerto donde cada día tiene que ver cómo otras personas se van de viaje a conocer sitios nuevos? ¿Por qué a pesar de que ya lleva meses viviendo en su apartamento aún no se siente en casa? ¿Le perdonará su familia lo que hizo hace año y medio? ¿Y superará alguna vez la despedida del amor de su vida? Lo único que Lou sabe con certeza es que algo ha de cambiar.  

Jess est à bout : elle se tue à la tâche, son mari a disparu de la circulation, son fils rentre de cours couvert de bleus, et elle n'a pas les moyens de payer à sa fille surdouée l'école prestigieuse qui la promettrait à un brillant avenir. Alors qu'elle ne s'y attendait plus, la chance lui sourit enfin. La chance, ou plutôt le millionnaire dont Jess entretient la résidence. Accusé de délit d'initié, Ed risque la prison, et il craint plus que tout d'accabler son père malade avec cette nouvelle.

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.

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.

Liza McCullen will never escape her past, but the unspoilt beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the safety she craves for her young daughter, Hannah...until Mike Dormer arrives, and the peace of Silver Bay is shattered. The mild-mannered Englishman could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbours her beloved whales but also her conviction that she will never love again.

Inspirada por la sed de aventuras y el deseo de abandonar la monotonía de Inglaterra, Alice Wright se enamora de un atractivo americano y toma la impulsiva decisión de aceptar su propuesta de matrimonio. Pero su nueva vida en la pequeña y conservadora ciudad minera de Kentucky en la que Alice se instala con su marido y su autoritario suegro en medio de la Gran Depresión resulta aún más claustrofóbica. Hasta que conoce a Margery O'Hare. Independiente y deslenguada, Margery no ha pedido el permiso de un hombre para nada en toda su vida.

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?