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J'ai demandé à Maman si c'était vrai que les autres avaient des problèmes à cause de moi. Elle m'a répondu : "Ne laisse personne te dire ça, Aurore. Tu es comme ton prénom : un vrai soleil". Aurore.

A touching exploration of passion untested by domesticity Mail on SundayBefore Isabelle I knew nothing of sex.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom.Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life.Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in loves many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten - but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelleas tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come.Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for - and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.Praise for Douglas KennedyaThe absolute master of love stories with heart-stopping twistsa THE TIMESaKennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by globalaffairsa OBSERVER

*A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World.

On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children.

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about. But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become. How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment.Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness?For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She''s supported her husband through redundancy, she''s worried about her son, she''s encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless.She''s stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she''d like to go and the books she''d like to talk about.But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become.How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Manhattan, Thanksgiving eve, 1945. The war was over, and Eric Smythe's party was in full swing. All his clever Greenwich Village friends were there. So too was his sister Sara - an independent, canny young woman, starting to make her way in the big city. And then in walked a gatecrasher, Jack Malone - a U. S. Army journalist just back from a defeated Germany, and a man whose world-view did not tally with that of Eric and his friends. Set amidst the dynamic optimism of postwar New York and the subsequent nightmare of the McCarthy witch-hunts, The Pursuit of Happiness is a great tragic love story; a tale of divided loyalties, decisive moral choices, and the random workings of destiny.

Sally Goodchild, a thirty-seven-year-old American journalist, suddenly finds herself pregnant and married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset Sally''s relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her problems soon turn to nightmares when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you.

En mission au Moyen-Orient, Sally rencontre Tony. Elle est reporter au Boston Post, il est journaliste au Chronicle. Elle est pétillante, il est charmeur. Elle est célibataire, lui aussi. Ce qui doit arriver arrive: coup de foudre. Mais Sally ignore que le reve va virer au cauchemar. Et que le pire viendra de celui qu'elle pensait pourtant bien connaitre, son mari...