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Something is amiss in the village of Badley Compton&hellipBinoculars at the ready, Flappy Scott-Booth is set to investigate. Newcomers have moved in, a young couple from London, delightful no doubt but they do need to know their place. Who better to teach them the ways of this close-knit community than Flappy herself?But Flappy has other distractions. An ardent admirer, a New Year&rsquos Ball to organize and manifold appearances to be kept up. How much time and effort it all takes! Add to the mix the sudden arrival of her son Jasper with his utterly charming persona and total lack of ambition and drive, accompanied by his pretentious wife and their two highly-strung children - and Flappy is on ultra-high alert.Endlessly entertaining, fabulously fun and gorgeously gossipy, Flappy Investigates is the pitch-perfect follow-up to the bestselling Flappy Entertains.

Rupert promised he was going to come back. All Florence had to do was wait.Cornwall, 1944When Rupert Dash is declared missing, presumed dead during the Battle of Arnhem, his wife, Florence, is devastated. She cant accept that he has gone from her life forever, and so when she finds a poem called Wait for Me hidden in an old book, she believes its a sign from her husband. A promise that he will return to her.London, 1988Since childhood Max has suffered from a recurring nightmare. Surrounded by the horrific chaos of World War Two, he has an urgent mission he knows he must complete. But time after time, the dream ends with him awaking in terror, his heart pounding from the horror of the battlefield. Desperate to understand why he is haunted by such terrible visions, Max embarks on a journey that leads him to Cornwall and a man named Rupert Dash.Australia, 1995Florence receives a letter from someone she has never met, who lives on the other side of the world. This stranger says he remembers a life that belonged to another before him. Could this be the one person Florence has waited over fifty years to meet again?''''Nobody does epic romance like Santa Montefiore'''' JOJO MOYES

Santa Sebag-MontefioreDas SchmetterlingskastchenEin Sudamerika-RomanFedericas kostbarster Schatz ist ein magisches Kastchen aus Peru, ein Geschenk ihres Vaters. Durch alle Sturme des Lebens soll es sie begleiten doch als die junge Frau ihre wichtigste Herzensentscheidung zu treffen hat, scheint das Gluck sie zu verlassen. Nach vielen ungestumen Jahren erst wird Federicalernen, die Botschaft des Schmetterlingskastchens zu verstehen ...Die leidenschaftliche Saga einer Frau, die ihr Schicksal selbst in die Hand nimmt.

Después de su divorcio, Gianluca abandona Londres y se traslada al palazzo Montelimone en Amalfi, nueva residencia de sus padres. Pero la antigua mansión encierra un profundo misterio entre sus muros

The irresistible new novel set between 1960s Tuscany and present-day Devon, from the Sunday Times bestseller, Santa Montefiore

En la barcaza sobre el Támesis que llama hogar, Alba vive una juventud alocada pero vacía. Durante toda su vida, la figura de la madre que no conoció la ha atormentado. Ahora ha llegado el momento de enfrentarse al pasado: a la verdad sobre lo que sucedio en un pequeño pueblo italiano, casi treinta años antes, una historia de amor apasionado en tiempos de guerra, de tragedia, crimen y mentiras que ha quedado enterrada en el silencio. Para ello, ha de viajar hasta el lugar donde todo comenzo, dejando atras Inglaterra, una familia de la que nunca se ha sentido parte y un hombre a cuyo amor no puede corresponder. En la costa italiana, donde el destino jugo una de sus crueles partidas tanto tiempo atras, le espera el fantasma de una mujer envuelta en el misterio.Una conmovedora historia de amor apasionado, tragedia y secretos, con la que la autora de A la sombra del ombu vuelve a atrapar al lector hasta la ultima pagina.

. Una vez más, Santa Montefiore, nos sorprende con una historia de amor y misterio. . Una novela que nos transporta a la maravillosa Toscana y a las increíbles costas de Inglaterra. . "Santa Montefio

. "Una de nuestras autoras preferidas", The Times. . "No podía soltar este libro", Julian Fellows.. "Arrebatadora", Glamour.El mundo de Antoinette Frampton se desmorona tras la trágica muerte de su marido George, el hombre al que ha amado toda su vida. El era suroca, su sosten, la persona a la que acudia en busca de amor y apoyo, ademas de ser el padre de sus tres hijos y la persona a la que mejor conocia. O al menos eso creia hasta el dia de su funeral, cuando una misteriosa desconocida se presenta, muy afectada, para revelarles algo que cambiara sus vidas para siempre. A veces se necesita una tragedia para enfrentarse a la verdad. Pero ¿y si la verdad es mas dificil de soportar que la tragedia...?

. Vuelve una de las grandes obras de Santa Montefiore, ya en su 7ª edición y con más de 50.000 ejemplares vendidos.. Una inolvidable saga familiar y la siempre irresistible historia de un amor imposi

Ellen Trawton hat ihr Leben satt: die Hektik Londons, den Smalltalk, ihre Mutter, die Ellens Leben schon bis ins Detail geplant zu haben scheint. Zuflucht findet sie in Irland bei ihrer Tante Peg, zu der die Mutter den Kontakt schon vor langer Zeit abgebrochen hat.Die wilde Schonheit Connemaras, vor allem die Insel mit der Ruine des alten Leuchtturms, zieht Ellen magisch an. Allen Warnungen zum Trotz verliebt sie sich in Conor, der in dem Ruf steht, Caitlin, seine junge schone Frau, in den Tod getrieben zu haben. Und Caitlin halt Conor fest in ihrem Bann, ihr Einfluss scheint uber den Tod hinaus zu wirken.Um ihre Liebe zu retten, muss Ellen herausfinden, was damals geschah. In der Nacht, als der Leuchtturm abbrannte, und Caitlin ums Leben kam.Eine Lekture, die rundum glucklich macht. Beste Love & Landscape mit ubernaturlicher Komponente.

England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up in a rural idyll. The beekeeper's daughter, she knows her place and her future - that is until her father dies and leaves her alone. Alone, that is, except for one man who she just can't shake from her thoughts...Massachusetts, 1973: Grace's daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable boy. He's wild and romantic, and in a band that might be going somewhere. But when tragedy strikes and he has to go home to England, he promises to come back to Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him. Both mother and daughter are searching for love and happiness, unaware of the secrets that bind them. To find what they are longing for they must confront the secrets of the past, and unravel the lies told long ago...

"Superb storyteller" (Plum Sykes) Santa Montefiore's sweeping and sophisticated international bestseller "The Woman from Paris" is "a feel good story, full of exuberance and passion and threaded with hope...an exceptional find" ("Seattle Post-Intelligencer)."""When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral--claiming to be the Lord's illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging his three adult sons and widow. Eventually, however, Phaedra's sweet nature thaws the frosty relationships. She becomes the daughter that Antoinette Frampton never had and a wise and compassionate granddaughter to the formidable Dowager Lady Frampton. But an attraction grows between Phaedra and the eldest son, David. It seems an impossible love--blocked by their blood connection and by the fury of one family member who is determined to expose Phaedra as a fraud. Filled with the luscious scenery and enchanting characters her fans adore, Santa Montefiore's "The Woman from Paris" is an unforgettable story about family, forgiveness, and the power of love.

An eccentric aristocrat is savagely murdered in his Italian palazzo at the end of WW2. Twenty years later, this unsolved crime touches the life of Alba, a hedonistic girl who lives on a houseboat in Sixties Chelsea. Between these two distinctive times runs a thread of love, decadence and betrayal that takes Alba from the country-houses of the shires to the olive groves of the Amalfi Coast, rich with the scent of figs, the drama of wartime and the lingering decay of tragedy. The past unfolds revealing a secret web of partisans and Nazis, peasants and counts and in the centre of it all, an alluring woman of mystery: her mother. Alba investigates not only a murder but the forbidden truth. What she finds in the past is heartrending, but it's the gateway to her own future.

Happily married with two small children and a circle of devoted friends, Angelica knows she should be grateful. But then she meets a charismatic South African who flirts with her and makes her feel beautiful. What starts as a long distance friendship grows into something deeper and soon she longs for his emails.From the glamorous streets of London to the lush vineyards of South Africa, Angelica chases a dream that risks the very things she holds dear. Yet, the dream is flawed and a moment of savage violence flings her and Jack together only to rip them apart. With life refined down to its bare essence, Angelica learns that what Fate takes with one hand, it gives with the other.

England, 1932: Grace Hamblin is growing up on the beautiful estate of the Marquess and Marchioness of Penselwood. The beekeepers daughter, she knows her place and what the future holdsthat is until her father dies. Her childhood friend Freddie has recently become her lover, and she is thankful when they are able to marry and take over her fathers duties. But there is another man who she just cant shake from her thoughtsMassachusetts, 1973: Graces daughter Trixie Valentine is in love with an unsuitable young man. Jasper Duncliffe is wild and romantic, and in a band that might hit it big. But when his brother dies and he is called home to England, Jasper promises to come back for Trixie one day, if only she will wait for him. Grace thinks that Trixie is surely abandoned and tries to support her daughter, but Trixie brushes off her mothers advice and comfort. She is confident that Jaspers love for her was real...

• Santa Montefiore es una maestra del romance épico. Nadie como ella es capaz de crear historias tan apasionantes y bellas, como emotivas y trágicas. • Una familia sacudida por la tragedia, un amor q

Lose yourself in the sun-drenched hills of the Amalfi coast with Santa Montefiore...Gianluca has to admit his life is empty so, in search of serenity and a deeper purpose to his existence, he flees to Italy, to the magical Palazzo Montelimone, lovingly restored by his parents, to assess his future. But life on the sun-drenched Amalfi coast is not as peaceful as Luca anticipates. The palazzo is filled with his mother''s eccentric friends and haunted by the ghosts of its murderous past. He meets a woman whose dark eyes are heavy with sorrow and a solemn little boy with an incredible secret. As he begins to unravel a mystery that has its roots in a long-ago act of violence, Luca is forced to face his greatest fear in exchange for the greatest truth.

Underneath her graceful exterior lies a passion nobody knew about, least of all Flappy herself...Flappy Scott-Booth is the self-appointed queen bee of Badley Compton, a picturesque Devon village. While her husband Kenneth spends his days on the golf course, she is busy overseeing her beautiful house and gardens, and organising unforgettable events, surrounded by friends who hang on to her every word.Her life is a reflection of herself - impossibly perfect.Until the day that Hedda Harvey-Smith and her husband Charles move into the village. Into an even grander home than hers. Taking the front seat on the social scene, quite literally.That simply will not do.Flappy is determined to show Hedda how things are done here in Badley Compton. But then she looks into Charles's beautiful green eyes. And suddenly, her focus is elsewhere. She is only human, after all...

Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea. All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they now? What was the real reason that she turned away from them? And who is the mysterious benefactor of a significant share of Arethusas estate? Arethusa is gone. There is no one left to tell her story. Faye feels bereft, as if her mothers whole family has died with her. Leaving her own husband and children behind, she travels to the picturesque village of Ballinakelly, determined to fulfil her mothers last wish and to find out the reason for Arethusas insistence on being laid to rest in this faraway land.