Anne Rivers Siddons Livres

L'auteur de Peachtree Road revient avec une histoire superbe et étonnamment originale de deux amants maudits, se déroulant dans le riche et beau pays de chasse du Sud profond. Une controverse explosive impliquant une usine d'armement nucléaire voisine oppose un ermite marginal et professeur de poésie à ceux qui risqueraient la nature bien-aimée dans laquelle il vit. Maintenant, son amante sans méfiance doit choisir de le suivre ou de se sauver elle-même.

1964... La Georgie s'accroche à ses rêves d'antan. Le "fantôme" de Scarlett hante encore les mémoires. Seuls les "parias" se battent pour les droits des Noirs... Mike Winship, une jeune fille appartenant à la "bonne société de Lytton", est surprise dans une manifestation pacifiste. Chassée par son père, elle part pour New York et devient journaliste. Vingt ans plus tard, une série d'événements la ramènent en Georgie... Elle retrouve son père, malade, diminué, et Bayard son ancien "fiancé", le plus bel homme que la Terre ait jamais porté... Sous le soleil brûlant du vieux Sud, rancunes et passions s'exacerbent. Une fois encore, la trahison sera au rendez-vous.

Tenth anniversary edition! Set amidst the grandeur of Old Southern aristocracy, here is a novel that chronicles the turbulent changes of a great city--Atlanta--and tells the story of love and hate between a man and a woman. When Lucy comes to live with her cousin, Sheppard, and his family in the great house on Peachtree Road, she is an only child, never expecting that her reclusive young cousin will become her lifelong confidant and the source of her greatest passion and most terrible need.

Sentiers sablonneux bordés de fleurs sauvages, ravissants cottages, paysages sublimes... Retreat, petite station balnéaire de la côte Est des Etats-Unis, pourrait être le décor d'une pièce de théâtre sur la villégiature. D'ailleurs, les acteurs ne manquent pas. Il y a les aristocrates qui jouent au tennis et papillonnent dans les cocktails, les douairières - d'honorables vieilles dames qui dirigent la petite communauté d'une main de fer - et Maude, la rebelle, qui arrive au début des années vingt avec Peter, son mari, et refuse le joug des conventions... Il y a aussi l'intrigue, ou plutôt les intrigues : la rencontre de Maude et de Peter, les scandales, les amours des uns et des autres, les instants de bonheurs, les drames... Soixante-dix ans de souvenirs que Maude égrène avant que le rideau ne tombe.

The year is 1966, a time of innocence, possibility, and freedom. And for Atlanta, the country, and one woman making her way in a changing world, nothing will be the same . . . After an airless childhood in Savannah, Smoky O'Donnell arrives in Atlanta, dazzled and chastened by this hectic young city on the rise. Her new job as a writer with the city's Downtown magazine introduces her to many unforgettable people and propels her into the center of momentous events that will irrevocably alter her heart, her career, and her world.

“A wonderful story. . . .Siddons has returned to what she does gives us a book full of laughter and adventure that has enough soul to leave us with something to think about after we finish reading.” — Detroit News/Free Press From childhood, Molly Bell Redwine was taught by her charismatic, domineering mother that "family is everything." But no one warned Molly that family can change unexpectedly. In rapid succession, her husband of more than twenty years abandons her for a younger woman, her mother dies, and her Atlanta clan scatters to the four winds. Molly is set adrift in a heartbeat. With her old world crumbling, Molly takes refuge with a friend on Martha's Vineyard, hoping to come to terms with who she truly is. When the summer season ends, Molly decides to stay on, renting a small cottage on a remote up-island pond—becoming part of an odd, new, very real family that taxes her old outworn notions. And as the long Vineyard winter approaches, Molly braces herself for the arduous task she must a search for renewal and identity, and the strength to carry her through to the warm and healing spring.

When Catherine Gaillard finally ends her self-imposed isolation in Tennessee for a trip to Italy, she finds that the travel transforms her, and her liberation threatens her husband.

The dark but seductive tale of five generations of Southern women and the house that was both their greatest inheritance and their most confining prison. In 1904, Ruth Yancey is only ten years old when she is brought to live at the magnificent mansion called Fox's Earth. But the impoverished daughter of an abusive mill worker has already internalized her mother's steely code: Men may hold all the power, but a woman possesses one thing that can get her anything in the world she wants...if she's prepared to make certain sacrifices. Deserted by her mother in order to give her a better chance at wealth, Ruth's own ambition drives her to possess Fox's Earth at any cost, even though her sacrifice will ultimately be her own husband, children, and grandchildren.

Best-selling author Anne Rivers Siddons returns to tell the story of Nora Findlay, a free-thinking young woman who turns the small town of Bazaar, Georgia, on its ear one summer in 1961. Thirteen-year-old Peyton's mother died when she was born and although her widower father assures her it wasn't her fault, Peyton believes it really was. When her mother's younger cousin Nora comes to Bazaar, Peyton isn't pleased by the intrusion. But Nora has a certain something about her - she laughs a lot, and she smokes and she seems to have done just about everything fun there is to do in this world. Her very presence seems to revitalize the entire household; even Peyton's father is in better spirits. But something is troubling Nora deeply. Peyton believes that whatever it is, it must be more than the snide comments made by neighbours who don't like her 'unsouthern' ways. Nora always laughs that off. It has to be something from her past that's bothering her, something she is running way from. When the shocking truth comes to light., it stuns the residents of their small segregated town. It also teaches Peyton the enormous cost of loving - and the necessity of doing it anyway.

Throughout her life Merritt has cared for all those around her. When Glynn, her stepdaughter runs away, Merritt follows her but soon decides that she is going to stay in California, where she finds an unexpected love and confronts Glynn before an earthquake strikes. From the author of HILL TOWNS and DOWNTOWN.

Every August, four women would gather together to spend a week at the beach, renting a new house each year. The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer thereafter. Their only criteria was oceanfront and isolation, their only desire to strengthen their far-flung friendships. They called themselves the Girls of August. But when one of the Girls dies tragically, the group slowly drifts apart and their vacations together are brought to a halt. Years later, a new marriage reunites them and they decide to come together once again on a remote barrier island off the South Carolina coast. There, far from civilization, the women make startling discoveries that will change them in ways they never expected.

Growing up, the only place tomboy Thayer Wentworth felt at home was at her summer camp - Camp Sherwood Forest in the North Carolina Mountains. It was there that she came alive and where she met Nick Abrams, her first love...and first heartbreak. Years later, Thayer marries Aengus, an Irish professor, and they move into her deceased grandmother's house in Atlanta, only miles from Camp Edgewood on Burnt Mountain where her father died years ago in a car accident. There, Aengus and Thayer lead quiet and happy lives until Aengus is invited up to the camp to tell old Irish tales to the campers. As Aengus spends less time at home and becomes more distant, Thayer must confront dark secrets-about her mother, her first love, and, most devastating of all, her husband.

In einer Männerwelt ganz auf sich selbst gestellt, wächst die zwölfjährige Emily auf der väterlichen Hundezuchtfarm auf, denn ihre Mutter hat die Familie schon vor Jahren verlassen. Allein ihr geliebter Hund Elvis gibt dem jungen Mädchen Halt. Eines Tages tritt die charismatische Lulu in ihr Leben. Emily ist zunächst eifersüchtig auf die schöne Zwanzigjährige, die alle – sogar Elvis – in ihren Bann zu ziehen scheint. Doch schon bald freunden sich die beiden unterschiedlichen Mädchen an…

Ženský román americké autorky vypráví příběh ženy, která po rozpadu rodiny nachází znovu smysl života. Hrdinka, téměř padesátiletá matka dvou dospělých dětí a spokojená manželka, prochází nejtěžším obdobím svého života. Nečekaně se s ní rozvádí manžel, děti odcházejí z domova a její matka, k níž měla rozporuplný vztah, náhle umírá. Zničená a dezorientovaná žena odjíždí s přítelkyní na ostrov Martha´s Vineyard, kde si chce odpočinout a rozvážit, co dělat dál. Po odjezdu přítelkyně si pronajme daleko od letoviska domek v lesích a rozhodne se zůstat přes zimu. V této samotě poznává nové, svérázné lidi a z pohodlného, zajištěného života se rázem dostává do situace, kdy musí odkázaná sama na sebe pečovat o čtyři na ní závislé lidi. V péči o ně nachází novou svobodu a novou naději do budoucnosti

In einem Vorort Atlantas wird ein extravagantes Haus gebaut, das die Bewunderung aller Nachbarn erregt. Doch dann ereignen sich merkwürdige Vorfälle.

Román ze současného amerického Jihu, ve kterém je hrdinka pod tíhou okolností nucena přehodnotit celý svůj dosavadní život. Hlavní hrdinka, manželka bohatého jižanského podnikatele, žije osamoceně ve zdech luxusní vily. Těžce se vyrovnává s traumatem ztráty své milované dcery. Jedinou oázou, kde se cítí volně, je malý ostrov, který zdědila po své rodině. Setkává se tu s upřímnými, prostými lidmi a cítí se zde šťastná. Ve chvíli, kdy jí manžel oznámí, že jediný způsob, jak zachránit svou existenci, je prodat ostrov za komerčními účely, se ocitá ve zlomové životní situaci. Má zachránit manželův podnik, nebo obětovat milované místo a zradit tak jeho obyvatele, kteří jí důvěřují?...

Een groep zeer goede vrienden uit de omgeving van Charleston, Zuid Carolina, valt langzaam maar zeker uit elkaar.

Seit dem Tod ihrer Tochter findet Caroline nur auf ihrer kleinen, urwüchsigen Insel etwas Seelenfrieden. Ihr Mann will die Insel vor der Küste South Carolinas allerdings zu einem Ferienparadies umgestalten.

Vele jaren nadat een vrouw haar jeugdliefde is kwijtgeraakt aan een rijke vriendin, krijgt ze van haar een uitnodiging voor een studentenreünie.

Nadat een vrouw met haar dochtertje haar gewelddadige echtgenoot is ontvlucht begint ze een nieuw leven in een door de jacht beheerste streek, waar ze verliefd wordt op een kluizenaar.