The Phoenix Ballroom
- 368pages
- 13 heures de lecture
The gorgeous new uplifting and heart-warming novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things.
Cette auteure explore les complexités de la connexion humaine et la nature éphémère de la mémoire. Sa prose est évocatrice et perspicace, plongeant souvent dans les profondeurs de la psyché humaine. À travers des personnages méticuleusement élaborés et des décors atmosphériques, elle invite les lecteurs à contempler l'importance de la perte et de la redécouverte. Son œuvre éclaire les subtiles nuances de l'émotion et les vérités universelles qui résonnent bien après la dernière page.






The gorgeous new uplifting and heart-warming novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things.
Fortune teller Madame Burova is retiring, but before she does she has some promises to keep and some secrets to reveal - the new novel from the bestselling author of The Keeper of Lost Things.
Tilly was a bright, outgoing little girl who liked playing with ghosts and matches. She loved fizzy drinks, swear words, fish fingers and Catholic churches, but most of all she loved living in Brighton in Queenie Malone's magnificent Paradise Hotel with its endearing and loving family of misfits - staff and guests alike. But Tilly's childhood was shattered when her mother sent her away from the only home she'd ever loved to boarding school with little explanation and no warning. Now, Tilda has grown into an independent woman still damaged by her mother's unaccountable cruelty. Wary of people, her only friend is her dog, Eli. But when her mother dies, Tilda goes back to Brighton and with the help of her beloved Queenie sets about unravelling the mystery of her exile from The Paradise Hotel and she discovers that her mother was not the woman she thought she knew at all ... Mothers and daughters ... their story can be complicated ... it can also turn out to have a happy ending
Masha is drowning. Once a spirited, independent woman with a rebellious streak, her life has been forever changed by a tragic event twelve years ago. Unable to let go of her grief, she finds solace in the silent company of the souls of her local Victorian cemetery and at the town's lido, where she seeks refuge underwater - safe from the noise and the pain. But a chance encounter with two extraordinary women - the fabulous and wise Kitty Muriel, a convent girl-turned-magician's wife-turned-seventy-something-roller-disco-fanatic, and the mysterious Sally Red Shoes, a bag lady with a prodigious voice - opens up a new world of possibilities, and the chance to start living again. Until the fateful day when the past comes roaring back ..
Andrew Peardew collects things dropped or left behind by others and writing stories about them. He does this as a tribute to the fiancée who died the day he lost one of her keepsakes. When a dying Andrew bequeaths his estate to his assistant, Laura, she begins to bond with new neighbors while attempting to reunite the objects with their owners