Karien Gommers Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Raw, relentless and heart-poundingly real, this book knocked me off my feet like a river in flood' Ruth Ware, bestselling author of In a Dark, Dark Wood and The Woman in Cabin 10'A thought came to me that I couldn't force away: What we are wearing is how we'll be identified out in the wilderness.'Win Allen doesn't want an adventure.After a miserable divorce and the death of her beloved brother, she just wants to spend some time with her three best friends, far away from her soul-crushing job. But athletic, energetic Pia has other plans.Plans for an adrenaline-raising, breath-taking, white-water rafting trip in the Maine wilderness. Five thousand square miles of remote countryside. Just mountains, rivers and fresh air.No phone coverage. No people.No help.

Get to know Tess and Gus in Kate Eberlen's first novel, Miss You.A Radio 2 Book Club Choice 2016Tess and Gus are meant to be. They just haven't met properly yet. And perhaps they never will . . . Today is the first day of the rest of your life is the motto on a plate in the kitchen at home, and Tess can't get it out of her head, even though she's in Florence for a final, idyllic holiday before university. Her life is about to change forever - but not in the way she expects. Gus and his parents are also on holiday in Florence. Their lives have already changed suddenly and dramatically. Gus tries to be a dutiful son, but longs to escape and discover what sort of person he is going to be. For one day, the paths of these two eighteen-year-olds will criss-cross before they each return to England. Over the course of the next sixteen years, life and love will offer them very different challenges. Separated by distance and chance, there's no way the two of them are ever going to meet each other properly . . . or is there?

L'été s'achève à Plaka, un village sur la côte nord de la Crète. Alexis, une jeune Anglaise diplômée d'archéologie, a choisi de s'y rendre parce que c'est là que sa mère est née et a vécu jusqu'à ses dix-huit ans. Une terrible découverte attend Alexis qui ignore tout de l'histoire de sa famille: de 1903 à 1957, Spinalonga, l'île qui fait face à Plaka et ressemble tant à un animal alangui allongé sur le dos, était une colonie de lépreux... et son arrière-grand-mère y aurait péri. Quels mystères effrayants recèle cette île que surplombent les ruines d'une forteresse vénitienne ? Pourquoi, Sophia, la mère d'Alexis, a-t-elle si violemment rompu avec son passé ? La jeune femme est bien décidée à lever le voile sur la déchirante destinée de ses aïeules et sur leurs sombres secrets... Bouleversant plaidoyer contre l'exclusion, L'Île des oubliés, traduit dans vingt-cinq pays et vendu à plus de deux millions d'exemplaires, a conquis le monde entier.

Wanneer een vrouw na twintig jaar haar buurjongen opnieuw ontmoet, kijkt ze terug op haar jeugd die werd vertroebeld door de traumatische ervaringen van haar moeder.

Wanneer een vrouw na twintig jaar haar buurjongen opnieuw ontmoet, kijkt ze terug op haar jeugd die werd vertroebeld door de traumatische ervaringen van haar moeder.

Federica Campione adores her father. No matter that Ramon, a distinguished traveller and writer, spends months away from their home on the exotic Chilean coast; as soon as he's back, his daughter has eyes for no one but him. As she grows to womanhood, Federica attempts to recapture that long-forgotten sense of security in the arms of the debonair Torquil Jensen. From the sanctuary of a seemingly perfect marriage, she embarks on a painful journey of self-discovery. It takes Federica years of heartbreak to escape her gilded cage and learn the true lesson of the butterfly box, her father's legacy.

For Libby, the job in New Zealand seemed perfect - a settled home for her daughter, and a chance to study the whales and dolphins. And when she met John-Cody Gibbs, with his deep understanding of the place, she thought she had found the right man, but he has a dark secret in his past to overcome.

Een wat wereldvreemd meisje uit een rijk milieu zoekt een baantje, maar stuit op allerlei complicaties.

Op een donkere lentenacht, vijfentwintig jaar nadat ik had geholpen mijn oudtante Clara Hardigree te begraven, stond ik haar tot mijn eigen verbazing weer op te graven... Ik keek op naar Eli Wade, de man wiens vertrouwen ik geschonden had, net zoals ik zijn vader met mijn zwijgen had verraden - vijfentwintig jaar eerder.

Spoilt, wilful, resourceful and proud, Sofia Solanas grows up on a magnificent ranch in the middle of the Argentine pampas, loved by all around her. All, that is, except her Irish mother, Anna, who punishes her daughter for her own sense of alienation and inadequacy while doting on her sons. When a horrified Anna discovers that Sofia has embarked on a passionate love affair that can only bring shame upon the family, she sends Sofia away to Europe, inadvertently exiling her from her family and the man she loves for over twenty years. And then a family tragedy calls Sofia home. Following the story of the Solanas family in Argentina during the tumultous years of political upheaval, and Sofia's life in exile, MEET ME UNDER THE OMBU TREE is a moving, evocative and unforgettable story of love and forgiveness from a brilliant new voice.