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Harmien Robroch

    Perfect Day
    Life Skills
    L'Hippopotame
    Summer of Love
    Une femme libre
    The Becoming
    • The Becoming

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      "When Breen Kelly makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland in search of her father, little does she know she will find a portal into another world-- Talamh-- where she will find magic, family and a destiny beyond her wildest dreams. Breen is welcomed by most of her family and friends but there is one who is far from welcoming. Her grandfather, the outcast god Odran plots to destroy Talamh, and now all must unite to defeat his dark forces. There will be losses and sorrows, betrayal and bloodshed. But through it, Breen Siobhan Kelly will take the next step on the journey to becoming all that she was born to be."--Publisher.

      The Becoming2021
      4,2
    • Who knows what might happen in a summer of love?Sian Bishop has left the hustle and bustle of the city behind and has thrown herself into a new life in the country.With her young son, her picture-postcard garden and her small thriving business, she's happy and very busy. She is not - repeat not - looking for love.And then, one glorious summer evening, Gus Beresford arrives.One-time explorer, full-time heart-breaker, Gus is ridiculously exciting, wonderfully glamorous - and, Sian tells herself, completely wrong for a romantically cautious single woman like her.But she and Gus have met before. And, despite Sian's best intentions, it isn't long before she's falling for him all over again ...

      Summer of Love2011
      3,8
    • Une femme libre

      • 345pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      En avril 1912, le Titanic fait naufrage, emportant avec lui le père et le frère d'Annabelle. Elle n'a alors que dix-huit ans. Pour oublier son chagrin, elle travaille bénévolement dans les hôpitaux et découvre sa vocation : la médecine. En épousant son meilleur ami, la jeune fille pensait enfin renouer avec le bonheur. Mais Josiah lui a caché son homosexualité. Trahie, Annabelle fuit New York et embarque pour la France, afin de soigner les soldats blessés sur le front de la Première Guerre mondiale. Son destin est en marche...

      Une femme libre2009
      3,8
    • L'Hippopotame

      • 458pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

      « Je maudissais cette fille de ne pas m'avoir dit ce que j'étais censé rechercher. Si au moins elle m'avait donné une vague indication, je me serais arrangé pour la conforter dans ses illusions. Mais quelles illusions Ma dernière visite à Swafford m'avait beaucoup distrait, certes, mais de là à parler de miracles... » Poète déchu, critique dramatique acariâtre, vieux libidineux aigri confit de misanthropie, Ted Wallace est un inébranlable rationaliste et ennemi tonitruant des bonnes manières. Alors qu'il vient de se faire mettre à la porte du journal pour lequel il écrit, il se voit investi d'une mission secrète par sa très charmante filleule Jane : soulever le mystère de Swafford Hall, demeure du richissime lord Logan. David, le fils de maison, détient-il réellement le pouvoir de guérir les gens ? Armé de flair, d'esprit critique aiguisé et de whisky, Ted Wallace arpenter le château à la recherche de la vérité. Un roman où humour et sarcasme bousculent l'intrigue.

      L'Hippopotame2004
      3,7
    • Perfect Day

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      On a perfect spring morning, Alexander catches a train into London, but never reaches work. Instead, he spends the day with Kate, a waitress he met the night before. Such a perfect day, Nell goes to the seaside, hoping that the sea air will blow away the doubts she has about her life. As Nell ponders why falling in love is so different from loving someone, Alexander allows himself to imagine leaving his old life behind and starting afresh. And by a strange turn of fate, there's an opportunity to do just that.

      Perfect Day2001
      3,3
    • Life Skills

      • 343pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      Ditching her fiancé and taking a new career as a cook on a pair of hotel boats is a new departure for Julia, but even afloat her past catches up with her with the arrival of her childhood enemy, the enigmatic Fergus Grindley.

      Life Skills2000
      3,6