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Three (Paperback)
Valerie Perrin; Translated by Hildegarde Serle
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R324
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Adrien, Etienne and Nina are 10 years old when they meet at school
and become inseparable. Years later, a car is pulled up from the
bottom of a lake, with a body inside. Virginie, a local journalist
with an enigmatic past, follows the case.
Step by step she reveals
the extraordinary bonds that unite the three childhood friends. How
is the car wreck connected to their story? Why did their friendship
fall apart?
Three is a compelling story of love and loss, hope and
grief, and of the distance that comes with the passing of time. A
masterly crafted story full of suspense and unexpected plot twists.
*A NUMBER 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER* A TLS' BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021:
"Beautifully written and compelling to read." "An appealing
indulgence in nature, food and drink, and, above all,
friendships."-The Guardian Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a
cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Her daily life is lived to
the rhythms of the hilarious and touching confidences of random
visitors and her colleagues-three gravediggers, three
groundskeepers, and a priest. Violette's routine is disrupted one
day by the arrival of police chief Julien Seul, wishing to deposit
his mother's ashes on the gravesite of a complete stranger. Julien
is not the only one to guard a painful secret: his mother's story
of clandestine love breaks through Violette's carefully constructed
defences to reveal the tragic loss of her daughter, and her steely
determination to find out who is responsible. The funny, moving,
intimately told story of a woman who believes obstinately in
happiness, Fresh Water for Flowers brings out the exceptional and
the poetic in the ordinary. A delightful, atmospheric, absorbing
tale. What readers are saying: "I'd read this book over and over
again" "One of those books that you don't want to end" "Absolutely
amazing story" "This is one of the BEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN!" "A
really moving story of hope love and determination" "this is one of
the most life-affirming books I have read"
In the gripping third volume of Christelle Dabos's best-selling
saga, Ophelia, the mirror-travelling heroine, finds herself in the
magical city of Babel, guarding a secret that may provide a key
both to the past and the future. After two years and seven months
biding her time on Anima, her home ark, it is finally time to act,
to put what she has discovered in the Book of Faruk to good use.
Under an assumed identity she travels to Babel, a cosmopolitan and
thoroughly modern ark that is the jewel of the universe, and where
automata have taken over the most humble jobs from humans. But
under the surface of this pacific and orderly ark social unrest
stirs, fed by the memories of a fateful purge long ago, and the
inhabitants' growing fear of being replaced altogether. Will
Ophelia's talent as a reader suffice to avoid her being lured into
a deadly trap by her ever more fearful adversaries? Will she ever
see Thorn, her betrothed, again?
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents' stories.
After bonding with Helene, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Helene to relive her memories of love and war, Helene encourages Justine to confront the secrets of her own past, and the loss she has buried deep within.
One day, trouble arrives in the form of a mysterious phone call that shakes the retirement home to its core and uncovers a shocking revelation. At once humorous and melancholic, Valerie Perrin's debut novel is a story of how the past can shape our present, and the scars of undeclared love.
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Here, and Only Here
Christelle Dabos; Translated by Hildegarde Serle
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R436
R356
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The new novel from the million-copy bestselling author of The
Mirror Visitor Quartet perfect for fans of Netflix series Wednesday
Welcome to the School of Here, an unsettling, stifling and peculiar
place that is nonetheless familiar to us all. A place full of codes
and unspoken rules that are passed down from year to year.Â
With Here, and Only Here (Ici et seulement ici), the author of the
international sensation The Mirror Visitor Quartet, Christelle
Dabos, offers us a unique, dark and disturbing novel that shines a
light on the angst of being a teenager and just how difficult
school can be.Â
The dazzling finale of the international bestselling series: The
Mirror Visitor "The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as
Harry Potter."-Elle Magazine. "Strange and compelling."-The
Guardian "World-building on an epic scale."-The Bookseller
"Thrilling, unpredictable and disconcerting. This dense finale will
leave no reader indifferent."-Master Edition Strasbourg In the
closing volume of her thrilling saga, Christelle Dabos transports
us back to her wonderful fantasy world. Readers will be gripped by
the all too human trials and tribulations of the protagonists.
Ophelia and Thorn brave a complex universe fraught with allegories,
in their quest to uncover the truth. As the walls of mistrust that
stood between them lay in ruins, Ophelia and Thorn fall in love.
However, they must keep their love a secret and continue their
investigation into God's code and the mysterious figure called the
Other, and its devastating powers of destruction. But how will they
find it, without even knowing what it looks like? More united than
ever Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory. Here,
behind an apparently benign facade, is a laboratory where
terrifying, cruel experiments are conducted. Will the lovers
discover the truth they've been searching for, and will they be
able to bring balance back to the world of the Arcs?
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Reeling (Paperback)
Lola Lafon; Translated by Hildegarde Serle
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R410
R336
Discovery Miles 3 360
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An impassioned novel on the consequences of sexual exploitation and
the dead ends of forgiveness 13-year-old Cleo lives a drab
existence with her parents in a suburb of Paris. Her life changes
when she is offered the chance to obtain a scholarship - issued by
a mysterious Foundation - to realise her dream and become a modern
jazz dancer. But there is more to the Foundation and their suave
representative than meets the eye. Soon Cleo finds a trap has
closed in on her, and she's fallen prey to a sinister system in
which she'll eventually become complicit. Over 30 years later, a
cache of images surfaces on the internet and exposes the
Foundation's exploitative, hidden purposes. The police put out a
call for witnesses, and Cleo, now with a successful career as a
dancer behind her, comes to realise the past has come back to haunt
her. As her sense of self diffracts into multiple, contrasting
images, there's no way out but to confront her double burden as
victim and predator.
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A Winter's Promise (Paperback)
Christelle Dabos; Translated by Hildegarde Serle
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R225
R180
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Lose yourself in the fantastic world of the arks and in the company of unforgettable characters in this French runaway hit.
Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what’s more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her fiancé to Citaceleste, the capital of a cold, icy ark known as the Pole, where danger lurks around every corner and nobody can be trusted. There, in the presence of her inscrutable future husband, Ophelia slowly realizes that she is a pawn in a political game that will have far-reaching ramifications not only for her but for her entire world.
The dazzling finale of the international bestselling series: The
Mirror Visitor "The Mirror Visitor stands on the same shelf as
Harry Potter."-Elle Magazine. "Strange and compelling."-The
Guardian "World-building on an epic scale."-The Bookseller
"Thrilling, unpredictable and disconcerting. This dense finale will
leave no reader indifferent."-Master Edition Strasbourg In the
closing volume of her thrilling saga, Christelle Dabos transports
us back to her wonderful fantasy world. Readers will be gripped by
the all too human trials and tribulations of the protagonists.
Ophelia and Thorn brave a complex universe fraught with allegories,
in their quest to uncover the truth. As the walls of mistrust that
stood between them lay in ruins, Ophelia and Thorn fall in love.
However, they must keep their love a secret and continue their
investigation into God's code and the mysterious figure called the
Other, and its devastating powers of destruction. But how will they
find it, without even knowing what it looks like? More united than
ever Ophelia and Thorn arrive at the Deviations Observatory. Here,
behind an apparently benign facade, is a laboratory where
terrifying, cruel experiments are conducted. Will the lovers
discover the truth they've been searching for, and will they be
able to bring balance back to the world of the Arcs?
Ophelia has become Vice-storyteller to Farouk, the ancestral Spirit
of the Pole. Now that her powers - and the threat they present -
are known to all, she is forced to reveal the nefarious plots that
have been brewing in Citaceleste and to throw herself into the
political machinations of the Pole. In this perilous situation, the
only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic
fiance. As one after another influential courtier vanishes in
suspicious circumstances, Ophelia again finds herself
unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her
to see beyond the Pole's many illusions to the heat of the
formidable truth.
When our heroine Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. Now that her powers―and the threat they present to the secretive denizens of this new world―are known to all, she is forced to reveal the nefarious plots that have been brewing beneath the golden rafters of Citaceleste and to throw herself into the political machinations of the Pole. In this perilous situation, the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her enigmatic fiancé. As one after another influential courtier vanishes in suspicious circumstances, Ophelia again finds herself unintentionally implicated in an investigation that will lead her to see beyond Pole’s many illusions to the heart of the formidable truth.
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