Лучшие книги Erica James

At 30, Katie Lavender thinks she is better than most when it comes to dealing with life's surprises. But when she gets a request to visit a solicitor, she's not expecting the dramatic turn her life is about to take. There, she receives a letter from her deceased mother that literally changes everything she ever knew about herself... The Real Katie Lavender is the delightful, sparkling new novel from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.

The beautiful city of Venice has been Lydia's home for many years. It's a place she loves and where she's found a sense of peace and fulfillment. Then one day she glimpses a young man's face in the crowd that threatens to change all that. He's a heart-stopping reminder of a dreadful secret she believed she had banished to the past ...As a young child, Lydia and her sister are sent to live with grandparents they've never even met before. It's a cruel and loveless new world for them and it teaches Lydia to grow up fast. She learns to keep secrets and to trust sparingly. And through it all she suppresses her grief and guilt, believing she is to blame for her mother's death. Now, twenty-eight years later, Lydia is persuaded to leave behind the safe new life she has created for herself and return to England to face the past. And maybe her future. Compelling and heart-breaking, with a touch of bittersweet romance, this is Erica James at her finest.

It was a wedding invitation that changed everything for Floriana. If she hadn't been so distracted at the thought of having to witness the one true love of her life get married, she would have seen the car coming and there would have been no need for elderly spinster Esme Silcox and local property developer Adam Strong to rush to her aid. If she hadn't met them she would never have had the courage to agree to attend Seb's wedding in Lake Como. For Esme, Lake Como awakens memories of when she stayed at the lake as a 19-year-old girl and fell in love for the first time. So often she's wondered what happened to the man who stole her heart all those years ago, a man who changed the course of her life.

Dan and Sally Oliver and their friend Chloe Hennessey are lucky to be alive. Three years on, after surviving one of the world's biggest natural disasters - the Boxing Day tsunami - their lives have changed dramatically.
Dan and Sally are now parents. Dan is enjoying being a stay-at-home father taking care of their young son, and Sally is the breadwinner and loves her job as a partner in a Manchester law firm. The arrangement has so far worked well, but when Dan starts to question whether Sally has got her priorities right, the cracks in their marriage begin to appear.
Dan and Sally have everything Chloe wishes for in life - a happy marriage and a beautiful child. Dumped by her long-term boyfriend just weeks after the tsunami, she's been on a mission ever since to find the perfect father for the child she craves. When she meets Seth Hawthorne, she thinks she may have hit the jackpot. But is Seth the man she thinks he is?
IT'S THE LITTLE THINGS is a moving, compelling story of how a life can change in a heartbeat.

Lizzie has an unfortunate knack for attracting bad luck, but this time she's hit the jackpot. Losing her heart to her boss at the radio station where she works leads directly to losing her job, and with no money in the bank she's forced to swallow her pride and return home to her parents. As if that wasn't bad enough, her mother finds her work at the local care home for the elderly, and it's there that Lizzie meets Mrs Dallimore.

In her nineties, Mrs Dallimore also finds herself in a situation which she's reluctantly coming to terms with. Old age has finally caught up with her, and with her life drawing to a close she gives in to the temptation to relive the past by sharing it with Lizzie.

She tells Lizzie of the day when, as a young girl, and shortly before the outbreak of World War II, she left her home in America to cross the Atlantic to England where she hoped to meet her English grandparents for the first time. At best she hoped for a family reconciliation, but before long her visit turned into so much more.

As Lizzie listens to Mrs Dallimore's story, she begins to realise that she's not the only person to attract bad luck, or make mistakes, and maybe things aren't so bad for her after all . . .

Mia Channing appears to have an enviable life: a beautiful home, a happy marriage, a job she enjoys and three grown-up children to whom she's devoted. But appearances can be deceptive...

When the family gathers for her son's thirtieth birthday, he brings with him his latest girlfriend, who, to their surprise, has a nine-year-old daughter. Then, before the birthday cake has even been cut, Mia's youngest daughter Daisy has seized the opportunity to drop a bombshell. It's an evening that marks a turning point in all their lives, when old resentments and regrets surface and the carefully ordered world Mia has created begins to unravel.

A sparkling new tale from the author of A Breath of Fresh Air, for anyone who has ever dreamt of starting over

Alice Shoemaker habitually goes to great lengths to avoid telling the truth about herself and her past. After agreeing to help out a friend by shopping and cleaning for the unknown man staying at Cuckoo House, she soon becomes suspicious that her strange and obnoxiously rude client has something to hide. Clayton Miller's life is a mess. His career as one of the country's best comedy scriptwriters has stalled, and his long-term girlfriend has left him for his ex-best friend and ex-writing partner. Just when he thinks his life couldn't get any worse, he commits a spectacularly public fall from grace, and with the press hounding him, his agent banishes him to the middle of nowhere until the dust has settled. When Alice and Clayton discover the truth about each other they form an unlikely friendship—until Alice discovers Clayton has betrayed her in the worst possible way.

A SENSE OF BELONGING
Cholmford Hall Mews offers more than an exclusive location in which to live. Several very different people have arrived and are coming to terms with their futures. All the newcomers to Cholmford Hall Mews are searching for something - but will they find rather more than they bargained for...?

ACT OF FAITH
For Ali Anderson, Christmas is a poignant reminder of the tragedy that not so long ago tore her life apart and destroyed her once-happy marriage to Elliot. She agrees to spend Christmas with her friend Sarah. But as Sarah's husband's cranky behaviour escalates, Ali decides to play God with her friend's incomprehensible marriage - with consequences she could never have imagined.

THE HOLIDAY
Izzy Jordan knows she ought to put the past behind her, and a summer holiday in Corfu looks to be just the chance she needs - there's even the possibility of a no-strings-attached holiday romance with the irresistible Theo. Then Theo's oldest friend, Mark, turns up - a crime writer with a past more complex than Izzy's - and helps her make a decision that ensures this is a holiday no one will forget.

A gorgeous tale of friendship and love from Sunday Times bestseller Erica James.

Ashcombe was the most beautiful house Saskia had ever seen as a little girl. A rambling pink cottage on the edge of the Suffolk village of Melbury Green, its enchanting garden provided a fairy-tale playground of seclusion, a perfect sanctuary to hide from the tragedy which shattered her childhood.

Now an adult, Saskia is still living at Ashcombe and as a book restorer devotes her days tending to the broken, battered books that find their way to her, daydreaming about the people who had once turned their pages. When she discovers a notebook carefully concealed in an old Bible - and realising someone has gone to a great deal of trouble to hide a story of their own - Saskia finds herself drawn into a heart-rending tale of wartime love...

Even happy families have their secrets…
Anchor House is the coastal home where Naomi and her husband raised their two girls. Now widowed, Naomi is building a new life alone, but the arrival of Ellis next door is bringing some long-awaited fun back too.
Naomi’s daughters are very different: Martha is determined and driven like her father, while Willow is a free spirit. The three women have always been close, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have secrets of their own. There are things Naomi has kept from her girls, like the fact that her marriage to their father wasn’t quite what it seemed…
The Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James returns with this gloriously compelling tale of mothers and daughters, secrets and love.

The captivating new drama of family secrets and second chances, from Sunday Times bestselling author Erica James It's the autumn of 1962 in the idyllic Suffolk village of Melstead St Mary. Evelyn Devereux's husband Kit is planning their 20th wedding anniversary party. But as they prepare to celebrate, Evelyn receives an anonymous letter that threatens to unravel the secrets she's kept hidden for many years - secrets

Ellen Jacobc właśnie rozwiodła się z mężem, kłamliwym draniem, którego niegdyś bardzo kochała i który puścił ją w trąbę z młodszą kobietą. Porzuciwszy miasto, kobieta przeprowadziła się do niewielkiego, malowniczego miasteczka w Cheshire, gdzie powoli układa swoje życie na nowo. Plan Ellen jest prosty - znaleźć odpowiedzialnego mężczyznę i wyjść za niego za mąż. Nie z miłości, bo tej ma już dosyć, ale z rozsądku. Idealnym kandydatem wydaje się być Duncan Carter, bogaty prawnik, specjalista od rozwodów.

Pewnego dnia Ellen i jej przyjaciółka Hermione, ekscentryczna starsza pani, spotykają na swojej drodze młodziutką Jo-Jo. Choć obydwie do zamożnych nie należą, postanawiają pomóc dziewczynie, która spodziewa się dziecka i która nie ma do kogo zwrócić się o wsparcie. Jo-Jo okazuje się być miłą, pozytywnie nastawioną do życia i pomocą osobą, której rady okażą się nieocenione, gdy w życiu Ellen pojawi się niepasujący zupełnie do jej planów syn chrzestny Hermione, Matthew, artysta o wrażliwej duszy i niewyparzonym języku.

Kiedy młodsza siostra Harriet, Felicity, ginie wraz z mężem w wypadku, kobieta musi porzucić swoje poukładane życie, by wypełnić daną niegdyś obietnicę. Niezamężna, niezależna i skoncentrowana na karierze, Harriet wraca do rodzinnego domu, by zmierzyć się z nową życiową rolą - rolą matki, którą nigdy nie zamierzała być.

Carrie i Joel rozpaczliwie potrzebują wsparcia, ale traumatyczne przeżycia odcisnęły na nich swoje piętno. Również rodzice nie są dla kobiety podporą - zamknięci we własnych skorupach, pełni żalu do świata, nie potrafią pogodzić się z utratą ukochanej córki. Problemy, z którymi musi poradzić sobie Harriet są dla niej czymś nowym, a każdy z nich wydaje się początkowo wielki jak góra lodowa...

Czy młodej kobiecie, która do niedawna troszczyła się tylko o siebie, znajdzie w sobie dość sił i cierpliwości, by zaopiekować się osieroconym rodzeństwem? I czy, zaabsorbowana zupełnie nieznaną jej codziennością, dostrzeże miłość, którą los postawił na jej drodze?

Harriet Swift has her life organized just the way she wants it: a satisfying career, her own immaculate flat, and a new boyfriend. But her well-ordered world is turned upside down when her only sister is killed in a car crash. Harriet has never been the maternal type, but with an orphaned nephew and niece to look after, she has no choice but to leave her old life behind.

Divorced Will Hart also thinks he has the perfect life. A firm believer in living for the moment, Will has a terrific relationship with his teenage daughters and has happily swapped a career as a lawyer for that of an antiques dealer. Then a startling revelation causes his life to unravel. Both Harriet and Will have no choice but to piece together a new future for themselves.

Znakomita powieść obyczajowa jednej z najlepszych brytyjskich autorek. O książkach Eriki James czytelniczki piszą, że są "jak para wygodnych kapci" i domowe jedzenie. Klub ogrodnika to miejsce, w którym spotykają się najróżniejsi ludzie. Niektórzy z nich za równo przyciętym żywopłotem skrywają bolesne tajemnice. Teraz grupa klubowiczów wyrusza do Włoch, na fantastyczną wycieczkę do krainy ogrodów i jezior. Dla każdego z nich ta wyprawa ma inne znaczenie... Lucy, którą wciąż dręczy przeszłość, ma nadzieję zobaczyć we Włoszech ojca, z którym po raz ostatni rozmawiała jako nastolatka. Owdowiały przed pięciu laty, poświęcający się pracy i opiece nad tetryczejącym wujem Conrad jedzie na wycieczkę dla marudnego staruszka i świętego spokoju. Helen, której mąż spędza większość czasu poza domem, rozpaczliwie potrzebuje przyjaciół... Dla wielu z nich te wakacje okażą się najważniejszymi w życiu.

Dulcie Ballantyne wie doskonale, że warsztaty kreatywnego pisania przyciągają zazwyczaj bardzo oryginalnych ludzi, jest więc dobrze przygotowana do poprowadzenia nowej grupy. Cóż, do niektóry rzeczy nie sposób się przygotować. Beth King, matka dorosłego syna, boryka się z problemem pustego gniazda pracujący w nieruchomościach Jack Solomon nie może dojść do siebie po tym, jak żona porzuciła go dla jego najlepszego przyjaciela.
Siedemnastoletnia Jaz Rafferty obsesyjnie boi się zdradzić ze swoimi odczuciami.
Victor Blackore ma zawsze rację i jest przekonany o własnej nieomylności. To, co łączy tych zupełnie różnych od siebie ludzi to chęć ucieczki i strach przed bliskością. Mija jednak trochę czasu i okazuje się, że wspólne pisanie i czytanie pozwala przekroczyć bariery, a dzielenie się z innymi radościami i smutkami nie jest wcale takie trudne.

W Angel Sands, niewielkim nadmorskim kurorcie, czas płynie powoli, odmierzany miarowym szumem fal. Pomiędzy domkami do wynajęcia, willami i kafejkami mieści się również prowadzony przez rodzinę Baxterów, a właściwie przez „dziewczyny Baxterów”, pensjonat. Nieoczekiwanie niespełniona w roli gospodyni pani Baxter postanawia na jakiś czas opuścić Angel Sands i raz jeszcze przemyśleć swoje życie. Jej obowiązki obejmuje najstarsza córka. Genevieve robi wszystko, by poradzić sobie z natłokiem obowiązków, sprawy jednak komplikują się coraz bardziej. Kiedy po okolicy roznosi się plotka o sprzedaży położonej nieopodal, zrujnowanej stodoły, Genevieve domyśla się, że nabywcą mało atrakcyjnego budynku jest ktoś, kogo wolałaby więcej nie oglądać. Ale nie można nie dostrzegać kogoś, kto znajduje się tuż obok… Zwłaszcza gdy ten ktoś chce być dostrzeżony.