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The darkest secrets are the ones we hide from ourselves... Ten years ago, traumatized by her father's death, Lucy left her home and her country. Now, she returns to her family's rambling lakeside home to lay old ghosts to rest. However, sleepless one night, she makes a momentous discovery. Locked in a moonlit window seat is a collection of family heirlooms - objects whose secrets no one was ever supposed to find. Piecing together her family's true history, she realises that the story she has always been told was a fiction. And the more she uncovers, the more Lucy comes to question her own life choices - including why it is that her…

Однажды снежной ночью, когда метель парализовала жизнь во всем городе, доктору Дэвиду Генри пришлось самому принимать роды у своей жены. Эта ночь станет роковой и для молодого отца, и для его жены Норы, и для помощницы врача Каролины, и для родившихся младенцев. Тень поразительной, непостижимой тайны накроет всех участников драмы, их дороги надолго разойдутся, чтобы через годы вновь пересечься. Читая этот роман, вы будете зачарованно следить за судьбой героев, наблюдать, как брак, основанный на нежнейшем из чувств, разрушается из-за слепого подчинения условностям, разъедается ложью и обманом. Однако из-под пепла непременно пробьются ростки…

Imbued with all the lyricism, compassion, and suspense of her bestselling novel The Memory Keeper's Daughter, Kim Edward's "The Lake of Dreams" is a powerful family drama and an unforgettable story of love lost and found. Lucy Jarrett is at a crossroads in her life, still haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade earlier. She returns to her hometown, "The Lake of Dreams", and, late one night, she cracks the lock of a window seat and discovers a collection of objects. They appear to be idle curiosities, but soon Lucy realizes that she has stumbled across a dark secret from her family's past, one that will radically change her-and…

Однажды снежной ночью, когда метель парализовала жизнь во всем городе, доктору Дэвиду Генри пришлось самому принимать роды у своей жены. Эта ночь станет роковой и для молодого отца, и для его жены Норы, и для помощницы врача Каролины, и для родившихся младенцев. Тень поразительной, непостижимой тайны накроет всех участников драмы, их дороги надолго разойдутся, чтобы через годы вновь пересечься. Читая этот роман, вы будете зачарованно следить за судьбой героев, наблюдать, как брак, основанный на нежнейшем из чувств, разрушается из-за слепого подчинения условностям, разъедается ложью и обманом. Однако из-под пепла непременно пробьются ростки…

Families have secrets they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.

Young, fiery and bright, Eshlaini has her whole future ahead of her – until her father condemns her to a life of spinsterhood.

Joyce has settled into Malaysian life after thirty years as an ex-pat wife – or so she thinks, until a newcomer arrives and reveals just how little of her home she knows.

Jade Moon wants the best for her family – but, surrounded by Americans who reject her Korean traditions, she must first work out what ‘the best’ means.

Though cultures and distances separate them, their experiences reflect our universal fears and desires. From a breathtaking island off Singapore to upstate New York and France, Kim Edwards takes in the world, compassionately and gracefully exploring the obstacles of time, place and circumstance in all of our quests for love, happiness and acceptance.

Families have secrets that they hide even from themselves... It should have been an ordinary birth, the start of an ordinary happy family. But the night Dr. David Henry delivers his wife's twins is a night that will haunt five lives for ever. For though David's son is a healthy boy, his daughter has Down's syndrome. And, in a shocking act of betrayal whose consequences only time will reveal, he tells his wife their daughter died while secretly entrusting her care to a nurse. As grief quietly tears apart David's family, so a little girl must make her own way in the world as best she can.

On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has Down's Syndrome. Rationalizing it as a need to protect Norah, his wife, he makes a split-second decision that will alter all of their lives forever. He asks his nurse to take the baby away to an institution and never to reveal the secret. But Caroline, the nurse, cannot leave the infant. Instead, she disappears into another city to raise the child herself. So begins this story that unfolds over a quarter of a century - in which these two…