Аманда Ходжкинсон — новинки

Каждый день бесчисленное множество людей проходит через Центральный вокзал города Нью-Йорка, мимо информационного стенда и через «шепчущую галерею» со знаменитыми часами. У каждого человека своя уникальная судьба.
Лучшие авторы романтических бестселлеров, вдохновившись культовым памятником архитектуры, создали десять историй, действие которых происходит в один и тот же удивительный день — великий день мира, первый после окончания Второй мировой войны. Это время неопределенности, надежды, перемен и жажды возрождения и любви.

«Произведения Сары Джио — эталон современной романтической прозы». — The Observer

«У Карен Уайт особая ритмика текста. Ее романы неизменно вызывают восхищение». — The Huffington Post

«Мелани Бенджамин убедительно изображает исторические личности и создает увлекательный сюжет с впечатляющей эмоциональной глубиной». — Library Journal

Каждый день бесчисленное множество людей проходит через Центральный вокзал города Нью-Йорка, мимо информационного стенда и через "шепчущую галерею" со знаменитыми часами. У каждого человека своя уникальная судьба. Лучшие авторы романтических бестселлеров, вдохновившись культовым памятником архитектуры, создали десять историй, действие которых происходит в один и тот же удивительный день – великий день мира, первый после окончания Второй мировой вой­ны. Это время неопределенности, надежды, перемен и жажды возрождения и любви.

Ten bestselling authors inspired by New York City's iconic Grand Central Terminal have created their own stories, set on the same day, just after the end of World War II, in a time of hope, uncertainty, change, and renewal….

A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform…A Holocaust survivor works at the Oyster Bar, where a customer reminds him of his late mother…A Hollywood hopeful anticipates her first screen test and a chance at stardom in the Kissing Room…

On any particular day, thousands upon thousands of people pass through Grand Central, through the whispering gallery, beneath the ceiling of stars, and past the information booth and its beckoning four-faced clock, to whatever destination is calling them. It is a place where people come to say hello and good-bye. And each person has a story to tell.

Featuring stories from Melanie Benjamin, Jenna Blum, Amanda Hodgkinson, Pam Jenoff, Sarah Jio, Sarah McCoy, Kristina McMorris, Alyson Richman, Erika Robuck, and Karen White

With an Introduction by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah

The new novel from the author of 22 Britannia Road, Amanda Hodgkinson. "Hogkinson's second novel is simply but elegantly written, its subtle charms emerging as her gentle, bittersweet story shows history repeating itself over the generations". (Sunday Times). 1913. Unmarried sisters Nellie and Vivian Marsh live an impoverished existence in a tiny cottage on the banks of the Little River in Suffolk. Their life is quiet and predictable, until a sudden flood throws up a strange fish on their doorstep and a travelling man who will change them forever. 1939. Eighteen-year-old Birdie Farr is working as a barmaid in the family pub in London. When she realises she is pregnant she turns to her mother Nellie, who asks her sister to arrange an adoption for Birdie's new born daughter. But as the years pass Birdie discovers she cannot escape the Marsh sisters' shadowy past - and her own troubling obsession with finding her lost daughter will have deep consequences for all of them... "This is a story that explores motherhood and sisterhood with great subtlety and power ... with its strong storytelling, haunting characters and beautiful, supple prose, Hodgkinson's fiction deserves a wider audience". (Independent on Sunday). "A potent, moving story of mother and sisterhood". (Sainsbury's Magazine). "A tale of sisterhood, lies and illegitimate babies". (Good Housekeeping). Amanda Hodgkinson was born in Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset and grew up in Essex and Suffolk. She currently lives in south-west France with her husband and two daughters. Her first novel, 22 Britannia Road, is available in Penguin.

It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made a home for them in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has crisscrossed Europe during the war, hopes his family will help him put his own dark past behind him. But the war and the years apart will always haunt each of them, unless together they confront what they were compelled to…

22 Britannia Road by Amanda Hodgkinson is a heartbreaking and powerful novel about wartime secrets and the difficulties of adjusting to postwar life It is 1946 and Silvana and eight-year-old Aurek board a ship that will take them from Poland to England. Silvana has not seen her husband Janusz in six years, but, they are assured, he has made them a home in Ipswich. However, after living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. Everything else is lost. While Janusz, a Polish soldier who has criss-crossed Europe during the war, hopes his family will help put…

War changes us all, and sometimes we no longer recognise ourselves... ?Housekeeper or housewife?? the soldier asks Silvana as she and eight-year-old Aurek board the ship that will take them from Poland to England at the end of the war, to Janusz, her husband. But she isn?t sure any longer that she is a wife of any kind or whether she has a house. After living wild in the forests for years, carrying a terrible secret, all Silvana knows is that she and Aurek are survivors. In Ipswich, Janusz is getting ready for the arrival of the wife and son he hasn't seen in six years. After fleeing Poland and the war that left him a deserter, he…