Katharine McMahons Fiktion konzentriert sich auf das Leben außergewöhnlicher Frauen und erforscht ihre Erfahrungen aus einer zeitgemäßen Perspektive. Sie taucht in historische Schauplätze ein, um komplexe Freundschaften, Widerstandsfähigkeit und Verrat zu beleuchten. McMahon fängt meisterhaft menschliche Emotionen und Beziehungen vor dem Hintergrund dramatischer historischer Ereignisse ein. Ihre Romane bieten den Lesern tiefe Einblicke in das Leben von Frauen, die ihre Welt trotz widriger Umstände prägten.
Die intelligente, aber weltfremde Emilie wächst bei ihrem Vater auf, der sie in der Kunst der Alchemie unterweist. In Liebesdingen dagegen ist sie völlig unerfahren. Kein Wunder, dass sie dem Charme des attraktiven Hochstaplers Aislabie erliegt, als er in ihr Leben stürmt. Die Warnungen des Vaters schlägt sie in den Wind und heiratet ihn. Erst als dieser alles zu zerstören droht, was ihr lieb und teuer ist, besinnt sie sich auf die Künste der Alchemie …
An epic love story set in the Resistance from the Richard & Judy selected author of The Rose of Sebastopol. Now selected for ONE BOOK, ONE TOWN.
The page-turning sequel to THE CRIMSON ROOMS by the author of bestselling Richard & Judy Book Club pick, THE ROSE OF SEBASTOPOL. London, 1926. Evie Gifford, one of the first female lawyers in Britain, is not a woman who lets convention get in her way. She has left her family home following a devastating love affair, much to her mother's disapproval. London is tense in the days leading up to the General Strike and Evelyn throws herself into two very different cases - one involving a family with links to the unions and the other a rich man who claims not to be the father of his wife's child. Evie is confronting the hardest challenge of her career when she is faced with an unexpected proposal - just as her former lover returns. How can she possibly choose between security with a man she admires and passion for the man who betrayed her?
The Ukraine, Russia and the Crimea are taking centre stage in the world today but this spellbinding story of courage and love takes us back to the original Crimean war. Russia, 1854: the Crimean War grinds on, and as the bitter winter draws near, the battlefield hospitals fill with dying men. In defiance of Florence Nightingale, Rosa Barr - young, headstrong and beautiful - travels to Balaklava, determined to save as many of the wounded as she can. For Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, the war is contained within the pages of her scrapbook, in her London sewing circle, and in the letters she receives from Henry, her fiancé, a celebrated surgeon who has also volunteered to work within the shadow of the guns. When Henry falls ill and is sent to recuperate in Italy, Mariella impulsively decides she must go to him. But upon their arrival at his lodgings, she and her maid make a heartbreaking discovery: Rosa has disappeared. Following the trail of her elusive and captivating cousin, Mariella's epic journey takes her from the domestic restraint of Victorian London to the ravaged landscape of the Crimea and the tragic city of Sebastopol. As she ventures deeper into the dark heart of the conflict, Mariella's ordered world begins to crumble and she finds she has much to learn about secrecy, faithfulness and love.
The compelling, powerful story of two women, separated by a hundred years, but linked by the lives they choose and the decisions they make.
Exploring the intricate dynamics of family relationships, this narrative delves into the lives of two generations, revealing the secrets that bind and divide them. The story unfolds with emotional depth, highlighting the impact of hidden truths on familial bonds. As the characters navigate their intertwined histories, readers are drawn into a compelling journey of love, betrayal, and the quest for understanding.
The women in Helena Mayrick's life have always led secretive and tragic lives, and when Helena's comfortable marriage is devastated by her husband's tragic death, it seems that she, too, is locked into the cycle. Helena is invited to research a book on her grandfather, H. Donaldson, the celebrated Edwardian photographer. At first, she is reluctant to immerse herself in family history, particularly as Donaldson's relationship with her grandmother, Ruth, is shrouded in mystery and turmoil. But gradually, as the story of enigmatic Ruth and the elusive, passionate Donaldson unfolds, Helena finds that the past, like the present, was shaped by cruel dilemmas and the demands of love ...
