Resultado Editorial "Audible Studios" em Sagas

Georgie Mair's idyllic life in Glasgow is shattered by the death of her beloved husband, John. It's Georgie's close-knit family who helps her get through that terrible time. But three years after John's death, love comes once more into Georgie's life. Charlie Gunn saves her life after an explosion in the factory where they work. As their relationship blossoms into marriage, it seems to Georgie that this second chance is almost too good to be true. It is.

Zwei Frauen leben ihren Traum - gegen alle Widerstände der 50er und 60er Jahre Authentisch und einfühlsam erzählt Katharina Fuchs in diesem Roman über die Nachkriegszeit die wahre Geschichte ihrer Tante, die eine der allerersten Vorsitzenden Richterinnen Deutschlands war und ihrer Mutter, einer Modemacherin. Weil sie als Tochter eines Wehrmachtoffiziers und einer Großgrundbesitzerin in der DDR nicht studieren darf, zieht Therese Trotha Anfang der fünfziger Jahre nach West-Berlin.

When most of Maggie Jordan’s family are killed in a freak flood in the small coastal village of Heymouth, she is forced to find work in one of Glasgow’s carpet mills. She becomes engaged to Nevil Sanderson, who suddenly decides he must go to Spain and join the Republicans in their fight against Franco. Although she struggles on without him, Maggie eventually realises her place is by his side and journeys to Spain to join him. But the newly promoted Nevil has become distant and ruthless, and is fiercely jealous of her new friendship with American journalist Howard Taft.

Glasgow, 1942. To please his father, Sandy Mclean is training to be a surgeon. But Sandy's real passion is for painting. And when he meets Sophie, the stunning French girl who models for the local art school, he spies a second reason to become an artist.

Liverpool, 1945. Three women, the strongest of friends, return home, trying to fit back into their old lives after they've been demobbed. They've been thrown together by the war and shared all sorts of good and bad times. Now their old lives seem dull in comparison. But not for long.... Maggie and Nell are both 21 and full of hope and excitement. Iris, on the other hand, is feeling apprehensive about returning to civilian life. At the age of 30, her only wish is to have a baby, but sadly this wish is yet to come true.

It is May 1926. Glasgow is crippled by the General Strike and the future looks bleak for John Forsyth. Made redundant from his factory job and with no prospect of employment, he and his family only hold together through the determination of his ambitious wife, Madge. Even though this means a dramatic move to the farthest reaches of England - to Devon.As the family begin a new life in the village of Atherton, their fortunes change.

Paradise has been home to generations of Trevannions: paradise, the house at the head of a sheltered Cornish valley where Mrs Trevannion lives, surrounded by her family. Frail and elderly, Honor Trevannion, bedridden following a nasty fall, is inexplicably anxious and distressed by the arrival of a young American bearing an old black and white photograph of a double wedding and looking for a long-lost relation.

Brodie Logan had thought her marriage to Colin was a match made in heaven. But now her once-loving husband is distant and unfriendly so she makes the life-changing decision to leave him. She moves into Chestnuts, a ramshackle old house in Liverpool inherited from her mother. Deciding to let out the rooms to lodgers, three very different women come to join Brodie. Life at Chestnuts seems idyllic. But nothing lasts forever....

1941. England is at its lowest ebb. At Eden Park, where Poppy, Kate, Lily, Marjorie, and her adopted brother Billy are part of the espionage unit, the authorities have discovered there is a double agent operating in their midst. Lily volunteers to be dropped into France, only to discover that her partner is Scott, Poppy's fiance.

Ein furchtbares Familiengeheimnis vor der rauen Kulisse der Isle of Wight: Die Schriftstellerin Jane erbt ein altes Cottage auf der Isle of Wight - von Lilly, der stets totgeschwiegenen Schwester ihrer Mutter. Auf der Suche nach Antworten fährt Jane auf die Insel und lernt Lillys Familie und Freunde kennen: den schweigsamen Fischer Neptun, die kauzige, aber warmherzige Emmeline und Marguerite, Lillys verträumte Tochter. Zum ersten Mal in ihrem Leben fühlt sich Jane willkommen und geliebt.

People respond to tragedy in different ways. Some try to move on. Some don't move at all. A year after her young son's death due to a rare genetic disease, Emma Hazelton is still frozen by grief, unable and unwilling to consider her husband Noah's suggestion that they try to have another child. As the future Emma once imagined crumbles, her family's past comes into sharp relief. Searching for the roots of her son's disease, Emma tries to fit together the pieces in her genealogical puzzle.

The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush, opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the factories and laundry houses of industrial Glasgow. Divided by class, wealth and religion, two families could not live more different lives. However, as the Great War fades from memory and discontent seeps in, both the Seatons and the Flynns grow restless and allow temptation to gain hold...

Nel bauletto di vimini lasciato da sua nonna Marusja prima di morire, Nora trova le lettere scambiate dalla donna con il suo giovane fidanzato e poi marito, Jakov. Leggendole e ricostruendo la sua storia, scopre una donna affascinante, femminista prima della rivoluzione, ballerina e comunista ardente, che non manca di esprimere con convinzione le sue idee e il suo desiderio di libertà. Ma i sogni e le ambizioni della giovane coppia crollano sotto il peso della storia sovietica.

Sheila Beattie knew exactly what her future would be. She would marry her sweetheart Eric, a fisherman like her father, and they would raise their family and dream their simple dreams in the village in which they’d been born. Her life lay before her, happy, safe and secure. But she was sixteen - and about to discover in this world there is nothing certain but change. After all, no one and nothing can be trusted - except the voice of your own heart...

Amy Pearson's family is desperately poor - even by the standards of Edwardian Liverpool - but they have each other. Until Amy is torn from her home by her rich aunt, a woman obsessed by religion and snobbery who wants a girl she can mould as she wishes. Clever and pretty, ten-year-old Amy is perfect for her purposes.

The first time Jessie laid her eyes on Tommy McBride was in July 1947, when they were still at school - and long before she knew anything about heartbreak or pain. Then she was the sheltered, dreamy minister’s daughter, determined to take a bite out of life. And he was the fighter from the wrong side of the tracks, hell-bent on proving himself in the world. They had nothing in common, separate destinies. But in 1947 the world was about to move into new decades of turbulence and change - and it was only the fighters and the dreamers who would make it theirs….

England, 1939. Ruth hat es geschafft - sie hat die nötigen Papiere für ihre Familie besorgt, die endlich nach England ausreisen darf. Zusammen wollten sie alles in Bewegung setzen, um ihre Verwandten noch nachzuholen. Aber dann erklärt England Deutschland den Krieg. Ruth wähnte sich bislang in Sicherheit, aber was geschieht, wenn die Deutschen das Land nun angreifen? Sie setzt alles daran, dass sie zusammen nach Amerika fliehen können. Doch der Krieg droht ihre Pläne zunichtezumachen.

Hamburg, Ende der zwanziger Jahre. Frieda ist überglücklich, ihre Hochzeit steht kurz bevor, und die Schokoladenmanufaktur feiert immer größere Erfolge. Endlich scheint sie ihren Platz im Familien-Kontor gefunden zu haben. Als dann jedoch unerwartet ihre erste große Liebe auftaucht, stellt Frieda alles in Frage, woran sie bisher geglaubt hat. Doch die Suche nach ihrem persönlichen Glück rückt schnell in den Hintergrund, als die Nazis an die Macht kommen und mit einem Mal das Leben ihrer besten Freundin, der Jüdin Clara, in Gefahr ist.

England, 1939. Ruth hat es geschafft - sie hat die nötigen Papiere für ihre Familie besorgt, die endlich nach England ausreisen darf. Zusammen wollten sie alles in Bewegung setzen, um ihre Verwandten noch nachzuholen. Aber dann erklärt England Deutschland den Krieg. Ruth wähnte sich bislang in Sicherheit, aber was geschieht, wenn die Deutschen das Land nun angreifen? Sie setzt alles daran, dass sie zusammen nach Amerika fliehen können. Doch der Krieg droht ihre Pläne zunichtezumachen.

Amanda, a small-town minister's daughter with hopes for a musical career, and Gillian, a hot-tempered aspiring actress from the Bronx, met at college. A decade later, one is happily married to an ambitious lawyer while the other is entangled in a passionate but troubled affair with a young man who's spent five years in a navy prison. The other women in Amanda and Gillian's lives mirror the choices they make and the secrets they share. Gillian's mother-in-law, Julia, is haunted by a wartime affair and its tragic consequences.