Paula McLain Book order (chronological)

Bestsellerautorin Paula McLain kehrt an ihren berühmtesten Schauplatz zurück: Paris! Paris, 1664: Die Färbertochter Alouette träumt davon, die Formel für das perfekte Blau zu finden. Aber als Frau ist ihr das Handwerk ihres Vaters untersagt. Seite an Seite mit ihrer großen Liebe Etienne widersetzt sie sich jeder Obrigkeit, bis man in der berüchtigten Psychiatrie Salpêtrière versucht, ihren Willen zu brechen. Doch Alouette gelingt es, das Strahlen ihres Blautons – und damit die Hoffnung – nicht zu verlieren. Knapp drei Jahrhunderte später: Der junge Arzt Kristof arbeitet in der Salpêtrière. Es sind dunkle Zeiten, und Kristof versucht alles, um die Menschen in seiner Nähe zu beschützen. Dabei wird auf unerwartete Weise Alouettes Weg des Widerstands seinen eigenen kreuzen.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Wife comes an atmospheric novel of intertwined fate and heart-wrenching suspense. Anna Hart, a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco, is haunted by the darkest aspects of human nature. Following a personal tragedy, she retreats to the Northern California village of Mendocino, where she spent childhood summers with her grandparents, hoping to heal. However, upon her arrival, she discovers that a local teenage girl has gone missing. Although Anna is reluctant to get involved, her childhood friend, now the village sheriff, urges her to assist in the search. The situation escalates when a twelve-year-old girl is abducted, echoing a traumatic period from Anna's past when a series of unsolved murders plagued Mendocino. As she grapples with the intertwining of her past and present, Anna realizes she has been drawn back to confront these events. Her experiences have given her unique insight into the dynamics between victims and predators. Obsessed with the missing girls, Anna learns that true courage involves overcoming her own barriers and allowing others to connect with her. This tense, affecting story weaves together themes of true crime, trauma, and the metaphysical, exploring fate, redemption, and the journey to reclaim faith in ourselves and each other.

"A novel about [Ernest Hemingway's] passionate, stormy marriage to Martha Gellhorn-- a fiercely independent, ambitious young woman who would become one of the greatest war correspondents of the twentieth century ... In the shadow of the impending Second World War, and set against the turbulent backdrops of Madrid and Cuba, Martha and Ernest's relationship and their professional careers ignite. But when Ernest publishes the biggest literary success of his career, For Whom the Bell Tolls, they are no longer equals, and Martha must make a choice: surrender to the confining demands of being a famous man's wife or risk losing Ernest by forging a path as her own woman and writer. It is a dilemma that could force her to break his heart, and hers"--

Příběh vášnivého, bouřlivého vztahu Ernesta Hemingwaye a jeho třetí manželky Marthy Gellhornové Od autorky bestsellerů Pařížská manželka a Létala jsem za sluncem V roce 1937 se osmadvacetiletá novinářka Martha Gellhornová vydává do Madridu, aby podala zprávu o hrůzách španělské občanské války. Osudy obyčejných lidí, lapených v soukolí ničivého konfliktu, se jí hluboce dotýkají. Navíc se nečekavě a bláznivě zamiluje do Hemingwaye, z něhož je tou dobou již žijící legenda. Jejich vztah i kariéra se naplno rozhoří a nakonec se, ve stínu blížící se druhé světové války, vezmou. Martha je nezávislá, neohrožená a ambiciózní válečná korespondentka a tvrdě pracuje, aby zůstala sama sebou, naplnila své poslání a nikdy nežila ve stínu svého muže. Ve chvíli, kdy Ernest v roce 1940 vydává jeden ze svých nejúspěšnějších románů Komu zvoní hrana, však přestávají být rovnocennými partnery. Martha se musí rozhodnout: sleví z vlastních cílů a poddá se omezujícím nárokům postavení manželky slavného spisovatele, nebo si ponechá samostatnost a kariéru, ale ztratí tím milovaného muže. Dilema, které může jim oběma zlomit srdce. Paula McLainová čtenáře již podruhé zavede k životním osudům slavného spisovatele a lamače srdcí Ernesta Hemingwaye. Tentokrát do bouřlivých kulis neklidného válečného Madridu, Finska, Číny, ostrova Key West a Kuby.

As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on their farm, then incarcerating her in the classroom. The scourge of governesses and serial absconder from boarding school, by the age of sixteen Beryl had been catapulted into a disastrous marriage - but it was in facing up to this reality that she took charge of her own destiny. Scandalizing high society with her errant behaviour, she left her husband and became the first woman ever to hold a professional racehorse trainer's licence. After falling in with the notoriously hedonistic and gin-soaked Happy Valley set, Beryl soon became embroiled in a complex love triangle with the writer Karen Blixen and big game-hunter Denys Finch Hatton (immortalized in Blixen's memoir Out of Africa). It was this unhappy affair which set tragedy in motion, while awakening Beryl to her truest self, and to her fate: to fly.

Inspired by the true story of a woman who changed the way we understand our world. In 1933 three young, gifted anthropologists are thrown together in the jungle of New Guinea. They are Nell Stone, fascinating, magnetic and famous for her controversial work studying South Pacific tribes, her intelligent and aggressive husband Fen, and Andrew Bankson, who stumbles into the lives of this strange couple and becomes totally enthralled. Within months the trio are producing their best ever work, but soon a firestorm of fierce love and jealousy begins to burn out of control, threatening their bonds, their careers, and, ultimately, their lives...

Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy twenty-eight-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity. Ernest and Hadley's marriage begins to founder, and the birth of a beloved son serves only to drive them further apart. Then, at last, Ernest's ferocious literary endeavours begin to bring him recognition - not least from a woman intent on making him her own . . .