Maeve Haran Books

In the Summertime is a novel filled with wit, warmth and romance set deep in the South Downs.

Всеки ден около нас се случват хубави неща – открийте ги, грабнете ги и се насладете на мига! Подарете си цветя Направете женско парти Сложете си грейка на краката Поплачете насаме Изберете си нов парфюм Пейте под душа Купете си обувки Прочетете тази книга Има ли нещо, което да е неморално или от което да не напълняваме много и да ни накара да почувстваме, че светът е прекрасен? Има – малките неща! Прясноизпеченият хляб Топлите хавлии Смехът на дете Свежите утрини Вечерите с момичетата навън Обирането на пяната на капучиното Това са всекидневните удоволствия, които ни припомнят колко забавен и пълен с наслада може да бъде животът! Магията на капучиното е както в приготвянето му, така и в пиенето. А истинската наслада от него идва, когато обираме пухкавата му пяна. Мейв Харън, телевизионен продуцент, става известна с първия си роман Having it All. Написала е други 9 романа и над 50 разказа, често пише и за националните всекидневници. Има две дъщери и син, бяла и черна котка, и много палав териер. Омъжена е за невероятно висок мъж от Глазгоу. Семейството живее в Северен Лондон. Хобито на Харън е вечният опит да балансира работата, грижата за семейството и свободното време. ИК “Кръгозор”, 208 стр., луксозно оформление, с частичен лак, цена: 12 лв.

From the bestselling author of Having It All Haven't you heard? Sixty is the new forty . . . Each month best friends Claudia, Sal, Ella and Laura meet for drinks, celebrating 45 years of friendship. They know each other and their lives inside out. Their ambitions, careers, husbands, lovers, children, hopes, fears, the paths taken and not taken . . . Sal had spent a lifetime building a career as a successful magazine editor but she hadn’t banked on the one thing over which she had no control. Claudia loved her urban existence – the thought of the country sent shivers down her spine. But, as many women will know, other people’s needs always seem to come first . . . Ella is ready to try something different. But she hadn’t bargained on quite such a radical change . . . Laura succumbed to the oldest cliché in the book. But it didn’t make it any easier to accept. Outside of the supportive world of their friendships, they find their lives are far from what they expected – the generation that wanted to change the world didn’t bargain on getting old. A truthful, provocative, funny and inspiring novel, The Time of their Lives, asks hard questions about what the world offers women as they get older and finds both moving and joyously uplifting answers in the different ways the four friends celebrate their coming of age . . .

Sixteen-year-old Frances Stuart arrives at the Restoration court to find her innocence and beauty are highly-prized commodities, envied by the women and desired by the men. Before long, King Charles II falls passionately in love with her and will stop at nothing to make her his mistress.

Sunshine, warmth, lemon blossom . . . Springtime in glorious Southern Italy can go to your head. Especially if you are escaping an overbearing husband, the embarrassingly public loss of your company, an interfering mother who still tries to run your life or the pain of a husband's affair with a girl young enough to be his daughter. As the Italian sun ripens the lemons in the groves that tumble down the hillsides and the Mediterranean dazzles beneath them, assertive Angela, extrovert Sylvie, unconfident Claire and mousy Monica find burgeoning friendship and begin to blossom in quite unexpected ways. Packed with memorable characters--from the acid-tongued Grand Old Man of Modern Art who lives next door--to the aspiring gigolo who thinks nothing of a 40 year age gap, this novel is a witty and entertaining reminder of why going a little mad in the sun can sometimes be exactly what you need.

Pretty, well-balanced Rachel used to be every mother's dream. Now she's every mother's nightmare. The reason? sexy, sultry Marko, Mr Darcy with a nose stud. As Marko lures Rachel off to save a woodland and lose her virginity, her nice liberal mum, Catherine, wishes she could lock Rachel in the bedroom, while Rachel's disapproving granny, Lavinia, decides on some far more dramatic action. In this poignantly funny and wildly entertaining story of the war between the generations, all three women find their values - and their love lives - changed forever.

Novel about family life in the 1990s. When Tess's marriage is blown apart she has to face the question she's always dreaded - should you stay together for the sake of the children?.

In The Way We Were, Maeve Haran shows that we don't have to always do what's expected of us, no matter what age we are.Love can be full of surprises.Rachel is a promising A-level student - until she falls for sexy, dangerous Marko; Mr Darcy with a nose stud.Her mother, Catherine, is trying to be a good parent and work colleague - but wishes the attentions of her attractive boss didn't suddenly seeming so alluring.Grandmother Lavinia is certain of her values, protecting the country village she loves from change - until the return of a long-lost love reminds her that life moves on, for people as well as places. Is it too late for Lavinia to embrace change and find happiness?After all these years - and a lifetime divided by convention - could they really throw other people's expectations to the wind and be the way they were?

From the bestselling author of An Italian Holiday comes a humorous, thought-provoking novel about friendship, family and romance.

Liz Ward believed that it was possible to 'have it all' - a glittering career, a successful marriage and a happy family. She wanted it to be possible. But with the chance to become one of the most powerful women in television comes the knowledge that it all could just be a con. Liz accepts the job of programme controller at Metro TV, only to find that it may be the biggest mistake of her life.

Friends and lovers, old and new, come together and fall apart in deepest France culminating in a very special chateau wedding.

A story on the struggle for control of a family business between the matriarch founder, who is supposed to have retired, and her least favourite daughter, a one-time actress of bohemian habits, who has succeeded her; with the rest of the family, partners and predators standing at the sidelines.

Francesca Tyler, flame-haired, thirty-four-year-old editor of a local paper, has a busy life filled with work, family and friends. But all that she wants is a baby. Every time she sees a buggy she feels like bursting into tears. But a baby needs a father and there is no candidate for life, love and fatherhood on Francesca's horizon. Her best friend sets out to find her a man and the future looks rosy. But then she goes into battle with the roguish editor of a rival paper. ALL THAT SHE WANTS is a wonderfully fresh, fast-paced novel about love, fertility and fatherhood.

Story of sex and power. By the author of HAVING IT ALL.

A novel about friendship and making the most of life from the bestselling author of Having It All, The Time of Their Lives and An Italian Holiday

Amanda Wells made a big mistake in her first marriage. She fell for charm and charisma - but what she got in Giles was selfishness and faithlessness. When he left her for a younger woman, Amanda swore she'd never make the same mistake again. Her next attempt at a relationship would be with a thoughtful, caring kind of man. The type who would be good husband material... So, when she backs into a shiny new BMW sports car belonging to the charming Angus Day in Tesco's car park, she not only blames him for the accident but distrusts him on principle. Worse than that, she discovers the reason Angus can afford his BMW is that he's a property developer. All the same, there's something about him and she very nearly succumbs one New Year's Eve when the moon is full and the bottle's empty - but fortunately at this point she meets Luke. Luke is everything Angus isn't - honourable, unselfish, nice to old ladies and he can even dance a sexy tango. But is Luke as honourable as he seems...and is Angus as dishonourable?...

Flora has a mouth as big as Wembley Stadium and a tendency to act before she thinks, which is how she ends up getting drunk and on the front of a newspaper in her Wonderbra and not much else.

Molly Meredith is happy with her lot in life. She has a thoughtful, considerate husband in Joe, a house spectacularly decorated with her creative curtain making skills, and a gorgeous baby son, Eddie, who is considered cute and adorable by absolutely everyone he meets. Everyone, that is, except his father. For Joe has never come to terms with the fact that he has been adopted, and the arrival of his son just serves to rekindle painful memories. His reaction is to shut him out, and pretend that Eddie doesn't exist. Molly is understandably upset but is equally determined to do something about it. The key to their happiness, she decides, is the woman who gave him away all those years ago. When Molly finally tracks her down, she is shocked to discover who Joe's mother really is. Stella Milton is the intellectual sexpot of the British stage, an actress whose picture has adorned many an adolescent boy's bedroom. Joe is overjoyed at finally being acquainted, and for a while it seems that Molly's plan has worked. But then Joe starts spending more and more time with his mother, and less and less with his wife and son . . .

Set against the sumptuousness and intrigues of Queen Elizabeth I’s court, this powerful novel reveals the untold love affair between the famous poet John Donne and Ann More, the passionate woman who, against all odds, became his wife. Ann More, fiery and spirited daughter of the Mores of Loseley House in Surrey, came to London destined for a life at the court of Queen Elizabeth and an advantageous marriage. There she encountered John Donne, the darkly attractive young poet who was secretary to her uncle, the Lord Keeper of the Great Seal. He was unlike any man she had ever met—angry, clever, witty, and in her eyes, insufferably arrogant and careless of women. Yet as they were thrown together, Donne opened Ann’s eyes to a new world of passion and sensuality. But John Donne—Catholic by background in an age when it was deadly dangerous, tainted by an alluring hint of scandal—was the kind of man her status-conscious father distrusted and despised. The Lady and the Poet tells the story of the forbidden love between one of our most admired poets and a girl who dared to rebel against her family and the conventions of her time. They gave up everything to be together and their love knew no bounds.

Heiter-charmante Frauenunterhaltung vom Feinsten Was ist das Schönste an Paris? Für manche ist es der Eiffelturm, für andere die vielen Boutiquen. Doch für Georgie, die gerade eben wutentbrannt ihren treulosen Ehemann verlassen hat, ist es das kleine schwarze Notizbuch ihrer Großmutter - und die charmanten Franzosen, die sie dadurch kennenlernt. Aber auch wenn es wunderschön ist, bei Kerzenschein und Rotwein verwöhnt zu werden - ganz tief in ihrem Herzen sehnt sich Georgie nur nach einem: ihrem kleinen chaotischen Häuschen, ihren zwei putzmunteren Kindern - und nach Nick, dem Mann, mit dem sie dieses Tohuwabohu bis vor kurzem teilte. Kurz entschlossen reist sie zurück nach England, und macht dem überraschten Nick ein durch und durch unsittliches Angebot.

Die Wahrheit hat die lästige Angewohnheit, irgendwann trotz gegenteiliger Bemühungen das Licht der Welt zu erblicken. Egal, ob sie den kinderscheuen Arzt für künstliche Befruchtung trifft oder die übergewichtige junge Frau, die sich mit den erstaunlichsten Diäten abplagt.Sechsundzwanzig turbulente Geschichten von Liebe, Freundschaft. Ehe, von Groß und Klein und dem ganz normalen Alltagswahnsinn

Bij het passen van een trouwjurk scheurt een jonge vrouw met een Rubensfiguur uit het duurste exemplaar; dat betekent een financieel probleem, zeker als ze kort daarna ontslagen wordt.

Man ist nie zu alt, um seinen Träumen zu folgen … Stella Ainsworth führt ein ruhiges Leben mit ihrem leicht pedantischen Mann, ihrer chronisch unzufriedenen Tochter und ihren drei geliebten Enkeln. Eigentlich ist sie nicht unglücklich, auch wenn es sie zunehmend stört, dass ihre Familie sie für selbstverständlich nimmt. Doch dann steht ihr Leben plötzlich Kopf, denn ihre Jugendliebe taucht wieder auf. Cameron Keene verließ England vor vielen Jahren und wurde zur Rockikone der 60er-Jahre. Zu Stellas Verwunderung erklärt er in einem Interview, dass sein berühmtester Song – der zur Liebeshymne einer ganzen Generation wurde – von ihr handelt und dass er zurückgekommen sei, um sie zu finden …

Manželka populárního televizního moderátora a matka dospívajících dcer se rozhodne získat nové sebevědomí v práci a přihlásí se do konkursu sociálně zaměřeného pořadu. Po počátečních obtížích má větší úspěch než její slavný muž a tehdy se dosud bezproblémové manželství dostane do krize,protože muž se nedokáže přes hrdinčiny úspěchy přenést. Svazek se pozvolna rozpadá a jedině problémy s dětmi donutí oba rodiče uvědomit si své chyby, zamyslet se nad svými skutečnými city a začít znovu na jiných základech.