Annet Mons Books

Judith Dunbar comes of age while confronting her feelings about love and sadness and journeying back to her childhood home.

With each new book, Maeve Binchy continues a remarkable progression of sales and audience growth, reaching fans of all ages and backgrounds with her matchless wit, warmth, and sheer storytelling magic. "Tara Road," her first full-length novel since "The Glass Lake," again shows her incomparable understanding of the human heart in the tale of two women, one from Ireland, one from America, who switch lives, and in doing so learn much about each other, as well as much about themselves.Ria lived on Tara Road in Dublin with her dashing husband, Danny, and their two children. She fully believed she was happily married, right up until the day Danny told her he was leaving her to be with his young, pregnant girlfriend. By a chance phone call, Ria meets Marilyn, a woman from New England unable to come to terms with her only son's death and now separated from her husband. The two women exchange houses for the summer with extraordinary consequences, each learning that the other has a deep secret that can never be revealed. Drawn into lifestyles vastly differing from their own, at first each resents the news of how well the other is getting on. Ria seems to have become quite a hostess, entertaining half the neighborhood, which at first irritates the reserved and withdrawn Marilyn, a woman who has always guarded her privacy. Marilyn seems to have become bosom friends with Ria's children, as well as with Colm, a handsome restaurateur, whom Ria has begun to miss terribly. At the end of the summer, the women at last meet face-to-face. Having learned a great deal, about themselves and about each other, they find that they have become, firmly and forever, good friends. A moving story rendered with the deft touch of a master artisan, "Tara Road" is Maeve Binchy at her very best — utterly beautiful, hauntingly unforgettable, entirely original, and wholly enjoyable.

A fictional portrait of a remarkable woman chronicles Pocahontas' role as mediator between Native Americans and the white settlers, her romance with John Smith, her journey to England and marriage, and her role as a founder of a prominent colonial Virgini

The New York Times bestselling author of Together Alone and For My Daughters delivers a compelling human drama about the limits of love and responsibility in a family whose matriarch is diagnosed with a serious illness.

Kit MacMahon, growing up in the lakeside village of Loughshee, seems to lead a charmed life. She is the loved daughter of Martin MacMahon, the kindly local pharmacist, and Helen, his beautiful wife. She has a little brother, Emmett; a best friend, Clio, and a host of other friends. But Kit worries about her mother. Helen MacMahon does not fit in with the people and the ways of Loughshee. She wanders alone by the lake night after night—until the dark windy night when she disappears and only her overturned rowboat is found near Loughshee's shore. Kit grows up in the small village without the mother she has loved and so staunchly defended, determined to carry out her mother's last wishes that she should make something of her life. Though she moves to the city, Kit is constantly drawn back to Loughshee and the people who live there—Clio Kelly and their love/hate relationship; Clio's father, Dr. Kelly, whose sister-in-law Maura has her eyes on Kit's father; Philip O'Brien, who has loved Kit since childhood; and roguish Stevie Sullivan, who runs the garage and rules the affections of every woman for miles around.

Every women needs her Cathy Kelly time. The warm and moving new novel from the No. 1 Bestselling author of `Always and Forever`. Keep a secret too long and it will creep out when you least expect it.....

When Fred Carpenter suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. Nevertheless she summons her courage and they and their bull-terrier Bill set off, with Fred at the helm of Dogfish Three.Sally's misgivings are soon justified, as a series of disasters, human, nautical and canine, threaten to ruin their holiday. Then everything changes as they make friends with the boating fraternity and encounter the remarkable fifteen-year-old Rosie, whose family history stirs their curiosity and sympathy. As a result, Fred and Sally decide to support Rosie's efforts to better herself - and are rewarded when she finds love and happiness.

Wanneer een schoenenfabrikant, die behoort tot de nouveau riche, een huis met 34 kamers koopt voor zijn grote gezin, ontstaat er vanaf het prille begin een conflict tussen de heer des huizes en de butler.

Op een stralende zomerdag is Rose O'Beirne Moffat met haar honden aan het wandelen over het uitgestrekte landgoed van haar vader. Het is de dag voor haar zestiende verjaardag, de dag dat ze John Flynn, de leuke jongen van het poortwachtershuis, ontmoet. John leert haar vissen, en daarna kust hij haar... Enkele maanden later emigreert John door armoede gedwongen naar Canada, treurend om het beeldschone meisje dat hij in Ierland moet achterlaten. John weet niet dat hun enige gestolen liefdesnacht tragische gevolgen heeft voor Rose. Zwanger, vernederd en afgewezen door haar moeder, resten haar slechts bitterzoete herinneringen aan haar eerste liefde. Op weg naar Canada ontmoet John de onstuimige Karen Larsen. Zij weet John te verleiden en krijgt ook een kind van hem. Door een wrede speling van het lot ontmoeten de twee liefdeskinderen elkaar jaren later in Ierland. Onbewust van het feit dat zij dezelfde vader hebben, geven zij toe aan een fatale aantrekkingskracht...

Een tragische ongeluk geeft de hoofdpersoon inzicht in het karakter van haar broer en daardoor ook in haar eigen verleden.