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Marie-Axelle de La Rochefoucauld

    The Italian Girl
    The Kitchen House
    Three Sisters
    • The Kitchen House

      A Novel

      • 369 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      When a white servant girl violates the order of plantation society, she unleashes a tragedy that exposes the worst and best in the people she has come to call her family. Orphaned while onboard ship from Ireland, seven-year-old Lavinia arrives on the steps of a tobacco plantation where she is to live and work with the slaves of the kitchen house. Under the care of Belle, the master's illegitimate daughter, Lavinia becomes deeply bonded to her adopted family, though she is set apart from them by her white skin. Eventually, Lavinia is accepted into the world of the big house, where the master is absent and the mistress battles opium addiction. Lavinia finds herself perilously straddling two very different worlds. When she is forced to make a choice, loyalties are brought into question, dangerous truths are laid bare, and lives are put at risk.

      The Kitchen House2023
      4.2
    • The Italian Girl

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Rosanna Menici is just a girl when she meets Roberto Rossini, the man who will change her life forever. In the years to come, their destinies are bound together by their extraordinary talents as opera singers and by their enduring but obsessive love for each other - a love that will ultimately affect the lives of all those closest to them. For, as Rosanna slowly discovers, their union is haunted by powerful secrets from the past . . . Rosanna's journey takes her from humble beginnings in the back streets of Naples to the glittering stages of the world's most prestigious opera houses. Set against a dazzling backdrop of evocative locations, The Italian Girl unfolds into a poignant and unforgettable tale of love, betrayal and self-discovery.From the international bestselling author of Hothouse Flower and The Midnight Rose comes The Italian Girl. *This novel was first published as Aria under the name Lucinda Edmonds*

      The Italian Girl2023
      4.0
    • Three Sisters

      • 400 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      From the author of the six million copy phenomenon THE TATTOOIST OF AUSCHWITZ comes an astonishing new story, THREE SISTERS.A promise to stay together.

      Three Sisters2022
      4.4