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Hanneke van Soest

    A Rose Petal Summer
    The Perfect Match
    Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe
    Der Geisterbaum
    • 2020

      Caro Swanson has taken a job in a remote part of Scotland. She’s answered an ad in The Lady: being a companion to an elderly gentleman who lives in a country estate could be perfect! Surely it's time to make a change and do something different for a while? The fact that she may also see Alec, the young man who she met some years previously and who she has always thought of as her ‘one who got away’, is of course purely incidental. Soon Caro is falling in love - not only with Alec but with the stunning country house she's now living in. But the estate is in financial difficulties, and Caro soon realises there's only one way to rescue it. So begins a magical romantic summer, one that will take Caro from Scotland to London and the south of France, in search of a classic lost perfume that might just restore all their fortunes.

      A Rose Petal Summer
    • 2019

      Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe

      • 352 pages
      • 13 hours of reading
      4.2(121)Add rating

      The Comfort Food Café is perched on a windswept clifftop at what feels like the edge of the world, serving up the most delicious cream teas; beautifully baked breads, and carefully crafted cupcakes. For tourists and locals alike, the ramshackle café overlooking the beach is a beacon of laughter, companionship, and security a place like no other; a place that offers friendship as a daily special, and where a hearty welcome is always on the menu. For widowed mum-of-two Laura Walker, the decision to uproot her teenaged children and make the trek from Manchester to Dorset for the summer isn't one she takes lightly, and it's certainly not winning her any awards from her kids, Nate and Lizzie. Even her own parents think she's gone mad. Her new job at the café, and the hilarious people she meets there, give Laura the chance she needs to make new friends; to learn to be herself again, and just possibly to learn to love again as well. For her, the Comfort Food Café doesn't just serve food it serves a second chance to live her life to the full.

      Summer at the Comfort Food Cafe
    • 2014

      The wonderfully romantic new novel from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Recipe for Love. Three years ago Bella Castle left her home town nursing a broken heart over Dominic Thane, the man she fell in love with but couldnâe(tm)t have âe¦ Now sheâe(tm)s made a new life for herself in the country, working as an estate agent. Bella loves her job and she loves her boyfriend Nevil. But recently heâe(tm)s been preoccupied, and sheâe(tm)s starting to question if his future hopes and dreams are a perfect match for hers. And when Dominic turns up unexpectedly in search of his dream house, she begins to wonder if home is really where the heart is. But sheâe(tm)s over him, isnâe(tm)t she?

      The Perfect Match
    • 2001

      Sofia Solana - wild, hübsch, verwöhnt und eigensinnig - verlebt eine glückliche Kindheit auf der weitläufigen Ranch ihrer Familie in der argentinischen Pampa. Dass ihr Herz ihrem Cousin Santi gehört, verrät sie jedoch nur einem: dem uralten Ombu-Baum, von dem es heißt, er habe magische Kräfte. Der Zauber wirkt - im Schatten des Geisterbaums werden die beiden ein Liebespaar. Doch als Sofia schwanger wird, schicken ihre entsetzten Eltern sie fort nach Europa. Ein letztes Mal sehen sich die Liebenden unter dem Ombu und schwören sich ewige Treue. Sofia ahnt nicht, dass ihre Liebe verraten wird. Als nach vielen ereignisreichen Jahren eine Familientragödie sie heim nach Argentinien ruft, trifft Sofia unter dem Baum ihrer Kindheit Santi wieder. Doch kann das Versprechen der Liebe noch gelten, das die beiden einst sehnsüchtig in seinen Stamm ritzten?

      Der Geisterbaum