Anna Hope

In this sharply observed novel set in and around London, three college friends, now in their 30s, must come to terms with the gap between the lives they imagined for themselves and reality in the face of marriage, fertility struggles, and loss....

The Brookes are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home—twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone—to bury Philip, the head of the family—the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.

London, 1920. The city prepares to observe the two-year anniversary of Armistice Day with the burial of the unknown soldier. Many are still haunted by the war: Hettie, a dance instructress, lives at home with her mother and her brother, who is mute after his return from combat....

England, 1911. At Sharston Asylum, men and women are separated by thick walls and barred windows. But on Friday nights, they are allowed to mingle in the asylum's magnificent ballroom....

Hannah, Cate and Lissa are young, vibrant and inseparable. Living on the edge of a common in East London, their shared world is ablaze with art and activism, romance and revelry - and the promise of everything to come....

Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, The Ballroom is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession....

Five Days in November, 1920: As the body of the Unknown Soldier makes its way home from the fields of Northern France, three women are dealing with loss in their own way....

"Über die Verstrickungen von Vergangenheit, Erbe und Verantwortung: Als der Egomane Philip Brooke stirbt, kommen seine Kinder Frannie, Milo und Isa für ...

Was ist aus dem Menschen geworden, der du einmal sein wolltest? Über drei ungleiche Frauen und ihre gemeinsame Zeit in London, über Freundinnenschaft ...

Un lieu, quatre siècles, une odyssée audacieuse et irrésistible au cœur de l'histoire de la civilisation occidentale. Entre permanence...

In a spellbinding narrative of sacrifice and survival, chaos and connection, four characters are caught up in the tides of history over three centuries and drawn to the sacred White Rock of San Blas off the coast of Mexico....

Durant les premiers jours de novembre 1920, l'Angleterre attend l'arrivée du Soldat inconnu, rapatrié depuis la France pour une cérémonie d'hommage...

Londres, années 1990. Hannah, Cate et Lissa sont trois jeunes amies ambitieuses et inséparables, portées par le vent de rébellion qui souffle sur le monde...