Лучшие книги Анны Хоуп

Ханна, Кейт и Лисса — три подруги, чья юность обещает длиться вечно. Безрассудные и амбициозные, полные надежд, они верят, что мир принадлежит им. Они верят, что жизнь — это грандиозный спектакль, в котором им отведены главные роли. И кажется, что все начинает сбываться... осталось лишь немного подождать.

Но время идет, и миражи рассеиваются.

Успешная и стабильная карьера Ханны не приносит ей счастья, она отчаянно мечтает о ребенке, с болью наблюдая за тем, как для Кейт материнство становится не радостью, а тяжелым испытанием. Лисса по-прежнему не ищет покоя, она все та же авантюристка, актриса; но ролей для нее становится все меньше, и внезапно ей приходится стать собой — одинокой женщиной без больших надежд на будущее.

Три подруги, и у каждой есть то, что недоступно другой. Будто счастье рассеяно по миру, но ты никогда не знаешь, какое достанется тебе. Три человека, которые отчаянно надеются на лучшее, которое вот-вот наступит.

Where love is your only escape ....

1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors,
where men and women are kept apart
by high walls and barred windows,
there is a ballroom vast and beautiful.
For one bright evening every week
they come together
and dance.
When John and Ella meet
It is a dance that will change
two lives forever.

Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.

A brilliant debut for readers of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, in which three women must deal with the aftershocks of WWI and its impact on the men in their lives—a son, a brother and a lover. Their tragic connection is slowly revealed as the book unfolds.

Wake: 1) Emerge or cause to emerge from sleep 2) Ritual for the dead 3) Consequence or aftermath.

Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach...Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating distress. Embittered by her own loss, more and more estranged from her posh parents, she looks for solace in her adored brother who has not been the same since he returned from the front...Ada is beset by visions of her son on every street, convinced he is still alive. Helpless, her loving husband of 25 years has withdrawn from her. Then one day a young man appears at her door with notions to peddle, like hundreds of out of work veterans. But when he shows signs of being seriously disturbed—she recognizes the symptoms of "shell shock"—and utters the name of her son she is jolted to the core...

The lives of these three women are braided together, their stories gathering tremendous power as the ties that bind them become clear, and the body of the unknown soldier moves closer and closer to its final resting place.