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You're back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow.You're keen to find a place of your own. But for now you're crashing in your big brother's spare room.That's when you meetthe man next door.He's the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourselfwatching him.All the time.But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession.

When Saffyre Maddox was ten, something terrible happened, and she's carried the pain of it ever since. The man who she thought was going to heal her didn't, and now she hides, learning his secrets, invisible in the shadows.Owen Pick is invisible too. He's never had a girlfriend; he's never even had a friend.Nobody sees him. Nobody cares.But when Saffyre goes missing from opposite his house on Valentine's night, suddenly the whole world is looking at Owen.Accusing him. Holding him responsible for Saffyre's disappearance...INVISIBLE GIRL: an engrossing, twisty story of how we look in the wrong places for bad people while the real predators walk among us in plain sight.

En una casa a pie, no poeta Toby Dobbs ha creado un refugio para personas que necesitan una. Pero cuando una tragedia silenciosa y una carta inoportuna Sedat interrumpir la existencia de Toby, que necesita su casa para encontrar compañeros de dirección en algunos de sus vidas. Leah Peregrino ha visto los inquilinos de la casa en la carretera durante varios años, y cuando el propietario o el 31 de plata Smith Road pide para su asesoramiento, que abre la puerta no sólo para el excéntrico edificio cruzando la calle -, pero a cinco vidas en diferentes pasantías o agitación. Toby y puede ayudar a estos Leah Misfits a crecer, avanzar y salir? Y al hacerlo, pueden hacer sus propios sueños?

In a rambling house, failed poet Toby Dobbs has created a refuge for people who need one. But when a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter interrupt Toby's sedate existence, he needs his housemates to find some direction in their lives. Leah Pilgrim has watched the tenants of the house over the road for several years, and when the owner of 31 Silversmith Road asks her for advice, he opens the door not only to the eccentric building across the street - but to five lives in various stages of turmoil. Can Toby and Leah help these misfits to grow up, move on and move out? And in doing so, can they make their own dreams come true?

Deux copains d'enfance partagent un appartement. Débarque une ravissante colocataire. il n'en faut pas plus pour que cette jolie maison victorienne du sud de londres se retrouve sens dessus dessous, dans la plus pure tradition des vaudevilles amoureux. résumons : au rez-de-chaussée, ralph tombe amoureux fou de jemima, qui croit, elle, être sous le charme de smith, lequel nourrit une passion pour la bimbo du dernier étage. mais cette dernière fricote avec le type du premier dont la femme a peut-être des vues sur... Bref, les portes claquent, les quiproquos abondent, les dialogues fusent. dans cette comédie moderne au goût acidulé, l'amour, l'ambition, l'amitié sont au rendez-vous. londres dévoile ses secrets les plus branchés. et l'humour a bien entendu droit de... city.

Una vieja casa victoriana acoge los sueños y los fracasos de sus peculiares inquilinos.Toby, un poeta sin trabajo y sin libro publicado, vive en una rancia mansión de Londres con cuatro peculiares inquilinos: una aspirante a cantante, una actriz, un anciano, un adolescente que quiere ser aviador y su madre arrepentida que lo abandonó a los pocos meses de nacer. Pese a vivir siempre rodeado de gente, Toby se ha convertido en un hombre solitario y retraído. Pero una herencia inesperada le da la oportunidad de empezar de cero, de liberarse de la casa y de esos curiosos inquilinos que, de algún modo, constituyen su familia…

When she was nine years old, Melody Browne´s house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took with it all her memories _ Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday.

Dark secrets, a devastating mystery and the games people play: the gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Third Wife. You live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people's houses. You've known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible? Utterly believable characters, a gripping story and a dark secret buried at its core: this is Lisa Jewell at her heart-stopping best.

This is the unforgettable new novel from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell, author of Ralph's Party, The Making of Us and The House We Grew Up In. You think you have the perfect life. You're successful. Attractive. Well liked. And you've just got married for the third time. But that's ok, because everyone's happy. Your children are happy. You're happy. And so is your new wife...London, 3am: a tragic accident, and Adrian's life starts to fall apart. Because everyone has secrets and secrets have consequences. Some of which can be devastating.

Oscuros secretos, un misterio devastador: la absorvernte nueva novela de la autora de The House We Grew Up In y The Third Wife. Vives en una pintoresca plaza comunitaria, un oasis urbano en Londres donde los niños corren libres, dentro y fuera de las casas. Conoces a tus vecinos durante años y confias en ellos. Crees que tus hijos estan a salvo.... ¿pero realmente lo estan?

The gripping new novel from the bestselling author of The House We Grew Up In and The Girls.Two women, twenty years of secrets and a man who can't remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's brilliant new novel.East Yorkshire: Single mum Alice Lake finds a man on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, no idea what he is doing there. Against her better judgement she invites him in to her home.Surrey: Twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed.Two women, twenty years of secrets and a man who can't remember lie at the heart of Lisa Jewell's brilliant new novel.

Tony is dealing with divorce and a weight problem, Sean has writer's block and is coping with a shock announcement, while Ned has made a surprise return from Australia. Three brothers cope with adult life and wonder why their mum is so keen on looking after Gervase, the unsavoury waif.

Un día te preguntas qué habrá sido de tu primer amor, el día siguiente te topas con él después de doce años sin verlo y lo pero es que... su mirada aún te derrite.Con la seductora y trepidante atmósfera de Londres como telón de fondo, la última novela de la autora d eLa fiesta de Ralph es tan tierna como desternillante y crea adicción desde la primera página

Él es Vince. Ella es Joy. Parecería que estuvieran hechos el uso para el otro, y sin duda la suya es la historia de un gran primer amor... hasta que el destino jugó con ellos y les separó. Durante los siguientes quince años, Vince y Joy siguen cada uno su camino. Pero ese mismo destino parece empeñado en volver a cruzr sus vidas. Una novela que atrapa por su frescura, naturalidad, simpatía. Unos personajes con cuyas emociones es fñacil identificarse. Una historia tan real que podría haberte sucedido a ti.

Bien 9780099533696|Arrow (UK)|Reino Unido|2012|18x11cm.|483pp.|Tapa Blanda|Estado=Bien|Tapa blanda. Idioma: Inglés. Libro usado sin revisar. Puede tener, aunque no es probable, marcas de uso.