Jojo Moyes
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"A story of mix-ups, mess-ups and making the most of second chances, this is the new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jojo Moyes, author of Me Before You and The Giver of Stars. Who are you when you are forced to walk in someone else's shoes? Nisha Cantor and Sam Kemp are two very different women. Nisha, 45, lives the globetrotting life of the seriously wealthy, until her husband inexplicably cuts her off entirely. She doesn't even...
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"Du sollst wissen, dass du mein Herz in deinen Händen hältst."
Die Journalistin Ellie durchforstet das Archiv ihrer Zeitung nach einer guten Geschichte - und findet einen Brief aus den 60er Jahren: Ein Mann bittet die Liebe seines Lebens, ihren Ehemann zu verlassen und mit ihm nach New York zu gehen. Der Brief berührt Ellie zutiefst, denn sie ist selbst unglücklich in einen verheirateten Mann verliebt. Wer hat diesen Brief geschrieben? Was ist...
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Kleine Fluchten brauchen wir alle. Momente, die den Alltag in Frage stellen und uns einen neuen Blick auf unser Leben ermöglichen. In diesen neun Geschichten sind es vermeintlich kleine Ereignisse - ein gefundenes Handy, eine vertauschte Sporttasche, ein missglücktes romantisches Wochenende -, die für einen Augenblick das Fenster in ein anderes Leben öffnen.
Mit ihren Romanen begeistert Jojo Moyes wie keine andere. Und auch ihre Kurzgeschichten...
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Nell war noch nie in Paris. Überhaupt hat sie trotz ihrer sechsundzwanzig Jahre noch kaum etwas gesehen von der Welt. Der romantische Wochenendtrip mit ihrem Freund Pete an die Seine ist deshalb ein echtes Highlight für sie, auf das sie sich seit Ewigkeiten freut. Doch dann steht Nell in London am Bahnhof, und Pete taucht einfach nicht auf. Aufgehalten bei der Arbeit, mal wieder. Aber er will nachkommen. Allein in Paris, eine schreckliche Vorstellung...
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Einmal angenommen, dein Mann hat sich aus dem Staub gemacht. Du schaffst es kaum, deine Familie über Wasser zu halten. Deine hochbegabte Tochter bekommt eine einmalige Chance. Aber du bist zu arm, um ihren Traum Wirklichkeit werden zu lassen. Plötzlich liegt da ein Bündel Geldscheine. Du weißt, dass es falsch ist. Aber auf einen Schlag wäre dein Leben so viel einfacher.
Und einmal angenommen, du strandest mitten in...
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Während um sie herum der Erste Weltkrieg tobt, versucht Sophie stark zu sein: Für ihre Familie, für ihren Mann Édouard, der auf Seiten Frankreichs kämpft. Nur ein Gemälde ist ihr geblieben, das sie an ihr gemeinsames Glück erinnert. Ein Porträt, das Édouard einst von ihr malte. Und das ihn jetzt retten soll ...
Hundert Jahre später in London: Liv trauert noch immer um ihren Mann David. Vor vier Jahren ist er...
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Im Paris der Belle Époque verbringt Sophie die ersten Tage an der Seite ihres Mannes, des Malers Édouard Lefèvre. Die Welt, die er ihr, dem Mädchen aus der Provinz, zeigt, ist aufregend und neu. Doch das Leben als Frau eines armen Künstlers ist nicht immer leicht. Über hundert Jahre später begibt sich eine andere Braut auf Hochzeitsreise in die Stadt der Liebe. Hals über Kopf haben Liv und David geheiratet. Doch die Tage in Paris sind nicht...
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...
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"They had nothing in common until love gave them everything to lose. Louisa Clark is an ordinary girl living an exceedingly ordinary life--steady boyfriend, close family--who has never been farther afield than their tiny village. She takes a badly needed job working for ex-Master of the Universe Will Traynor, who is wheelchair bound after a motorcycle accident. Will has always lived a huge life--big deals, extreme sports, worldwide travel--and now...
10) Still me
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Louisa Clark arrives in New York ready to start a new life, confident that she can embrace this new adventure and keep her relationship with Ambulance Sam alive across several thousand miles. She is thrown into the world of the superrich Gopniks: Leonard and his much younger second wife, Agnes, and a never-ending array of household staff and hangers-on. Lou is determined to get the most out of the experience and throws herself into her job and New...
11) After you
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"How do you move on after losing the person you loved? How do you build a life worth living? Louisa Clark is no longer just an ordinary girl living an ordinary life. After the transformative six months spent with Will Traynor, she is struggling without him. When an extraordinary accident forces Lou to return home to her family, she can't help but feel she's right back where she started. Her body heals, but Lou herself knows that she needs to be kick-started...
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More than forty years after a car accident causes Jennifer Stirling to lose her memory on the day she planned to leave her husband for a mysterious lover, journalist Ellie Haworth becomes obsessed by the story and seeks the truth in the hopes of revitalizing her career.
13) We all live here
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"Lila Kennedy has a lot on her plate. A broken marriage, two wayward daughters, a house that is falling apart, and an elderly stepfather who seems to have quietly moved in. Her career is in freefall and her love life is . . . complicated. So when her real dad-a man she has barely seen since he ran off to Hollywood thirty-five years ago-suddenly appears on her doorstep, it feels like the final straw. But it turns out even the family you thought you...
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In the sixties, Athene Forster was the most glamorous girl of her generation. Nicknamed the Last Deb, she was also beautiful, spoiled, and out of control. When she agreed to marry the gorgeous young heir Douglas Fairley-Hulme, her parents breathed a sigh of relief. But within two years, rumors had begun to circulate about Athene's affair with a young salesman. Thirty-five years later, Suzanna Peacock is struggling with her notorious mother's legacy....
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Everyone knows travelling abroad isn't really her...
16) Night music
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"In this contemporary novel, widowed orchestral violinist Isabel Delancey finally finds true serenity and love only when she loses what she thought she needed most"--
18) The horse dancer
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A quintessential Jojo Moyes novel about a lost girl and her horse, the enduring strength of friendship, and how even the smallest choices can change everything When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo?hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood?she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves--if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah....