Hothouse Flower
by:
Lucinda Riley (author)
A heart-rending page turner which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again . . .As a child Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate, where her grandfather tended the exotic flowers.So when a family tragedy strikes, Julia returns to the...
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A heart-rending page turner which sweeps from war-torn Europe to Thailand and back again . . .As a child Julia Forrester spent many idyllic hours in the hothouse of Wharton Park estate, where her grandfather tended the exotic flowers.So when a family tragedy strikes, Julia returns to the tranquility of Wharton Park and its hothouse. Recently inherited by charismatic Kit Crawford, the estate is undergoing renovation. This leads to the discovery of an old diary, prompting the pair to seek out Julia's grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed Wharton Park.Julia is taken back to the 1940s where the fortunes of young couple Olivia and Harry Crawford will have terrible consequences on generations to come. For as war breaks out Olivia and Harry are cruelly separated . . .
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141049373 (0141049375)
Publish date: November 25th 2010
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English
Category:
History,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Historical Fiction,
Romance,
Mystery,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Roman,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
World War II
Julia hat einen schweren Schicksalsschlag zu verkraften und flüchtet in ein erbärmliches Cottage in der Nähe des Herrenhauses Wharton Park. Hier hat sie ihre Kindheit verbracht, ist dem Großvater bei der Orchideenzucht zur Hand gegangen und schon damals hat sie eine behagliche Verbindung zu dem Anwe...
Inhaltsangabe Jedes Haus hat sein Geheimnis. Und jede Liebe ihren Preis Als junges Mädchen verbrachte Julia Forrester jede freie Minute bei ihrem Großvater, einem bekannten Orchideenzüchter, im Gewächshaus von Wharton Park. Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag führt der Zufall Julia Jahre später noc...
"Das Orchideenhaus" war mein erstes Buch von Lucinda Riley, aber sicher nicht mein letztes! Ich liebe epische Familiengeschichten, in denen alte Geheimnisse aufgedeckt werden, und die Autorin haucht diesem häufig verwendeten Grundthema mit großartigen Charakteren und originellen Wendungen echtes Leb...
Solitamente non leggo romanzi d'amore, anzi, a dirla tutta credo che Il giardino degli incontri segreti sia il primo vero e proprio libro del genere che entra a far parte della mia libreria. Sarà l'estate? La gravidanza, gli ormoni? Non importa, qualunque sia il motivo che mi ha spinta a leggerlo, n...
What better way to heal from a tragedy than to go back to a time and a place when life was good. Julia had lost her husband and her son in a tragic accident in France and decided to return to England to begin healing and to begin re-acquainting herself with her family. Julia was having a diffic...
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