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    Santa Montefiore
    The Secret Hours

    2020 | Nakladatelství HarperCollins Publishers UK

    The enchanting new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Santa Montefiore. The perfect summer read for 2020!'Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I came. And may my sins be forgiven.'Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, …she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea.All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they now? What was the real reason that she turned away from them? And who is the mysterious benefactor of a significant share of Arethusa's estate?Arethusa is gone. There is no one left to tell her story. Faye feels bereft, as if her mother's whole family has died with her. Leaving her own husband and children behind, she travels to the picturesque village of Ballinakelly, determined to fulfil her mother's last wish and to find out the reason for Arethusa's insistence on being laid to rest in this faraway land. The enchanting new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Santa Montefiore. The perfect summer read for 2020!'Let the wind take me and the soft rain settle me into the Irish soil from where I cam…e. And may my sins be forgiven.'Arethusa Clayton has always been formidable, used to getting her own way. On her death, she leaves unexpected instructions. Instead of being buried in America, on the wealthy East Coast where she and her late husband raised their two children, Arethusa has decreed that her ashes be scattered in a remote corner of Ireland, on the hills overlooking the sea.All Arethusa ever told Faye was that she grew up in a poor farming family and left Ireland, alone, to start a new life in America as did so many in those times of hardship and famine. But who were her family in Ireland and where are they now? What was the real reason that she turned away from them? And who is the mysterious benefactor of a significant share of Arethusa's estate?Arethusa is gone. There is no one left to tell her story. Faye feels bereft, as if her mother's whole family has died with her. Leaving her own husband and children behind, she travels to the picturesque village of Ballinakelly, determined to fulfil her mother's last wish and to find out the reason for Arethusa's insistence on being laid to rest in this faraway land.

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    Vazba: Brožovaná
    Počet stran: 512
    Jazyk:  anglicky
    ISBN10: 1471169650
    ISBN: 9781471169656
    Vydání: 1
    Vystaveno: 23. 2. 2025 19:30
    Číslo položky: 1146570

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    Santa Montefiore

    Santa Montefiore

    Narozena 1970 v Anglii. Velkou část 90tých let žila v Argentině. Nyní žije s manželem a dvěma dětmi v Londýně. Do češtiny byly přeloženy dva její romány. Rodinné tajemství a Skříňka s motýlem. Je manželkou britského spisovatele a historika Simona Sebag-Montefiore .

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