Charlotte Bacon Knihy

"A richly endowed memory piece...Bacon is a seductive and gifted storyteller."—Maureen Howard, author of A Lover's Almanac Anna Singer, a charmingly independent young New Yorker, feels derailed after losing her father to a car accident and her husband to a younger woman. She books a trip to India, hoping that there she will be able to put her grief into perspective. Though this is her first visit, India has always tantalized her: her English mother, Rose, was raised in Calcutta during the twilight of the British Raj, but seldom spoke of her childhood. Then, as Anna departs, Rose gives her a manuscript in which she has recorded her Indian memories, torn between two cultures and belonging completely to neither.

A young Scottish fisherman left home to travel as far away from the sea as possible, and ended up in Saskatchewan, Canada. He married and the couple lived quiet, braided lives until they were killed in an accident. Their children scattered and became part of another immigrant culture.

Als die junge Claire nur wenige Wochen vor dem College-Abschluss tot in ihrem Zimmer aufgefunden wird, steht die renommierte Armitage Academy in Neuengland Kopf. Die schöne Schülerin wurde nicht nur am helllichten Tag ermordet, sondern hatte auch heimlich ein Kind zur Welt gebracht - das nun verschwunden ist. Eine Beziehungstat unter Jugendlichen? Mit Hilfe der jungen Aushilfslehrerin Madeline deckt Lieutenant Matt Corelli die Schattenseiten der mächtigen Eliteschule auf: Missgunst, Intrigen, Erpressung, Manipulation …