Stephanie Cowell Knihy

"The Boy in the Rain transports us to another time and place in this powerful, sensual, and lyrical novel that literally took my breath away? the love is so visceral, the pain so deep, the beauty so real, and the danger so palpable!"--NYT bestseller, M.J. Rose, author of The Last Tiara It is 1903 in the English countryside when Robbie, a shy young art student, meets the twenty-nine-year-old Anton who is running from memories of his brutal childhood and failed marriage. Within months, they begin a love affair that will never let them go. Robbie grows into an accomplished portraitist in the vivid London art world with the help of Anton's enchanting former wife, while Anton turns from his inherited wealth and connections to improve the conditions of the poor. But it is the Edwardian Era, and the law sentences homosexual men to prison with hard labor, following the tragic experience of Oscar Wilde. As Robbie and Anton's commitment to each other grows, the world about them turns to a more dangerous place.

England im 17. Jahrhundert: Vor dem Hintergrund intriganter Machtspiele am Hof des Königs und erbitterter Richtungskämpfe innerhalb der großen Kirchen entsteht die schillernde Lebensgeschichte des Medicus und Gelehrten Nicholas Cooke und seiner zaghaft erwachenden Liebe zu Cecily.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a young man named Claude Monet decided that he would rather endure a difficult life painting landscapes than take over his father's nautical supplies business in a French seaside town. Against his father's will, and with nothing but a dream and an insatiable urge to create a new style of art that repudiated the Classical Realism of the time, he set off for Paris. But once there he is confronted with obstacles: an art world that refused to validate his style, extreme poverty, and a war that led him away from his home and friends. But there were bright spots as well: his deep, enduring friendships with men named Renoir, Cézanne, Pissarro, Manet -- a group that together would come to be known as the Impressionists, and that supported each other through the difficult years. But even more illuminating was his lifelong love, Camille Doncieux, a beautiful, upper-class Parisian girl who threw away her privileged life to be by the side of the defiant painter and embrace the lively Bohemian life of their time. His muse, his best friend, his passionate lover, and the mother to his two children, Camille stayed with Monet--and believed in his work--even as they lived in wretched rooms, were sometimes kicked out of those, and often suffered the indignities of destitution. She comforted him during his frequent emotional torments, even when he would leave her for long periods to go off on his own to paint in the countryside. But Camille had her own demons -- secrets that Monet could never penetrate, including one that when eventually revealed would pain him so deeply that he would never fully recover from its impact. For though Camille never once stopped loving the painter with her entire being, she was not immune to the loneliness that often came with being his partner. A vividly-rendered portrait of both the rise of Impressionism and of the artist at the center of the movement, Claude and Camille is above all a love story of the highest romantic order

In diesem fesselnden historischen Roman von Stephanie Cowell, der 1777 spielt, leben die vier Weber-Schwestern in einer künstlerischen, beengten Umgebung. Während sie mit ihren Zukunftsfragen ringen, tritt der 21-jährige Wolfgang Mozart in ihr Leben und entfaltet eine Geschichte voller Leidenschaft, Musik und den Herausforderungen des 18. Jahrhunderts.