Best Selling Books by Jane Gardam

Bridget loved her pony, William, and it was difficult for her to have everybody make fun of him all the time. Then one day, when a big snowstorm strands Bridget's family, William saves the day. A story that will gladden the hearts of children.

Marigold Green is zeventien, en haar wereld is klein. Ze groeit op binnen de muren van een afgelegen jongensinternaat in Yorkshire waar haar vader de scepter zwaait. Vrienden heeft ze niet; haar avonden vullen zich met zwijgzame potjes schaak met haar vader. Alleen haar ontembare verbeelding en haar vurig oranjerode haar brengen nog wat kleur in haar alledaagse bestaan. Maar dan duikt plots Grace weer op – haar raadselachtige jeugdvriendin, bloedstollend mooi, zelfverzekerd en mysterieus. Vanaf dat moment verruilt ze haar veilige binnenwereld langzaam voor de verwarrende buitenwereld. Zeker als ze halsoverkop verliefd wordt op de onbereikbare Jack Rose. Kostschool aan zee is een zalige coming of age. Met haar kenmerkende milde spot en vol warme empathie schetst meesterverteller Gardam een portret van een meisje dat zichzelf probeert te vinden in een wereld die haar niet begrijpt.

Faith Fox has led a life full of heartbreak and abandonment, lacking in simplicity and love-and she's not even one week old. She has suffered the unexpected and inexplicable loss of her mother in childbirth; her father, an overworked doctor grown callous with stress, has neither the ability nor the interest to take on the difficult task of raising his child alone; her grandmother, Thomasina, has decided to abscond to Egypt with a retired general rather than acknowledge and accept the loss of her daughter, whom she loved so distressingly well. And so Faith finds herself improbably at the rearing of her father's brother, Jack, an ascetic priest whose current endeavor is an occult "experimental community" comprised mainly of expatriate Tibetans. What ensues is a brilliant comedy of manners that revives the tradition begun by Jane Austen-an endlessly charming passage through the North and South of England that finally gives a major and lavishly gifted award-winning British writer the American readership she so richly deserves.

Roman d'aventures - hiver - enfant - animal - relation (psychologie).

This book contains stunning black and white photographs by award-winning photographers Harland Walshaw and Peter Burton and is accompanied by a poetic and evocative text which describes this beautiful and little-known part of Yorkshire.

When her father breaks his leg and everything goes wrong on their farm, seven-year-old Kit, who has the reputation of being a cry-baby, proves to her family that she can be brave in times of crisis.

Voici regroupés en un seul volume les trois romans cultes de Jane Gardam, Le Maître des apparences, Le Choix de Betty et L'Eternel rival, qui forment une fresque magistrale sur l'Angleterre de l'époque coloniale à la fin du XXe siècle. Découvrez les destins croisés de Sir Edward Feathers, juge à Hong Kong, de sa femme Betty et de Terry Veneering, éternel rival du premier au barreau comme auprès de sa femme. Brillante, pleine d'humanité, de générosité et surtout diaboliquement drôle, Jane Gardam est l'un des plus grands auteurs anglais contemporains.

Young Harry Bateman comes from London with his family year after year to spend the summer at Arboles Claros Farm in the Cumbrian fells country, until he feels that it is his real home.