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Sofka Zinovieff had fallen in love with Greece as a student, but little suspected that years later she would, return for good with an expatriate Greek husband and two young daughters. This book is a wonderfully fresh, funny, and inquiring account of her first year as an Athenian. The whole family have to come to grips with their new life and identities--the children start school and tackle a new language, and Sofka's husband, Vassilis, comes h...

A provocative and absorbing novel about a teenage girl’s intoxicating romance with a powerful older man, and her discovery, decades later, that her happy memories are hiding a painful truth A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an a...

A bold, thought-provoking novel that will compel and disquiet in equal measure, about the moral lines we tread, the stories we tell ourselves and the secrets we bury, 'a really important book' (Esther Freud) 1970s London. Ralph, an up-and-coming composer, has gone to visit Edmund Greenslay in his riverside home. At the heart of the house's wild bliss he finds Edmund's nine-year-old daughter Daphne, flitting, sprite-like, through the house's co...

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A provocative and absorbing novel about a teenage girl’s intoxicating romance with a powerful older man, and her discovery, decades later, that her happy memories are hiding a painful truth A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an a...

From the acclaimed author comes a brilliant, challenging novel about a bohemian family in 1970s London and the consequences of a taboo relationshipRalph Boyd's first glimpse of 9 year-old Daphne will be etched on his mind forever. Dark, teasing, slippery as mercury, she seems neither boy nor girl, but sprite - something elemental.An up-and-coming composer, Ralph is visiting the writer Edmund Greenslay at his riverside home in Putney to discuss...

Told through the eyes of two generations of women, The House on Paradise Street is an epic tale - the story of a family riven by political differences during the Second World War, and mired in conflict for decades afterwards, mirroring the wider tragedy of Greece itself ...

Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen der britischen High SocietyEine skandalöse Ménage-à-trois in der britischen High Society: Als Sofka Zinovieffs Großeltern 1942 heiraten, lebt der als ›Mad Boy‹ bekannte Robert Heber-Percy bereits seit Jahren mit dem gut drei Jahrzehnte älteren Lord Gerald Berners zusammen. Die beiden gelten als unwiderstehlich exzentrisch und sind die perfekten Gastgeber rauschender Feste, auf denen sich die Hautevolee Englands tr...

Jetzt im TaschenbuchAthen, 2008: Nach über sechzig Jahren kreuzen sich die Lebenswege der beiden verfeindeten Schwestern Antigone und Alexandra erneut. Der Anlass ist traurig: Antigones Sohn, ein Journalist, ist tödlich verunglückt. Ihre englische Schwiegertochter Maud, die von den familiären Verwerfungen nichts weiß, vermutet einen Zusammenhang mit seinen jüngsten Recherchen, und ahnt nicht, dass der Schlüssel zur Wahrheit im Familienhaus in ...

This "fiercely absorbing, passionate novel" ("The Guardian"), a bestseller in the UK, tells the epic tale of two sisters in the war-torn streets of Athens. Taking readers from Nazi-occupied Athens through the military junta years and on into the troubled city of recent times, it vividly reveals what happens when ideology threatens to subsume our sense of humanity.

The two story of the wildly eccentric people who lived in Faringdon House in Oxfordshire, the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter and friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein. 'Sumptuous.' Daisy Goodwin, "Sunday Times" *Also appeared in June Buyer's Notes*

The HOUSE ON PARADISE STREET is an epic tale of love and loss, which takes readers from the war-torn streets of Nazi-occupied Athens through the military junta years and on into the troubled city of recent times, and shows what happens when ideology threatens to subsume our sense of humanity. A widow investigates her husband's complicated past, and finds herself reigniting a bitter family feud, discovering a heartbreaking story of a young moth...

Babasi Rus, annesi Ingiliz Sofka Zinovieff, genc bir üniversite ögrencisiyken Yunanistanda birkac ay gecirip, bu günesli Akdeniz ülkesinden ve insanlarindan cok etkilenir. 2001 yazindaysa, Sofka ile Yunanli esi Vasilis, en büyük düslerini gercege dönüstürüp, Atinaya yerlesmeye karar verirler.Böylece bir yabancinin gözünden Atinayi ve Yunistani tanitan en eglenceli, en komik ama yeri geldiginde de en ciddi ani-gezi kitabi Atinada Bir Kadin orta...

Faringdon House in Oxfordshire was the home of Lord Berners, composer, writer, painter, friend of Stravinsky and Gertrude Stein, a man renowned for his eccentricity - masks, practical jokes, a flock of multi-coloured doves - and his homosexuality. This book tells his story.

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[A] piercing portrait of an extraordinary woman who was both a Russian princess and a communist' Telegraph

The remarkable adventures of a Russian princess set against the tumult of the twentieth century.