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A Practical Arrangement is a life-affirming, bitter-sweet tale of an ordinary family life uncontrollably descending into despair, crime and impossible choices. A sobering narrative for our times of unrealistic and unattainable life expectations. When a nurturing boss leaves the biotech company Andy works for, he is left struggling with his jealous peers and the fear of onrushing redundancy. With finances stretched and a growing family to support, Andy is pushed to breaking point. Sneaking some samples of an untested depression medication into his bag one evening after work, Andy hopes the drug will help him to turn his life around. Instead, Andy falls into an abusive and life-changing affair with the headstrong paradox that is Janey Robins who trades her body for Andy’s intoxicating drug. A practical arrangement riven with self-interest and mutual deceit. But it is not only Janey who is interested in the drug as the police close in on the source of a life-threatening new drug which has suddenly appeared on the streets. Will Andy be able to turn things around, or have the choices he has made ruin his family life and career beyond redemption?
L'undicesimo episodio della saga di Poldark Cornovaglia, 1815. Dopo la sconfitta di Napoleone e la sua reclusione all’Elba, in Europa regna una pace incerta. Ross Poldark, insieme alla moglie Demelza e ai figli Isabella, Rose e Henry, si trasferisce a Parigi in qualità di osservatore per il governo inglese. Jeremy e Cuby, sua novella sposa, iniziano invece la loro nuova vita in Belgio. Clowance, al fianco del marito Stephen, è l’unica della famiglia a rimanere in Inghilterra: ad attenderla, però, c’è un’amara sorpresa, che rischia di mettere a repentaglio il suo matrimonio e che avrà struggenti ripercussioni, soprattutto per l’enigmatico consorte. Nel frattempo, in Francia, i ...
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The Twisted Sword is the eleventh novel in Winston Graham's hugely popular Poldark series, which has become a television phenomenon starring Aidan Turner.Cornwall 1815. Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an 'observer' of the French armed forces. Parisian life begins well with an exhilarating round of balls and parties. But the return of Napoleon brings separation, distrust and danger to the Poldarks . . . and always for Demelza there is the shadow of the secret she does not even share with Ross.The Twisted Sword is followed by the eleventh book in the Poldark series, Bella Poldark. 'From the incomparable Winston Graham . . . who has everything that anyone else has, then a whole lot more' Guardian