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Capucine est comme un poisson hors de l’eau. Pour sa mère Solange et le reste de sa famille, sa timidité est une tare inexcusable. À quelques semaines de la fi n de son secondaire, elle ne rêve que d’une chose : prendre le large. Laisser les jacassements de sa mère et de ses tantes pour remonter le fleuve et repartir à zéro. Puis, un jour, les bavardages de Solange cessent d’un coup. En cherchant à comprendre, Capucine finit par déterrer un lourd secret de famille, plus gros que tout ce qu’elle aurait pu imaginer : une sœur.

These early stories are fine vintage Wodehouse: the rivalry between the ugly policeman and Alf, the Romeo milkman; the plight of a "man with two left feet" who fell in love with a dance hostess; and the first appearance of Jeeves.

This second part of Christopher Milne's autobiography provides an account of a young man's search for identity, of a struggling (but later thriving) bookshop, and of Milne's own family life in a small English country town.

Trollope examines the Victorian woman and her predicament. "What should a woman do with her life?" asks Alice Vavasor, who vacillates between two suitors, and each woman has her own answer.

On Lansdown Hill, near Bath, England, a battle between Roundheads and Cavaliers that took place over 350 years ago is annually reenacted. Two of the reenactors discover a skeleton that is female, headless, and only about twenty years old. One of them, a professor who played a Cavalier, is later found murdered. In the course of his investigation, Peter Diamond butts heads with the group of vigilantes who call themselves the Lansdown Society, discovering in the process that his boss Georgina is a member.

In this portrait of eighteenth-century England, Roy Porter defines a nation from its princes to its paupers, covering diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, plays, paintings, and work and wages.

After his final trip up the river, Jerome sat down to write a serious book about the Thames, but in the process, his humor took over and gave birth to this masterpiece of unquenchable comedy.

Jessica Tregarth goes to England to visit her grandfather, but her arrival is greeted by mysterious villains who pursue her through Cornwall. Her only clue is an ancient ring she wears that bears the family crest.

When Eddie receives an early morning call for help, he catches the next plane to Britain. His friend, Dr. Peter Maurice, a renowned psychologist on a UK book tour with his wife Sylvia, has been accused of multiple, brutal murders and is about to be arrested.

In the debut mystery featuring veteran Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Peter Cammon, what seems like a simple domestic crime turns out to be a series of murders ravaging a peaceful English coastal community.