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La famiglia Salter vive da generazioni nella propria antica residenza nobiliare, una grande e maestosa tenuta incastonata nelle Highlands che si estende per ettari, prepotente e altezzosa, sino alle rive del Loch Peattie, un lago che, come tutti i laghi scozzesi, gode di fama sinistra esigendo ogni tre o quattro anni la vita di un canoista, un pescatore, un bagnante. Tra le rispettabili famiglie delle Highlands, i Salter hanno contribuito a ta...

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One hot summer day, Michael Salter, nineteen-year-old scion of a posh Highland family, disappears. When his childlike aunt claims she drowned him during a fight, the family close ranks. No police. No memorial service. No titbits for village gossips. A decade of deceit begins." - Financial Times The Salter family orbits around Peattie House, their crumbling Scottish highlands estate filled with threadbare furniture, patrician memories, and al...

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What happens when you can't see that the man you married is actually the one you love?For her whole life Nina Findlay has been in a love triangle with two Italian brothers, Paolo, whom she married, and Luca, with whom she was always in love and who remained her best friend throughout her marriage. Now Nina faces the future alone-estranged from Luca and separated from Paolo, she escapes to the tiny Greek island where she honeymooned twenty-five...

An unexpected series of events propels one woman out of her marriage and onto a tiny Greek island, where soon finds herself questioning her whole identity. From the author of "The White Lie".

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A new edition of Gillies's journal, which charts her experience taking care of her mother-in-law as she was in the middle stages of Alzheimer's disease. The extended family went to live in a big Victorian house in the far north of Scotland. It won the inaugural Wellcome Prize last year. 'Thoughtful, informative and true...' Sir Richard Eyre

Winner of the 2009 Wellcome Trust Book Prize in Britain, this searing memoir explores the author's challenges as the full-time caretaker of her mother-in-law, who moves in with the family after she is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.