Brothers & Best Friends by Ashley Rose (5 results)

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Vividly realised' VAL McDERMID'Brilliant.' SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to SleepWhen seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones.'Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town. Extremely well written. fantastic.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange'A clever, twisting debut, about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.' FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine'[Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible.' VAL McDERMID 'Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life.' TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop at Nothing'Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.' EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths'Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets - a stunning debut that delivers on every level.' RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer'Chilling and compulsive. Tall Bones is a dazzling debut.' KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics. Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.' LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Vividly realised' VAL McDERMID'Brilliant.' SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to SleepWhen seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones.'Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town. Extremely well written. fantastic.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange'A clever, twisting debut, about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.' FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine'[Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible.' VAL McDERMID 'Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life.' TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop at Nothing'Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.' EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths'Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets - a stunning debut that delivers on every level.' RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer'Chilling and compulsive. Tall Bones is a dazzling debut.' KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics. Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.' LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware -A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Vividly realised' VAL McDERMID'Brilliant.' SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to SleepWhen seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones.'Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town. Extremely well written. fantastic.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange'A clever, twisting debut, about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.' FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine'[Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible.' VAL McDERMID 'Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life.' TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop at Nothing'Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.' EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths'Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets - a stunning debut that delivers on every level.' RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer'Chilling and compulsive. Tall Bones is a dazzling debut.' KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics. Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.' LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE MONTH 'A wonderfully haunting debut.' JANE HARPER, author of The Dry'Irresistible, a compelling psychological thriller.' PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train'Vividly realised' VAL McDERMID'Brilliant.' SJ WATSON, author of Before I Go to SleepWhen seventeen-year-old Emma leaves her best friend Abi at a party in the woods, she believes, like most girls her age, that their lives are just beginning. Many things will happen that night, but Emma will never see her friend again. Abi's disappearance cracks open the façade of the small town of Whistling Ridge, its intimate history of long-held grudges and resentment. Even within Abi's family, there are questions to be asked - of Noah, the older brother whom Abi betrayed, of Jude, the shining younger sibling who hides his battle scars, of Dolly, her mother and Samuel, her father - both in thrall to the fire and brimstone preacher who holds the entire town in his grasp. Then there is Rat, the outsider, whose presence in the town both unsettles and excites those around him. Anything could happen in Whistling Ridge, this tinder box of small-town rage, and all it will take is just one spark - the truth of what really happened that night out at the Tall Bones.'Tall Bones brilliantly conjures up the oppressive claustrophobia of the small town. Extremely well written. fantastic.' HARRIET TYCE, author of Blood Orange'A clever, twisting debut, about the dark side of small town America. It is packed with secrets like firecrackers ready to ignite.' FRANCINE TOON, author of Pine'[Its portrait of small-town intrigue is scarily credible.' VAL McDERMID 'Smart and compassionate, full of poetry and rage and shy hopes and shredded dreams and missing girls and family secrets and the dark, shameful underbelly of small town life.' TAMMY COHEN, author of Stop at Nothing'Tall Bones is as brutal, as bittersweet, as tender and as tense as first love itself.' EMMA FLINT, author of Little Deaths'Tall Bones is as atmospheric as it gets - a stunning debut that delivers on every level.' RENEE KNIGHT, author of Disclaimer'Chilling and compulsive. Tall Bones is a dazzling debut.' KATE HAMER, author of The Girl in the Red Coat'A terrific debut about guilt, secrets and complex family dynamics. Anna Bailey is definitely one to watch.' LUCY ATKINS, author of Magpie Lane.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - CLARA BOWMAN IS LIKE most society women who turn 18 in New York City. Her best friend, Ashley Davis, lived two doors to the west. As did Ashley's brother Thomas, and all the world knew that Thomas and Clara would marry. It all changed on May 12, 1872. It was a rainy Sunday. The Davises sat in the wrong seats on a train traveling through Queens and were both killed when it crashed.The questions for this woman are whether she can return to the life predestined for her and whether she wants to. In London, she happens upon an English woman much like her, who is pursuing a different path, through her love or art. There she will also have an unsatisfactory liaison in the bed of a member of the aristocracy. Nothing will be-or can be-the same on her return to America. This is the story what her new journey becomes. After a devastating time, Mrs. Bowman takes Clara to London. The pair take to strolling, and on one of their walks they happen upon Felicity Adams. Felicity is not only rich. Her father is a baron. She asked him to let her explore her dreams of becoming an artist, and he agreed, confident she would soon be back and married and bearing grandchildren for him. Clara is immediately and irretrievably taken in by the simple watercolor of roses among a cluster of bushes that Felicity is creating off the path. The moment changes Clara's life. She will, she tells her mother on the crossing home, like to see if she has a calling to be an artist. Her father gives her six months, confident (as the baron was) that his daughter would return to the fold. She would prove him wrong. She will learn much about men as she struggles to become a woman. This is Clara Bowman's story. Of fighting to remain independent. Of confusion about sex. Developing friendships, and one enemy, and falling under the tutelage of a master portraitist. Clara will suffer but she will develop her artist's touch and find a man she can love. \* \* \* \* This novel is related to Róisín Campbell: An Irishwoman in New York, published in 2020. Many characters in that book appear here and some of their stories after that book's end are revealed here. This is, however, a separate story. That of Clara Bowman.