Yours, Mine, Ours

Three couples. One therapist's couch ... Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they're no longer on the same page or even reading from the same book. Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. Instead, it feels more like an icy winter. Orla is falling in love with boyfriend Paul, but her complicated past makes her unsure if she can ever be intimate with anyone. Three couples find themselves telling a stranger about the most private part of their lives - their hopes, their disappointments, their awkward realisations. Can they learn to be honest with each other? And what life-changing decisions will be made when they do?

Three couples. One therapist's couch ... Alice and Niall used to be lovers, best friends and parents, in that order. Now they're no longer on the same page or even reading from the same book. Ann thought when she and Ken retired, it would be their second spring. Instead, it feels more like an icy winter. Orla is falling in love with boyfriend Paul, but her complicated past makes her unsure if she can ever be intimate with anyone. Three couples find themselves telling a stranger about the most private part of their lives - their hopes, their disappointments, their awkward realisations.

Sarah loves being a mother - it defines her. Every year she writes a birthday letter of love to her adored daughter, Izzy, now seven. And after she falls pregnant, she promises Izzy that the arrival of a baby brother will make their family complete. So when she collapses a few months later, the safe happy life Izzy knows is shattered. With Sarah's future, and the future of her pregnancy, in their hands, her husband and sister disagree fiercely about her treatment. The once close family starts to fall apart. The clock is ticking, and the doctors need a decision. Can those who love Sarah get beyond the fog of grief and anger to figure out what's for the best? Can they ever forgive each other for the decisions they make? Will Izzy lose everything she knows and loves?

Having her son and daughter at 21 forced Lucy Murphy to walk away from a glittering future. They are the loves of her life and she is determined that they will have wonderful lives. So a scholarship to a prestigious school seems like a golden opportunity for the twins, the fulfilment of every wish Lucy has for them. But Lucy is confusing her thwarted ambitions with what her children really want. After all, seventeen-year-olds have dreams of their own, dreams they cannot always share with their mother. Until catastrophe strikes, Lucy is blind to the cost of forcing her own wishes on the twins, particularly her sensitive daughter. To have any hope of surviving as a family, all three will have to face up to some surprising and difficult truths... Our Secrets and Lies is a moving, gri...

Sinead Moriarty's delicious tenth novel, The Secrets Sisters Keep, is the story of three sisters, three life-altering problems and one eternal truth: nobody knows you quite like a sister! Sinead's writing mixes the worldly wit of Jane Green with the down-to-earth warmth and insight of Marian Keyes and will remind people just how important their sisters - and their friends-who-are-like-sisters - are to them. The Devlin sisters rely on each other - but some things are just too painful to share, even when your sisters are your best friends... Mum-of-four Julie thought that if her family had more money, life would be easier. But now that they've inherited a fortune, her problems are only starting. Lawyer Louise is used to having life go exactly as she wants it to. So accepting that...

Dalszy ciąg przygód bohaterów powieści `Emma pragnie dziecka`. Perypetie małżeństwa, pragnącego zaadoptować sierotkę. Humor, celne obserwacje obyczajowe, realia współczesnej Irlandii. Emma, trzydziestopięcioletnia wizażystka i jej mąż James, trener rugby, dwa lata be z sukcesu starali się o własnego potomka i zdecydowali się na adopcję. `Droga po dziecko` jest jednak długa i pełna zaskakujących sytuacji, a gdy wreszcie udaje się wszystko załatwić, okazuje się, że przybrany rosyjski synek będzie miał rodzeństwo, bo... Emma jest wreszcie w ciąży!

Po dwóch latach wsłuchiwania się w ogłuszające tykanie zegara biologicznego, gdy matka Natura nie chce przyjść z pomocą i obdarzyć Hamiltonów upragnionym potomkiem, Emma postanawia rozwiązać problem najprostszym sposobem: zaadoptować rosyjską sierotę. Musi jednak udowodnić, że jest odpowiednią kandydatką na matkę. Doprowadza męża do szału pomysłami, które mają z nich uczynić idealnych rodziców (kilka słów po rosyjsku dziennie i niedługo będziemy płynnie władali tym językiem). Ale dobre chęci Hamiltonów to nie wszystko...