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Another dazzling novel by the author of the best-selling novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring. Chevalier draws a picture of family life that exposes the prejudices and flaws of a changing time, set against a backdrop of social and political turbulence in early twentieth-century London. "In her New York Times best-selling follow-up, Chevalier once again paints a distant age with a rich and provocative palette of characters. Graced with the luminous imagery that distinguished Girl With a Pearl Earring, Falling Angels is another dazzling tour de force from this "master of voices" /The New York Times ...

Holly Miller quiere que el próximo verano sea inolvidable. Es una chica responsable y trabajadora, pero pronto habrá un gran cambio en su vida y quiere sentir que ha aprovechado al máximo la etapa que está a punto de cerrar. No desea mirar atrás y arrepentirse de lo que ha dejado de hacer. Así que Holly tiene un plan y solo necesita a los Lions. Jack Marchisio solo quiere largarse y no mirar atrás. Su vida es un desastre desde hace tres años, el tiempo exacto que lleva cargando con problemas que ni siquiera son suyos, pero ya falta muy poco para alejarse de todo y no piensa renunciar...

Y todo se salio de control, mi madre nos cubria con su cuerpo y nos arrinconaba pero nunca dejo de rezar.

The Lie Circumspect is a novel by Rita. Rita was an English novelist also known as Eliza Humphreys. Excerpt: "Startled and white as death, she looked up at his face. It was not the face she had known and loved in her girlish innocence; not the face that had haunted her memory for four despairing years. It was the face of a man into whose soul the iron of suffering had entered, whose heart had been seared, not purified, in the furnace of sorrow. It takes a great nature to bear deserved punishment, and Lawrence Latimer's nature was not great."