New Releases by Natasha Farrant

Twelve-year-old Bluebell Gadsby''s written and video diary chronicles life in a rowdy London family, and how Zoran, the new au pair, and Joss, the troublemaking boy next door, help to pull her out of her shell and cope with the loss of her twin three years before.

France: February, 1944. Arianne knew Luc as a child, of course she did. Everyone in Samaroux knows each other. But he''s been away, and five years really makes a difference to a boy. A young man.As they fall headily into love - first love - their world starts to crumble around them. German forces are closing in, and the village is torn between cooperating to save themselves or putting up resistance and entering unknown danger.Arianne will do anything to make Luc stay. Luc wants to prove he is a man. And Romy, who has loved Arianne all the time that Luc has been away, can see a way of removing his rival, at any cost. How far will they go to protect what they believe in? And what will they do for love?

Deep in the English countryside, Marshwood has always been much more than just a house. It has been a place to escape to and a trap, the backdrop for elegant parties and a wartime hospital, an idyllic escape from trauma and unhappy marriages. When the roof starts to cave in and the money runs out, eighty-year-old Bella resists the pressure to sell and instead begins to peel back the layers of the past. As this imposing house gives up its secrets of marriage, war and forbidden love, patterns begin to repeat themselves when Bella''s granddaughter''s childhood sweetheart returns from the war in Bosnia. Like so many before him, Jack comes seeking solace. But he also wants Isla, who is - who really should be - unavailable to him. And as all three characters explore whether you can ever truly go back, the past and the present collide with shattering consequences . . .

Every summer throughout her childhood, Florence would return to her family home on the west coast of France, where she would be joined by her exotic, hopelessly glamorous cousins and life as she knew it would begin under the benevolent eye of her grandmother Mimi.It was a heady existence of illicit drinking, stolen kisses and the bittersweet pains of first love. But now Florence is living completely alone with her new baby.Haunted by nightmares, she cannot open the letters from her grandmother accumulating on her mantelpiece.What devastating truth do these letters hold?Why has Florence turned her back on her past? And will she and Mimi ever be able to escape the guilt that is tearing them apart and has shaken their family to its very core?

France, 1944 . Arianne et Luc, deux jeunes habitants du petit village de Samaroux tombent éperdument amoureux l’un de l’autre. Mais comment s’aimer quand la guerre fait rage alentour ? Est-ce que ces amants purs, au seuil de leur vie d’adulte, peuvent résister à l’Histoire et aux troupes allemandes aux portes de leur village ? Luc désire redorer l’image de sa famille entachée par la collaboration de son grand-père avec la Gestapo ; il décide de s’engager dans la Résistance. Arianne, elle, va tout faire pour protéger celui qu’elle aime, sans un regard pour cet autre qui est secrètement amoureux d’elle. Quelqu''un est prêt à tout pour séparer les amants de Samaroux à jamais...