Clare Clark Libros

It is 1910 and to ten-year-old Oskar Grunewald, the Melville family is impossibly, incomprehensibly glamorous. Born into privilege, their certainties are as unshakeable as the walls of their Victorian castle. It is a world to which Oskar, mathematics prodigy and son of a penniless German composer, has no wish to belong. But when Theo Melville is killed in the Great War, shattering his familyâe(tm)s lives, Oskar finds himself drawn reluctantly into the gaping hole his death has left behind. As Theoâe(tm)s two sisters struggle to forge their paths in a world that no longer plays by the old rules, Oskarâe(tm)s life becomes entwined with theirs in a way that will change all of their futures.

A brilliant and hugely topical psychological suspense novel about the ultimate trespass. A young woman discovers that the man she shared her life with was an undercover cop.

William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the London sewers. There, in the darkness of the stinking tunnels beneath the rising towers of Victorian London, May discovers another side of the city and remembers a disturbing, violent past. And then the corruption of the growing city soon begins to overwhelm him and a violent murder is committed. Will the sewers reveal all and show that the world above ground is even darker and more threatening than the tunnels beneath? Beautifully written, evocative and compelling, with a fantastically vivid cast of characters, Clare Clarke�s first book is a rich and suspenseful novel that draws the reader right into Victorian London and into the worlds of its characters desperately attempting to swim the tides of change.

Based on a true story, unfolding through the subsequent rise of Hitler and the Nazis, this gripping tale is about beauty and justice, and the truth that may be found when our most treasured beliefs are revealed as illusions. By the Women's Prize for Fiction twice-longlisted author.

In 1704, in the swamps of Louisiana, France struggles to maintain its new colony with fewer than two hundred men. Elisabeth Savaret arrives as one of twenty-three women sent from Paris to marry strangers.

Ein historischer Thriller London 1718. Als die unverheiratete, schwangere Eliza die Stadt erreicht, ist sie verzweifelt. Sie setzt alle Hoffnung auf den Apotheker Black, der sie großmütig in seine Dienste nimmt. Doch Black betreibt unheimliche Studien. Was geht in dem Haus vor sich, und welche Rolle soll Eliza dabei spielen? Nach dem Erfolg von „Der Vermesser“ der zweite Roman der neuen Meisterin der historischen Spannung.