The light of hope

1. Joanna Knnon. “Three facts about Elsi”

Florence Clairborn lies on the floor without movement, in anticipation of help- and in her memory different events and facts are scrolling...

fact No. 1: when- then the sister of her best friend Elsie died by the hands of her fiancé Ronnie Batler.

Fact No. 2: He himself died immediately and he himself.

fact No. 3: And now more recently Florence suddenly recognized in the pianist Gabriela the price of a living and unharmed Ronnie Butler. And he began to build intrigues in order to drive her crazy or make everyone believe in her madness...

2. Beryl Bainbridge. The “grandiose adventure”

The main canvas of this novel is deceptively simple-the young Stella by a vanity of the Theater is entering the theater and falls in love with the director. However, this story is only an opportunity for the author to show in all colors the contradictory world of theatrical backstage. The world in which, as if, on the island of Peter Pan (a fairy tale about him, in fact, gave the novel a name), “missing boys” live, who do not want to grow up and perceive life as a game. The world in which, as in a good play, is a lot of unprofitted and secret and everything is not what it seems. The hearts break here, small and funny intrigues are adjacent to large and real human tragedies, and the plot, as if invented by an invisible playwright, is inexorably moving towards the finale.

3. Jody Lynn Anderson. "Spark in the night"

Three girls. Three generations. Three eras. Three of life, mysteriously interconnected... England is slowly recovering after the horrors of the First World War. And Lenor, who is experiencing the death of an older brother, tries to live on: he plans to leave for America for her best friend. But a random meeting with a young soldier, diligently hiding his past, is steeply changing her life...

In the terrible times of the dusty storms of young Catherine, I want to believe that her family will not affect misfortune. Noee's sister is getting worse, and Katherine faces a choice - to stay with relatives on the farm or seek salvation in another city... Eighteen -year -old Adri finds the diary of her peer, who lived many decades ago in her house. And now Adri firmly intends to find out who the girl is and what secrets keep the pages of her diary...

4. Jonah Gray. “Letters to the lost”

The novice singer Jess, who escaped from the cruel lover-manager, stops in an old house lost in the English rural wilderness, and suddenly finds a pack of old letters there.

Letters that tell her a bright and sad story of the Second World War. The story of the beauty of Stella Holland, her unsuccessful marriage with the cold and false priest Charles Torne and her love for the American pilot Dan Rosinsky, the only man who tried to make her happy.

Dan and Stella broke up several decades ago - but, perhaps, possibly , not everything is lost for them yet? Jess and her friend Will, who decided to help them meet again, begin to search...