Josie Silver

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon "Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time."--Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

A Novel

One Day in December

"Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she wants to do is hide indoors and sob until her eyes fall out. But Lydia knows that Freddie would want her to try to live fully, happily, even without him. So, enlisting the help of his best friend, Jonas, and her sister, Elle, she takes her first tentative steps into the world, open to life--and perhaps even love--again. But then something inexplicable happens that gives her another chance at her old life with Freddie. A life where none of the tragic events of the past few months have happened. Lydia is pulled again and again across the doorway of her past, living two lives, impossibly, at once. But there's an emotional toll to returning to a world where Freddie, alive, still owns her heart. Because there's someone in her new life, her real life, who wants her to stay. Written with Josie Silver's trademark warmth and wit, The Two Lives of Lydia Bird is a powerful and thrilling love story about the what-ifs that arise at life's crossroads, and what happens when one woman is given a miraculous chance to answer them"--

The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

From the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December...When a double-booking at a remote one-room cabin accidentally throws two solace-seekers together, it feels like a cruel twist of fate. But what if it's fate of a different kind? Spending her thirtieth birthday alone is the last thing that dating columnist Cleo Wilder wanted, but she is going on a solo retreat--at the insistence of her boss--in the name of re-energizing herself and adding a new perspective to her column. The remote Irish island she's booked is a far cry from London, but at least it's a chance to hunker down in a luxury cabin and indulge in some quiet, solitary self-care while she figures out her next steps in her love life and her career. Mack Sullivan is also looking forward to some time to himself. With his life in Boston deteriorating in ways he can't bring himself to acknowledge, his soul searching has brought him to the same Irish island in search of his roots and some clarity. Unfortunately, a mix-up with the bookings means both solitude seekers have reserved the same one-room hideaway on exactly the same dates. Instantly at odds with each other, Cleo and Mack don't know how they're going to manage until the next weekly ferry arrives. But as the days go by, they no longer seem to mind each other's company quite as much as they thought they would... Written with Josie Silver's signature warmth, charm, and insights into the human heart, One Night on the Island explores the meaning of home, the joys of escape, and how the things we think we want are never the things we really need.

One Night on the Island

A young chef stumbles on a secret family recipe that might lead her to the love—and life—she's been looking for in this stunning novel from the New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December When Iris decides to move to New York and restart her culinary career, she realizes she underestimated how big the Big Apple really is—all the nostalgic, New York-set movies she'd watched with her mom while eating their special secret-recipe ice cream didn't quite do it justice. And after spending the last few years in a relationship with a man who kept her world as small as possible, she's feeling a little overwhelmed by it all. But Bobby, Iris's best friend, isn't about to let her hide away. He convinces her to come with him to a famous autumn street fair in Little Italy. As they walk around enjoying all the food and life the neighborhood has to offer, a little family-run gelato shop catches her eye—it's the same shop that's in an old photo of her mother's. When Iris returns the next day out of curiosity, she meets the handsome Gio and learns that the shop is in danger of closing. His uncle, sole keeper of their secret family gelato recipe, is in a coma so the family can't make more. When Iris samples the last remaining batch, she realizes that their gelato recipe and her ice cream recipe are one and the same. But how can she tell them she knows it, when she's not sure why Gio's uncle gave it to her mother in the first place? So Iris offers her services as a chef to help them recreate the recipe and begins to find herself falling for Gio and his family. But when Gio's uncle finally wakes up, all of the secrets Iris has been keeping threaten to ruin the new life—and new love—she's been building all winter long.

A Winter in New York

Una novela mágica y emocionante que nos recuerda las inexplicables vueltas que da la vida de camino a la felicidad. «Te enamorarás de este libro.» Reese Witherspoon «Una historia de amor de lo más dulce. ¡Te encantará!» Marian Keyes Laurie no cree en el amor a primera vista. Piensa que una cosa son las películas y otra, la vida real. Sin embargo, un día de diciembre, su mirada se cruza con la de un desconocido a través de la ventanilla empañada del autobús. Surge la magia y Laurie se enamora perdidamente, pero el autobús arranca y sigue su camino por las calles nevadas de Londres. Está convencida de que es el hombre de su vida, pero no sabe dónde encontrarlo. Un año después, su mejor amiga Sarah le presenta a Jack, su nuevo novio, del que está muy enamorada. Y sí, es él: el chico del autobús. Laurie decide olvidarle, pero ¿y si el destino tiene otros planes? La crítica ha dicho... «El equivalente literario a Love Actually.» The Bookseller «El ritmo es perfecto, el tono es cálido y los personajes son entrañables. Cualquiera que crea en el amor verdadero quedará encantado con este debut conmovedor.» Kirkus Reviews «La mezcla de tensión y afecto entre Jack y Laurie es a la vez encantadoramente adictiva y muy efectiva. Los lectores que aman las historias de amor un tanto extravagantes, adorarán esta novela cinematográfica.» Publishers Weekly Los lectores comentan... «Este es uno de los mejores libros que he leído en mucho tiempo. Ha sido apasionante, emotivo, doloroso y precioso.» «Me he reído, he llorado y he regañado a los personajes. Me ha encantado.» «Esta es la clase de novela que merece leerse frente a la chimenea y con una enorme taza de chocolate caliente.» «Devastadoramente buena.» «Las primeras escenas me atrajeron de inmediato. Tenía muy claras las imágenes de los dos personajes principales mientras la historia se representaba en mi cabeza como una película espléndidamente dirigida. Me atrapó por completo.» «¿Sabes esos libros o esas películas clásicas con escenas famosísimas con las que todo el mundo se identifica: Notting Hill, Love Actually, El cuaderno de Noah, Yo antes de ti o Posdata: Te quiero? Bien, esta historia es un tapiz fabricado con maestría de esos momentos de pura magia. Pero, esto no es un torbellino ficticio de cuento de hadas romántico, ¡esto duele! Es crudo, es angustioso, es cautivador y es real.»

Un día de diciembre

Una novela mágica y emocionante que nos recuerda las inexplicables vueltas que da la vida de camino a la felicidad. «Te enamorarás de este libro.» (Reese Witherspoon) «Una historia de amor de lo más dulce. ¡Te encantará!» (Marian Keyes) Laurie no cree en el amor a primera vista. Piensa que una cosa son las películas y otra, la vida real. Sin embargo, un día de diciembre, su mirada se cruza con la de un desconocido a través de la ventanilla empañada de un autobús. Surge la magia y Laurie se enamora perdidamente, pero el autobús arranca y sigue su camino por las calles nevadas de Londres. Está convencida de que es el hombre de su vida, pero no sabe dónde encontrarlo. Un año después, su mejor amiga Sarah le presenta a Jack, su nuevo novio, del que está muy enamorada. Y sí, es él: el chico del autobús. Laurie decide olvidarle, pero ¿y si el destino tiene otros planes? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick "Get ready to be swept up in a whirlwind romance. It absolutely charmed me."--Reese Witherspoon "Josie Silver writes with a warmth so palpable her characters sneak their way into your heart and stay for a long time."--Jill Santopolo, New York Times-bestselling author of The Light We Lost Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story. Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn't exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there's a moment of pure magic...and then her bus drives away. Certain they're fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn't find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they "reunite" at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It's Jack, the man from the bus. It would be. What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness.

Un Día de Diciembre / One Day in December

A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle—and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of romance and humor.

Ghosts and spirits are business as usual, but love just might be enough to scare Melody Bittersweet.

In the leafy, charming town of Chapelwick, the Bittersweet family has been a fixture on High Street for as long as anyone can remember. Their rambling black-and-white building houses all three generations of ghost-sensitive Bittersweet women and their business, Blithe Spirits.

On her twenty-seventh birthday, Melody Bittersweet converts the disused back storeroom into her office and opens her own business. Unlike the rest of her family, she’s not taking down messages from ghosts—she’s taking them out.

Right away, the freshly minted Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency takes on its first case: a grand old house that won’t sell because a trio of incumbent ghost brothers raise merry hell whenever prospective owners arrive to view it.

It soon becomes clear that there’s a whole heap of unfinished business between the Scarborough brothers—including murder—and Melody isn’t the only one trying to unravel the mystery. Leo Dark, her rakish ex and business rival, is also on the case, along with the TV crew that trails him.

To make matters worse, the sarcastic and skeptical (and annoyingly good-looking) local reporter Fletcher Gunn has his nose in the story as well. Sniffing out a way to publicly discredit the Bittersweets is his favorite assignment—and has absolutely nothing to do with his inability to resist Melody.

With her business on the line, it’s up to Melody to work out the brothers’ issues, but can she protect her own very susceptible heart from Fletcher’s charm? Does she even want to?

 Melody Bittersweet #1

Crazy Spooky Love

Ein Tag im Dezember

Een dag in december

Winter in New York

Ole minun

L’amore arriva quando meno te lo aspetti. «L’equivalente letterario di "Love Actually".» The Bookseller «Chiunque creda nel vero amore non può che amare questo romanzo.» Kirkus Reviews «Un romanzo delizioso, a tratti cinematografico. Due ragazzi, in una Londra da togliere il fiato, si incontrano e si scontrano seguendo le mille incalcolabili onde del destino.» Publishers Weekly Seduta sull’autobus per tornare a casa, Laurie ammira le luci sfavillanti di Londra attraverso il finestrino. All’improvviso i suoi occhi incrociano quelli di un ragazzo fermo sul marciapiede. Si incrociano e si rincrociano ancora, in uno spazio che sembra infinito. Come non avessero mai fatto nient’altro per tutta la vita. Ma l’autobus riparte e Laurie non ha il tempo di fermarlo, di scendere, di scoprire qualcosa di quel ragazzo misterioso che per lei significa già tutto. Per un anno intero non fa altro che cercarlo in ogni negozio in cui entra, a ogni angolo di strada, in ogni pub dove va con gli amici. Ma sa che rivedersi, in una città così grande, è praticamente impossibile. Quando ormai si è rassegnata all’idea che si sia trattato di un’altra delle mille persone che, nella vita, si incontrano per poi perderle per sempre, lo vede a una festa. Ma non come avrebbe sperato. La sua migliore amica è lì per presentarle il suo nuovo fidanzato, e Laurie non può credere a chi si trova di fronte: è lui, è il ragazzo dell’autobus, è il ragazzo che ha disperatamente cercato per mesi. Un destino beffardo li fa incontrare di nuovo proprio quando non possono stare insieme. Proprio quando devono nascondere a loro stessi e al mondo intero la magia del loro primo incontro. Perché l’amore detta le sue leggi che non sempre sono comprensibili. Perché l’amore può premiare gli audaci, ma anche chi ha la pazienza di aspettare. Di credere. Di essere tenace. Quando nasce a prima vista può essere un fuoco che si accende in un istante, ma anche un focolare che trattiene il calore affinché non si esaurisca mai. Ogni volta noi è un esordio venduto in 25 paesi che ha conquistato i lettori di tutto il mondo. Perché quello dell’amore è un linguaggio universale che non conosce confini. Nell’affascinante ambientazione londinese una storia sui colpi di fulmine che possono capitare sempre e ovunque, su un autobus, su un treno, sotto casa. La speranza del cuore non muore mai.

Ogni volta noi

En dag i december

Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts, and the new owners need them gone. When Melody Bittersweet and the Girls’ Ghostbusting Agency arrive on scene, they quickly identify the main troublemaker swinging from the chandeliers. A century ago, stunning trapeze artist Britannia Lovell plunged to her death in the castle’s grand ballroom, and has continued to haunt it ever since. But did she really just fall, or was there something more to her demise?

Forced to work with Leo Dark, her scoundrel ex, and the infuriating, irresistible reporter Fletcher Gunn, Melody’s investigative powers are under the strain of a heart pulled in two directions. She needs her team in top form, but her best friend Marina’s cake pipeline goes AWOL, her assistant Artie’s distracted by a giant sausage roll, and the pug Lestat is scared witless by a lion. Melody has her work cut out for her.

Somewhere, hidden in the castle, is a heart-breaking secret, but what will it take to find it? And is there a chance it could set Britannia free, or is she doomed to repeat her last fateful act forever?

A Melody Bittersweet Novel #2

Kooky Spooky Love 

A talent agent hires an actress to play the part of "novelist" on a book tour for his agency's publicity-shy client in this delightful rom-com from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club Pick One Day in December

She's playing the part of romance author, but has she found her own real life love story?
Talent agent Charlie Francisco has three problems: a divorce that ended his screenwriting career, a business he never planned to inherit, and a take-your-breath-away romance novel whose author wants nothing to do with its publication. The book is a surefire hit, if only his agency can find someone to "play" author on its summer book tour.

Enter Kate Elliott, a former soap actress who's miraculously right for the part at the very moment her life seems to be going all wrong. Kate is still recovering from her own divorce and Charlie's job offer is a lifeline. She agrees to the pretense for all interviews, signings, and appearances surrounding the novel's publication. But she can't know who really wrote the remarkable story--the one so beautiful it's made her believe in love again.

When Kate and Charlie meet they're all friction and sparks--the one thing they have in common is they're determined to play their respective parts. But as the summer heat ups and the lies get bigger and bigger, can they stick to their lines . . . or will they go off-script?



Slow burn summer

Hâlâ Zamanimiz Varken

Two Lives of Lydia Bird

Mia mera ton Dekemvrē

Két ember, tíz esély. Egy feledhetetlen szerelem története. Laurie szinte biztos benne, hogy csak a filmekben létezik a „szerelem első látásra”. De egy havas decemberi napon buszra száll, a bepárásodott üvegen át meglát egy férfit, és rögtön tudja, hogy ő az igazi. Egy varázslatos pillanatra összekapcsolódik a tekintetük... aztán a busz továbbhajt. Laurie úgy érzi, meg van írva a csillagokban, hogy viszont kell látniuk egymást, ezért a következő évet azzal tölti, hogy London minden buszmegállóját és kávézóját tűvé teszi a férfi után. De nem sikerül időben megtalálnia. Egy karácsonyi bulin találkoznak újra – Laurie legjobb barátnője, Sarah boldogan mutatja be Laurie-nak az új pasiját... Ő az. A férfi, akit a busz ablakából látott. Aztán eltelik újabb tíz év, és ezalatt Laurie, Sarah és Jack sorsa barátság, kihagyott lehetőségek, és szívfájdalmak háromszögében rendeződik újra. Szívet melengető, derűs, megindító szerelmi történet, amelyet egyszerűen nem lehet letenni. A sors megmagyarázhatatlan fintorai a boldogsághoz vezető úton. „Josie Silver olyan tapintható melegséggel ír, hogy a szereplők befészkelik magukat az olvasó szívébe, és hosszú ideig ott maradnak.” - Jill Santopolo, A fény, amit elvesztettünk című New York Times-bestseller szerzője

Egy decemberi nap

Un barbat si o femeie. Zece ani. O iubire de neuitat. „Cea mai induiosatoare poveste de dragoste. E minunata!“ - Marian Keyes „Un Love Actually in proza.“ - Bookseller Laurie e convinsa ca dragostea la prima vedere e un mit. Dar, intr-o zi de decembrie, printr-o ninsoare puternica, zareste din autobuz un barbat si stie imediat ca l-a gasit pe EL. Convinsa ca ii e sortit sa-l revada, isi petrece un an de zile cautandu-l prin toate cafenelele din Londra. Nu il gaseste, in schimb, il reintalneste la o petrecere de Craciun, cand cea mai buna prietena i-l prezinta ca pe noul ei iubit, Jack, barbatul din statia de autobuz. „Josie Silver scrie cu o caldura atat de palpabila, incat personajele ei iti intra in suflet si raman acolo mult timp dupa ce ai inchis cartea.“ - Jill Santopolo

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