Kate Lord Brown

An international bestseller, Kate Lord Brown's debut novel The Perfume Garden has sold especially well in Canada, where it was selected as Read of the Month for June 2015 and made it to the Globe & Mail bestseller list. The House of Dreams combines Brown's lovely, lyrical writing and signature interwoven past/present narrative style with an even more commercial time period and a fascinating real-life story. In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca. In 1940, an international group of rescue workers, refugee intellectuals, and artists gather in the beautiful old Villa Air Bel just outside Marseilles. American journalist Varian Fry and his remarkable team at the American Relief Center are working to help them escape France, but "the greatest man-trap in history" is closing in on them. Despite their peril, true camaraderie and creativity flourishes - while love affairs spring up and secrets are hidden. At the House of Dreams, young refugee artist Gabriel Lambert changed the course of his life - and now, sixty years later at his home in the Hamptons, the truth is finally catching up with him.

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The House of Dreams

High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, the garden, laden with orange blossom, grown wild.Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she has left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory. It is the perfect retreat: a wilderness redolent with strange and exotic scents, heavy with the colours and sounds of a foreign time. But for her grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed here during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes terrible memories. As the house begins to give up its secrets, Emma is drawn deeper into Freya's story: one of crushed idealism, lost love, and families ripped apart by war. She soon realises it is one thing letting go of the past, but another when it won't let go of you.

The Perfume Garden

'A WONDERFUL, ESCAPIST, NOSTALGIC READ'- RED MAGAZINE: An enthralling debut novel of romance, wartime glamour, and adventure in the skies. Inspired by the brave young women who flew fighter planes across Britain in World War Two, New Year's Eve, 1940: Evie Chase, the beautiful debutante daughter of an adoring RAF Commander, gazes out at the sky as swing music drifts in from the ballroom. With bombs falling nightly in London, she resolves that the coming year will bring more than just dances and tennis matches and is determined to do her bit for the war effort. 2nd January, 1941: Evie curses her fashionable heels as they skid on the frozen ground of her local airfield. She is here to volunteer for 'The Beauty Chorus,' the female pilots who fly much-needed planes to bases across the country. Soon, she is billeted in a tiny country cottage, sharing with an anxious young mother and a naive teenager. Thrown together by war, these three very different women soon become friends, confidantes, and fellow adventuresses. But as they take to the skies, they will also face hardship, prejudice, and tragedy. Can their new-found bond survive their darkest hours?

The Beauty Chorus

A sensuously written international bestseller of lost love, family secrets, and the art of creating a perfect perfume, perfect for fans of Kate Morton and Tatiana de Rosnay. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple, London's leading perfumer, is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Her free-spirited mother has just passed away, leaving her the house mysteriously purchased just before her death. At the same time, Emma broke up with her long-time lover and business partner, although she carries his baby. Guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed to her in her mother's will, Emma makes it her mission to restore the beautiful but decaying house to its former glory. But for her aging grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed in Valencia during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes memories of a terrible secret, a part of her family's past that until now has managed to stay hidden. With two beautifully interwoven narratives and a lush, atmospheric setting, Kate Lord Brown's The Perfume Garden is a dramatic, emotional debut that readers won't soon forget.

Silent Music

Das Haus der Tänzerin

'The perfect read for a cosy winter's evening beside a crackling log fire' Sussex Life Diamonds are forever. And hold a thousand secrets... When Grace Manners moves to a little cottage on the Wittering Manor estate, she hopes it will be the perfect new beginning after her life was torn apart seven months ago. Ever since her husband disappeared, along with most of their money, Grace has struggled to make ends meet - but now, working for the eccentric Fraser Stratton, she has her own space to make her delicate jewellery once again. Yet as Grace begins to uncover the story behind a beautiful diamond brooch, she becomes drawn into a mysterious family secret that threatens to destroy what little she has left... Praise for Kate Lord Brown: 'Absolutely exquisite' Marian Keyes 'A wonderful, escapist, nostalgic read' RED 'Sweepingly romantic' Katherine Webb 'Captivating' YOU 'A story of love and adventure, of loss and pain, and heroism' DAILY MAIL ---------------------------------------------------- Previously published as The Christmas We Met

A Season of Secrets

A short story prequel to the international bestselling novel The Perfume Garden With The Last Rose of Summer, Kate Lord Brown immerses readers in the rich, sensual world of modern Valencia, Spain, where an abandoned villa holds the key to a woman's past, and her daughter's future. It's midsummer's night, and the Festival of San Juan illuminates the city streets; the beautiful Valencian coast is ablaze with the light of bonfires crackling on the beaches and fireworks in the sky. Liberty has invited John--the man she refused to marry but never stopped loving--to meet her there. She hopes that together they will discover the truth about the Villa del Valle--but she has a secret. Can John learn to live, and can Liberty learn to let go, before it is too late?

The Last Rose of Summer

An acclaimed international bestseller, The Perfume Garden is a sensuously written story of lost love, family secrets-and the art of creating a perfect scent. High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumier, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn. Her free-spirited mother, Liberty, who taught her the art of fragrance making, has just passed away. At the same time, she broke up with her long-time lover and business partner, Joe, whose baby she happens to be carrying. While Joe is in New York trying to sell his majority share in their company, Emma, guided by a series of letters and a key bequeathed to her in Liberty's will, decides to leave her job and travel to Valencia, where she will give birth in the house her mother mysteriously purchased just before her death. The villa is a perfect retreat: redolent with the exotic scents of orange blossom and neroli, dappled with light and with the rich colors of a forgotten time. Emma makes it her mission to restore the place to its former glory. But for her aging grandmother, Freya, a British nurse who stayed in Valencia during Spain's devastating civil war, Emma's new home evokes memories of a terrible secret, a part of her family's past that until now has managed to stay hidden. With two beautifully interwoven narratives and a lush, atmospheric setting, Kate Lord Brown's The Perfume Garden is a dramatic, emotional debut that readers won't soon forget.

A story of lost love and family secrets set between modern day Valencia and the Spanish Civil War, where a forgotten house guards its secrets. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Guided by letters and a key bequeathed in her mother's will, she's left her job as London's leading perfumier to restore this dilapidated villa to its former glory.

El jardin de los perfumes / The Perfume Garden

Seit dem Tod ihres Mannes und der Pfändung ihres Hauses steht Grace vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Bis ihr eines Tages der exzentrische ältere Schriftsteller Fraser Stratton einen Job als Assistentin anbietet. Die junge Frau bezieht für den Winter ein Cottage auf Frasers Anwesen, das von seinem sympathischen Patensohn Jack verwaltet wird. Als ihr eine antike Brosche in die Hände fällt, ahnt Grace noch nicht, dass sie auf ein lang gehütetes Geheimnis gestoßen ist, das die Strattons mit ihrer eigenen Familie verbindet und ihr Leben völlig verändern wird ...

Roman

Ein Märchen im Winter

The Christmas We Met

Una magnífica historia de amor perdido y secretos familiares que se desarrolla entre la Valencia actual y la de la guerra civil española. En la zona montañosa de Valencia, una casa olvidada guarda sus secretos. Abandonada desde que las tropas de Franco arrasaron España en 1936, sus paredes se han desmoronado y el jardín ha sido invadido por la maleza. Guiada por una serie de cartas y una llave que su madre le ha dejado en herencia, Emma Temple abandona su trabajo como perfumista en Londres para devolver su antiguo esplendor a la ahora ruinosa casa de campo. A medida que esta va revelando sus secretos, Emma se sumerge cada vez más en la historia de su abuela, una enfermera británica que pasó la Guerra Civil en España como voluntaria. Pronto comprende que una cosa es querer dejar atrás el pasado y otra muy distinta que este te lo permita.

El jardín de los perfumes

Immer sonntags öffnet die herrschaftliche Villa in Marseille ihre schmiedeeisernen Tore und wird zum Treffpunkt für Künstler und Intellektuelle, die aus allen Ecken des Landes herbeiströmen. Auch der junge Maler Gabriel Lambert macht sich auf den Weg nach Südfrankreich. Doch es ist das Nachbarhaus, das ihn schon bald in seinen Bann zieht. Denn dort wohnt ein Mädchen, dessen Schönheit ihn vom ersten Augenblick an fesselt. Ein Mädchen, für das er alles zu tun bereit ist - koste es, was es wolle ...

Das Sonntagsmädchen

Every summer, in a rambling castle in Kenmare, south west Ireland, the TV crews descend to film the nation's favourite cookery competition. For Diana, a celebrated TV chef, it's a way to keep her castle running. But this summer, it will be different. There's a lot more at stake than the perfect muffin. Bea, the cupcake queen, is determined to remind everyone why she deserves her own TV show, at whatever cost. Connor, the bad boy of the restaurant world, is determined to put his lurid past behind him and turn over a new leaf. And food blogger Darcy finds that returning home to the castle means stirring up some long-buried feelings for someone she'd never quite forgotten.

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