Natasha Solomons

A 19-year-old Jewish girl in 1938 Vienna escapes the Nazis by becoming a domestic servant in England at Tyneford, home of the aristocratic Rivers family, where she forms a friendship with the youngest son that changes them both. Original.

The House at Tyneford

Before Romeo loved Juliet, he loved Fair Rosaline . . . Was the greatest ever love story really a lie? Romeo Montague is handsome and charming and the first time he sees young Rosaline Capulet, who has secretly snuck into his family's masquerade summer ball, he falls instantly in love. At first Rosaline is unsure of Romeo's attentions but with her father determined that she join the nunnery, Romeo offers her the chance of a different life. Gradually he convinces her that only true love could make him feel this way, that he is enraptured by her beauty. Indeed, he cannot live without her! And so begins the story of Romeo and Rosaline. These star-crossed lovers must keep everything hidden from Rosaline's family, at least until they are wed. But when a destitute young girl appears, claiming to be carrying Romeo's child, Rosaline starts to doubt all that she has been told. And as whispers of more girls reach her ears, what once felt like a courtship begins to feel more like a pursuit. As Rosaline recognises Romeo for the villain he truly is, his gaze turns suddenly towards Rosaline's adored and beautiful cousin, thirteen-year old Juliet. Can Rosaline save Juliet from her Romeo? Or can this story only ever end one way . . ? Hamnet meets My Dark Vanessa in this fierce, feminist, intensely gripping, unmissable novel; captivating and chillingly relevant, FAIR ROSALINE takes everything you thought you knew about Romeo and Juliet and turns it on its head . . .

Fair Rosaline

It's the eve of the sexual revolution, but in Juliet Montague's conservative Jewish community where only men can divorce women, she is living as a widow, invisible. But on her 30th birthday, everything changes. A young artist asks to paint her portrait, and Juliet enters the burgeoning art world of London in the swinging sixties

The Gallery of Vanished Husbands

From the New York Times bestselling author of The House at Tyneford, an epic family saga about a headstrong Austrian heiress who will be forced to choose between the family she's made and the family that made her at the outbreak of World War I. Vienna, 1911. Twenty-one-year-old Greta Goldbaum has always hungered after what's forbidden: secret university lectures, unseemly trumpet lessons, and most of all, the freedom to choose her life's path. The Goldbaum family has different expectations. United across Europe by unsurpassed wealth and power, Goldbaum men are bankers, while Goldbaum women marry Goldbaum men to produce Goldbaum children. Greta will do her part. So Greta moves to England to wed Albert, a distant cousin. The marriage is not a success. Yet, when Albert's mother gives Greta a garden, things at Temple Court begin to change. First Greta falls in love with her garden, then with England, and finally with her husband. But when World War I sends both Albert and Greta's beloved brother, Otto, to the front lines--one to fight for the Allies, one to fight for the Central Powers--the House of Gold is left vulnerable as never before, and Greta must choose: the family she's created or the one she was forced to leave behind. Set against a nuanced portrait of World War I, this is a sweeping family saga rich in historical atmosphere and heartbreakingly human characters. House of Gold is Natasha Solomons's most dazzling and moving novel yet.

House of Gold

"Originally published in Great Britain as The song collector, by Sceptre, an imprint of Hodder & Stoughton"--Title page verso.

The Song of Hartgrove Hall

I, Mona Lisa

A Novel

You've seen my smile, now hear my voice. Welcome to the dazzling world of Leonardo da Vinci's studio. It's bursting with genius imagination, hard graft, towering commissions and needling patrons, as well as discontented muses, friends (such as the amiable Raphael) and rivals (like the aggressively brilliant Michelangelo). Over five hundred tumultuous years, amid a whirlwind of politics, money, intrigue and power, the portrait of Lisa del Giocondo is sought after and stolen. Except for a chosen few who can hear her voice, she keeps everything close to her chest. If you listen closely enough, you can hear what the most famous painting in the world has to say about the lost and forgotten women in the history of art and of the world. I, Mona Lisa is a deliciously vivid, compulsive and illuminating story from the bestselling author Natasha Solomons. _____________________ 'A deeply touching and blissfully romantic elegy for a lost world' The Times on Mr Rosenblum's List 'Utterly charming and very funny' PAUL TORDAY, author of Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, on Mr Rosenblum's List

At the outset of World War II, Jack Rosenblum, his wife Sadie, and their baby daughter escape Berlin, bound for London. They are greeted with a pamphlet instructing immigrants how to act like "the English." Jack acquires Saville Row suits and a Jaguar. He buys his marmalade from Fortnum & Mason and learns to list the entire British monarchy back to 913 A.D. He never speaks German, apart from the occasional curse. But the one key item that would make him feel fully British -membership in a golf club-remains elusive. In post-war England, no golf club will admit a Rosenblum. Jack hatches a wild idea: he'll build his own. It's an obsession Sadie does not share, particularly when Jack relocates them to a thatched roof cottage in Dorset to embark on his project. She doesn't want to forget who they are or where they come from. She wants to bake the cakes she used to serve to friends in the old country and reminisce. Now she's stuck in an inhospitable landscape filled with unwelcoming people, watching their bank account shrink as Jack pursues his quixotic dream. In her tender, sweetly comic debut, Natasha Solomons tells the captivating love story of a couple making a new life-and their wildest dreams-come true.

Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English

I Goldbaum

E se la storia d’amore piú romantica di sempre fosse tutta una menzogna? La prima volta che Romeo la vede, se ne innamora all’istante. Quell’angelo dalle guance seriche, le membra perfette, lo sguardo luminoso. Le dita che si muovono leggere sulle corde del liuto. Intorno a loro la festa si muove, in un turbinio di vesti variopinte, musica e vino, ma Romeo Montecchi ha occhi solo per lei. Per quel sole davanti a cui impallidisce, invidiosa, la luna. Le loro famiglie sono in guerra, una faida antica le cui origini a Verona nessuno ricorda piú. Qualsiasi sentimento fra loro non può che essere scandalo, oltraggio, motivo di scontro. Scontro che appare inevitabile, visto che lei accoglie le attenzioni di Romeo come un bocciolo di rosa accoglie la primavera. Cosí, quando lui si arrampica fino al suo balcone per cospargerlo di fiori, lei gli giura amore eterno. E quando lui le promette un matrimonio segreto e la fuga, lei cede. Lei, che si chiama Rosalina Capuleti e che, destinata al convento, deve conoscere l’amore, combattere la sorte decisa da altri. Nessuno le ha mai rivolto parole incantevoli come quelle di Romeo, anche se a volte sembra un attore che recita sul palcoscenico. Ma quando lui le chiede di mentire, rubare, tradire, nel cuore della passione si insinua il dubbio: e se Romeo Montecchi non fosse chi dice di essere? Qualcuno ha cercato di aprirle gli occhi ma lei, prima, era incapace di vedere. Intanto Romeo, dimenticate in un istante le promesse fatte, ha già posato lo sguardo su un’altra Capuleti. Per Rosalina, delusa e piena di domande, è il momento della rabbia, della vendetta anche per le donne che l’hanno preceduta. Non ce ne saranno altre. Forse non è troppo tardi per salvare Giulietta... «Brillante. Un romanzo bellissimo, pieno di intelligenza e fascino». William Boyd «Natasha Solomons ha un dono per la costruzione di una narrativa piena di sorprese». The Observer «Impossibile resistere. Un classico riraccontato in maniera eccellente». Jennifer Saint «Non riesco a smettere di pensare a questo libro. Romeo e Rosalina è un romanzo appassionante e ipnotico, che ti cattura completamente, oltre a farti riflettere». Elodie Harper

Romeo e Rosalina

Fox, as the celebrated composer Harry Fox-Talbot is known, wants to be left in peace. His beloved wife has died, he's unable to write a note of music, and no, he does not want to take up some blasted hobby. Then one day he discovers that his troublesome four-year-old grandson is a piano prodigy. The music returns and Fox is compelled to re-engage with life - and, ultimately, to confront an old family rift. Decades earlier, Fox and his brothers return to Hartgrove Hall after the war, determined to save their once grand home from ruin. But on the last night of 1946, the arrival of beautiful wartime singer Edie Rose tangles the threads of love and duty, which leads to a shattering betrayal. With poignancy, lyricism and humour, Natasha Solomons tells a captivating tale of passion and music, of roots, ancient songs and nostalgia for the old ways, of the ties that bind us to family and home and the ones we are prepared to sever.

The song collector

The Novel in the Viola

Un perfetto gentiluomo

Au printemps 1938, l'Autriche n'est plus un havre de paix pour les juifs. Elise Landau, jeune fille de la bonne société viennoise, est contrainte à l'exil. Tandis que sa famille attend un visa pour l'Amérique, elle devient domestique à Tyneford, une grande propriété du Dorset. C'est elle désormais qui polit l'argenterie et sert à table. Au début, elle se fait discrète, dissimule les perles de sa mère sous son uniforme, tait l'humiliation du racisme, du déclassement, l'inquiétude pour les siens, et ne parle pas du manuscrit que son père, écrivain de renom, a caché dans son alto. Peu à peu Elise s'attache aux lieux, s'ouvre aux autres, se fait aimer... Mais la guerre gronde et le monde change. Elise aussi doit changer. C'est à Tyneford pourtant qu'elle apprendra qu'on peut vivre plus d'une vie et aimer plus d'une fois. Par l'auteur du délicieux Jack Rosenblum rêve en anglais.

Le Manoir de Tyneford

List item 2: Never speak German on the upper decks of London buses. Jack Rosenblum is five foot three and a half inches of sheer tenacity. He's writing a list so he can become a Very English Gentleman. List item 41: An Englishman buys his marmalade from Fortnum and Mason. It's 1952, and despite his best efforts, his bid to blend in is fraught with unexpected hurdles - including his wife. Sadie doesn't want to forget where they came from or the family they've lost. And she shows no interest in getting a purple rinse. List item 112: An Englishman keeps his head in a crisis, even when he's risking everything. Jack leads a reluctant Sadie deep into the English countryside in pursuit of a dream. Here, in a land of woolly pigs, bluebells and jitterbug cider, they embark on an impossible task...

Mr Rosenblum's List, Or, Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman

1938: Den 19 år gamle jødiske jenta Elise Landau må forlate familien sin og overklasselivet i Wien for å bli stuepike på godset Tyneford i Dorset i England. Under uniformen sin bærer hun morens perler, og hun skjuler farens manuskript i en fiolin. Etter hvert møter hun kjærligheten på Tyneford, og verden ser lys ut. Men da krigen kommerblir forloveden borte, og foreldrene blir sendt i konsentrasjonsleir. Elise skal imidlertid erfare at man kan være mer enn én person og at man kan elske mer enn én gang. Omtalen er utarbeidet av BS.

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