Nick Alexander

All the love she ever gave. Every secret she never told. Catherine was the love of Sean's life. But now she is gone. All that's left is a box full of envelopes, each containing a snapshot and a cassette tape. Through a series of recordings, Catherine shares their long love story, but will Sean recognise the story she tells? Catherine's words have been chosen with love, but are painfully honest--and sometimes simply painful. She reveals every unspoken thought and every secret she kept from her husband--revelations that will shake everything Sean thought he knew about their life together. But as disconcerting as the tapes turn out to be, Sean prays that they will ultimately confirm the one thing he never dared question. Does destiny exist? And were his and Catherine's love and life together always meant to be? Revised edition: This edition of Things We Never Said includes editorial revisions.

Things We Never Said

She's given her daughter everything. Now it's time to give her the truth. Becky's father is not just absent: he's a mystery, a gaping hole in her past. He died before she was born and for her mother, Laura, the subject is strictly off-limits. But when Laura books an unexpected trip to Greece, Becky decides to join her, determined to get closer to her mother--and to the truth. As they make their way to the beautiful island of Santorini, it becomes clear that this holiday is not as impulsive as Becky thought. Laura's hiding something from her daughter--and she's been hiding it for as long as Becky can remember. Laura has been here before, and that last visit holds the answers to Becky's past. But Laura's memories of that first trip are tinged with pain and heartbreak, secrets she's kept buried for twenty-five years. Now, with the truth emerging into the sunlight at last, can mother and daughter lay the ghosts of their past to rest and find the happiness they've both been looking for?

You Then, Me Now

Perfectly Ordinary People

Barbara - a child of the Blitz - has devoted her life to her family. She has protected her two children from the harsh realities of life, and this has included keeping a number of secrets about her marriage to famous photographer Tony Marsden. But with such an incomplete picture of the past, her children have struggled to understand who their parents really are, and in turn, she sometimes fears, to build their own identities. When daughter Sophie decides to organise a vast retrospective exhibition of her adored father's work, old photos are pulled from dusty boxes. But with them come tumbling secrets from the past, secrets that will challenge every aspect of how Sophie sees her parents.

The Photographer's Wife

They all lived through that terrible Christmas. The problem is, they remember it differently... Sisters Penny and Victoria seem to have nothing in common--except perhaps envy. Penny seems blessed with a perfect work-life balance, though only she knows how underpaid and underappreciated she is, while Victoria appears to have everything she could wish for-- along with a growing list of neuroses that keep her teetering on the brink of breakdown. For years the sisters have been at odds for reasons they don't quite understand. What they do know is that everything changed on Christmas Eve 1976, when a shocking chain of events fractured the family forever. But when a fresh tragedy strikes, it becomes clear that Victoria remembers a lot more about that horrific day than she's letting on... As secrets from their childhood are forced to the surface, the sisters must confront the shadows of the past together. Because, as they come to learn, as long as the truth remains bottled up, their relationships with each other, and to the past, can never heal. Revised edition: This edition of The Bottle of Tears includes editorial revisions.

The Bottle of Tears

She ran away from the truth, but she can't run forever. Seven years after his sister vanished without a trace, Jude is on the road, determined not to return home until he has found her. He wants to reunite his broken family, but more than this he wants to know why Zoe left--what happened when they were kids, on that terrible day when everything fell apart. They'd been enjoying the funfair--grasping a rare moment of happiness following their parents' divorce--when after a ride together, Zoe had stopped speaking to her mother's new partner. Though Mandy believed he was the man she'd waited all her life for, her love for her daughter trumped even that, and soon suspicions of an unthinkable betrayal shattered the family. So finding Zoe would be just the start. If Jude can find her, then what happens next will depend on the story she's been carrying with her all these years. Because when families are destroyed by dark secrets, can the wounds ever truly heal?

The Road to Zoe

Four people looking for love. Four choices that could be the start of everything. At thirty-three, nurse Heather is desperately waiting for her romantic life to begin. Then she meets handsome, strong Anthony and is sure she's found the one. Brushing any doubts aside, she projects all her hopes for true love onto him. Meanwhile, at a yoga retreat in Spain, happy-go-lucky Joe can't believe his luck when he meets vivacious, witty Amy. She's the sharpest, most beautiful woman he has ever dated, and the fact that she's interested in him feels like a dream come true. But new love can be blind, and when the two couples meet, the cracks are easy to see. Will their crossed paths lead the way to happiness? Or are they all destined for heartbreak?

From Something Old

The Top 10 E-book Hit: over 200,000 copies sold to date CC is trapped by a job she no longer loves in an unfriendly city. So when her new boyfriend decides it's time to sell up and move to the South of France, she decides in seconds to change her life. After all, who wouldn't pick an azure sea, aperitifs and sunshine over a dreary commute and a rainy climate? She hadn't expected a tumbledown farmhouse in the middle of nowhere. Or a motley assortment of surly builders, eccentric farmers and a resentful, terrifying neighbour - who happens to be her boyfriend's aunt. Suddenly, CC's dream of a place in the sun is looking more like a nightmare. Does she have the courage to stick it out, and make a home of her French house?

The French House

From the outside, Alice's marriage looks successful. It's true that Ken was never her first choice, but four decades in, she's learned to tolerate him. Their two sons have chosen their own paths, Tim as a successful banker and Matt a carefree globetrotter she can't keep up with. But when circumstances collide to make her question the life she's quietly accepted, Alice realises she's been lying to herself for years. It's time to stand up and put her own happiness first, but where do you begin when you've turned your back on everything? Alice craves the support of someone who understands her, but Tim won't take sides and his trophy wife won't give her the time of day. It seems the only person she can really rely on in her new start is herself. Unless ... Can her other son come through for her? Matt's been travelling so long that she barely knows which continent he's on. But could his experience as the black sheep of the family be just what she needs to finally reveal the secret she's bottled up for years--and find the happiness she gave up on so long ago?

The Other Son

The Half-life of Hannah

If your first love came back to offer you everything you ever dreamed of, what would you do? Hannah is thirty-eight and the happily married mother of eleven-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. Her marriage is reassuringly stable, and after fifteen years she has managed to push the wild dreams of youth from her mind and concentrate on the everyday satisfactions of here and now. The first half of her life hasn't been as exciting as she had hoped, but then, she reckons, whose has? When she succeeds in convincing husband Cliff to rent a villa in the south of France for a summer vacation with her sister Jill and gay friend Tristan, she's expecting little more than a pleasant few weeks with her family. But they each have their own baggage - their own secrets - ready to explode on this not-so-relaxing holiday in France. When a phone call at the villa announces the imminent arrival of a ghost from her past, the ambiance is transformed into a raging sea of jealousy as Hannah is forced to question everything she thought she knew and believed. But is she brave enough to take the life-changing decisions her future happiness requires?

The Half-Life Of Hannah

Una madre, una hija, una isla, un secreto. El padre de Becky no es solo una figura ausente, es un misterio, un agujero negro en su pasado. Murió antes de que ella naciera y su madre lo ha convertido en un tema tabú que ha acabado distanciándolas. Sin embargo, cuando Laura decide irse de vacaciones a Grecia, Becky la acompaña con la intención de reforzar los lazos que las unen y de buscar la verdad. A medida que pasan los días y disfrutan del sol de Santorini, Becky se da cuenta de que su madre no ha elegido ese destino por azar. No es la primera vez que visita la isla, e intuye que el viaje original alberga todas las respuestas que ignora de su pasado. No obstante, los recuerdos de Laura están llenos de dolor y pena, mantenidos en secreto durante veinticinco años. Cuando la verdad empieza a vislumbrarse, ¿podrán madre e hija desterrar los fantasmas de antaño y disfrutar de la felicidad que ambas anhelan?

Un Viaje Entre Dos Luces

Hannah and Cliff's marriage is over. After a traumatic family holiday, Cliff's lies have been exposed and Hannah has been reunited with her lost love, Cliff's brother, James. But after fifteen years together, and forever bound by love for their eleven-year-old son, Luke, breaking free and starting again seems impossible. A new life in Australia with James beckons for Hannah - but can she embark on this adventure without losing the love of her son? And can Cliff finally face up to issues he has suppressed since adolescence and find happiness in a confusing world? Amid the turmoil of separation, and with Luke caught in the crossfire, both Hannah and Cliff face the challenge of rebuilding their lives. To make the other halves of their lives count, they need courage and determination. But perhaps it's more than they possess ...

Other halves

Durante a�os, Alice ha llevado una vida sometida a sus padres, a su marido y a sus hijos, convencida de que deb�a anteponer las necesidades y deseos de los dem�s a los suyos. Ha sido hija obediente, esposa sumisa y madre abnegada, pero con la llegada a la edad madura, la situaci�n ha cambiado y su vida es ahora un mar de dudas. Su matrimonio, en apariencia feliz, oculta oscuros secretos. Sus hijos hace tiempo que han abandonado el hogar: uno es un pr�spero banquero casado con una mujer que no quiere saber nada de su suegra; el otro ha sido siempre un desconocido y lleva tantos a�os viajando por el mundo que Alice ni siquiera sabe en qu� continente vive. Enfrentada a la realidad de su nueva situaci�n, Alice se debate entre la posibilidad de dar un giro a su vida y el miedo al cambio y a conocerse a s� misma.

El Otro Hijo

The Number 1 Ebook hit: over 270,000 copies sold to date Thirty-nine year old CC is living the urban dream: a high-powered job in advertising, a beautiful flat, and a wild bunch of gay friends to spend the weekends with. And yet she feels like the Titanic - slowly, inexorably, and against all expectation, sinking. The truth is, CC would rather be digging turnips on a remote farm than convincing the masses to buy a life-changing pair of double-zippered jeans - rather be snuggling at home with the Missing Boyfriend than playing star fag-hag in London's latest coke-spots. But sightings of men without weird fetishes or secret wives are rarer than an original metaphor, and CC fears that pursuing the Good Life alone will just leave her feeling even more isolated. Could her best friend's pop-psychology be right? Are the horrors of CC's past preventing her from moving on? And if CC finally does confront her demons, will she find the Missing Boyfriend? Or is it already too late?

The Case of the Missing Boyfriend

Both novel and short story collection, 13:55 finds Nick Alexander at his best. Sometimes disturbing, sometimes funny, these are stories of lives that cross; collide violently in life-ending drama, or simply run peacefully alongside for a day or two, the characters attracted and repelled, hopeless yet inspired. In a digital age of world-spanning communications and easy travel, these stories explore how interconnected and yet fragmented our lives have become and how the universal desires for health, love and happiness draw us ever onward.

13:55 Eastern Standard Time

From Nick Alexander, the author of the No 1 ebook hits, The Photographer's Wife, The Half-Life of Hannah and The French House. Alice has been lying to herself for years, holding fast to the belief that the needs of her family far outweigh her own. But her outwardly successful marriage hides dark secrets, and for much of her life, the children were the only reason she stuck around. These days, though her successful banker son lives nearby, his young wife seems to do everything she can to keep Alice at bay. As for Alice's other son, he has always been something of a stranger and has been traveling for so long that Alice isn't even sure what continent he is on anymore. Alice can't help but wonder if the effort she expends presenting a united front to the outside world is actually helping anyone and what would happen if she suddenly stopped pretending. Could life, like the novels she devours, hold surprises in its closing chapters? And if she did shake everything up by admitting the truth about her marriage, would anyone be on her side? Has the time finally come for Alice to put her own needs first? For the first time in years, her heart is racing. Can Alice really change her life? Dare she even imagine such a thing?

From Nick Alexander, named by Amazon UK as the #3 bestselling indy Kindle author, a fresh new number 1 hit. Over 250,000 readers.Praise for Nick Alexander's WritingEndearingly funny, bang up to date and spot on the truth -- Red.Honest, moving, witty and really rather wise -- Time Out.Wonderfully compelling with a high standard of writing -- Liz Loves BooksA truly riveting read -- Crooks on Books"From the author of the The French House, The Half-Life of Hannah and The Case of The Missing Boyfriend, Nick Alexander's latest #1 bestseller, The Photographer's Wife, is an epic tale set in two eras, a tale of the secrets one generation has, rightly or wrongly, chosen to hide from the next."Barbara - a child of the Blitz - has more secrets than she cares to admit. She has protected her children from many of the harsh realities of life and told them little of the poverty of her childhood, nor of the darker side of her marriage to one of Britain's most famous photographers.With such an incomplete picture of the past, her youngest, Sophie, has struggled to understand who her parents really are, and in turn, Barbara sometimes worries, to build her own identity.When Sophie decides to organise a vast retrospective exhibition of her adored father's work, old photos are pulled from dusty boxes. But with them tumble stories from the past, stories and secrets that will challenge every aspect of how Sophie sees her parents.

Hannah is 38 and the happily married mother of 11-year-old Luke, the diamond in her world. The first half of her life hasn't been as exciting as she had hoped, but then, she reckons, whose has? When she succeeds in convincing husband Cliff to rent a villa in the south of France for a summer vacation with her sister Jill and gay friend Tristan, she's expecting little more than a pleasant few weeks with her family. But they each have their own baggage - their own secrets - ready to explode on this not-so-relaxing holiday in France. When a phone call at the villa announces the imminent arrival of a ghost from her past, the ambiance is transformed into a raging sea of jealousy as Hannah is forced to question everything she thought she knew and believed.

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