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« Percutant et poignant jusqu’aux larmes. L’auteure nous fait passer par toute une gamme d’émotions qui sonnent juste. » - Dani Atkins

Lorsque l’avenir ne vous sourit pas, il devient encore plus indispensable de rêver.

Tom tombe amoureux d’Alice, une jeune femme lumineuse, dès le premier regard. Véritable rayon de soleil pour tous les gens qui l’entourent, Alice semble avoir tout pour être heureuse. Mais la jeune femme est différente des autres. Atteinte d’une maladie génétique incurable, sa vie n’est qu’une suite de complications et d’incertitudes. Néanmoins, Alice refuse d’être prise en pitié. Tout ce qu’elle veut depuis toujours, c’est chanter ! Rêve qu’elle est bien déterminée à réaliser malgré les autres, les obstacles et la vie.

« Magnifique ! » - Sunday Times

« Ce roman mettant en scène une héroïne animée d’un courage indomptable et d’une farouche détermination est un hymne à la vie. » - Rowan Coleman

« J’ai vu Alice sur scène au club 606 en 2002. Son histoire et sa musique font vibrer une corde sensible chez moi. Alice est une source d’inspiration pour nous tous ! » - Robbie Williams

« Un roman stimulant qui met de bonne humeur. Il a pour sujet une jeune femme extraordinaire qui refuse de se laisser intimider par les obstacles qui se dressent entre elle et l’homme qu’elle aime, entre elle et son rêve. » - Julie Cohen

« Un très beau roman sur la vie de la merveilleuse d’Alice Martineau. Je l’ai refermé les larmes aux yeux et plus confiante en la vie. » - The Sunday Times

« Une belle et grande histoire d’amour et de courage. » - My Weekly

« La Voix d'Alice est un portrait vivant de l’âme d’Alice. Ce livre, mon préféré cette année, m’a émue aux larmes. » - Lizzy Ward Thomas

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Tom fell in love with Alice the moment he saw her. He realises that being with her will not be easy, but she is a force of nature, a burst of sunlight in his otherwise ordinary world.

Some people might look at Alice and think she has everything, but Alice knows she is not like other women. Her life is complicated, unpredictable, difficult. Alice does not like pity. All she wants to do, has ever wanted to do, is sing.

Alice has been told not to follow her dreams. But when fate has already dealt a tough hand, it’s time to stop listening to everyone else and only follow their hearts.

With her heart broken, Gilly Brown finds herself alone in London with only her little dog Ruskin for company. It's time to move on. On a friend's advice, she looks for a lodger, a Monday to Friday one, and eventually finds just the right man - Jack Baker. But what exactly does Jack get up to at the weekends?

Rebecca is happily married to Olly and content with her job at a glamorous London art gallery. But when tragedy strikes, she decides to move back to her childhood home in the country, hoping time will help her to heal.

One step can change everything...

Cass Brooks wishes she could turn back time. She'd go back to that morning and retrace her steps. Her boyfriend, Sean, would still be with her. Her mother wouldn't be nagging her to plan a new future when all she wants is her old life back.

But when Ticket, the most loyal golden Labrador, bursts into Cass's life, she dares to dream that she can be happy again, that maybe she has a future after all?

Charlie Bell is single. Why can't he commit? Following his latest break up, he finds himself sitting next to a young woman called Cass on a flight to Colorado.

She is unlike any woman he's met before...

Love may hurt, but not loving hurts even more . . .

January Wild loves her daughter, her dog Spud and her childhood home by the sea.

Single parenting is tough, but January has no regrets. She has a job she loves, a happy home, and the support of her beloved grandfather. The arrival of a new boss, however, threatens to shake up January's safe world.

Ward Metcalfe loves great sales results and a well-run office.

Everyone at her office agrees: Ward is a soulless, corporate slave driver. Even Spud, the company mascot, dislikes him.

A secret stands between them.

Yet over time January realises first impressions aren't always right. Slowly she unravels more and more about her new boss, things she couldn't possibly have imagined, nor expected...

Katie has a seemingly perfect life. Good looking and in a relationship with a rich, successful man, she hasn’t told anyone about her sister Bells who was born disabled. But when Bells comes to stay, and turns her life upside down, Katie begins to learn what love really is.

After Polly ends her relationship with the father of her young son, Louis, she is determined to move on. All she wants is to focus on her job, her friends and to be a good mum. No more looking over her shoulder. No more complications…

Then Polly meets Ben.

Ben is guardian of his niece, Emily. They become close, with Polly teaching Ben how to plait Emily’s hair, and Ben playing football with Louis. Their friendship is unexpected. Polly’s never been happier.

But when Louis’s dad reappears in their life, all Polly’s mistakes come back to haunt her and her resolve weakens when he swears he has changed.

Will she give herself a second chance to love?

Josie is dismayed to find herself pregnant again. How will she cope? At least she can talk to her best friend Clarky about it. He’s always been there for her, even if her husband Finn suspects ulterior motives.

At the age of 18, Alice Peterson was doing great. She was one of the top seeded players of British tennis, and was about to take up a tennis scholarship in the US. But overnight her happy, secure world was thrown into disarray when she was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. By the end of the year Alice was bed-ridden and praying for relief from the all-consuming pain of her disease. Alice tells of her tennis mad childhood and her battle with arthritis; of the competitive junior tennis circuit and of learning to live with a degenerative disease.

Love, lust, boys and coursework - the main worries of a teenage girl? Not for eighteen-year-old Alice Peterson, who, at the height of her youth and an extremely promising tennis career, was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. In the midst of shock and denial, and the enduring question, 'Isn't it old people who get arthritis?', Alice had to learn to live with what quickly turned from the odd ache and pain to a very aggressive form of the illness, and rediscover a new path in life. "Another Alice" is at times utterly heart-breaking, and at others laugh-out-loud. Here is her story of how, armed with humour and courage, she left behind a world she loved to overcome the pain of a degenerative illness. Told with wit, charm and frankness, "Another Alice" is also a story of friendship, family, growing up and the desire to be 'normal'. But, above all, it celebrates the power of the human spirit.