Love Falls

It is July, three months after Lara’s 17th birthday and a week before Charles and Diana’s royal wedding, and Lara is about to exchange the exhaust fumes of London for the Tuscan hillsides, as she leaves on a summer holiday with her distant, charismatic father. 
At Via Campanelli they are greeted by the cool, elegant Caroline, whose sardonic composure leaves Lara tongue-tied and awkward. But as Lara’s skin begins to turn golden, she finds herself relaxing, seduced by the limpid beauty of the place. To her delight, the villa’s closest neighbours turn out to be the contagiously adventurous Willoughbys, the teenaged brood of expat British millionaire Lord Andrew Willoughby. Though thrown by the glamour and noisy ebullience of the family, Lara is drawn to Kip, a carelessly beautiful boy a couple of years older than she is. That holiday spent under the spell of the Willoughbys will leave her transformed. 
Love Falls is a riveting novel about how one summer can change everything. This is a story written from inside the mind and heart of a girl, delicately carved and achingly honest in its portrayal of self-discovery. British critics have called Esther Freud “the best writer on childhood we have.”Love Falls proves them right.

Literature & Fiction

FREUD, Esther

Literary

HarperCollins, Publishers

The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily assembles the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an absence in her own life that may not be filled by simply going home.
The Sea House is the story of the village of Steerborough and the marshes and the sea beyond. It is the story of one generation living in the footprints of another; of a landscape shaped by lives, and lives shaped by landscape. With characteristic skill and a new depth and range, Esther Freud explores the twisting paths that people take -- and the places where those paths meet.

The Sea House: A Novel

Ecco

The architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann's death in the village of Steerborough, a young woman, Lily, arrives to research his life and work. Pouring over Klaus's letters to Elsa, Lily pieces together the story of their lives together and apart. And alone in her rented cottage by the sea, she begins to sense an absence in her own life that may not be filled by simply going home. The Sea House is the story of the village of Steerborough and the marshes and the sea beyond. It is the story of one generation living in the footprints of another; of a landscape shaped by lives, and lives shaped by landscape. With characteristic skill and a new depth and range, Esther Freud explores the twisting paths that people take - and the places where those paths meet.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Contemporary

From the author of Hideous Kinky comes a charming, surprising, and utterly irresistible tale of adolescent love and self-discovery. When seventeen-year-old Lara accepts her father's invitation to accom­pany him to a Tuscan villa for the summer, she's both thrilled and nervous for the exotic holiday. To her delight, she soon discovers that the villa's closest neighbors are the glamorous Willoughbys, the teenaged brood of a British millionaire. Caught up in their torrential thirst for amusement—and snared by Kip Willoughby's dark, flirtatious eyes—Lara sets off on a summer adven­ture full of danger, first love, and untold consequen­ces that will irrevocably change her life.

Love Falls: A Novel

Dramas & Plays

A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past&nbsp; It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly--once the sparkling object of young men's affections--runs pubs with her brusque, barking husband, Cash. Their courtship began in wartime London, before they returned to Ireland with their daughters in tow.&nbsp;One of these daughters--fiery, independent-minded Rosaleen--moves back to London, where she meets and begins an affair with the famous sculptor Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish refugee artist over twice her tender eighteen years. When Rosaleen finds herself pregnant with Felix's child, she is evicted from her flat, dismissed from her job, and desperate to hide the secret from her family. Where, and to whom, can she turn? Meanwhile, Kate, another generation down, lives in present-day London with her young daughter and husband, an unsuccessful musician and destructive alcoholic. Adopted and floundering to find a sense of herself in the midst of her unhappy marriage, Kate sets out to track down her birth mother, a search that leads her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and the harrowing history that it holds. Stirring and nostalgic at moments, visceral and propulsive at others, I Couldn't Love You More&nbsp;is a tender, candid portrait of love, sex, motherhood, and the enduring ties of family. It is impossible not to fall under the spell of this tale of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets and outright lies.

I Couldn't Love You More: A Novel

Hideous Kinky (Penguin Essentials)

Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a quest for personal fulfilment; her children, however, seek something more solid and stable amidst the shifting desert sands. ‘Just open the book and begin, and instantly you will be first of all charmed, then intrigued and finally moved by this fascinating story’ Spectator.

Hideous Kinky

Penguin Uk

Lisa moves to London, hoping to follow in her sister Rosie's footsteps. Striking out, she tracks her own path through the city, dabbling with drugs and romance, and refusing to lose faith in her belief that something fantastic is about to happen to mark the beginning of the rest of her life.

Peerless Flats

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

This novel interweaves the story of Sarah, a pregnant, out-of-work actress, with that of her ancestors in Germany at the time of World War I. For it is only now, as long-since confiscated estate of Gaglow is about to be returned, that the generations can be brought together across the decades.

Gaglow

Hideous Kinky Tie In

Francine and her nine-year-old daughter, Tess, rent two rooms from tall, blond and handsome William Strachan. Although Tess sets out to make william love her, he has three daughters of his own, a wife 500 miles away and a half-built garage to finish.

The Wild

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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Love Falls

The Sea House: A Novel

The Sea House: A Novel

Love Falls: A Novel

I Couldn't Love You More: A Novel

Hideous Kinky

Peerless Flats

Gaglow

Hideous Kinky Tie In

The Wild