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Lisa Jewell - Az ​éjjel, amikor eltűnt
Anyu, ​itt vannak páran a suliból, és meghívtak magukhoz. Egy óra. Oké? 2017, Szent Iván-éj: Tallulah, a tizenéves leányanya randizni megy, kisbabájára otthon a fiatal nagymama, Kim vigyáz. Este tizenegykor Tallulah küld egy sms-t Kimnek. Hajnalban, fél ötkor Kim arra ébred, hogy Tallulah még mindig nem ért haza. A lány ismerősei azt mondják Kimnek, hogy látták Tallulah-t: egy medencés partira tartott az erdőbe, egy Sötét Ház nevű helyre, ami nincs is messze. Tallulah soha többet nem megy haza. 2018: Sophie az erdőben sétál egy bentlakásos iskola mögött, ahol a barátja nemrég állt munkába mint vezető tanár. Meglát egy kerítéshez szögelt kartont, amin az áll: ÁSS ITT. Megoldatlan ügy. Kihalt ház. Egy család borzalmas titkot rejteget.

Lisa Jewell - Thirtynothing
Have ​you ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into your first love twelve years after you last saw her. Imagine that she's even better-looking that she was when she was eighteen and that you ask her out for dinner and she says yes. This is what happens to Dig Ryan on the day of this thirtieth birthday Now imagine that you're Nadine, Dig's best friend for the last fifteen years. Imagine that Delilah was your nemesis at school and that even after twelve years, you can't bear to be around her. You might find yourself feeling unexpectedly jealous and you might do something really childish like phoning your first love and asking him out, just to get your own back. This is a story about ex-boyfriends and ex-girlfriends and what happens when you start messing with the past. It's also a story about best friends and growing up and how sometimes what you're looking for isn't in the past or the future, but right under your nose.

Lisa Jewell - After ​the Party
It’s ​eleven years since Jem and Ralph first got together. They thought it would be forever, that they’d found their happy ending. Then two became four, a flat became a house. Romantic nights out became sleepless nights in. And they soon found that life wasn’t quite so simple any more. But through it all Jem and Ralph still loved each other, of course they did. Now the unimaginable has happened. Two people who were so right together are starting to drift apart. And in the chaos of family life, Ralph feels more and more as if he’s standing on the sidelines, and Jem that she’s losing herself. Something has to change. Maybe it’s not too late to recapture happily ever after … A warm and involving novel that will restore your faith in life, love and the power of starting over. After the Party is Lisa Jewell at her unforgettable best.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Truth About Melody Browne
When ​she was nine years old, Melody Browne's house burned down, taking every toy, every photograph, every item of clothing and old Christmas card with it. But not only did the fire destroy all her possessions, it took with it all her memories - Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in a small flat in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn't seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody doesn't mind, she's better off on her own. She's made a good life for herself and her son and she likes it that way. Until one night something extraordinary happens. Whilst attending a hypnotist show with her first date in years she faints - and when she comes round she starts to remember. At first her memories mean nothing to her but then slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood. Her journey takes her to the seaside town of Broadstairs, to oddly familiar houses in London backstreets and to meetings with strangers who love her like their own. But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody begins to wonder if she'll ever know the truth about her past...

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's ​Party
"Lisa ​Jewell pulls off a rare trick which even the likes of Helen Fielding and Nick Hornby couldn't quite manage. She has written a book about relationships, which appeals in equal measure to men and women."-The Times (London) Meet the residents of the London brownstone on 31 Almanac Road who together weave a tangled web of romance. Ralph, a ne'er-do-well artist, suddenly realizes he's head over heels in love with his new flatmate Jem, the most fun and sensible girl he's ever encountered. Unfortunately, Ralph's best friend, Smith, has already won Jem's affections, although Smith has not entirely given up his passion for the femme fatale, Cheri, who lives upstairs. Across the hall, Karl and Siobhan have been happily unmarried for years, until Karl gets a smashing job as a London rush-hour DJ and momentarily gets tempted into Cheri's cozy lair. These six star-crossed tenants become more enamored, and more confused, as the story progresses-until their true destinies are revealed on one crucial night-the evening of the extravaganza that is . . . Ralph's party. This wonderfully hip new novel was an instant popular success when it was first published in England, and American readers are sure to be captivated by the debut of a talented new writer.

Lisa Jewell - 31 ​Dream Street
WHO ​LIVES IN A HOUSE LIKE THIS? An Air Hostess. A Teenager. A Wild-Haired Recluse. A Rock Chick. An Old Man. A Human Chameleon. Leah is fascinated by the strange mix of people living across the street from her at 31 Silversmith Road. She'd give anything to find out more about them, so when their reclusive landlord approaches her unexpectedly to ask for some advice, Leah is more than willing to help. Toby is a failed poet and incurable romantic. For fifteen years he has lived happily in his rambling house filled with waifs and strays, until a quiet tragedy and an unwelcome letter force him to admit that it is time to move on. But how will he persuade his tenants to move on? His house is their refuge. Are they ready to face the real world? Together, Leah and Toby must help the misfits at no. 31 to grow up and move out, but in doing so can they also make their own dreams come true?

Lisa Jewell - Ralph ​bulija
Ismerkedjünk ​meg az Almanac út 31. lakóival! Sétáljunk oda a bejárati ajtóhoz, lépjünk be a házba és az életükbe! Ralph és Smith, két testi-lelki jó barát. Mígnem mindketten beleszeretnek Jemimába, új lakótársukba. Jem tudja, hogy kettejük közül az egyik álmai férfija. De vajon melyik az? Karl és SiObhan a földszinten lakik. Boldog vadházasságban élnek már tizenöt éve. Úgy tűnik, a világon senki és semmi nem állhat közéjük. Legfeljebb talán Cheri, az emeleti végzet asszonya, aki kinézi magának Karlt, és holmi pufók barátnő igazán nem akadályozhatja meg abban, hogy célját elérje...

Lisa Jewell - Invisible ​Girl
“ ​I absolutely loved Invisible Girl— Lisa Jewell has a way of combining furiously twisty, utterly gripping plots with wonderfully rich characterization—she has such compassion for her characters, and we feel we know them utterly… A triumph!” —Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone returns with an intricate thriller about a young woman’s disappearance and a group of strangers whose lives intersect in its wake. Young Saffyre Maddox spent three years under the care of renowned child psychologist Roan Fours. When Dr. Fours decides their sessions should end, Saffyre feels abandoned. She begins looking for ways to connect with him, from waiting outside his office to walking through his neighborhood late at night. She soon learns more than she ever wanted to about Roan and his deceptively perfect family life. On a chilly Valentine’s night, Saffyre will disappear, taking any secrets she has learned with her. Owen Pick’s life is falling apart. In his thirties and living in his aunt’s spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a teacher after accusations of sexual misconduct—accusations he strongly denies. Searching for professional advice online, he is inadvertently sucked into the dark world of incel forums, where he meets a charismatic and mysterious figure. Owen lives across the street from the Fours family. The Fours have a bad feeling about their neighbor; Owen is a bit creepy and suspect and their teenaged daughter swears he followed her home from the train station one night. Could Owen be responsible? What happened to the beautiful missing Saffyre, and does her disappearance truly connect them all? Evocative, vivid, and unputdownable, Lisa Jewell’s latest thriller is another “haunting, atmospheric, stay-up-way-too-late read” (Megan Miranda, New York Times bestselling author).

Lisa Jewell - A ​föld nyelte el
"Csontig ​hatoló feszültség." (People) "Tökéletes kikapcsolódás." (Bustle) Ellie Mack egyszerűen tökéletes volt. Tizenöt éves, a legkisebb a három testvér közül. Szerették a szülei, a barátai, a tanárai, a pasijával álompárt alkottak. Már csak néhány nap volt hátra, hogy kezdődjön az idilli, vizsgák utáni nyári szünidő. Előtte állt az élet. Amikor a föld nyelte el. Tíz év telt el, Ellie édesanyjának, Laurel Macknek időközben tönkrement a házassága. Most egy kávézóban megismerkedik egy férfival, aki váratlanul vonzónak bizonyul. Laurel meglepetten érzi, hogy a flört kezd komolyra fordulni: máris ott tartanak, hogy a férfi, Floyd bemutatja a lányainak. És Laurel lélegzete elakad - mert Floyd legkisebb lánya szakasztott úgy néz ki, mint Ellie. Hogyan lehetséges mindez? Egyáltalán hova tűnt Ellie? Laurelben újra feltolulnak a nagy nehezen szőnyeg alá söpört kérdések.

Lisa Jewell - Harmincasok... ​és utána semmi?
Előfordult ​már veled, hogy eltűnődtél, vajon mi történhetett az első szerelmeddel? Képzeld el, hogy összefutsz vele az utcán tizenkét évvel azután, hogy utoljára láttad, és rádöbbensz, még mindig baromira bejön neked. Pontosan ez esik meg Dig Ryannel , amikor újra találkozik Delilah-val. Most azt képzeld el, hogy te vagy Nadine! Tizenöt éve vagy Dig legjobb barátja és ráébredsz, hogy szerelmes vagy belé. Delilah viszont maga volt a két lábon járó sorscsapás számodra a középiskolában, és most kiderül, hogy még mindig az. Amikor váratlanul felbukkan, azon kapod magad, hogy iszonyú féltékeny vagy, és elkezdesz gyerekes dolgokat művelni. Így például felhívod első pasidat, Phil-t.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Girls
You ​live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbours for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? Midsummer night: a thirteen-year-old girl is found unconscious in a dark corner of the garden square. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Lisa Jewell - I ​Found You
A ​young bride, a lonely single mother, and an amnesiac man of dubious origin lie at the heart of New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell’s next suspenseful drama that will appeal to fans of Liane Moriarty and Paula Hawkins. In a windswept British seaside town, single mom Alice Lake finds a man sitting on the beach outside her house. He has no name, no jacket, and no idea how he got there. Against her better judgment, she invites him inside. Meanwhile, in a suburb of London, twenty-one-year-old Lily Monrose has only been married for three weeks. When her new husband fails to come home from work one night she is left stranded in a new country where she knows no one. Then the police tell her that her husband never existed. Twenty-three years earlier, Gray and Kirsty are teenagers on a summer holiday with their parents. Their annual trip to the quaint seaside town is passing by uneventfully, until an enigmatic young man starts paying extra attention to Kirsty. Something about him makes Gray uncomfortable—and it’s not just that he’s playing the role of protective older brother. Two decades of secrets, a missing husband, and a man with no memory are at the heart of this brilliant new novel, filled with the “beautiful writing, believable characters, pacey narrative, and dark secrets” (London Daily Mail) that make Lisa Jewell so beloved by audiences on both sides of the Atlantic.

Lisa Jewell - Before ​I Met You
'Enchanting, ​intriguing, and completely unputdownable' Katie Fforde Having grown up on the quiet island of Guernsey, Betty Dean can't wait to start her new life in London. On a mission to find Clara Pickle - the mysterious beneficiary in her grandmother's will - she arrives in grungy, 1990s Soho, ready for whatever life has to throw at her. Or so she thinks... In 1920s bohemian London, Arlette - Betty's grandmother - is starting her new life in a time of post-war change. Beautiful and charismatic, Arlette is soon drawn into the hedonistic world of the Bright Young People. But less than two years later, tragedy strikes and she flees back to Guernsey for the rest of her life. As Betty searches for Clara, she is taken on a journey through Arlette's extraordinary time in London, uncovering a tale of love, loss and heartbreak. Will the secrets of Arlette's past help Betty on her path to happiness?

Lisa Jewell - A ​férfi titka
Mindenkinek ​vannak titkai. Mi történik, ha nem emlékszel a titkaidra? "- Mióta ül idekint? - Tegnap érkeztem. - Honnan jött? - Fogalmam sincs." Lily csak három hete ment férjhez. Egyik este a párja nem tér haza a munkából, s a fiatal nő szorult helyzetbe kerül egy idegen országban, ahol nem ismer senkit. Alice idegen férfit talál a háza előtti tengerparton, a zuhogó esőben. Nincs neve, se kabátja, és fogalma sincs róla, mit keres ott. A nő a józanész dacára behívja az otthonába. De ki ez a férfi, és hogy bízhat meg Alice egy olyan emberben, aki elvesztette az emlékezetét? Két asszony, húsz esztendős titkok és egy férfi, aki nem emlékszik a múltjára.

Lisa Jewell - Vince ​és Joy
Emlékeznek ​az első csók ízére? Emlékeznek, hogy azt kérdezték maguktól, vajon ő az Igazi? És emlékeznek az első fájdalmas szakításra? Vince és Joy szinte gyerekként megtalálta a boldogságot… de ahogy az lenni szokott, az élet közbeszólt. Egy szenvedélyes éjszaka, egy furcsa szakítás, majd hosszú csend, egy váratlan találkozás, egy összenézés, egy fellobbanó régi láng – két élet, néha együtt, néha csak egymás mellett, de sok találkozással, humorral, fájdalommal és örömmel – egy csodaszép szerelmi történet, ami a sors könyvében lett megírva. Lisa Jewell regényeiben mindenki megtalálja a neki valót: életszerű, humoros, megrendítő és fordulatos bestsellerei a romantikus irodalom legnagyszerűbb alkotásai közé tartoznak, számos országban hódítva meg a női olvasók szívét.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Third Wife
London ​2011: In the early hours of a summer morning, a young woman is killed by a bus. A tragic accident? Or suicide? A year later, her devastated husband, Adrian Wolfe, is determined to find out. Adrian and Maya had only recently married, and he'd always believed they were happy together. His children from his two previous marriages loved her. And Maya loved them. She had a job she enjoyed, she had plenty of friends, and she and Adrian were trying for a baby. They seemed to have the perfect life. Why then might she have wanted to kill herself? When Adrian finds a hidden stash of poisonous emails on Maya's laptop he begins to identify the dark cracks in her life. Because everyone has secrets. And secrets have consequences. Some of which can be devastating.

Lisa Jewell - One-Hit ​Wonder
Bee ​Bearhorn had a number one hit single in 1985. And was never heard of again. Fifteen years later she is found dead in her flat and nobody seems to care. Ana Wills has daydreamed for years about the famous and exotic half-sister she hasn't seen since she was thirteen so when she comes to London to clear out Bee's flat she is surprised to discover that her life was far from glamorous. And there are some very strange things going on - a missing cat, mysterious weekends away and a secret cottage in the country. Instead of going home, Ana tracks down Bee's two closest friends, mad Lol and strong, silent Flint and together they set out to find out whatever happened to Bee Bearhorn

Lisa Jewell - 15 ​perc hírnév
Bee ​Bearhorn elénekelt 1985-ben egy számot, amely hosszú ideig vezette a slágerlistákat, ám azután soha többé nem hallatott magáról. Tizenöt évvel később holtan találják, és úgy tűnik, ez senkit sem érdekel. Ana Wills sokat álmodozott egzotikus féltestvéréről, akit már hosszú évek óta nem is látott. Amikor feljön Londonba, hogy összecsomagolja nővére holmiját, feltárul előtte Bee életének néhány különös, megmagyarázhatatlannak tűnő mozzanata: egy eltűnt macska, egy eltitkolt vidéki ház, rejtélyes hétvégi utazások. Így hát Ana, ahelyett, hogy visszatérne Devonba, megkeresi Bee legjobb barátait, és azután a bolondos Lol és az erős, csendes Flint segítségével megpróbálja kideríteni, mi is történt valójában Bee Bearhornnal, az egyslágeres popsztárral. Készülj fel, kedves olvasó, ha belekezdesz, le nem tudod tenni, egész éjszaka fenn maradsz, és a körmödet rágva olvasol, amíg csak a végére nem érsz!

Lisa Jewell - The ​Making of Us
From ​the internationally bestselling author of After the Party comes a delightfully funny, brilliantly poignant novel about three strangers who are brought together by the father they never knew. Lydia, Dean and Robyn don’t know one another. Yet. Each is facing difficult challenges. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood. Wealthy and successful, she leads a lonely and disjointed existence. Dean is a young, unemployed, single dad whose life is going nowhere. Robyn is eighteen. Gorgeous, popular and intelligent, she entered her first year of college confident of her dream to become a pediatrician. Now she’s failing her classes. Now she’s falling in love for the first time. Lydia, Dean and Robyn live very different lives, but each of them, independently, has always felt that something was missing. What they don’t know is that a letter is about to arrive that will turn their lives upside down. It is a letter containing a secret—one that will bind them together and show them what love and family and friendship really mean. “So good that I practically inhaled it,” praised the Daily Mail (London). The Making of Us is a literary gem that will remind readers of the miracles that happen when we bring life into the world and share our lives with those we love.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Family Upstairs
Be ​careful who you let in. Soon after her twenty-fifth birthday, Libby Jones returns home from work to find the letter she’s been waiting for her entire life. She rips it open with one driving thought: I am finally going to know who I am. She soon learns not only the identity of her birth parents, but also that she is the sole inheritor of their abandoned mansion on the banks of the Thames in London’s fashionable Chelsea neighborhood, worth millions. Everything in Libby’s life is about to change. But what she can’t possibly know is that others have been waiting for this day as well—and she is on a collision course to meet them. Twenty-five years ago, police were called to 16 Cheyne Walk with reports of a baby crying. When they arrived, they found a healthy ten-month-old happily cooing in her crib in the bedroom. Downstairs in the kitchen lay three dead bodies, all dressed in black, next to a hastily scrawled note. And the four other children reported to live at Cheyne Walk were gone. In The Family Upstairs, the master of “bone-chilling suspense” (People) brings us the can’t-look-away story of three entangled families living in a house with the darkest of secrets.

Lisa Jewell - A ​Friend Of The Family
Brothers ​Tony, Sean and Ned had the perfect upbringing. They adore their parents and actually look forward to coming home for Sunday lunch. But now they're grown up, real life is starting to get in the way. Tony's dealing with divorce and a weight problem. Novelist Sean is up against a serious case of writer's block and a shock announcement from his 'perfect' new girlfriend. Their parents have a new lodger, Gervase; why is Bernie, their mum, so keen to give this unsavoury waif a home? And what is the real reason for kid brother Ned's surprise return from his travels in Australia?

Lisa Jewell - The ​House We Grew Up in
Meet ​the Bird Family. All four children have an idyllic childhood: a picture-book cottage in a country village, a warm, cosy kitchen filled with love and laughter, sun-drenched afternoons in a rambling garden. But one Easter weekend a tragedy strikes the Bird family that is so devastating that, almost imperceptibly, it begins to tear them apart. The years pass and the children become adults and begin to develop their own quite separate lives. Soon it's almost as though they've never been a family at all. Almost. But not quite. Because something has happened that will call them home, back to the house they grew up in - and to what really happened that Easter weekend all those years ago.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Girls in the Garden
Imagine ​that you live on a picturesque communal garden square, an oasis in urban London where your children run free, in and out of other people’s houses. You’ve known your neighbors for years and you trust them. Implicitly. You think your children are safe. But are they really? On a midsummer night, as a festive neighborhood party is taking place, preteen Pip discovers her thirteen-year-old sister Grace lying unconscious and bloody in a hidden corner of a lush rose garden. What really happened to her? And who is responsible?

Lisa Jewell - A ​fenti lakók
London ​egyik divatos kerületében, Chelsea-ben áll egy jókora ház, amelyben egy kisbaba ébredezik a bölcsőben. Jól táplált, szépen gondját viselik. Örömmel várja, hogy valaki felvegye. A konyhában holttestek oszlanak. Valaki sietős üzenetet firkantott melléjük. Már több napja halottak. Ki vagy kik viselték gondját a kisbabának? És hová lettek? Két család ügyei gabalyodtak össze. Ebben a házban nagyon sötét titkok lakoznak.

Lisa Jewell - Vince ​and Joy
Remember ​falling in love for the first time? Remember thinking, This is The One? Remember life getting in the way? From adolescent snogging to apartment shares, relationships, career crises, and children, Vince & Joy is the unforgettable story of two lives lived separately but forever entwined. Back in the 1980s, teenagers Vince and Joy met, fell desperately in love, and never quite said good-bye. Now nearly twenty years later they've both begun to ask themselves if that long-ago romance was the enduring love that they've been searching for.

Lisa Jewell - The ​Night She Disappeared
From ​the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Then She Was Gone and The Family Upstairs comes another riveting work of “gloriously twisted” (Marie Claire) psychological suspense. On a beautiful summer night in a charming English suburb, a young woman and her boyfriend disappear after partying at the massive country estate of a new college friend. One year later, a writer moves into a cottage on the edge of the woods that border the same estate. Known locally as the Dark Place, the dense forest is the writer’s favorite area for long walks and it’s on one such walk that she stumbles upon a mysterious note that simply reads, “DIG HERE.” Could this be a clue towards what has happened to the missing young couple? And what exactly is buried in this haunted ground? With her signature “rich, dark, and intricately twisted” (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) prose, Lisa Jewell has crafted a dazzling work of suspense that will keep on the edge of your seat until the final page.

Lisa Jewell - A ​házibarát
Tony, ​Sean és Ned a legjobb testvérek, tökéletes gyermekkoruk volt. Imádják "örök szerelmes" szüleiket, Bernie-t és Gerry-t, no meg a hatalmas, kaotikus házat, ahol felcseperedtek. Már harminc körül járnak, mégis izgatottan várják a család kedvenc éttermében eltöltött közös estéket. Mostanában azonban rájár a rúd az egész famíliára... A három testvér és szüleik életükben először igazán összerúgják a port. A családi viszályhoz a gyanús házibarátnak, Gervase-nek nem kevés köze van... De vajon kis is ez a furcsa fickó, és hogy került a közelükbe? Vajon Bernie miért fogadja be otthonába ezt a visszataszító alakot? Vajon mi a valódi oka annak, hogy a legkisebb fiú, Ned meglepetésszerű gyorsasággal hazatér ausztráliai utazgatásaiból? És vajon mi a teendő, ha az ember hirtelen azon kapja magát, hogy beleszeretett a saját testvére kedvesébe?