Rosie Thomas: 13 books

A woman faces life-changing decisions in post–World War I London from the “master storyteller” and bestselling author of The Illusionists (Cosmopolitan).   In Daughter of the House, Rosie Thomas returns to the marvelous Wix family. Nancy Wix, daughter of the stage impresarios Eliza and Devil,...

Over the course of three decades of writing, bestselling novelist Rosie Thomas has earned an untold number of awards and the devotion of millions of loyal readers. Her new novel, The Illusionists, set in London in 1870, is a thrilling step forward—a captivating tale of passion and fantasy set in...

By the time she is reunited with her husband, she is a very different woman. Years later, Nerys’s granddaughter Mair Ellis clears out her dead father’s house and finds an exquisite shawl. Wrapped in its folds is a lock of a child’s curly hair. With nothing else to go on, Mair decides to trace...

Rosie Thomas, beloved by readers for her brilliantly realized characters and twisting, page-turning plots, turns her "sharp nib" (Washington Post Book World) to a group of older friends in this evocative story of camaraderie and its challenges.Miranda Meadowe decides a lonely widowhood in...

Rosie Thomas, "a master storyteller" (Cosmopolitan) has been enrapturing readers, earning awards, and garnering critical praise for more than three decades. Here, she offers a breathtaking look at marriage and relationships, with 'the five families' “ the pleasantly hospitable Frosts,...

“Master storyteller? (Cosmopolitan) Rosie Thomas returns with an affecting novel of the complexities of family and the sacrifices we make for the ones we love. Sadie's life is calm and complete. She is a mother, a good friend, and the robust survivor of a marriage she deliberately left behind. She...

Bestselling author Rosie Thomas captivates readers once again with this sweeping saga of family, love, and betrayal set against a historical backdrop spanning two world wars.Born within hours of each other, cousins Clio Hirsh and Grace Stretton were raised as sisters in the innocent days before the...

From critically acclaimed author and “master storyteller? Rosie Thomas (Cosmopolitan), a sweeping saga of loss and redemption that centers on Alice, who as a scientist, relies on method, precision, and tangible proof. But when her relationship with Oxford artist Peter Brown collapses spectacularly,...

« Rosie Thomas écrit avec une sensualité enchanteresse. » - The Times Ruby, une adolescente en pleine rébellion, vient chercher refuge au Caire dans la vieille maison d’Iris Black, sa grand-mère de 82 ans qu’elle connaît à peine. Alors que tout les oppose, un lien étonnant s’établit...

Pays de Galles, 1940. Jeune mariée, Nerys Watkins quitte la campagne galloise pour accompagner son mari missionnaire affecté en Inde. Alors que la guerre du Cachemire éclate, elle découvre Srinagar, la ville au bord du lac, où les Britanniques habitent de luxueux bateaux et dansent, flirtent...

Her latest novel, Constance, is a powerful story of a woman’s anguished reckoning with her past. Constance Thorne was a foundling, left by her mother within days of her birth. Decades later, she leads a happy, independent life in Bali, but when she hears the news that her sister Jeanette is dying,...

The unexpected arrival of her willful teenage granddaughter, Ruby, brings life and disorder to 82-year-old Iris Black's old house in Cairo. Ruby, driven by her fraught relationship with her own mother to run away from England, is seeking refuge with the grandmother she hasn't seen for years.An unlikely...

« Une histoire que vous n'oublierez jamais » - Romantic Times Book Review Très loin de son Angleterre natale – et d'un chagrin d'amour auquel elle ne pourra jamais vraiment échapper –, Connie (Constance) s'est créé une nouvelle vie à Bali, dans un endroit idyllique à la végétation...