El diario de Sandy

Un Galileo abatido y enfermo, unas cartas que desaparecen misteriosamente, Papas, nobles, artistas y abadesas se conjugarán en esta apasionante novela de Carmen Resino, ambientada en la deslumbrante Italia del Barroco y la Contrarreforma, en la que...

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. That's what Harriet Gibson thought after getting married there with Luke Evans, the first stranger who crossed her path. His marital role was all she needed to collect the inheritance from her father. Two years later he finds her in the small town where she lives.

A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married – who is still her dearest friend. Onto this scene comes Maeve Delaney. Sole applicant for the job of companion to Lady Pamela, streetwise and outrageous, Maeve bursts into the old house like a firecracker. As open warfare settles into a wary truce between the two women, Maeve sets her heart on bringing the great racehorce, Irish Dancer, out of retirement...

El lunes 18 de agosto de 1572 se celebraba en el Louvre una gran fiesta. Las ventanas de la gran residencia, habitualmente a oscuras, se hallaban profusamente iluminadas; las calles y las plazas contiguas, siempre solitarias en cuanto se oían las nueve campanadas en Saint Germain d'Auxerre, estaban, aun siendo ya media noche, atestadas de gente. Aquella multitud apretujada, amenazadora y escandalosa parecía en la oscuridad de la noche un mar tenebroso y revuelto, cuyo ímpetu rompía en oleadas murmuradoras y cuyo caudal, desembocando por la calle de Fossés Saint Germain y por la de...