Hazel Prior
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Prior's rich, heartwarming, and charming debut novel reminds readers that sometimes love can be found in the most unexpected places. Dan Hollis lives a happy, solitary life carving exquisite Celtic harps in his barn in the countryside of the English moors. Here he can be himself, away from social situations that he doesn't always get right or completely understand. On the anniversary of her beloved father's death, Ellie Jacobs takes a walk in the...
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"Meet the heroine everyone's talking about. . . Fiercely resilient and impeccably dressed, Veronica McCreedy has lived an incredible 87 years. Most of them alone, in her huge house by the sea. But Veronica has recently discovered a late-life love for family and friendship, adventure and wildlife. More specifically, a love for penguins! And so when she's invited to co-present a wildlife documentary, far away in the southern hemisphere, she jumps at...
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Ellie, Hausfrau, leidenschaftliche Spaziergängerin und Hobby-Poetin, stößt bei einem ihrer Streifzüge durch das Exmoor auf eine Scheune voller Harfen. Dort lebt und arbeitet Dan. Harfen zu bauen ist seine große Leidenschaft. Er liebt es, sich ganz dem Bau dieser Instrumente zu widmen und mit sich und der Welt alleine zu sein. Denn Menschen sind ihm oft ein Rätsel. Doch Ellie mag er auf Anhieb, weshalb er ihr spontan eine Harfe schenkt. Kurze...
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"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...