Hildegarde Serle
1) Three
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, when a car is pulled up from the bottom of the lake, a body inside, Virginie, a local journalist with a dark past, focuses on three friends who were unusually close when young but now no longer speak, bringing her to a surprising truth that frays relationships while others are formed."--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues - gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien...
Author
Series
Mirror visitor ; 1
Language
English
Description
"Plain-spoken, headstrong Ophelia cares little about appearances. Her ability to read the past of objects is unmatched in all of Anima and, what's more, she possesses the ability to travel through mirrors, a skill passed down to her from previous generations. Her idyllic life is disrupted, however, when she is promised in marriage to Thorn, a taciturn and influential member of a distant clan. Ophelia must leave all she knows behind and follow her...
Author
Series
Mirror visitor ; 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Ophelia is promoted to Vice-storyteller by Farouk, the ancestral Spirit of Pole, she finds herself unexpectedly thrust into the public spotlight. her gift--the ability to read the secret history of objects--is now known by all, and there can be no greater threat to the nefarious denizens of her icy adopted home than this. Beneath the golden rafters of Pole's capitol, she discovers that the only person she may be able to trust is Thorn, her...
Author
Series
Mirror visitor ; 3
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ophelia must rely on all her skills as a reader to stay ahead of her adversaries while on the ark of Babel, desperately longing for her betrothed, Thorn." --
7) A good life
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Two sisters, Emma and Agathe, reminisce about their lives together, analyze their fraught relationship and consider reconciling when they must return together to Basque Country to empty out the home of their beloved grandmother."--
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Justine is 21 years old and has lived with her grandparents and cousin Jules since the death of her parents. She works as a carer at a retirement home and spends her days listening to her residents' stories. After bonding with Helene, an almost 100-year-old resident, the two women slowly reveal their stories to one another. Whilst Justine helps Helene to relive her memories of love and war, Helene encourages Justine to confront the secrets of her...
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
20231010
Language
English
Description
In the School of Here, a strange and unsettling place where society is ruled by a godlike prince, a cabal of students conducts a top-secret investigation into the unexplained phenomenon at the heart of it all while playing their part in the time-honored cycle of revolution and rebirth.
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Violette Toussaint is the caretaker at a cemetery in a small town in Bourgogne. Casual mourners, regular visitors, and sundry colleagues - gravediggers, groundskeepers, and a priest - visit her to warm themselves in her lodge, where laughter, companionship, and occasional tears mix with the coffee she offers them. Her life is lived to the rhythms of their funny, moving confidences. Violette's routine is disrupted one day by the arrival of Julien...