After a few pages about a happy and peaceful childhood, we follow the growing up of a boy who first learns about the sensual world and about women by listening to their cheerful chatter and giggles on the seats with tea in his mother's home...
An emotionally powerful love story spanning three life stages – youth, adulthood and old age. Noah Calhoun and Allie are teenagers in love who are separated by life's traumatic circumstances, but whose paths cross again after 14 years.
The characters in these stories meet from Italy to Africa and Australia. Their encounters are unexpected, surprising, incredible, and each story is full of surprising twists that delight and inspire.
With lyrical descriptions of the magical landscapes of Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Paula McLain skilfully weaves a story about the extraordinary endeavors of a woman who lived ahead of her time.