Showing results for "the villa" in 20th Century

When Tess Angel receives a solicitor's letter inviting her to claim her inheritance - the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily - she is stunned. Her only link to the island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and cut all contact with her family. Initially resistant to Tess going back to her roots, Flavia realises the secrets from her past are about to be revealed and decides to try to explain her actions.

Indochina 1939, Colette, a young French woman, falls in love with Henri Bossière the Chief Curator of the mysterious temple, Angkor Wat, in Cambodia. She starts a new life with him in an idyllic villa perched on the edge the great lake of Tonlé Sap. But the second world war intervenes, sweeping away her world and leaving tragedy in its wake. After the war, Colette attempts to rebuild her life, finding a friend in Luc Gilbert, Henri’s former deputy–a man with dark secrets. When Luc is made to leave Cambodia under a cloud, Colette is left to pick up the pieces and discovers his shocking truths.

Un vent de bonheur souffle sur la villa aux étoffes : le troisième enfant de Marie et Paul Melzer vient de fêter ses quatre ans et le couple file le parfait amour. Mais la crise économique qui se répand en Europe met bientôt en péril l'usine textile familiale. Croulant sous des dettes qu'il ne peut rembourser, Paul est confronté à un choix déchirant : afin de préserver le sort de la famille, mais aussi des ouvriers et des domestiques, doit-il se résoudre à vendre la demeure qui abrite les joies et les peines des Melzer depuis tant de générations ?

High above the Mediterranean, on the French Riviera, stands a beautiful pink stucco villa. Once a playground for the rich and glamorous, now—in the aftermath of World War I—it is a convalescent home for sick and wounded nurses. Scottish Flora Garvie is here recovering from four traumatic years on the ambulance trains. And here she will meet again charismatic but troubled Kit Carlyle, a regimental chaplain who no longer believes in his calling and certainly doesn't believe himself worthy of Flora's love.