Ergebnis für "Fanny" in Familienleben

Greta war fünfmal verheiratet, und alle Ehemänner bis auf einen sind kurz nach der Hochzeit gestorben. Als ihre Enkelin Lola ihre kleine Tochter nach der unbekannten Großmutter benennt, bricht ein jahrzehntealter Familienkonflikt wieder auf. Neugierig besucht Lola die 87-Jährige und entdeckt hinter den Gerüchten eine Frau mit einer außergewöhnlichen Lebensgeschichte. Von den 1950er Jahren bis heute entfaltet sich ein bewegendes Panorama weiblicher Selbstbestimmung, tragischer Verluste und unerwarteten Glücks.

Bad Reichenhall, 1911. Als reicher Mann kehrt Michael Schwarzenberg nach Bad Reichenhall zurück. Und auch wenn Anna nun verheiratet und Mutter eines Sohnes ist, fühlen sich die beiden noch immer zueinander hingezogen. Michael will um seine wahre und einzige Liebe kämpfen. Für Anna aber steht viel mehr auf dem Spiel: Folgt sie ihrem Herzen, könnte sie ihren Sohn verlieren. Doch ist sie bereit, für den Rest ihres Lebens eine Lüge zu leben?

Before Jane Austen, there was Fanny Burney. In the 1780s, she was England’s most celebrated female author, having achieved extraordinary success with two hit novels. She went on to become a royal servant, marry an exile from the French Revolution and undergo a gruelling mastectomy without the aid of anaesthetic – all events chronicled in her diaries, which were published posthumously to great acclaim. Contained here are dramatisations of her first and most famous novel, and her remarkable journals and letters.

Now that her brood had left the nest, Fanny McBride, a large, cheerful and indomitable Tyneside widow, had time to sit by her window and watch the goings-on outside. There was plenty to keep her occupied: the mystery of the new woman at Mulhattan's Hall, the tenement block (here a fortnight already and not so much as a hello); the long-standing feud with Mrs Flannagan; after-school visits from her grandson Corny. But Fanny had any intention of ending her days in lonely isolation. So when her friend Mary fell sick and couldn't work, it was Fanny who took her place.

A rollicking, "unsinkable," (Sam Lipsyte) and hilarious debut novel about a family of unforgettable women obsessed with securing their legacy, for fans of Geek Love Claire grew up with the legend of the Unsinkable Mounsey Women. Her great-great-grandmother Fanny made headlines in 1915 for...

Amy, Anne, Kate and Jane were best friends at school. But now, as they approach their 60th birthdays, their lives have taken them in different directions. Successful, dissatisfied, seeking something different in equal measure, they know that life is not always easy. So when Amy invites the other three to her beautiful villa in Majorca for a long celebratory reunion weekend, each of them is drawn by curiosity...and each has a reason for wanting to get away from home for a while.

A family secret, a mysterious legacy, and a journey that will change everything… When Isla, a 65-year-old grandmother, is left nothing but an old painting in her mother’s will, while her sisters and aunt inherit the estate, she is devastated. Close to retirement, getting ready to live on her...

Tessa is a 37-year-old real estate agent living in Montreal. She adores her husband and three young sons, but she’s deeply unhappy and questioning the set of choices that have led to her present life. After a surprising run-in with Francis, her ex-boyfriend and first love, Tessa arranges to see him. During the three days before their meeting, she goes about her daily life. As the day of her meeting with Francis draws closer, she has to decide if she is willing to disrupt her stable, loving family life for an uncertain future with him.

Margaret, Elsie, Phoenix, Cedar : quatre femmes, mères et filles, issues de la communauté amérindienne du North End, un quartier défavorisé de Winnipeg, Manitoba. Quatre membres d'une même famille, les Stranger, chacune hantée par ses propres démons. Quatre personnages qui cherchent désespérément la lumière. Dans cette fresque poignante, Katherena Vermette immerge le lecteur dans l'univers mouvant d'une lignée de femmes autochtones, dessinant la force de leurs liens, la souffrance héritée du passé et l'espoir de briser enfin la fatalité.

Elle rêvait d'une grande maison aux volets bleus au bord de l'océan. Elle rêvait d'un mari, d'enfants, de vacances à la montagne. Mais tout ça, c'était avant. Avant Lucie. Avant que la vie n'en décide autrement. Elle, c'est Charlotte, 30 ans, mère célibataire dont l'existence se résume à un quotidien monotone, loin de sa Bretagne natale qu'elle a quittée il y a dix ans.