Ergebnis für "Filthy Sugar" in Frauenliteratur

Set in the mid-1930s, Filthy Sugar tells the story of Wanda Whittle, a 19-year-old dreamer who models fur coats in an uptown department store, but who lives in a crowded rooming house with her hard-working widowed mother and shrewd older sister, Evelyn, in the “slums” behind the city’s marketplace; a world where “death is always close but life is stubborn”. Bored with the daily grind and still in shock from the sudden death of her father, Wanda finds both escapism and inspiration in celluloid fantasies....

A strong, spirited woman who refuses to be tied down finds her wild heart caught between two very different men in this sweeping novel from legendary bestselling author Lisa Kleypas Liberty Jones dreams of the wider world beyond Welcome, Texas, and has the determination to find it. She also has...

When three besties meet three hot guys in Vegas anything can—and does—happen in this first entry in the New York Times bestselling Wild Seasons series from the authors of Love and Other Words and The Unhoneymooners. One-night stands are supposed to be with someone convenient, or wickedly...

From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, Sugar, Baby is an intoxicating, darkly funny debut novel about beauty and greed, desire and delusion, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Agnes Green is turning 21 and her life is heading nowhere. Still living at home...

At best, she's expecting a kitschy candy dish, at worst a beloved taxidermied pet, so when Cassie—newly divorced, single mom with zero prospects—discovers she's inheriting a fully stocked bakery along with a beautifully furnished apartment from a great aunt she'd never even heard of, she's convinced she must be dreaming.

Throwing muffins at my ex in the office break room wasn't exactly on today's agenda. Neither was getting asked to take a not-so-voluntary leave from my job as a corporate lawyer. Just until I could get my personal life in order, they said, which you know is code for get your sh*t together. But when life hands you lemons - well, you make for the nearest dive bar and drown your sorrows in wine and gooey grilled cheese. Of course, it doesn't hurt if they're being served by Manhattan's hottest bartender, Jace Whittaker.