Ergebnis für "Love Me for 10 Days" in Beziehungen, Elternschaft & persönliche Entwicklung

Can you be happy without long-term romantic love at the centre of your life? Society still sets the gold standard for successful living as a marriage and kids. As Marianne Power turns forty, she wonders why this is still so elusive for her and whether, in fact, this is what she even wants, or just what she feels like she should want.

Lucy Banbury isn't the sort of person with whom everyone gets along—she's prickly and secretive, and she likes things ordered 'just so'. But things couldn't be going better for her—she swims three times a week, she's on the cusp of a huge promotion at work and she's dating someone perfect on paper. But when she discovers at a family wedding that she's adopted, her whole world is shattered. Those cracks she's taken years to plaster over are beginning to surface, and she's not sure how much longer she can keep all her secrets hidden, all whilst pretending to be someone she's not.