Ergebnis für "Ran" in Frauenliteratur

In the summer of 1996, Tess Murphy’s mom gave her two rules to abide by: keep quiet and stay out of trouble. Her mother landed a new job as a cook at an affluent Virginia estate and didn’t want anything to risk the opportunity, least of all her outspoken teenage daughter. What no one saw coming was Tess falling deeply in love with the boy next door, high-society Grant Alexander.

In Sheila O'Flanagan's engrossing new novel, two women form an unlikely friendship as they face up to shocking truths about the men they've loved - and start to make their own decisions about what to do next... 'One of my favourite authors' Marian Keyes Deira is setting out on the holiday she'd...

From New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Boyle’s popular Rhymes with Love series, comes And the Miss Ran Away with the Rake, a fast-paced, sensual historical romance. Miss Daphne Dale isn’t looking for love, but when she reads an advertisement looking for a “sensible lady,” she...

'Smart, brave and often very funny . . . profoundly moving' Sarah Haywood, author of The Cactus This morning Gigi left her husband and children. Now she's watching Real Housewives and drinking wine in a crummy hotel room, trying to work out how she got here. When the Twin Towers collapsed, Gigi...

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s 2021 First Novel Prize A rich, bighearted debut that takes us from working-class Staten Island in the wake of the September 11th attacks to moneyed London a decade later, revealing a story of loss, motherhood, and love. As the Twin Towers collapse...

In Cedar Road, everyone is preparing for Lexi’s ‘White Hot’ summer party. For one night, parking squabbles and petitions are put aside as neighbours sip Prosecco under the fairy lights and gather by the hot tub to marvel at Lexi’s effortlessly glamorous life with Hot Hamish.For Julia, it’s a chance to coax husband Charlie out of his potting shed and into a shirt so they can have a welcome break from the hellish house renovation they’ve been wrestling with. And it’s a chance for Julia to pretend - just for a night - that her life is as perfect as Lexi’s.

There are some things you can never leave behind… Kate Forrest is invisible…her husband doesn’t seem to know she’s alive and her two children have become stroppy adolescents. With her fortieth birthday approaching, Kate walks out of her life, and gets on a plane to Italy. With no responsibilities, she soon finds herself caught up in the arms of a man half her age. But eventually Kate will be forced to choose between her past and the future.

Frau Rosalie von Tümmler, yılların sessizliğini düzenle, ölçüyle ve “olgunluk” denen kabulle taşımayı öğrenmiş bir kadındır. Ta ki bedeninin ona oynadığı tuhaf oyun başlayana dek… Önce küçük bir belirti, sonra umutla karışık bir sevinç: Rosalie, doğanın ona beklenmedik bir “yeniden gençlik” armağanı sunduğuna inanır. Bu değişim, yalnızca bedenini değil, kalbini de uyandırır; yaşamın geç kaldığı sanılan ihtimalleri bir anda önüne serer. Fakat her mucizenin gölgesinde bir gerçek saklıdır. Rosalie’nin “yeniden doğuş” sandığı şey, aslında başka bir gerçeğin habercisi olabilir.

Stefan Zweig, “Bir Kadının Yaşamından Yirmi Dört Saat”te tek bir günün yaşamı nasıl kökünden sarsabileceğini olağanüstü bir öyküyle anlatıyor. Ansızın karşılaşılan bir yabancı, öngörülemeyen duygular ve hayatı değiştiren cesur bir adım… Hepsi, zamanın çok kısa bir diliminde akıp giderken, insanın kendi sınırlarını nasıl keşfettiğini gösteriyor. Zweig, akıcı anlatımıyla okuru bir kadının iç yolculuğuna ortak ediyor. Karakterin pişmanlıkları, tutkuları ve hayal kırıklıkları; beklenmedik bir tanışmayla yeni bir yön kazanıyor.

A colicky baby. A know-it-all in-law. What is that awful smell? The start of such an amazing family adventure is enough to send one exhausted Mom running…. But only briefly, and only to the nearby lakeshore, with its promise of solitude and serenity. Alas, even this temporary escape is ruined as her peaceful meditation turns into a thorough cataloguing of her parental shortcomings. She may never become the Supermom she pretends to be, but can she pull it together long enough to survive this vacation?