Ergebnis für "Watching" in Familienleben

Alexander Storm ist tätowiert, am liebsten schwarz gekleidet und hat sein Jura-Studium mit Bravour gemeistert. Nachdem er sich als Praktikant in einer renommierten Anwaltskanzlei bewährt hat, wird ihm eine Stelle als Associate für die attraktive Juristin Melanie Devereux angeboten. Allerdings gestaltet sich die Zusammenarbeit nicht ohne Schwierigkeiten, zumal Alex stur ist und gewisse Dinge gern nach seiner frechen und arroganten, aber auch charmanten Art regelt.

This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears and joys. With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women—and how women are always watching back.

Melody Hollenback has a problem. Her husband, Jeff, has joined what appears to be a cult. Considering his and her months-long unemployment and Jeff's clinical depression, Melody has a lot to worry about. When Jeff exhibits sudden signs of mental wellness, he is convinced the cult is curing him. He becomes increasingly immersed in the teachings, and Melody worries he is pulling away from her. In an effort to hold on to him, she pretends to join the fold. She soon discovers that the cult has long arms and keeps a tight grip on its followers.

A funny and big-hearted novel for readers of Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and Remarkably Bright Creatures, about a lonely young woman who prefers to observe the world rather than participate in it, and the seismic repercussions that follow when she steps out of her own bubble. Sonny Magee...

What if everything you knew was a lie… This house has a past that won’t stay hidden, and it is time for the dead to speak. Returning to Number 17, Coronation Square, Edie is shocked to find the place she remembers from childhood reeks of mould and decay. After her aunt Dolly’s death Edie...