A quietly powerful presence in American fiction in during the past two decades, these collected stories show the true scale of Hempel's achievement. Her compact fictions, populated by smart neurotic somewhat damaged narrators, speak grandly to the longings and insecurities in all of us, and in a voice that is bracingly direct and sneakily profound. These are stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. With her trademar...
The Reverend Roper awaits his cousins' return to Old Framling with a mixture of desire and dread: years have passed since he saw Edward married. Although thwarted desire still rules Edward, he is yet aware that his action could disrupt forever the household he so envies.
Lonely Teardrops (A Champion Street Market Saga, #6) (Champion Street Market, #6)
by Freda Lightfoot
On the day of her beloved fathers funeral, Harriet's grandmother tells her that Joyce, the woman she has always called Mam, isnt her real mother after all. At least that explains why Joyce has always favoured Harriets brother, Grant blood is thicker than water. Her emotions in turmoil, Harriet discovers a streak of rebellion that puts into jeopardy everything she holds dear. Can she come back from the brink or will her life be full of lonely teardrops?
Can a New York City journalist exchange her subway pass for an SUV and find happiness? Can a small-town wife and mother take on the role of single city woman and discover a whole new life? Jessie Holland is in search of a hot story for Savvy magazine when her editor poses a compelling question -- can you ever really go home again? Jumping on the idea, and with her love life currently at a crossroads, Jessie plans to return to her Arizona hometown and follow the path not taken -- with a twist....
When one door closes, another opens, or so the saying goes. After being in a long-term relationship for eight years, Audrey Fox never thought she'd tie the knot. But at the age of forty-two, fate throws her a lifeline and she finally has it all - a loving husband, successful career, beautiful family and loyal friends. Life couldn't be better for Audrey ... until a family member entrusts her with a secret that threatens trouble in paradise. Lying to her new husband definitely wasn't on the card...
Norwegian born Katriina and Irish Architect Max have built their perfect life; a stunning eco-home in the Scottish Highlands, successful and fulfilling careers, and the icing on the cake D two beautiful children, Louis and Lyssa. But, buried beneath the foundations of their marriage lurks a terrible secret and when a stranger comes into their lives, events take an unexpected and dramatic turn. In this provocative novel, twenty years of love, life and longing are wiped out in an instant. Praise f...
Make Believe Match (Texas Cattleman's Club: The Wedding, #4)
by Joanne Rock
An NYRB Classics Original A humble clerk and his loving wife scrape out a quiet existence on the margins of Tokyo. Resigned, following years of exile and misfortune, to the bitter consequences of having married without their families’ consent, and unable to have children of their own, Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother. While an unlikely new friendship appears to offer a w...
How do you recover when life's labours are lost? Poignant and emotionally fraught, 'This Is Where We Live' is a novel for our times.
Poppy's family is gathering to celebrate her eightieth birthday. Her children, grandchildren and even one great-grandchild are converging on her Sussex home. As she prepares to welcome them all, her mind goes back over her life - to her tough childhood in Yorkshire, to her mother, who scrimped and saved to bring her up decently, to her three husbands and to Alun, the great love of her life who was taken from her by the war. Yes, she has had a full life - a lot fuller than her family realises. As...
Margaret Carlyle is searching for an epic love as she heads to college in 1979 after the loss of her beloved mother to cancer. When a charismatic boy named Anders rapes her on their first date, she wants nothing more than to forget it ever happened. But as the years pass, each life decision she makes seems driven by what happened that night. When Anders becomes famous as an actor, Margaret can no longer ignore her past--and she must make choices that will affect everyone around her, most notab...
She thought she knew her husband, but he's been keeping a secret ... about her. Scottish politician Susie Wallace is under pressure. She risks censure from her Party for her passionate and outspoken views on arts funding. A charity she's involved with runs into difficulties. And a certain journalist seems to have it in for her. Susie stumbles across some information that rocks her world but not, apparently, her husband's - Archie has been in on this particular secret for thirty years. Now Susi...
"A fascinating work . . . possessing extraordinary power. Masterful." --San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliant, cranky, and eccentric, and the narrative passages are some of the most thrilling ever written." --Library Journal "Some of the author's most enduring themes--notably, sexual jealousy and betrayal--are present. . . . The narration shows traces of writers as various as Joyce and Beckett, e.e. cummings and J.P. Donleavy." --The Washington Post "The Abbott and Costello meet Samuel Beckett...
A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH AND PICK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of Frieda von Richthofen, wife of D. H. Lawrence and the inspiration for Lady Chatterley's Lover.'Effervescent' The Times'A convincing evocation of a remarkable woman' Sunday Times 'Clever and deeply humane' Observer'A lush and absorbing portrait of a fascinating woman who refused to compromise on what really matters: to be known, to love, to be beloved' Polly Clark, author of LarchfieldGermany, 1907Aristocr...
Raquel Disse (algo totalmente inesperado) (Amor y Exilios)
by Mois Benarroch
Samantha's husband has left her, and she has decided to take in boarders. One offers advice and comfort; another is not so helpful. Then a new friend suggests that Sam get out, get going, get work. But her real work is to learn how to make her own happiness in order to emerge from grief and the past...
Tristana (BCP Spanish Texts) (NYRB Classics)
by Benito Perez Galdos and Professor Benito Perez Galdos
Part of the Bristol Classical Press series of Spanish texts, this is Perez Galdos's novel "Tristana". The series is designed to meet the needs of the fast-growing A Level and undergraduate market for texts in the Spanish language. Each text comes with English notes and vocabulary, and with an introduction by an editor with an expert knowledge both of the work and of its literary and cultural context.
Britain in 1846 was a nation in the grip of dramatic change. As the Industrial Revolution reached its height, people were flooding from countryside to city; the railways were spreading; starvation and destitution existed alongside immense wealth and power, generating profound social tensions. And seismic change was afoot in the world of politics. Parliament's repeal of the protectionist Corn Laws eroded the powers of the landowners and ushered in an age of free trade that would form the basi...
To Los Angeles comes Paul Cattleman, a young historian recently married to Katherine, a delicate girl with a conventional New England background. At first Los Angeles affects the two newcomers very differently. Paul responds immediately to the sunny, sprawling cosmopolitan city; to Katherine, however, the main impression is of dirt and smog which play havoc with the catarrh from which she suffers. But Paul explores his surrondings and discovers Ceci, a girl who could be the incarnation of the ci...