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Rosamunde macht sich nicht viel aus der Liebe. Die wohl einzige Jungfrau im London der Swinging Sixties hätte zwar mehr als genug Gelegenheiten für heiße Affären, sitzt aber lieber über den Büchern. Und ausgerechnet sie wird nach einem mäßigen One-Night-Stand schwanger. Im ersten Schreck versucht sie die Angelegenheit mit Gin und einem heißen Bad zu beenden. Doch alles geht schief, und der Abend endet in einem großen Besäufnis.Rosamunde schaff...

The second in Margaret Drabble's trilogy, following The Radiant Way

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious, he, quietly studious, both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair.Now, after thirty years apart, their lives are converging once again as they hurtle towards each other - their motivations, regrets and decisions laid bare.

A young girl is plucked from obscurity to marry the Crown Prince of Korea. In her diaries, she chronicles the intrigues of courtly life and her own extraordinary existence.Two hundred years later, the Red Queen's ghost haunts Dr Babs Halliwell, an Oxford academic obsessed with her memoirs and possessed by the many parallels with her own complicated past. But why and how does she keep the Red Queen's story alive?

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Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, an intimate novel about human desire against the backdrop of the sexual liberation movement of the Sixties

Witty and compassionate, the extraordinary debut from one of our greatest novelists, about lies and deceit, love and forgiveness

An award-winning novel about the perils of motherhood in a failing healthcare system and a woman's fight against the social stigma of the Sixties

Den 28-årige Jane Gray er alene i sit hjem, forladt af sin mand og temmelig desillusioneret. Alligevel forelsker hun sig i sin kusine Lucys mand med en sådan heftighed, at alt andet bliver ligegyldigt. Deres fælles hemmelige verden, som gemmer sig bag løgne og antydninger, bliver mere sand end virkeligheden, men hvis de giver sig til at handle på det, risikerer de, at hele drømmen falder fra hinanden i virkelighedens ubarmhjertige lys.-

Loosely based on Drabble's own experiences, a compelling, beautifully written novel following three generations of women in one family

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An honest and moving portrait of the everyday messiness of life, and the complications of love

The first in a trilogy, this startling novel charts the radical change in Britain during the Eighties through the eyes of three women

Frances Wingate er 35 år, og tilsyneladende lykkes det hende at klare det hele. Hun er en anerkendt arkæolog, der allerede har præsteret fremragende forskningsresultater, og hun er midt i en glimrende videnskabelig karriere. Hun er fraskilt med fire børn, som hun er en acceptabel mor for, og hun har haft et entusiastisk forhold til en gift mand.Her står vi, da romanen "Riger af guld" begynder.Vi lærer Frances personligt at kende som et frit, s...

Paperback edition of the latest book from the distinguished author of "The Dark Flood Rises" and "The Peppered Moth". Blends a deeply personal memoir with a history of jigsaws and puzzling.

Londra, anni sessanta. Jess è un'antropologa poco più che ventenne quando dalla sua relazione con un professore sposato (e destinato a restarlo) nasce Anna, la bambina d'oro puro: buona, felice, adorabile e molto particolare. Una bambina con bisogni speciali. Il legame che unisce madre e figlia nel corso degli anni è narrato da Eleanor, amica di Jess e attenta spettatrice, che punteggia il suo racconto di osservazioni acute fino alla ferocia e...

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Emma, a young wife and mother living in London at the end of the Swinging Sixties, has been offered an exciting job - she is to be one of the first female newsreaders. Intelligent and attractive, with a passion for facts and a mild yearning for notoriety, she can't wait. But then her husband David, an egocentric actor, demands that she accompany him to Herefordshire for a season at a provincial theatre festival. Faced with seven months of rura...

Jane Gray, a poet whose husband leaves her shortly before the birth of their second child, considers herself a disaster area. That is, until the husband of her alter ego, cousin Lucy, climbs into her bed. Falling passionately in love for the first time, Jane finds her life transformed - but when a tragic accident exposes the affair to the world, she has to face the consequences ...The Waterfall is a powerful novel about desire and obsession, t...

Kate Armstrong, successful journalist and spokesperson for many women, is worn out. A mother, daughter, friend and betrayed lover - she has embraced life to the full - but now in her forties, divorced, with her children preparing to leave, she finds herself at a crossroads. Along with her inner circle: her ex-lover and doctor of sorts, Ted Stennett, his wife, social worker, Evelyn, and wounded adventurer Hugo Mainwaring, she begins to consider...