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Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places, a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As Bridget looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the perfor...

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Neve è un'aspirante scrittrice. È sposata con Edwyn, molto più grande di lei. C'è qualcosa di strano, di inquietante nel loro legame, una tensione perenne, una dissonanza che le cortesie dei riti quotidiani non riescono a dissimulare. Perché Neve, brillante e dotata di singolare acume, resta legata a un uomo difficile, scomodo, alla fine odioso? Perché quando ci impigliamo in certe relazioni non riusciamo a liberarcene? La risposta forse è nel...

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Shortlisted for the Bailey's Prize 2017, this is a novel which questions our competing desires for intimacy and for freedom.

Isolated, restless and stuck, she decamps to America - a default recourse - this time to an attic room in Indianapolis, to attempt once again the definitive act of self-salvage. Some of these people want to be free - of themselves, of each other - and some have darker imperatives.

Die Gefühlswelt der Generation um die Zwanzig - schnörkellos und unsentimental Als Esther von einer Reise aus New York nach Manchester zurückkehrt, hat sie keine festen Pläne. Es gibt nur eines, das sie sich fest vornimmt: keine Entscheidungen zu treffen. Sie zieht bei ihrer besten Freundin Donna ein und lässt sich treiben, versucht erfolgreich, das Leben zu vermeiden. Meistens möchte sie nur ihre Ruhe haben: vor der Arbeit, vor der Liebe, vor...

Gwendoline Riley was born in 1979 and has published three other novels: Sick Notes, Joshua Spassky, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and won the Somerset Maugham Award and, most recently, Opposed Positions.

Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for FictionCatastrophically ill-suited for each other, and forever straddling a line between relative calm and explosive confrontation, Neve and her husband, Edwyn, live together in London. For the moment they have reached a place of peace in their relationship, but past battles have left scars. As Neve recalls the decisions that brought her to Edwyn, she describes other loves and other debts-from her ...

Ranging over 30 years of Bob Dylan recordings, films, and concerts, this updated edition includes a new epilogue that examines his 30th anniversary celebration and his 1998 Grammy Award comeback.