Charleen is a divorcee in her mid-thirties, with a son whom she loves, a blossoming relationship with a man, and friends who care about her. Charleen wonders how her life turned out the way it did. Is she a failure?
Domestic fiction
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Auteur:Shields, CarolSommaire: - Auteur:COOKSON, CatherineSommaire:
Only after returning from his funeral did Fiona Bailey realize how much she would miss Davey. Towards the end of his life she had discovered qualities about him she had previously overlooked. Now Fiona and her husband must look after...
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Auteur:Atwood, MargaretSommaire:Iris was married at eighteen to a politically prominent industrialist but is now poor and eighty-two, and living in Port Ticonderoga. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life.
- Auteur:Jakes, JohnSommaire:
This is the story of Philip Kent. The illegitimate son of a British nobleman who was denied his heritage, he embraces the ideals of the fledgling nation of America-and takes up arms against his father's homeland.
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Auteur:Dorries, NadineSommaire:The final gripping instalment of the bestselling Four Streets trilogy which began with THE FOUR STREETS and continued in HIDE HER NAME. On Christmas morning 1963 fifteen-year-old Kitty Doherty gives birth in a hostile Irish convent....
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Auteur:FINE, AnneSommaire:A dark, witty expose of family life. The Palmer sisters are close, and they all agree that loyalty to one another outweighs loyalty to lovers and husbands. And there are no secrets - not until now.
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Auteur:ATWOOD, MargaretSommaire:On the surface this is the story of a woman's search for her father, missing from his lonely island fastness, but at a deeper level, it is a woman's search for herself.
- Auteur:Hart, Beth WebbSommaire:
Mary Lynn and Jackson Scoville are living in the heart of Charleston, South Carolina, carefully working their way up the social ladder in hopes of meeting their ultimate goal: to give their three daughters the life they themselves never...
- Auteur:Elizabeth AlderSommaire:
Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenage daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother, Nonna, receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious...
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Auteur:BARCLAY, TessaSommaire:Margaret is the breadwinner in her family. Then Margaret is made redundant. She's down and her marriage is in crisis; for the first time in her life, she sees herself as a no-hoper.
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Auteur:BINCHY, MaeveSommaire:Molly Sullivan said that the new baby was a little star. She was no trouble at all and she was always smiling... so she became known as Star and no-one remembered that her name was Oona.
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Auteur:Morrison, ToniSommaire:Morrison narrates for three hours and lays out before us the complex lives and backgrounds of four generations of black family life in the south. Central is the character Milkman--an unfortunate nickname owed to his lengthy nursing...
- Auteur:Shields, CarolSommaire:
Judith Gill's world is shaped by the actions of those around her. As a biographer, she spends her days analyzing the minutiae of past lives. As a mother, she is perplexed by her children's developing lives. As a wife, she...
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Auteur:Cynthia VoigtSommaire:Dicey struggles to make a go of a boatbuilding business while facing family concerns, romantic problems, and the uncertainties of a drifter who offers to help her in her work.
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Auteur:ANDREWS, VirginiaSommaire:The fourth and final book in the series which began with `Flowers in the attic' - a compelling conclusion.
- Auteur:JACOBS, AnnaSommaire:
There is no joy in Helen Merlin's household, no love. Her mother cowers to her severe and controlling father and Helen tries to follow suit. But she yearns to be loved and made to feel special. When she meets an actor - whose...
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Auteur:STEEL, DanielleSommaire:At eleven, Pip MacKenzie's life has already been touched by tragedy - a terrible accident that plunged her mother, Ophelie, into inconsolable grief. But on a foggy summer day, on a beach near San Francisco, Pip meets someone who...
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Auteur:Austen, JaneSommaire:Pride and Prejudice is the most famous of Jane Austen's novels, and its opening is one of the most famous lines in English literature - "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be...
- Auteur:RHODES, ElviSommaire:
From a very early age Chloe always got what she wanted. At the age of eighteen the northern town of her birth was definitely not what she wanted. So she moved south to Brighton where life was more to her liking but not always as she...
- Auteur:HARRIS, RosieSommaire:
Twins Tanwen and Donna Evans are as different as chalk and cheese. Tanwen is pretty, a bubbly extrovert - but selfish and as sharp as a needle. Donna is plain, placid and shy, although warm-hearted. 1924, when the girls are fourteen...
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