Blindsided by her mother's sudden death, and wrecked by a recent love affair, Casey Peabody has arrived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the summer of 1997 without a plan. A former child golf prodigy, she now waits tables in Harvard...
Women novelists
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Auteur:Andrews, AlexandraSommaire:Florence Darrow becomes the assistant to a celebrated-but-anonymous novelist. But when Florence wakes up in the hospital after a car crash and Helen is dead, she begins to imagine an "upgrade" into Helen's life.
- Auteur:Martinusen-Coloma, CindySommaire:
Claire O'Rourke is a young writer visiting per parents in her small hometown. Her life soon becomes connected to that of the reclusive Sophia Fleming, an older woman who has lived in isolation for many years. When Sophia finds a long-...
- Auteur:Meltzer, JeanSommaire:
A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK SELECTED BY * POPSUGAR * BUSTLE * BUZZFEED * GOODREADS MEMBERS "The Matzah Ball had me laughing out loud...an all-around terrific read." - Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author Oy! To...
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Auteur:Dobson, JoanneSommaire:In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and Trouble walks in. The dog, a Rottweiler, brings with him a famous Private Eye novelist and a problem. And since Sunny Hardcastle...
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Auteur:O'Brien, EdnaSommaire:From her hospital bed in Dublin, the elderly Dilly awaits the visit of her daughter, Eleanora, from London. The epochs of her life pass before her; she also retraces Eleanora's precipitate marriage to a foreigner, which alienated mother...
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Auteur:Lessing, Doris MaySommaire:Anna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier years. In a red one she records her political life, her disillusionment...
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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.
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Auteur:Mason, DebbieSommaire:Romance writer Julia Landon knows how to write a happily-ever-after. Creating one for herself is a whole different story. But after a surprising kiss under the mistletoe, Julia thought she might have finally found her very own chance at...
- Auteur:Min, AncheeSommaire:
Arriving in late 19th-century China with her missionary parents, Pearl Buck is soon fascinated by her new home and strikes up a friendship with a young Chinese girl named Willow. The two become inseparable even as civil war, failed...
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Auteur:Kate AtkinsonSommaire:It is the Edinburgh Festival. People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a road-rage incident - an incident which changes the lives of everyone involved. Jackson Brodie, ex-army, ex-police, ex-private detective, is also an innocent...
- Auteur:Peters, ElizabethSommaire:
A reclusive, young writer has mysteriously died, leaving the public hungry for the sequel to her enigmatic, best-selling novel. Jacqueline is chosen to write the sequel, but as she begins her manuscript, she receives ominous signs that...
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Auteur:Brown, SandraSommaire:Bellamy Lyston Price was only 12 years old when her older sister Susan was killed on a stormy Memorial Day. Bellamy's fear of storms is a legacy of the tornado that destroyed the crime scene as well as her memory of one vital fact...
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Auteur:Maffini, Mary JaneSommaire:As if it weren't bad enough being a failed romance writer with no sex life, poor Fiona Silk has to cope with the spectacularly embarrassing demise of her old lover, the poet, Benedict Kelly. It's exactly the sort of thing people notice...
- Auteur:ATWOOD, MargaretSommaire:
From fat girl to thin, from red hair to mud brown, from London to Toronto, from Polish count to radical husband - Joan Foster is utterly confused by her life of multiple identities. She decides to escape to an Italian hill town to take...
- Auteur:Barron, StephanieSommaire:
Christmas Eve, 1814. Jane Austen has been invited to spend the holiday with family and friends at the Vyne, the gorgeous ancestral home of the wealthy and politically prominent Chute family. As the year fades and friends begin to gather...
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Auteur:Baillie, Martha, Dale, JenniferSommaire:In If Clara, nobody stands on firm ground. Daisy, a writer confined to her home, her leg in a cast from hip to ankle, receives a parcel containing the manuscript of a novel about a Syrian refugee and is asked to pose as its writer....
- Auteur:Kearsley, SusannaSommaire:
Lorsque Carrie McClelland, auteur à succès, visite les ruines du château de Slains, elle est enchantée par ce paysage écossais, à la fois désolé et magnifique. La région lui semble étrangement familière, mais elle met de côté son léger...
