After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student.
The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee...
Domestic fiction
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Author:Coetzee, J. M.Summary: - Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
California, 1970s. A man who lost his wife in childbirth is raising his two daughters, Anna and Claire, and tending his farm with the help of a young man, Coop, who he has more or less adopted. When the older Anna and Coop fall into a...
- Author:Thien, MadeleineSummary:
At the centre of this epic tale are enigmatic Sparrow, a genius composer who wishes desperately to create music yet can find truth only in silence; his mother and aunt, Big Mother Knife and Swirl, survivors with captivating singing...
- Author:Lynch, Sarah-KateSummary:
The Tuscan town of Montevedova is famous for its rolling green hills, long lazy lunches and delectable cantucci biscuits. It even has its own patron saint. But Manhattan workaholic Lily Turner is not interested in any of that. She'...
- Author:Black, DanielSummary:
AN ESSENCE MAGAZINE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR. "Don't Cry for Me is a perfect song."--Jesmyn Ward. A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating...
- Author:Dixon, Ariel DelgadoSummary:
A young woman thinks she has escaped her past only to discover that she's been hovering on its edges all along: she and her younger sister, Fawn, bide their time in a dilapidated warehouse in a desolate town north of New York City...
- Author:Viens, AlineSummary:
«Deux personnes venaient de mourir par la main d’un jeune homme de 17 ans. Par la main de leur enfant. Ils avaient “sarcastiquement parlant” conçu leur propre mort. Et ce gars-là, je l’aimais. Je l’aimais d’Amour. On n’arrête pas d’...
- Author:Morrissey, DonnaSummary:
Clair Gale is the unsinkable heart of the novel, a story of two families during wartime—the Osmonds and the Gales—joined by love, yet torn apart by fear and secrets. Morrissey blends melodrama, gritty realism and a flair for the comic...
- Author:Brenner, JamieSummary:
An unexpected inheritance, a promise broken, and four lives changed forever: the newest page-turner from USA Today bestselling author Jamie Brenner. Summer has started in idyllic Sag Harbor, and for Emma Mapson that means greeting...
- Author:Dessen, SarahSummary:
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
- Author:Mazigh, MoniaSummary:
1984 : les émeutes du pain — 2010 : la Révolution du jasmin. Deux périodes tumultueuses vécues à près de trente ans de distance par une mère et sa fille. Nadia quitte sa Tunisie natale pendant les émeutes qui secouent le pays en 1984....
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
All her life, Lark Brossard has felt invisible, overshadowed by the people around her: first by her temperamental mother, Marianne; then by her sister, Robin, a brilliantly talented pianist as wild as the animals she loves; and finally...
- Author:Ohlin, AlixSummary:
A masterful achievement: a joint coming-of-age story and an achingly poignant portrait of the strange, painful, ultimately life-sustaining bonds between sisters. Lark and Robin are half-sisters whose similarities end at being named for...
- Author:Joyce, JamesSummary:
The 15 unforgettable short stories that form this collection paint the portrait of a city through the eyes of its middle class residents. Beginning with stories of the very young and moving through adulthood into the tales of the very...
- Author:MacLennan, HughSummary:
Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father...
- Author:Willett, MarciaSummary:
Roly Carradine has found refuge in Cornwall, in the mellow stone house of his childhood. A broken marriage made Roly remove himself from his busy London life, and here in Cornwall he welcomes Kate, also seeking refuge from the grief of...
- Author:Johnson, ShawneSummary:
Founded by a group of run-away slaves, its been up to their ancestors to keep the town prospering. However, many have forgotten the sacrifices their ancestors made to build the beautiful town that they live in.
- Author:Dave, LauraSummary:
What if your beloved fiancé, he of the crinkly smile and the irresistible British accent, had kept a life-changing secret from you? And what if, just a week before your dream wedding, you discovered it? When these questions become...
- Author:Hearon, ShelbySummary:
Terrell has asked her sister Ella to conceal Terrell's adulterous affair from the family. When Terrell dies in a plane crash just hours later en route to meet her lover, the lie takes on a life of its own, and Ella eventually finds...
- Author:Mozley, FionaSummary:
In this atmospheric and profoundly moving debut, Cathy and Daniel live with their father, John, in the remote woods of Yorkshire, in a house the three of them built themselves. John is a gentle brute of a man, a former enforcer who...
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