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Dr. Edith Vane, scholar of English literature, is contentedly ensconced at the University of Inivea. Her dissertation on pioneer housewife memoirist Beulah Crump-Withers is about to be published, and her job's finally safe, if she only can fill out her AAO properly. She's a little anxious, but a new floral blouse and her therapist's repeated assurance that she is the architect of her own life should fix that. All should be well, really. Except for her broken washing machine, her fickle new girlfriend, her missing friend Coral.

Edith Hamilton didn’t publish her first book until she was 62. But over the next three decades this former headmistress would become the twentieth century’s most famous interpreter of the classical world. Today, Hamilton’s Mythology (1942) remains the standard version of ancient tales. During the Cold War, her influence even extended to politics, as she argued that postwar America could learn from the fate of Athens after its victory in the Persian Wars. Victoria Houseman tells the fascinating life story of a remarkable classicist whose ideas were shaped by—and aspired to shape—her times.

In der Lounge des Kopenhagener Flughafens wird Marlene Brunner jählings von einer Frau geküsst. Allerdings kennen sich die beiden gar nicht! Zwar erweist sich diese Lisbeth als ziemlich nett, aber was soll's: Sie werden sich sowieso nie mehr über den Weg laufen. Prompt treffen die beiden bei einem Firmenmeeting aufeinander. Die zeitlebens von ihrer Heterosexualität überzeugte Marlene gerät in emotionale Turbulenzen. Wie soll sie mit Lisbeth zusammenarbeiten?