Showing results for "Fran" in Women's Fiction

Stockholm. Nadja har längtat efter barn i hela sitt liv, men inte träffat den rätte. Men nu, när hon närmar sig 45 och fortfarande är barnlös singel så bestämmer hon sig för att göra någonting åt saken. Kosta vad det kosta vill. Missångerträsk. Lotta har fått nog. Hon och Magnus har inte legat med varandra på över ett år. Nu ska de åka till Paris och ta in på hotell, rädda äktenskapet och prova alla former av sex som de inte har testat hittills.

In a forgotten corner of Paris stands a building. Within its walls people talk and kiss, laugh and cry; some are glad to sit alone while others wish they did not. A woman with silver-blonde hair opens her bookshop downstairs, an old man feeds the sparrows on his windowsill, and a young mother wills the morning to hold itself at bay. Though each of their walls touches someone else's, the neighbours they pass in the courtyard remain strangers. Into this courtyard arrives Edward.

Kristin växer upp i ett fattigt fiskarhem i Roslagen i slutet av 1800-talet. Hon får tidigt ansvara för hus och hem och hennes liv blir inte lättare av att hon hänsynslöst utnyttjas av bättre bemedlade grannar. Men Kristin är stark, hon kämpar sig igenom alla livets stormar och till sist är det hon som står trygg medan hennes plågoandar får sina straff.

Grace Adams n'est qu'à une journée (pourrie) près de changer son destin. Par un après-midi caniculaire, empêtrée dans les embouteillages alors qu'elle doit récupérer le gâteau pour les seize ans de sa fille, Grace Adams pète littéralement les plombs. Sans un cri, sans une larme, elle laisse sa voiture en plan derrière elle et se barre sous les klaxons rageurs. Elle va ainsi traverser Londres, à pied, pour affronter son ado qui l'a bannie de sa vie et son mari qui demande le divorce. Sans oublier le drame qui a fait voler en éclats leur famille...

Nick Ackerman’s life is an aimless circuit between his uninspiring job and the local bar until a note from a stranger changes everything. He learns he has a 14-year-old son, Billy, whose grandmother can no longer look after him. Railroaded into fatherhood, Nick takes in the resentful Billy and shuffles Grandma Evie off to the nearby dementia ward at Prairie View Manor. Things get off to a rocky start: father and son are little more than strangers, and Nick struggles with his new caretaking role while Billy can’t seem to let go of his.

For fans of Torrey Peters's Detransition, Baby and HBO’s Search Party—Jenny Fran Davis's Dykette is an addictive, absurd, and darkly hilarious debut novel about a young woman who embarks on a ten-day getaway with her partner and two older queer couples.

Six friends travel to a remote island north of the Scottish Highlands for an old school reunion. They’ve rented the Lighthouse—a stunning, now abandoned building that was once notorious for deaths at sea. On the first evening, someone goes missing. The group search all through the night to no avail. But when the five remaining friends return to the lighthouse early the next morning, they are shocked to find James inside. He’s looks terrified—but won’t say a word about where he’s been.

Ellie and Eric Nyland have moved their two sons back to Eric’s childhood farmhouse, hoping for a fresh start. But there’s no denying it, their family is falling apart, each one of them isolated by private sorrows, stresses, and missed signals. When Eric finds Hannah Finch, the girl across the road, wandering alone in the bitter cold, his rusty police instincts kick in, and he soon discovers there are bad things happening in the girl’s house. With nowhere else to send her, the Nylands reluctantly agree to let Hannah stay with them until after the Christmas holidays.

Guten Tag, ich will mein Leben zurück. An diesem Tag hat sich alles gegen Grace Adams verschworen. Dabei ist ihr Leben ohnehin schon aus der Bahn geraten: Ihr Mann Ben und Teenie-Tochter Lotte haben sich eine andere Wohnung gesucht, und Grace ist zu Lottes 16. Geburtstag ausgeladen. Grace ist eine Frau mit vielen Talenten, sie geht locker mit den eigenen Macken um und hat die vielen Rollen einer modernen Frau eigentlich gut im Griff. Was ist bloß passiert? Der große Frauenroman aus England.

From the author of Dog Days Forever, a heartfelt, holiday contemporary romance perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Kristan Higgins, and Susan Mallery, in which a young woman returns to her small hometown and ends up fostering a pregnant dog with—of all people—the man she used to love. Lucy...

A heartfelt, romantic novel inspired by Sweet Home Alabama and perfect for fans of Jill Shalvis, Kristan Higgins, and Susan Mallery, in which a young woman who only fosters dogs discovers an abandoned puppy and finally starts to open herself up to love again… Once inseparable as children and...

Gayle was the beauty who believed that a man could make her life complete. Patricia was the intellectual who thought that rising to the top of her career would make her happy. And then there is Marcus Carter, who has been linked to both Gayle and Pat since the tragedy that occurred when they were all children. Can either one save him from himself? Can friends survive a love that comes between them? Each of them gets what she wants, but no one counts on the price they have to pay.

Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant façade. But secretly, her marriage is falling apart and her need to control people around her threatens to destroy them all. Ronnie is an actress, living in New York. But she has no money, she has no home, and her life is held together by "chewing gum, paper clips, and spit." When their father dies, the sisters inherit a house in Prosper, North Carolina.