Showing results for "Helen" in Contemporary Fiction

Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. As he struggles to make friends with his...

Major Ernest Pettigrew lever et stille liv efter de normer, som engelske gentlemen har gjort det i generationer før ham: ære, pligt og anstændighed. Han sætter pris på de små ting i livet såsom en gåtur og en god kop te. Hans brors pludselige død bliver den direkte årsag til et helt uventet venskab med den pakistanske ejer af landsbyens købmand, mrs. Jasmina Ali. Mrs. Ali og Pettigrew har meget til fælles; de har mistet deres ægtefæller, og de nyder at diskutere litteratur.

Cause Celeb is the debut novel from Helen Fielding, the bestselling author of Bridget Jones’s Diary. Disillusioned by her glitzy life in London and her desirable but cruel TV-presenter boyfriend, Rosie Richardson chucks it all in and spends four years running a refugee camp in Africa. Then...

Three women find themselves questioning everything they know. Amy’s comfortable world is thrown into disarray when husband Ben's business collapses. Feeling increasingly estranged from husband Miles, Kate wonders if a chance encounter with the enigmatic Jack can offer her a fresh start. When Jennifer makes contact with old flame Hugh she is desperate to find the answer to a question that has tormented her for decades…

Everything can change - in just one day. Flora has always adored her brother Billy. Born just 18 months apart, their childhood was spent like two peas in a pod - no one could separate them. Now, as adults, they remain the best of friends. And as Flora is immersed in family life, Billy is always there to lend a hand. But, in just one day, everything changes. In just one day, Flora’s life falls apart. In just one day, Flora has to learn how to live again.

Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love - Garner captures the fluid relationships of a community of friends. Helen Garner’s gritty, lyrical first novel divided the critics on its publication in 1977. Today, Monkey Grip is regarded as a masterpiece - the novel that shines a light on a time and a place and a way of living never before presented in Australian literature: communal households, music, friendships, children, love, drugs and sex.

He straightened his spine, raised his head, and extended his gun arm towards me in a slow, vertical arc. I saw then what he was, and stood still in front of him, for he was here on business. He was a small, serious, stone-eyed angel of mercy. Janet is a skeptic, a journalist; Maxine revels in New Age fantasies; and Ray, a drifter, is a born-again Christian. The common ground is the house they share. But their fragile domestic balance is about to explode amid the smashing of ukeleles, the unexpected ascension of an angel and a sudden shower of jonquils.

Leningrad, September 1941. German tanks surround the city, imprisoning those who live there. The besieged people of Leningrad face shells, starvation, and the Russian winter. Interweaving two love affairs in two generations, The Siege draws us deep into the Levin's family struggle to stay alive during this terrible winter.

Loretta has run the little sewing shop in Butterbury for years, while bringing up her three headstrong daughters. Her own grandmother taught her how to quilt, and Loretta always found time to sit with Daisy, Ginny and Fern, pulling together scraps of material - and their hopes and dreams - into a beautiful whole. But this Christmas the family is coming apart at the seams.

En natt drömmer Lena något som kommer att förändra hennes liv för alltid - hon drömmer om ett pensionat. Kort därpå finner hon ett vackert hus som är som taget ur hennes dröm. Ett par år senare har drömmen besannats och vid 60 års ålder sitter hon som ägare till Pensionat Vänner och är fullt upptagen med den händelserika vardagen som pensionatsägare. Gästerna kommer för att stanna, kärlek och vänskap växer fram i huset som känns som hemma.

On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It's her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she's just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of fear—that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie’s world.

Von fiesen Pflanzen und guten Freundinnen: Janet Pimm, 72, hat seit ihrer Pensionierung vom Geheimdienst ihren Hang zu Gründlichkeit und Hartnäckigkeit auf ihren Schrebergarten verlagert. Er ist ihr ganzer Stolz. Als in der Gartenanlage japanischer Knöterich entdeckt wird - eine invasive Art, die binnen kurzem alle anderen Pflanzen verdrängt - will die Stadt gleich die ganze Anlage dichtmachen. Doch Janet, die sich in der Botanik auskennt, vermutet Sabotage. Der Knöterich wurde eindeutig absichtlich eingepflanzt - aber von wem?

Seit dem bitteren Verlust, der ihr Leben erschütterte, hat sich Dot von der Welt zurückgezogen. Sie vergräbt sich in ihrer Arbeit im Londoner Fundbüro und geht ganz in ihrem Job als Hüterin verlorener Dinge auf. Ihre größte Freude ist es, wenn sie jemandem einen vermissten Gegenstand wiedergeben kann. Denn hinter ihrer stacheligen Fassade schlägt ein sehr großes Herz. Als ein bekümmerter älterer Herr in ihr Fundbüro kommt, der eine Tasche mit einem Andenken an seine verstorbene Frau darin verloren hat, setzt Dot alles daran, Mr. Applebys Tasche wiederzufinden.

Helen Grant is a mystery to her daughter. An extrovert with few friends who has sought intimacy in the wrong places; a twice-divorced mother-of-two now living alone surrounded by her memories, Helen (known to her acquaintances as 'Hen') has always haunted Bridget. Now, Bridget is an academic in her forties. She sees Helen once a year, and considers the problem to be contained. As she looks back on their tumultuous relationship - the performances and small deceptions - she tries to reckon with the cruelties inflicted on both sides. But when Helen makes it clear that she wants more, it seems an old struggle will have to be replayed.

Headstrong and organised, Mia is a single mum who wants to fix the world - but the one thing she can’t fix is her family. Responsible older brother Will has fled Primrose Bay, unable to forgive and forget after the ultimate betrayal. And Jasmine, no longer the wayward baby sister, is determined to prove to her brother and sister that she’s just as capable as they are. Together in the bay after years apart and a separation spanning three continents, it doesn’t take long for the siblings to clash when Mia calls everyone together in a family crisis.

Carrie has it all: a stellar career, a gorgeous heart-surgeon boyfriend and an apartment in the city. But when something happens that forces her to question her ability to do her job, the only way she can see through the mess is to get far away from everything. Carrie is thrust into a very different life in Magnolia Creek. She’s knee-deep in renovations at her house at the top of the hill; she’s sharing time and space with her ex, Owen; and newcomer Noah gets under her skin from day one.

Kaleb, der Hirtenjunge, hasst die Schafe. Erst als er ein Lamm vor dem sicheren Tod rettet, gewinnt dieses seine Liebe. Damit ändert sich Kalebs Einstellung von Grund auf. Und eines Tages rettet ihm das Lamm das Leben. Die Geschichte spielt in der Zeit, als das jüdische Volk in Ägypten wohnt und der Pharao sich weigert, es ziehen zu lassen.

Die unvergessliche Geschichte eines Sámi-Mädchens, das in einer im Verschwinden begriffenen Welt für seinen Platz im Leben kämpft. Ein Roman, so fesselnd und bezaubernd wie die schneebedeckte Weite, in der er spielt. Die Sámi Elsa ist neun Jahre alt, als sie allein Zeugin des Mordes an ihrem Rentierkalb wird. Der Täter zwingt sie, zu schweigen. Sie kann nichts tun und fühlt sich doch schuldig, gegenüber ihrer Familie und allen, die ihr nah sind, denn wieder einmal sieht die Polizei keinerlei Anlass, in einem Verbrechen zu ermitteln.

Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to buy now. Jessie Sullivan has been married half her life, and has become accustomed to her role. But when she returns to the isolated island where she grew up to...

Charlotte O'Keefe liebt ihr Kind abgöttisch. Doch Willow ist krank; beim kleinsten Stoß brechen ihre Knochen...