Showing results for "LAUREN" in Contemporary Fiction

Die Geschichte eines kleinen Londoner Charity-Shops, voller liebenswerter Figuren und lebenssprudelnder Geschichten über Freundschaft, Verlust und die Kunst, sich selbst treu zu bleiben. Warte nicht auf ein neues Leben – mach das Beste aus dem, das du schon hast. Gwendoline Grundle, liebenswert, aber sozial unbeholfen, hat ihr Leben vor die Wand gefahren. Also beschließt sie, gründlich aufzuräumen und sich von all ihren emotional aufgeladenen Dingen zu trennen. Welcher Ort wäre dafür besser geeignet als ein Charity-Shop? Hier meldet sich Gwen kurzerhand als freiwillige Mitarbeiterin

"Haben Sie Kinder?", wird der Vater gefragt. "Nein, ich habe zwei Mädchen", antwortet er. Diese Szene ist eine der ersten Erinnerungen einer Frau, die um 1960 in gutbürgerlichen Verhältnissen in Rouen aufwächst. Was folgt, ist ein Leben, wie es exemplarisch scheint für ihre Generation: Laurence befreit sich aus der Enge des Elternhauses, erlebt sexuelle Freiheit, aber auch Gewalt, sie verliert einen Sohn bei der Geburt und bringt eine Tochter zur Welt.

Tending to Virginia is a audiobook of one family's most important stories - how they happened, how they were perceived, how they were remembered, how their truth is revealed. In the end, an eruption of family confessions becomes revelation - revelation as legacy, passed down among a family's women; revelation as a family's gift in celebration of growing up, a process Jill McCorkle knows lasts into old age.

Eighteen-year-old Jules has always wished for a close-knit family. She never knew her father, and her ex-addict mother has always seemed more interested in artistic endeavors than in bonding with her only daughter. Jules's life and future look as flat and unchanging as her small Illinois town. Then a simple quest to find a baby picture for the senior yearbook leads to an earth-shattering discovery....

The Fletcher family doesn't have time for politics; they are just trying to love and look after each other. But as the UK dissolves into conflict, they find themselves in danger. Not just from dodgy neighbours with brand new machine guns, but from inside their own family. What would happen if the UK broke apart? One family faces Britain's next civil war.

Little Saigon, Westminster, California: Anh, a diminutive, self-promoting, brash, Vietnamese beauty, supports her family on tips from a gambling lawyer. Upon his disappearance, Anh turns to the lawyer's secretary Jana, a tough, self-sufficient woman in need of money as desperately as Anh. Together they set up a bogus law practice in Little Saigon in which Anh supplies the clients while Jana plays lawyer.