Showing results for "Loneliness" in Women's Fiction

Julia Fletcher takes her job seriously. Even as she’s planning to leave her post as the U.K.’s Minister of Loneliness, a government role designed to address the emotional epidemic plaguing modern citizens, Julia is invested in her successor, choosing to conduct the interviews herself. When an internet rabbit hole leads her to Henry Hall, a writer and iconoclastic, beloved professor at New York University, Julia’s interest is piqued.

She's out to prove that there's no such thing as choosing happiness. Full of heart, humor, and tenderness, The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley is a story of found family with a slow-burn, kisses-only romance. Perfect for fans of Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and The Rosie Project. Isadora...

LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN TRANSLATION PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES GLOBETROTTING PICK A remarkable and heartbreaking debut novel with the lyrical beauty and emotional resonance of By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept and the thematic complexity of Asymmetry, that combines fractal mathematics...

Mary grew up longing for information about the mother she never knew. Her brother could barely remember her, and their father numbed his pain with drink. Now aged thirty-seven, Mary has lived in the same house her whole life. She's never left Belfast. TJ, who's about to turn eighteen, is itching to see more of the world. But when his mother disappears, TJ begins to realise what he's been taking for granted.

Eleonora, a protagonista, está solteira, mora num quarto e sala bancado por seus pais e não tem muita ideia do que fazer com a tela em branco que parece ser sua vida. Seu mundo é extremamente conectado, embora ela tenha uma crescente noção de que cada pessoa é, mais do que nunca, uma ilha. Enquanto tenta arrumar um amor, uma vocação, um grupo de amigos, o sucesso nas redes sociais e algum sentido para sua existência, Eleonora diverte o leitor com as confusões do seu dia a dia e suas observações ácidas e sagazes sobre o mundo que a cerca. Impossível não se identificar.