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Brought to you by Penguin. Lolly Willowes, so gentle and accommodating, has depths no one suspects. When she suddenly announces that she is leaving London and moving, alone, to the depths of the countryside, her overbearing relatives are horrified. But Lolly has a greater, far darker calling...

In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break away from her controlling family - a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of 20th-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

Pages for Her is the story of two women, Flannery and Anne, each at a personal turning point, and the circumstances that lead to their reunion. Twenty years after their brief but passionate affair, chronicled in Sylvia Brownrigg's earlier novel Pages for You, Flannery has the chance once again to meet Anne, who opened young Flannery up to the possibility of love - then left her heartbroken. Pages for Her is an exhilarating, passionate work that explores marriage, sexuality, and the transformative power of love over time.

Un episodio familiar devuelve al protagonista al país y al pasado de su madre, donde descubrirá un amor trunco e incomprendido. Narrador: Omar...

Después de publicar Nenitas con Nitro/Press en 2013, Sylvia Aguilar Zéleny publicó Todo eso es yo, premio nacional de novela Tamaulipas 2015 y El Libro de Aisha, una novela de autoficción publicada por Enjambre Literario. Nenitas, por su parte, se reimprimió para formar parte de programas...

Nach dem Tod ihres geliebten Vaters, der sie allein großgezogen hat, findet Stella einen von ihm an sie gerichteten Brief. Sie erfährt, dass ihre Mutter nicht, wie ihr immer gesagt wurde, bei ihrer Geburt gestorben ist, sondern in Wahrheit in Italien lebt. Warum hat ihr Vater dies all die Jahre verschwiegen?

Talentosa e promissora, Esther Greenwood sai do subúrbio de Boston para trabalhar em uma prestigiosa revista de moda em Nova York. No momento de transição para uma vida cheia de responsabilidades e novos desafios, Esther entra em colapso devido ao desenvolvimento de um quadro depressivo. Assim como a protagonista, a autora deste livro também foi uma jovem brilhante que viu tudo ao seu redor desmoronar.

Nature or nurture? The impact of traumatic childhood experiences reverberates into the grown-up world of Frank, Alice and Henry – children from three families suffering the fall-out from their early life. Frank, a working-class boy abused by his step-father. Alice, physically handicapped and frustrated. Henry, the less clever son of wealthy ambitious parents. From a rundown estate in Eastleigh, a small town in Darlington and an affluent Cotswold home, each character grapples with the life fate has handed them.

In her second year of studies at Merlin College, Oxford, Sophie Marshall is feeling alienated among fellow students who fail to welcome a woman to their ranks. So when her husband, Gray, is invited north as a visiting lecturer at the University in Din Edin, they leap at the chance. There, Sophie's hunger for magical knowledge can finally be nourished. But soon Sophie must put her newly learned skills to the test.

Rose Gregory has suffered a devastating blow, a double bereavement from which months later she is still reeling. Sanctuary and rest are prescribed by her doctor. But when she arrives at her refuge, a dank and decaying monastery, she finds it is not the haven promised. Despite the veneer of calm contemplation, the monastery turns out to be a hotbed of intrigue and disharmony. Rose witnesses bullying and cruelty and ultimately in defence of the vulnerable turns to violence herself.

Wenn ein Erbe dunkle Geheimnisse ans Licht bringt. Alles beginnt mit einem Ende - mit dem Tod der hochbetagten Enrietta da Silva, einer weltweit geschätzten und wohlhabenden Autorin aus Buenos Aires. Kurz darauf sitzen in Zürich zwei Menschen vor Enriettas Testamentsvollstrecker: Emilio, ein konservativer Arzt aus Argentinien, und Jana, eine unkonventionelle Schauspielerin aus Salzburg und Ziehtochter der Verstorbenen.

In a steam-filled diner in a college town, Flannery Jansen catches sight of something more beautiful than she's ever seen: a graduate student, reading. The 17-year-old, new to everything around her - college, the East Coast, bodies of literature, and the sexual flurries of student life - is shocked by her desire to follow this wherever it will take her.

When Laura Willowes’s beloved father dies, she is absorbed in the household of her brother and his family. There, she leaves behind “Laura” and enters into the state of “Aunt Lolly,” a genteel spinster indispensable to the upbringing of her nieces. For twenty years, Lolly is neither indulgent nor impulsive, until one day when she decides to move to a village in the Chilterns, much to her family’s chagrin.

This newly discovered story by literary legend Sylvia Plath stands on its own and is remarkable for its symbolic, allegorical approach to a young woman’s rebellion against convention and forceful taking control of her own life. Written while Sylvia Plath was a student at Smith College in 1952...

Costa Malva é uma ilha tranquila na Península Ibérica, e La Forquilla é uma cidadezinha com uma energia mística inexplicável. Quando Isabel Cisne resolve sair da casa da mãe, na cidade de Valência, para morar lá com o pai, ninguém entende bem o motivo... nem ela mesma. Em vez de...

Em geral, a vida parece sem graça e pouco surpreendente comparada às paixões arrebatadoras das fanfics. Olívia Ferrari também achava que nada assim poderia acontecer de verdade até se ver numa situação inusitada: trabalhando até tarde num café em Nova York, ela acaba dando abrigo ao...