Showing results for "Sympathy" in Literature & Fiction

Margot Cary has spent her life immersed in everything Lake Sackett is not. As an elite event planner, Margot's rubbed elbows with the cream of Chicago society and made elegance and glamour her business. She's riding high until one event goes tragically, spectacularly wrong. Now she's blackballed by the gala set and in dire need of a fresh start - and apparently the McCreadys are in need of an event planner with a tarnished reputation.

Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die in quick succession, she's left heartbroken and destitute. In 1864, at seventeen, she emigrates to Australia, determined to build a new, financially secure life for herself. After an apprenticeship as an undertaker's assistant with Crowe Funeral Services, Tatty marries owner Titus Crowe. Titus himself soon dies, and Tatty inherits the business, becoming Sydney's only female undertaker.

A woman discovers she has a natural defense against vampires.

On a bitter cold night, a conflicted man finds himself trapped between his humanity and his wolfhood.

...Et toute ma sympathie complète aujourd'hui sur le mode nostalgique et gai, confidences et récits étroitement mêlés, ces premiers portraits. Françoise Sagan évoque le cinéma, Hollywood et Cinecittà, ainsi que Fellini ; mais aussi les stars mythiques que sont Ava Gardner ou Catherine Deneuve dont elle souligne l'humanité vraie. Comme dans le précédent volume – en plus d'un croquis inattendu de Gorbatchev – quelques textes autobiographiques jalonnent ce recueil de "souvenirs" qui entraînent le lecteur dans sa passion des chevaux ou dans le monde étrange des grands débats télévisés.