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Diverse and moving, these six outstanding stories are meditations on grief and loss, love, communication and loneliness. Each one will take the reader on a brief yet unforgettable journey into private worlds and unexpected corners of the human heart.

Um pai ausente busca o filho no internato quando ele comete um ato de violência chocante. A babá de uma família de celebridades se refugia em um rancho após um escândalo ser estampado nos tabloides. Uma jovem vende suas roupas íntimas para estranhos. Um hóspede famoso se interna em uma clínica de reabilitação no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos.

Brought to you by Penguin. A young woman pretends to be someone she isn't in this stunning novel by the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls Summer is coming to a close on Long Island, and Alex is no longer welcome... One misstep at a dinner party and the older man she's been staying...

Evie Boyd is desperate to be noticed. In the summer of 1969, empty days stretch out under the California sun. The smell of honeysuckle thickens the air, and the sidewalks radiate heat. Until she sees them. The snatch of cold laughter. Hair long and uncombed. Dirty dresses skimming the tops of thighs. Cheap rings like a second set of knuckles. The girls. And at the centre, Russell. Russell and the ranch, down a long dirt track and deep in the hills. Incense and clumsily strummed chords. Rumours of sex, frenzied gatherings, teen runaways.

Der Sommer in den Hamptons neigt sich zum Ende, und Alex ist nicht mehr willkommen. Denn egal, wie nahe sie der Welt der Reichen und Schönen gekommen ist: Sie ist immer nur zu Gast – und keine Einladung gilt für immer. Ein Fehltritt bei einem Dinner, und schon setzt Simon, der ältere Mann, dem Alex Gesellschaft geleistet hat, sie vor die Tür. Und so geistert sie durch Gärten und über Dünen, während die Sonne vom Himmel brennt. 

Keri and Paula are strangers with something rotten in common: the annoying Devlin brothers. Keri is an investor whose expertise is dismissed on the entrepreneurial reality show that shot the boys to fame. Paula is the boys’ accommodating neighbor who has suffered their ingratitude for years. The world is wide open for the Devlins after their overnight success. But for Keri and Paula? For all it’s worth, they’re coming face-to-face with the maddening business of being a woman.

"Det var latteren, der fik mig til at kigge op, og pigerne, der fik mig til at blive ved med at kigge." Sådan begynder Evie Boyds beretning om sommeren 1969 i Californien. Det er i parken, at Evie får øje på pigerne, en gruppe unge kvinder, der udståler fandenivoldskhed, frihed og en farlig aura af vildskab. Da hun nogle dage senere møder en af dem, Suzanne, tager hun med ud på den ranch, hvor den karismatiske Russell bor med sin "storfamilie", unge kvinder, der vil gøre alt for ham.

Inequality. Influence. Fraud. Sabotage. These are the themes of great fiction and our modern economy. In this collection of short stories by some of today’s most scintillating writers, the rich get poorer and the poor get richer. Yeah, right! From the heartbreaking to the hilarious, here are eight instantly classic battles over currency, class, privilege - and social distance.

Brought to you by Penguin. The eagerly-awaited book by Emma Cline, author of the global phenomenon The Girls The stories in Emma Cline's stunning first collection consider the dark corners of human experience, exploring the fault lines of power between men and women, parents and children, past...