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In her first novel since The God of War, critically acclaimed author Marisa Silver takes Dorothea Lange’s "Migrant Mother" photograph as inspiration for a breathtaking reinvention - a story of two women, one famous and one forgotten, and of the remarkable legacy of their singular encounter. In 1936, a young mother resting by the side of a road in Central California is spontaneously photographed by a woman documenting the migrant laborers who have taken to America’s farms in search of work....

Cassie Beresford has recently landed her dream job as deputy head at her local, idyllic village primary school, Little Acorns. So, the last thing she needs is her husband of twenty years being 'outed' at a village charity auction - he has been having an affair with one of her closest friends. As if that weren't enough to cope with, Cassie suddenly finds herself catapulted into the head teacher position, and at the forefront of a fight to ward off developers determined to concrete over the beautiful landscape.

Evanston, Illinois, 1982. A group of students at a magnet high school meet to audition for the spring play. They are eager for the chance to escape their difficult everyday lives. Declan, an experienced senior, is confident he’ll get his first-choice role, but when the capricious, charismatic drama director casts Franklin, an unknown underclassman—and the two are seen alone at the director’s house—a series of events that will haunt the cast for years begins to unfold.

DAS KREUZWORTRÄTSEL, nahmen wir Ende Juni 48, zur ganz besonderen Freude der mitwirkenden Künstler, in den Tagen der Währungsreform auf. Alle Freiberufler bekamen ihre Gage in neuer D-Mark ausbezahlt. Wir Festangestellte kriegten nix, konnten uns aber trösten, dass wir von nun an unsere Monatsgehälter in der neuen, vielversprechenden Währung bekamen. Die Grundidee und der erste Entwurf stammten von einer damals noch unbekannten Autorin namens Ellis Kaut.