Showing results for "Susanna" in Women's Fiction

When best-selling author Carrie McClelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle, she is enchanted by the stark and beautiful Scottish landscape. The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel, using the castle as her setting, and one of her own ancestors, Sophia, as her heroine. Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own and the lines between fact and fiction become increasingly blurred.

Driven by the fear of encroaching death, an elderly woman describes to a write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love letter and part confession, it is most importantly a bequest from an old woman at last brave enough to acknowledge that she has too long repressed her feelings and submitted to convention. Reliving everything that has happened to her she seeks to remind her granddaughter that the one worthwhile journey in life to the centre of oneself.

Manchester, 1920. Carrie Jenkins reels from the revelation that her beloved father was shot for desertion during the Great War, not tragically killed in heroic action, as she had previously been led to believe. Worse, Carrie's sweetheart jilts her on the eve of their wedding, despite her pregnancy. Facing some tough choices and needing to provide a home for her baby and invalid mother, Carrie is forced to accept the unsettling advances of Ralph Armstrong. It is a decision she will regret.

For nearly 300, the cryptic journal of Mary Dundas has kept its secrets. Now, amateur codebreaker Sara Thomas travels to Paris to crack the cipher. Jacobite exile Mary Dundas is filled with longing - for freedom, for adventure, for the family she lost. When fate opens the door, Mary dares to set her foot on a path far more surprising and dangerous than she ever could have dreamed.

Manchester, 1908. Attractive, intelligent Mary Maitland is furious to learn that her pompous boss will never promote her, simply because she is a woman. Despite financial support from her family, Mary is determined to strike out on her own and earn a living. She finds work at a women's employment agency, where her talent for writing is noticed and she begins publishing articles for newspapers and magazines. But in the face of strong opinions from her well-to-do family on the role of a woman, is it possible to be a dutiful daughter at the same time as spreading her wings?

La lunga lettera-diario di Olga alla nipote ribelle e molto amata, l'ultima occasione per raccontarle le verità nascoste della sua vita e incitarla a seguire sempre la voce del cuore. Dal bestseller di Susanna Tamaro, la regista Cristina Comencini ha tratto il film omonimo con Margherita Buy e Virna Lisi.

If Miss Laura Hopkins desired a husband, her beauty, brains, and fortune would make it easy to acquire one. Instead, she prefers to put her charms to another purpose entirely. Using the alias Lady Sterling, she helps young women who have been mistreated or compromised by their employers. Some might see it as theft and blackmail. For Laura, it is a small measure of justice. But while in pursuit of her latest target, she is unexpectedly aided by a gentleman who announces that he is Lord Sterling.

Bernadette Rogers swore she’d never put her father in a nursing home. Does that include euthanizing him to keep her word? Her mother thinks it does. Bernadette isn’t so sure. And even if she were, it’s not like you can walk into a drug store and buy Nembutal.

When Georgia Qullian returns to her hometown of Miami, her toddler and husband in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. They have left Illinois trailing scandal and disappointment in their wake, fallout from her husband's severe sleep disorder. For months, their three-year-old son has refused to speak a word. On a whim, Georgia takes a job as an errand runner for a reclusive artist and is surprised at how her life changes dramatically.

Get yourself ready for Mary Lisa Beverly - a soap-opera phenom who's just won her third Daytime Emmy for her role as Sunday Cavendish on Born to Be Wild. She's fun and lovable and has lots of crazy friends, most of whom hang out at her house in the Colony, the famous gated community in Malibu.

One sunny morning in 1969, near the end of her first trip to Miami, twenty-six-year-old Frances Ellerby finds herself in a place called Stiltsville, a community of houses built on pilings in the middle of Biscayne Bay. It's the first time the Atlanta native has been out on the open water, and she's captivated. On the dock of a stilt house, with the dazzling skyline in the distance and the unknowable ocean beneath her, she meets the house's owner, Dennis DuValand, a new future reveals itself.

Bisogna prendersi cura dei doni come se fossero piccoli fiori selvatici: sbocciano senza il nostro aiuto, ma dobbiamo fare attenzione a non calpestarli, a non maltrattarli. E la piccola Livia di doni ne ha eccome. Come si fa a non accorgersene? Lei è una che quando si muove assomiglia a una nuvola trascinata dal vento, capace di rendere più colorato tutto quello che tocca. È timidissima, parla poco, però sorride a tutti. E poi ama scrivere, perché farlo la fa sentire diversa, nel senso di speciale, come se nelle sue vene al posto del sangue scorressero le parole.

Cosa ne è stato della nipote di Olga, protagonista di Va' dove ti porta il cuore? È tornata dall'America in tempo per incontrare la nonna, o ha trovato solo la lunga lettera a lei indirizzata? E se il destino le avesse riservato invece una terza ipotesi che esclude le precedenti? Una storia intensa e coinvolgente che non ha paura di affrontare temi eterni: l'esigenza di riconoscerci in un passato in cui affondare le nostre radici, la necessità vitale di coltivare con pazienza un senso del futuro.

When Amanda Cooper steps foot out of jail, she's determined to never go back. Two years behind bars means she's missed her daughter, Taylor, turning into a teenager, and she doesn't want to lose another moment with her. But as a convicted con artist, Amanda has few options for getting out of Los Angeles and securing her dream life: predictable, boring, and bordered by a white picket fence. The trouble is Amanda's not the only one with a con. At every step of the way, someone is trying to pull her back into the game.

Janet had been longing for a work and sales space for her growing medicinal plant business, so when one day in April a real estate sign showed up in the parking lot of the vacated roadside café located in her small, hometown community of Wheeler’s Bent, she saw an opportunity. One major obstacle in fulfilling her vision was financing the project. Janet found six women to join her in the purchase of the café. As the women struggled amid the hardships of working together in a faltering business, James, a small injured bird entered their lives.

Cooper Brock knows Serena Dominguez can ruin him with a snap of her delectable fingers, but he won't give in to her demands easily. Instead, he gives Serena his own ultimatum: to confront the smoldering attraction between them.

Journalistin Hazel soll den maskierten Mann ausfindig machen und interviewen, der auf einem Foto aus dem exklusiven Phoenix-Club zu sehen ist. Nichts leichter als das - es handelt sich schließlich um ihren neuen Mitbewohner Kieran Black. Doch auch wenn Hazel schon seit Langem geheime Fantasien hegt, scheitert sie immer wieder an ihrer Schüchternheit und würde lieber im Erdboden versinken, als Kieran zu dem Club und seiner Mitgliedschaft dort zu befragen. Kieran Black sieht keinen Sinn in festen Beziehungen.

Julie White's once-sweet son has morphed into a teenage terror. She hoped it was normal growing pains but a glimpse into his private messages shatters that illusion. Now she wonders if her moody teen is actually a ticking time bomb. Varvara Perlman's researcher job is hard, but caring for her emotionally-complex daughter is harder. After dismissing the latest call from the school counselor as another ploy for attention, she can only hope it's not too late when she finally understands. This latest crisis may not only be real, but deadly.

Cheating is a dealbreaker...or so Mandy has always thought. But when she catches her husband getting some "strange", she realizes how hard it is to cut and run, or even file papers. She agrees to a month of counseling, which will give her time to grieve the loss of her marriage before she has to tell the world-and the kids. Then she meets Adam, who gives her a hunky, if mysterious, shoulder to cry on, and that 30-day waiting period seems like an eternity.

So far, Jen Prescott has been able to manage her life, balancing three kids, a job and chronic illness. Midnight trips to the emergency room are nothing new, but this time, it's one of her daughters who is ill. If ever she needed her husband, it's now. But David has had enough of sickness and announced his intention to move as far away as he can get. Jen must start over somehow; finding a new home, finding the strength to build a new life for her children.