Showing results for "Vera" in Psychological

Lucy Entwhistle and Everard Wemyss, both recovering from recent unhappiness, meet and quickly fall in love. However, over their new-found bliss looms the spectre of Vera, Wemyss’s first wife who died in mysterious circumstances. After their wedding the couple return home and Lucy really does begin to be troubled by what happened to Vera. Considered a high-water mark by the author, the story is an extraordinarily black vision of a young wife who gradually begins to understand that her husband will accept nothing less than total intellectual and emotional servitude.

Convicted of murder 16 years ago, William Benson is ostracised by the establishment and his family. Supported by a close-knit group including solicitor Tess de Vere, he's defied them all and opened his own Chambers. Now he faces the case of his life - and the terminal illness of Helen Camberley, who helped him leave his prison life behind. Jorge Menderez, a doctor from Spain, has been found dead in a deserted warehouse in East London. A troubled man, he'd turned to counsellor Karen Lynwood seeking help.

Una mattina estiva del 1920 la giovane Lucy perde il padre improvvisamente ritrovandosi sola e disperata, senza speranze. È uno sconosciuto a risvegliarla dal torpore che il lutto le ha causato: il legame con Everard Wemyss, quarantenne rimasto vedovo da poco, è immediato, e la condivisa sofferenza per la recente perdita dà origine a una confortante intimità. Ma il matrimonio con Wemyss sarà diverso da come Lucy aveva sognato: le mura di casa diverranno quelle di una tetra prigione dove i giorni sono scanditi da rituali irrazionali.

"Dieses Haus, aus Papier gebaut, ist zu etwas Festem geworden, das der Zeit standhält. Dieses Haus, dieser Ort: alle meine Geheimnisse sind hier." Der amerikanische Nr. 1-Bestseller endlich in deutscher Übersetzung. Elle Bishop, Anfang 50, glücklich verheiratet, drei Kinder, urlaubt im Sommerhaus der Familie, das alle scherzhaft den Papierpalast nennen. Elle schwimmt ihre morgendliche Runde im See und denkt nach über das, was am Abend zuvor geschehen ist.

Nora ist bei Adoptiveltern aufgewachsen, die sie über ihre Herkunft und den Grund für ihre Gehbehinderung ihr Leben lang im Ungewissen gelassen haben. Ihr Adoptivvater gesteht ihr kurz vor seinem Tod, dass sie in Wahrheit Nuria heißt. Der katalanische Ursprung dieses Namens treibt sie nach Barcelona, in der Hoffnung, dort mehr über sich und ihre Wurzeln zu erfahren, stattdessen jedoch entdeckt sie ihre Leidenschaft für den Flamenco – und für den Tänzer Simón, der sie ermutigt, selbst zu tanzen, ganz gleich welche Grenzen ihr Körper ihr setzen mag.

Pandora é uma empreendedora bem-sucedida que vive em Iowa com o marido, Fletcher, um homem de temperamento irritadiço, que nunca consegue relaxar. Edison, irmão de Pandora, antes um conhecido pianista de jazz em Nova York, está completamente falido, sem ter onde morar. Contrariando o marido, Pandora envia uma passagem aérea para o irmão e abre sua casa para hospedá-lo. Depois de quatro anos sem se encontrarem, ela quase não o reconhece quando vai buscá-lo no aeroporto e se depara com um homem mais de cem quilos acima do peso.