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The most exciting novel I've read in ages... I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it' Marian Keyes 'This novel is perfection' Glamour 'A coolly ironic look at modern womanhood. This is an excellent novel' The Times From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development,...

Perkins is an extraordinary writer' The Sunday TimesYou know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me.From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout swif...

Perkins is an extraordinary writer' The Sunday Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me. From humble beginnings, Therese has let herself grow used to a life of luxury after marrying into an empire-building family. But when rumours of corruption gather around her husband's latest development, the social opprobrium is shocking, the fallout ...

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Aufbruch in eine glänzende Zukunft Deauville 1911. Joan, Mary und Katie treffen sich zu einer kleinen Sommerfrische. Endlich kann Katie sich bei ihren Freundinnen ausweinen. Die intrigante Mutter ihrer Arbeitgeberin und Vertrauten Lady Helena macht ihr das Leben zur Hölle. Als Katie auf ihr Betreiben zu einer simplen Kinderfrau degradiert und sogar eine neue Norland Nanny eingestellt wird, weiß Katie, dass ihre Zeit bei Lady Helena vorüber ...

Die Nannys müssen zusammenhalten! London 1905: Mary betreut die Söhne des reichen Kaufmanns Oliver. Er und Mary fühlen sich zueinander hingezogen, doch Marys Stellung lässt diese Liebe nicht zu. Schweren Herzens verlässt sie London und findet eine neue Anstellung bei einer Enkelin von Queen Victoria. Dort ist sie nicht die einzige Norland Nanny, und obendrein scheint ihre Konkurrentin die Ideale ihrer Ausbildungsstätte zu verraten: sie ist ...

England am Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts: Drei Frauen, ihre Freundschaft und ihre große Berufung England, 1902: Die junge, kinderliebende Joan denkt nicht ans Heiraten und lässt sich am fortschrittlichen Norland Institute zur Nanny ausbilden. Nach ihrem Abschluss kümmert sie sich um die Kinder der Countess of Dudley, deren Familie mit dem König befreundet ist. Joan fühlt sich oft allein. Weder ist sie ein Teil der Dienerschaft, noch gehört si...

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Excerpt from Stonehurst Hymn TunesThe present day witnesses a great era of hymn book publication, and this may be accounted for in part by the number of hymns being written, hymns of a new order, for which the publishers are seeking appropriate tunes. Old' tunes are being used with_a fair measure of success, but the new wine cannot always be contained in the old bottles. A really great hymn must have its own tune and any hymn of worth should h...

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing ever...

Emily Perkins captures perfectly the intense world of love, art and waitressing in this debut collection of short stories. She brings modern life into harsh and comic focus with a cinematic vision for character and dialogue and a cast of young and painfully vulnerable metropolitans.'A stunning first collection: addictive, smart, scary, wise and profoundly funny. Perkins has the enviable Alice Munro knack of crafting tiny stories with the scope...

Excerpt from Stonehurst Hymn Tunes The present day witnesses a great era of hymn book publication, and this may be accounted for in part by the number of hymns being written, hymns of a new order, for which the publishers are seeking appropriate tunes. Old' tunes are being used with_a fair measure of success, but the new wine cannot always be contained in the old bottles. A really great hymn must have its own tune and any hymn of worth should...

Dorothy Forrest has both the great gift and possible misfortune of being utterly immersed in the world around her. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, Dorothy is swept along by time, and the joy in just being doesn't seem to leave her, even after new revelations come to light and a death changes everything.

Trade paperback. An extraordinary literary novel from this acclaimed and prizewinning New Zealand author. Told in a dizzyingly original narrative style, it promises to be the coming-together of her prodigious talents.

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Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her, she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of New Zealand, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune.Through the wilderness of a commune to falling in love to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything w...