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From the outside looking in, Lauren Delaney has a life to envy - a successful career, a solid marriage to a prominent surgeon and two beautiful daughters who are off to good colleges. But on her twenty-fourth wedding anniversary Lauren makes a decision that will change everything. Lauren won't pretend things are perfect anymore. She defies the controlling husband who has privately mistreated her throughout their marriage and files for divorce. And...
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Michael Joseph
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A mesmerising literary debut interwoven with mythology and legend, from an award-winning new talent. When Scottie realises she will never become a mother, she leaves her life behind and flees to the storm-lashed Hebridean archipelago of St Hia. The islands are dangerous. Many have been lost to the ferocious tides known as the Hollow Sea, and folklore tells that St Hia was once the home of a witch named Thordis--outcast for her inability to bear children,...
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Did she say, at the beginning, that it rained every day? She was wrong. She misspoke. She didn't mean it...No. It did not rain every day. But, it rained for a hundred days, that year, which was enough, more than enough, even.
In prose by turn haunting and crystalline, Carellin Brooks' One Hundred Days of Rain enumerates an unnamed narrator's encounters with that most quotidian of subjects, rain. Mourning her recent disastrous breakup, the narrator...
5) Time flies
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Having reluctantly moved to New England only to see her marriage end in infidelity, successful metal sculptor Melanie is compelled to attend her high-school reunion and fantasizes about reconnecting with an old flame.
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