Résultats pour "AL Kennedy" dans Fiction

Im Jahr 1949 stecken beide in den Kinderschuhen: die deutsche Demokratie und Rita Gawehn. Zwanzig Jahre später, 1969, stehen sie auf dem Prüfstand: Sind sie erwachsen geworden? Als Tochter einer jungen Frau mit großen Träumen und wenig Chancen erlebt Rita alles mit: die Scheidungswelle nach dem Krieg, die Wiederverheiratungswelle danach, die Großfamilie, die Kleinfamilie, die Freundschaftsfamilie und die Mutter-Kind-Familie. Sie ist ein Scheidungskind, ein Stiefkind, ein Schlüsselkind und wächst bei zwei äußerst ungewöhnlichen Frauen auf.

Teaching nine-year-olds on Zoom. A relationship interrupted by enforced distance. A teenaged son who cannot leave the house. Anna McCormick is already struggling to cope with the unwanted twists 2020 has served up. But when an unstamped envelope arrives overnight, her past begins to cast its own long shadow on the present. With an uncaring government compounding her woes and a hostile threat drawing closer, Anna must dig deep to keep hope alive for herself and those around her.

A.L. Kennedy is a celebrated novelist, playwright, short story writer and columnist. She has won numerous UK and international book awards, including the Costa Prize, and has twice been featured on the Granta Best of Young British Novelists list. A prolific writer for stage, screen and TV, she has also created several works for radio, among them this trio of dramas specially written for Bill Nighy.

The final two series of A. L. Kennedy's wry comic drama about love in later life. In their youth, John and Maggie had a tempestuous on/off affair that ended badly. Now in their 60s, they've decided to give their romance another chance - and discovered that love doesn't get any easier when you're older but no wiser. Having survived dating and moving in together, the duo face the next big test for their relationship: tying the knot.

Fourteen outstanding authors. Fourteen worlds that never were. Throughout the human experience, historians have wondered, “What if?” What if Japan had been on the side of the U.S. in World War II? What if things had been just a little different in the Falklands? What if Russia had started World War Three?