Résultats pour "Darling Girls" dans Fiction historique

DG is five the first time her mother goes away. She’ll go away again and again before DG finally understands why: mental illness and a manipulating husband. DG’s family aren’t like other families. Her father moves them constantly. Moving, along with the stigma of mental illness, isolates the family. In public, they seem the perfect American dream. In private they grow increasingly unstable. Darling Girl unfolds in a series of vignettes spanning 10 years and four continents.

The Darling is Hannah Musgrave's story, told emotionally and convincingly years later by Hannah herself. A political radical and member of the Weather Underground, Hannah has fled America to West Africa, where she and her Liberian husband become friends and colleagues of Charles Taylor, the...

In 1904 Chicago, where secrets cling as thickly as the soot on every windowsill, Jo earns her living by photographing the dead. The work is quiet and cloistered, allowing her to hide from a past that haunts her: the grief over her husband’s mysterious death, a spiraling addiction, and the...

This stunning novel the from author of The Glorious Guinness Girls follows the three enigmatic Guinness sisters as they take on married life and motherhood at the beginning of the 1930s. It's the dawn of the 1930s and the three privileged Guinness sisters, Aileen, Maureen and Oonagh, settle into...

Troubled Anabel feels unwanted and unloved. She finds an unexpected ally in her "crazy" grandmother Maisy and discovers her grandmother isn't insane but harbors an amazing secret. In 1915, America is an innocent nation, enthralled by its own westward expansion and captivated by the horse-back pageantry of Buffalo Bill. Young Maisy finds herself enthralled by the lure of the Wild West. When Maisy's scheming mother forces a loveless engagement, young Maisy bolts with the clothes on her back and a disgruntled horse.