Results for "The Stranger" in Family Life

Bloomsbury presents 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World by Elif Shafak, read by Alix Dunmore. Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Bookpage, NPR, Washington Post, and The Economist A moving novel on the power of friendship in our darkest times, from...

Margaret, Elsie, Phoenix, Cedar : quatre femmes, mères et filles, issues de la communauté amérindienne du North End, un quartier défavorisé de Winnipeg, Manitoba. Quatre membres d'une même famille, les Stranger, chacune hantée par ses propres démons. Quatre personnages qui cherchent désespérément la lumière. Dans cette fresque poignante, Katherena Vermette immerge le lecteur dans l'univers mouvant d'une lignée de femmes autochtones, dessinant la force de leurs liens, la souffrance héritée du passé et l'espoir de briser enfin la fatalité.

Tras una juventud de excesos, Angie vive retirada -casi atrincherada- en una aldea recóndita del sur. Para los vecinos es la loca que se deja ver en compañía de sus perros. Su existencia transcurre en el viejo caserón familiar, en un cruce continuado de dos tiempos: el presente y el pasado. Tan solo tiene a sus fantasmas y el recuerdo del amor vivido con un artista inglés en el Londres olvidado de Margaret Thatcher.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER - IBA Crime Fiction Book of the Year By the author of the No. 1 Bestselling Strange Sally Diamond 'I expected more of a reaction the first time I hit her.' Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who...

Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet...

1916. Bella is working as a Voluntary Aid driving ambulances in England when she gets engaged to Philip, on leave from fighting in France. His family strongly disapprove of her but the two of them are happy together. Georgie, Philip's sister, is in trouble having broken her engagement and fled from her bullying family. As she wonders who she can turn to for help when she needs it most, she finds herself at the gates of Honeyfield.

The Stranger in My Bed by Raphael Montes is a forthcoming title from Celadon Books...

Have you been bad enough? When her stepmother dies unexpectedly, Caro returns to her childhood home in the rural English countryside. She hadn’t seen Elizabeth in years, but the remote farmhouse offers refuge from a bad relationship, and a chance to start again. But going through Elizabeth’s...

AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARD NOVEL OF THE YEAR Longlisted for the Dublin Literary Awards “Mr. Ryan writes conspicuously beautiful prose… The fleeting happiness and abiding melancholy of the asymmetry, heightened by the intimately rendered surroundings, brings out Mr. Ryan’s most sensuous and...

This program is read by actor Sophie Rundle, who played Ada Shelby on Peaky Blinders. Before love at first sight, there were things no one saw. Annie never much believed in love. That is, until meeting Mark. After crossing paths on morning commutes, they connect at a group counseling session for...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024 '[A] wise and insightful novel about identity and family' The Times, Book of the Day 'An epic family odyssey... Ambitious and compelling' Guardian, Book of the Day 'A rich, sprawling saga... This Strange Eventful History may be Messud's finest book' Sunday...

Brought to you by Penguin. The No. 1 Bestseller 'My husband did not mean to kill Annie Doyle, but the lying tramp deserved it.' Lydia Fitzsimons lives in the perfect house with her adoring husband and beloved son. There is just one thing Lydia yearns for to make her perfect life complete, though...

The Stranger In My Home is the utterly compelling new contemporary novel from Adele Parks, Sunday Times bestselling author of The State We're In, sure to move, grip and delight her fans along with readers of Liane Moriarty, Jane Shemilt and Lisa Jewell. When you have everything you dreamed of...

From Sandie Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of the Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes The Half Sister; a compelling domestic suspense novel about a family who is forever changed when a stranger arrives at their door. Meet the half sister, and unravel the ties that...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life A luminous story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion that will appeal to readers of...

The unputdownable bestseller from Shari Lapena, author of THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and EVERYONE HERE IS LYING Why would you run scared from a happy home? You're waiting for your beloved husband to get home from work. You're making dinner, looking forward to hearing about his day. That's the last...

The BRAND NEW pulse-pounding thriller from Diane Saxon, BESTSELLING author of The Quiet Wife 🩸📖 Just what is in the attic? 😱 I’ve just made the biggest mistake of my life. As the last of my children leave home, I’ve persuaded my husband we should move house. Clearing out thirty-odd...

The ALL NEW heart-pounding thriller 👀 from the BESTSELLING author of The Honeymoon, Gemma Rogers💥 - A must-read for fans of Freida McFadden and Lisa Jewell! Every family has their secrets… No.6 Church Road was the Reilly family’s dream home. A recently renovated 3-storey house with...

In 1973, twenty-year-old Moll Gladney takes a morning bus from her rural home and disappears. Bewildered and distraught, Paddy and Kit must confront an unbearable prospect: that they will never see their daughter again. Five years later, Moll returns. What - and who - she brings with her will...

Sunday Times Novel of the Year Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize A magnificent, century-spanning saga about a love triangle that spawns a myth, and a family mystery, across generations. In the late summer of 1913, George Sawle brings his Cambridge friend Cecil Valance, a charismatic young poet...