Titres dans Roman féminin

On a June morning in 1923, Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for a party and remembering her past. Elsewhere in London, Septimus Smith is suffering from shell-shock and on the brink of madness. Their days interweave and their lives converge as the party reaches its glittering climax. Here, Virginia Woolf perfected the interior monologue and the novel's lyricism and accessibility have made it one of her most popular works.

Tailleur strict, coiffure sophistiquée et talons vertigineux, Polly ne vit que pour son travail dans une grande compagnie financière de la City de Londres. Un poste pour lequel elle a tout sacrifié pendant quinze ans. Aussi, quand elle est brutalement licenciée, c’est son univers qui s’effondre. Pire, la voilà bientôt obligée de renoncer à son luxueux appartement avec vue sur la Tamise et de trouver refuge chez sa soeur à Elderchurch, ce petit village au fin fond du Hampshire où elles ont grandi. Cela fait des années que Clare et elle n’ont plus rien en commun.

I’d never forgotten him - a man I’d yet to meet. Griffin Quinn was my childhood pen pal, the British boy who couldn’t have been more different from me. Over the years, through hundreds of letters, we became best friends, sharing our deepest, darkest secrets and forming a connection I never thought could break. Until one day, it did. Then, out of the blue, a new letter arrived. A scathing one - one with eight years of pent-up anger. I had no choice but to finally come clean as to why I stopped writing. Griffin forgave me, and we were able to rekindle our childhood connection.

Harland Bull Eaton has lost many things - his first wife, his beloved mother, those three women he proposed to.... Oh, and there was that time he almost lost the family dairy farm due to a scandal. He's losing faith in just about everything, especially love. But one night, his friends give him a dare. Just buy that gorgeous redhead a drink. The big-city bombshell he's set his eyes on swirls him into a tailspin that lands them in bed for a one night stand he's pretty sure he'll never forget. But this time he won't let his heart ride herd on his common sense.

Beloved author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to fiction with a unique love story set in the New York City theater world during the 1940s. Told from the perspective of an older woman as she looks back on her youth with both pleasure and regret (but mostly pleasure), City of Girls explores themes of female sexuality and promiscuity, as well as the idiosyncrasies of true love. In 1940, nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris has just been kicked out of Vassar College, owing to her lackluster freshman-year performance.

Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living, with her confidence-driven brand, showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her babysitter, Emira Tucker, is confronted while watching the Chamberlains' toddler one night, walking the aisles of their local high-end supermarket. The store's security guard, seeing a young Black woman out late with a White child, accuses Emira of kidnapping two-year-old Briar. A small crowd gathers, a bystander films everything, and Emira is furious and humiliated. Alix resolves to make things right.

Olivia Lamoureux vient d'acheter la maison de ses rêves. Elle emménage à la campagne, certaine d'y trouver la tranquillité. Elle ignore qu'elle devra, avant d'y parvenir, traverser un véritable «parcours du combattant», celui des travaux de rénovation de son havre de paix. Malgré cette vie mouvementée, Olivia espère encore qu'en début cinquantaine tout est possible, même l'amour.

Elles... C'est un clan décliné au féminin : mères, sœurs, filles, petites-filles. En trois générations, plus l'ombre d'un homme ; la vie en a voulu autrement. Dans ses cahiers noirs, Blanche rassemble ses souvenirs et cinquante ans défilent : le combat féministe, l'entreprise de haute couture familiale, les liens, les rires, les chagrins, les absents... Il est temps de tout dire. Peut-être parce que aujourd'hui un garçon est né... Celui de Violette, la fille de Blanche, qui a coupé les ponts. Dérouler le fil des mots de leur histoire pourrait bien se conjuguer à présent avec "eux ".

In these entries, titled The Coronavirus Princess Diaries, the princess recorded her most heartfelt emotions while dealing with her husband’s quarantine after exposure to the virus; her personal (and political) battles while imposing health restrictions on her small European nation; life during lockdown (even in as idyllic a location as a palace on the Riviera); and of course, dealing with her demanding royal family, especially her grandmother.

"Jézabel", roman : Dans le box des accusés, une femme, Gladys est coupable d'avoir tué son jeune amant. Elle n'est plus très jeune, très riche, encore belle, sans famille, isolée, perdue. Nous assistons au procès, puis découvrons le fil de sa vie, une vie où elle n'a recherché que le plaisir d'être aimée. Ce portrait de femme sans racines, enfermée sur elle-même, est disséqué avec une implacable cruauté.

Le cœur ne gèle jamais, même au milieu des icebergs. Le plus souvent, Veronica, 84 ans, passe ses journées à chercher où elle a mis ses lunettes, à ramasser les déchets sur la plage ou à aboyer des ordres à sa dame de compagnie, Eileen. Depuis peu, la vieille dame s'interroge : que faire d'utile durant les années qu'il lui reste et, surtout, à qui laisser sa fortune considérable ? Quand elle a soudain une illumination : et si elle mettait tout en œuvre pour sauver les pingouins d'Antarctique ?

Felicity “Fizzy” Chen is lost. Sure, she’s got an incredible career as a beloved romance novelist with a slew of bestsellers under her belt, but when she’s asked to give a commencement address, it hits her: she hasn’t been practicing what she’s preached. Fizzy hasn’t ever really been in love. Connor Prince, documentary filmmaker and single father, loves his work but when his profit-minded boss orders him to create a reality TV show, Connor is out of his element. Desperate to find his romantic lead, a chance run-in with an exasperated Fizzy offers Connor the perfect solution.

The house is on Montpelier Parade: just across town, but it might as well be a different world. Working on the garden with his father one Saturday, Sonny is full of curiosity. Then the back door eases open, and she comes down the path towards him. Vera. Chance meetings become shy arrangements, and soon Sonny is in love for the first time. Casting off his lonely life of dreams and quiet violence for this new intoxicating encounter, he longs to know Vera, even to save her. But what is it that Vera isn't telling him?

Un'adolescente reietta, e una coetanea che impara a conoscerla per davvero, al di là di ogni pregiudizio. E che grazie a lei trova il coraggio di far sentire la propria voce, la propria verità. Un coinvolgente romanzo di formazione sullo sfondo di una provincia padana oppressa dal controllo, dal sessismo e dalla violenza del Ventennio. L'esordio di Beatrice Salvioni ha incantato gli editori di tutto il mondo. Esce in contemporanea con l'edizione italiana in Francia, Spagna, Grecia, Repubblica Ceca, Turchia, Bulgaria e, a breve, anche Stati Uniti e Germania. È in corso di traduzione in 32 lingue.

Heir to a fortune, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility. Then she is orphaned, and her guardian—an enigmatic and volatile man—spends her inheritance and insists she accompany him on an expedition to New France. That journey takes a unexpected turn when Marguerite, accused of betrayal, is brutally punished and abandoned on a small island.

If Avery Chambers can’t fix you in 10 sessions, she won’t take you on as a client. Her successes are phenomenal—she helps people overcome everything from domineering parents to assault—and almost absorbs the emptiness she sometimes feels since her husband’s death. Marissa and Mathew Bishop seem like the golden couple—until Marissa cheats. She wants to repair things, both because she loves her husband and for the sake of their eight-year-old son. After a friend forwards an article about Avery, Marissa takes a chance on this maverick therapist.

He's a rugged, battle-hardened soldier who spent four years in the Royal Guard, an elite military unit. I met the king and queen for the first time wearing leggings and a sweatshirt. But there's the way he looks at me. Like he knows every dirty thought I've had about him - and he likes them. There's the way my pulse skyrockets every time his hand brushes mine. I'm the ambassador's daughter. I know better than to mess around with a foreign head of state.

An epic space opera follows a comfort woman as she claims her agency, a soldier questioning his allegiances and a non-binary hero out to save the solar system. First Sister has no name and no voice. She's a priestess of the Sisterhood, travelling the stars alongside the soldiers of Earth who own the rights to her body and soul. When her former captain abandons her, First Sister's hopes for freedom are dashed and she is forced to stay on her ship with no friends, no status and a new captain she knows nothing about.

Four years ago, Jocelyn Butler left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary life is working well - until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core.

Cassie Salazar and Luke Morrow couldn't be more different. Sharp-witted Cassie works nights at a bar in Austin, Texas, to make ends meet while pursuing her dream of becoming a singer/songwriter. Luke is an army trainee, about to ship out for duty, who finds comfort in the unswerving discipline of service. But a chance encounter at Cassie's bar changes the course of both their lives.