Noemí Jiménez Furquet Book order (chronological)

The journey of their lifetime . . . 'Women can be heroes, too.' When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances Frankie McGrath hears these words, it sparks a revelation. Raised on California's Coronado Island by conservative parents, she has always strived to be a good girl. However, in 1965, as the world shifts around her, she envisions a different path. After her brother ships out to Vietnam, Frankie impulsively joins the Army Nurses Corps, stepping into a chaotic and destructive war zone. As inexperienced as the soldiers she serves alongside, she grapples with the trauma of war and the challenges of returning to a transformed America. Throughout her journey, Frankie learns the true value of female friendship and the heartbreak that love can bring. This narrative highlights one woman's experience in war while illuminating the stories of all women who have risked their lives to help others—sacrifices that have often gone unrecognized. With searing insight and lyrical beauty, it offers a profoundly emotional tale featuring a memorable heroine whose idealism and courage define an era. Praise for the author includes accolades from notable figures, emphasizing her storytelling prowess and the emotional depth of her narratives.

I write this sitting at the kitchen sink' is the first line of a novel about love, sibling rivalry and a bohemian existence in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere. Cassandra Mortmin's journal records her fadingly glamorous stepmother, her beautiful, wistful older sister and the man to whom they owe both their isolation and poverty - Father. The author of one experimental novel, and a minor cause celebre, he has since suffered from writer's block and is determined to drag his family down with him. But if the iron has entered Father's soul it hasn't penetrated Cassandra's ...

Eine Frau, Anfang vierzig, erwidert die Liebe eines jungen Mannes. Er ist zwanzig Jahre jünger. Und als Catherine Cumfrit, verwitwet, Mutter einer erwachsenen Tochter, schließlich Christopher Monckton heiratet, zieht sie sich nicht nur das Mißfallen ihrer Familie zu, sondern auch verständnisloses Kopfschütteln in ihrem Freundeskreis. Da prallen Lebenslust und Sorge vor dem Altern aufeinander, da tauchen Probleme auf, die vorhersehbar waren. Liebe ist die Liebesgeschichte eines ungleichen Paares, spannungsvoll und pointiert erzählt, nach Elizabeth von Arnims Verzauberter April ein besonderes Lesevergnügen, voller Situationskomik und Selbstironie, mit kräftigen Hieben gegen die Konvention.