Captures the delicate balance of class and gender in contemporary India as witnessed through the lives of two women--Sera Dubash, an upper middle-class housewife, and Bhima, an illiterate domestic hardened by a life of loss and despair.
When psychotherapist Frieda Klein left the sleepy Suffolk coastal town in which she grew up, she never intended to return. Left behind were friends, family, lives and loves but alongside them, painful memories; a past she wouldn't allow to destroy her. Then, years later, an old classmate appears in London, asking Frieda to help her teenage daughter, and long-buried memories resurface. Death soon follows, leaving Frieda no choice but to return home to confront her past. And the monsters no one else believed were real . . . Through a fog of conflicting accounts, hidden agendas and questionable alibis, Frieda can trust no one as she tries to piece together the shocking truth, past and present. Before another innocent dies. When it comes to psychological suspense, there's none better than Nicci French. And Thursday's Children is Nicci French at her very best. Praise for Nicci French 'Brilliantly crafted.' Daily Mirror 'Magnificent.' Evening Standard
Christine wakes up every morning with an unfamiliar man. She looks in the mirror and sees an unfamiliar, middle-aged face. And every morning, the man she wakes up to must explain that he is Ben, he is her husband, and a terrible accident two decades earlier decimated her ability to form new memories. But it’s the phone call from a Dr. Nash—a neurologist who claims to be working with Christine, without her husband’s knowledge—that directs her to her journal, hidden in the back of her closet. For the past few weeks, Christine has been recording her daily activities and rereading past entries, relearning the facts of her life as retold by the husband upon whom she has become completely dependent. As the entries accumulate, inconsistencies in Ben’s account jump off the page. What was life like before the accident? Do they have a child? And what exactly was the horrific accident that caused such a profound loss of memory? The closer Christine gets to the truth, the more unbelievable it seems.
When she started to clock up the years in earnest, everyone tried not to mention it. But now Virginia Ironside is actually sixty-five she can't see what all the fuss was about. It's great to be old.Growing ancient is not a loss but a gain. You're more confident, and if your memory's going, at least you forget the bad times, like all those ghastly men you slept with in the other sixties. And isn't now the time to take lots of drugs, and not just the ones prescribed by the doctor (which are, now you're old, completely free)?There's nothing more fun than comparing your various ailments with other oldies ('I take so many fish oils I'm thinking of joining an aquarium'), curtain-twitching, complaining or (Virginia's preference) just mooching about.From Grandchildren ('The reward for not killing your children'), and Being a Bore ('You're in your anecdotage, so nobody can complain') to Sex ('I don't know about you, but I've had enough sex to last me a lifetime'), Virginia Ironside tackles all the issues that face today's elegant and distinguished oldies with optimism and enthusiasm - and makes you want to cheer!
Het meeslepende en waargebeurde verhaal van Caroline Kraus, die na het overlijden van haar moeder een nieuw bestaan wil opbouwen in San Francisco. Borderliner is het indrukwekkende verhaal over de heftige confrontatie met een borderliner en de ingrijpende persoonlijke gevolgen daarvan.
Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, hoping to spend her summer working at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead, she is assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its collection of medieval and Renaissance art. There she is drawn into a small circle of charismatic but enigmatic researchers, each with their own secrets and desires, including the museum's curator, Patrick Roland, who is convinced that the history of Tarot holds the key to unlocking contemporary fortune telling. Relieved to have left her troubled past behind and eager for the approval of her new colleagues, Ann is only too happy to indulge some of Patrick's more outlandish theories. But when Ann discovers a mysterious, once-thought lost deck of 15th-century Italian tarot cards she suddenly finds herself at the centre of a dangerous game of power, toxic friendship and ambition. And as the game being played within the Cloisters spirals out of control, Ann must decide whether she is truly able to defy the cards and shape her own future . . . Bringing together the modern and the arcane, The Cloisters is a rich, thrillingly told tale of obsession and the ruthless pursuit of power.
Om Pauls zeventigste verjaardag te vieren, organiseert zijn vrouw een familieweekend in Parijs. Paul Malegarde, een beroemd bomenkenner, is getrouwd met de Amerikaanse Lauren en samen hebben ze twee volwassen kinderen, Tilia en Linden. Alle vier dragen ze een geheim met zich mee. Doordat de Seine buiten zijn oevers dreigt te treden door aanhoudende regen is het gezin tot elkaar veroordeeld en kunnen hun geheimen niet langer verborgen blijven. De emoties lopen, net als het kolkende water, hoog op. Paul, Lauren, Tilia en Linden zullen ieder moeten vechten voor hun identiteit en zijn tegelijkertijd genoodzaakt een gesloten front te vormen om het stijgende water het hoofd te bieden.
‘Don’t you think it’s strange?’ he said. ‘Two girls disappearing?’ Blackwood Bay used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it’s a ghost town – and the perfect place for documentary-film maker Alex to shoot her new project. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay. Unless you count the history of missing girls, of course . . .
Forensisch psychiater Paul Lucas wordt gevraagd de charmante en intelligente student Craig Cavanaugh onder behandeling te nemen. Craig blijkt opmerkelijk veel van Pauls privéleven af te weten. Langzaam maar zeker worden de rollen tussen de psychiater en de patiënt omgedraaid. Paul raakt verstrikt in verwarrende gebeurtenissen die hem in een onmogelijke positie brengen. Zijn vrouw Abby vertrouwt hem niet meer en zijn collega's en zelfs de politie denken dat hij wat te verbergen heeft...
