This author explores complex human relationships and emotional landscapes with penetrating insight and subtle psychological precision. Her style is characterized by its fluidity and poetry, immersing readers in the depths of her characters and their motivations. Through her narratives, she often delves into themes of identity, family, and the search for meaning in everyday life. Her work provokes reflection and leaves a lasting impression on those who embark on her literary journeys.
A woman in a small Massachusetts town, who is gifted with second sight, harbors a terrible secret--that she murdered her fiancee upon discovering his betrayal of her. Yet, she has his child, and though she has become a famous singer, she is haunted by guilt.
It is 1973 and Watergate is on everyone's lips. Lucy Painter is a children's book illustrator and a single mother of two. She leaves New York and the married father of her children to live in a tightly knit Washington neighborhood in the house where she grew up and where she discovered her father's suicide. Lucy hopes for a fresh start, but her life is full of secrets: her children know nothing of her father's death or the identity of their own father. As the new neighbors enter their insular lives, her family's safety and stability become threatened. This is a story of how shame leads to secrets, secrets to lies, and how lies stand in the way of human connection.
Georgianna Grove's seventieth birthday brings an unexpected letter that compels her to revisit Missing Lake, Wisconsin, site of her mother's murder decades ago. With her father's confession leading to his imprisonment, Georgie embarks on a perilous canoe trip with her hesitant family to confront the past and uncover the truth behind her parents' tragic fate. This gripping narrative explores themes of memory, family dynamics, and the quest for understanding amidst haunting memories.
"Magical . . . . A quirky, elliptical tale of obsessive emotions and double lives." The New York Times Book ReviewBy the author of "Daughters of the New World," a unique and captivating tale of obsession, redemption and romance . . . in the most unlikely of places.A chance meeting on a Washington subway leads Annie Blakemore -- an aspiring opera singer with two children and an abusive husband -- into the life of a handsome priest, Will Huston. Yet Huston is not what he seems. He is an Irish actor in disguise, on a dark mission of personal vengeance that will sweep Annie into its dangerous whirpool -- a whirlpool she cannot help herself from entering, even if it means she will drown.
Sie hat ihr Haar schwarz gefärbt (wenn es nicht gerade pink ist). Sie trägt klobige Schuhe, schwarze Klamotten und schwarzen Lippenstift. Sie schwänzt die Schule und jubelt ihrem Vater alte Noten zum Unterschreiben unter ... Kann das dasselbe Mädchen sein, das ihre Familie sonst immer Amanda, die Gute, genannt hat? Nein, nicht mehr! Irgendwie fühlt sich die 13-jährige Amanda nicht mehr wohl in ihren schicken Sachen, ihre Freunde sind zu angepasst und ihre Familie ist auf einmal oberspießig! Als Amanda dann auch noch Slade kennen lernt, den gefährlichsten Jungen der Schule, kommt sie in Kontakt mit dem Rest der „bösen“ Clique – aber ist Amanda wirklich böse genug für ihre neuen Freunde?
Shreve,Susan Richards....Töchter der neuen Welt....Bastei Bergisch-Gladbach....1992....0494 Seiten, Buchblock etwas verzogen (Wasserschaden )