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Evans, Harriet

Literary

Harpercollins

A gorgeous reissue of the warm and enchanting bestselling novel. Laura Foster is a hopeless romantic. It is her most endearing characteristic, yet consistently leads her into trouble. Friends and family look on with amused tolerance -- until Laura's inability to tell reality from romantic dreams causes betrayal and a broken heart. Taking refuge in Norfolk, Laura is bitterly aware that her rose-tinted glasses have to go. She swears off men, and all things romantic, for good -- until she meets Nick, the estate manager of a huge stately home. But Nick has a secret too. And it's one that Laura, however much she tries, can't get past her prejudice about. Just as she was stubbornly a die-hard romantic, so Laura is stubborn about there being no future for her and Nick. But will he manage to change her mind?

A Hopeless Romantic

Contemporary

Harper

The Love of Her Life

Love, Always

Not Without You

From internationally bestselling author Harriet Evans comes an intriguing and fresh new novel about a famous modern-day actress whose fate becomes intertwined with a glamorous movie star from the 1950s who vanished many years earlier. HOW CAN THE WHOLE WORLD KNOW YOU WHEN YOU HARDLY KNOW YOURSELF? Sophie Leigh’s real name is Sophie Sykes. But she hasn’t been called that for years, not since she became an A-list movie star. Living in Los Angeles, she can forget all about the life she left behind in England. But she’s lost something of herself in the process, too. Glamorous 1950s starlet Eve Noel had none of Sophie’s modern self-confidence. She didn’t choose her name. A Hollywood producer did. In fact, he made all her decisions—what to wear, when to smile, who to love. Right up until the day she simply vanished from the spotlight. No one knows where she went, or why. As Sophie’s perfect-on-the-outside world begins to crumble, her present collides with Eve’s past. She must unravel the mystery around her idol’s disappearance before it’s too late for them both.

Women and Sexuality in China

Self-Help

Since the early 1980s sex and sexuality have become prominent themes of public debate in China after three decades during which discourses on sexuality were subject to stringent ideological controls This book analyses the ways in which sex and sexuality have been discussed in The People s Republic of China since 1949 It examines a wide range of materials the official and popular press women s magazines sex education publications self help guides and medical advice pamphlets and compares and contrasts the various discourses of sexuality and the meanings associated with woman that emerge from them It considers the role of the state in matters of sexuality and argues that women s sexuality has been consistently targeted as a site for the regulation of general standards of sexual and social conduct This is a highly original contribution to the growing body of literature on women and gender in China It will appeal to students and scholars of modern and contemporary China and to all those engaged in current debates about sexuality and gender in international feminist scholarship

Women and Sexuality in China: Dominant Discourses of Female Sexuality and Gender Since 1949

History

Asia

Polity

This book analyzes major Chinese governmental publications that deal with sexuality in 1950, when the new Marriage Law was enacted, and 1980, with the Second Marriage Law. Evans (Chinese, Univ. of Westminster) is well grounded in both feminist and Chinese studies, which allows her to deepen her analysis with references to China's present-day pop culture and conversations she has had with Chinese colleagues. Her major finding is that Chinese discourses consistently use medical and/or scientific explanations of gender differences to, essentially, denigrate women. Evans's analysis is consistent with much that has been written on China's political system?that it cannot survive without maintaining order and stability. However, she assumes that the audience is fluent in postmodernist language.

Bloomsbury Academic

A Winterfold Christmas is a short but sweet Christmas short story to put you in the festive mood from Sunday Times Top Five bestselling author Harriet Evans.  When chef Joe Thorne rashly promises to cook Christmas dinner for his girlfriend Cat's family, little does he know what he's letting himself in for... At Winterfold, their beautiful rambling house in the heart of the English countryside, things have always been done a certain way and Martha Winter, matriarch of the clan, knows what she wants. Still reeling from her husband's death and the loss of her perfect family, is Martha ready to enjoy Christmas? Will the Winter family be able to come together one more time?  Packed with recipes for you to try, favourite carols and Christmas memories, A Winterfold Christmas is a festive story to warm the heart.   

A Winterfold Christmas

Romance

Venetia Books Ltd

From international bestselling author Harriet Evans, an engrossing new novel about a woman who, on the eve of her eightieth birthday, decides to reveal a secret that may destroy her perfect family. "The day Martha Winter decided to tear apart her family began like any other day." When Martha, a wife and mother of three, sits down one late summer's morning to write out the invitations to her eightieth birthday celebration, she knows that what she is planning to reveal at the party could ruin the idyllic life she and her husband David have spent over fifty years building... But she has to let her family know what she and David have sacrificed. She can't live a lie any more. The invitation goes out far and wide, calling her three children and their families back home to Winterfold, their rambling house in the heart of the English countryside. They are Bill, the doctor; Florence, the eccentric academic; and Daisy, the child who never fit in. As the story unfolds, each character reveals the secrets, joys, and tragedies they are wrestling with through the confines of the family. What will happen when Martha finally tells the truth?

A Place For Us (Thorndike Press large print basic)

Genre Fiction

Thorndike Press

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