Mother's Helper: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Freely, Maureen

Contemporary

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Fertility has always been a political issue, but, arguably, never so fraught as it is today. Abortion, population control, genetic engineering and fathers' rights dominate the headlines. Yet safe and reliable contraception has widened our choices of when, where and with whom we have our children. Why does the decision to have a baby remain such a difficult one? This text sets out to provide a framework for considering the issue. In addition to providing the basic facts, it calls into question current attitudes and figures of speech that cloud rather than clarify the subject. Is there such a thing as a fertility rate? Is the biological clock a useful or misleading metaphor? How often are decisions to have children joint and above board? Who has the final say and who takes the blame? How do people who have no children or too many manage their regrets? The authors have talked to men and women across a broad spectrum of class, race, religion and age in their search to understand how we really plan our children. Their aim is to break down the taboos and promote a respectful understanding of fertility and its finiteness.

Pandora's Clock

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Mother's helper: A novel

DELACORTE PRESS

The Life of the Party

Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul

GRAND CENTRAL PUB.

<p>Introduces Hector Cabot, a wild drunk and philanderer, who is both the catalyst and court jester to a group of displaced Americans and Europeans in an expatriate community in Istanbul</p>

United States

Simon&Schuster

Enlightenment

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Marion Boyars

The Other Rebecca

So says her employer to the protagonist of this spellbinding novel which echoes Daphne Du Maurier's classic, Rebecca. Her future husband is the renowned writer and infamous widower, Max Midwinter, whose first wife, Rebecca, is a haunting presence in her life. The protagonist's apprehension is intensified by the painfully accurate portrait of her new home which Rebecca had drawn in her autobiographical novel. Worst of all, the characters Rebecca portrays are real and the new wife must deal with them in the flesh. Meanwhile, a new biography of Max is released which strongly implicates him in Rebecca's death.

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.

The future Mrs Midwinter was apprehensive of her new home because of the haunting accuracy with which her predecessor Rebecca had described it in her book "The Marriage Hearse". Maureen Freely is the author of "Mother's Helper", "The Life of the Party" and "The Stork Club".

BLOOMSBURY

Sailing Through Byzantium

Literary

Linen Press

<p>Disappearing a few months after her Turkish husband is detained and her young son is placed in foster care, Jeannie sends a letter to an anonymous journalist detailing the factors that shaped her three-decade life in Turkey.</p>

Thorndike Pr

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