The Terrible Twos: True Stories of Tots and Toddlers (BBC Books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Kennedy, Sarah

Social Sciences

Penguin Books and BBC Books

Charlotte Pierce has had a solitary childhood, eked out in large houses with empty people doing empty things; the only person who ever remembered her birthday was Cook. She has two close friends from her school days: Barty, an acclaimed photographer, and Therese, who now runs an animal sanctuary. Blissfully ignorant, the two girls don't know it, but Barty and Therese are the most important people in Charlie's life - and she will do anything to keep them. Sarah Kennedy's first novel is a compelling psychological chiller that examines the devastating effects of a damaged childhood. A mixture of Highsmith and Rendell, a new style in suspense.

Charlotte's Friends

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Minotaur Books

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hodder&Stoughton Ltd

Contemporary

Coronet

A collection of stories about very young children, as related in letters sent in to Sarah Kennedy's early-morning Radio 2 programme. The book is illustrated with 15 cartoons by some of Britain's leading cartoonists, and a donation will be made to BBC Children in Need for every copy sold.

Terrible Twos True Stories of Tots and Tod

London Bridge

Terrible Pets Hardcover S. Kennedy

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Pets & Animal Care

From AudioFile Growing up in a seriously dysfunctional family has a devastating effect on Charlotte Pierce and the two friends she regards as her real family. In this chilling psychological thriller, the listener witnesses Charlotte's slow disintegration into madness. Norma West's narration is well suited to the story. Charlotte's voice gets increasingly frantic as she begins to lose control of her life, and West's sense of timing heightens the tension and suspense. This performance is weakened by occasional lapses into the melodramatic. Sound quality is uneven as well, making it necessary to adjust the volume of the cassette player frequently. S.S.R. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

Isis Audio Books

Chivers Press Ltd

In her powerful new collection, Sarah Kennedy draws on the historical record, as well her personal life, to explore relationships and bodies, both physical and textual. Kennedy underscores human frailty in poems that dramatize the lives of British women who kept recipe manuscripts containing both medicinal and culinary "receipts" during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. These women often recorded their frustrations and triumphs as both doctors and household managers for their families, and their trials with illness, childbearing, and aging resonate with contemporary poems about the vulnerabilities of the body in our "enlightened" age of science. Throughout, war looms at the margins, as the characters struggle to stay alive and stay together in troubled times. From the seventeenth-century Irish servant Mary Carryll to a contemporary care-giver for a cancer patient, these women leave traces of themselves in diaries, letters, and stories that mark their dedication to the healthy, working body and mind as a source of human dignity. They also share an impulse to find order and beauty in the physical and emotional "home remedies" of herbs, food, and love, even when larger forces work to break the generational cycle through which mothers teach their daughters. Exploring modern-day problems ranging from strained familial relationships to an individual's struggle to find her place in the world, Kennedy's powerful collection reveals our new century's intricate connections to the past.

Home Remedies: Poems

Poetry

LSU Press

Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia

In Common Wealth Sarah Kennedy and R. T. Smith mine the deep vein of Virginia poetry to present a comprehensive collection of contemporary works that reflects the vibrant community of poets working today. Notable for its ethnic diversity, Common Wealth showcases the work of fifty-three poets―all of whom have a close connection to the Commonwealth―ranging from the virtually unknown to the well established, and representing all regions of the state.
Contributors:
Talvikki Ansel * Jennifer Atkinson * Molly Bendall * Kelly Cherry * Michael Chitwood * Rosanne Coggeshall * Stephen Cushman * Richard Dillard * Gregory Donovan * Rita Dove * Claudia Emerson * Forrest Gander * George Garrett * Margaret Gibson * Nikki Giovanni * John Haines * Cathryn Hankla * Henry Hart * David Huddle * T. R. Hummer * Julia Johnson * Sam Kashner * Sally Keith * Sarah Kennedy * Peter Klappert * Jeanne Larsen * Edward C. Lynskey * Heather Ross Miller * Elizabeth Seydel Morgan * Debra Nystrom * Gregory Orr * Eric Pankey * Jim Peterson * Hermine Pinson * Lucinda Roy * Steve Scafidi * Nancy Schoenberger * Tim Seibles * Dana Littlepage Smith * Dave Smith * R. T. Smith * Ron Smith * Katherine Soniat * Lisa Russ Spaar * Dan Stryk * Dabney Stuart * Eleanor Ross Taylor * Henry Taylor * Eric Trethewey * Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon * Reetika Vazirani * Ellen Bryant Voigt * Charles Wright 
Sarah Kennedy is Assistant Professor of English at Mary Baldwin College and the author of Double Exposure, Flow Blue, and From the Midland Plain. R. T. Smith is the editor of Shenandoah magazine at Washington and Lee University and the author of several books, including Messenger, Trespasser, and The Cardinal Heart.

Smith, R.T.

United States

University of Virginia Press

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