Into the Mainstream: How Feminism Has Changed Women's Writing

Nicci Gerrard

Literature & Fiction

Pandora Press

<p>At 16, Edie's world was turned upside-down when her father failed to come home from work one evening. After 20 years, she eventually makes a passionate and dangerous attempt to return to the past - in search of the the truth about her father and lost teenage love.</p>

Things We Knew Were True

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

THINGS WE KNEW WERE TRUE marks Nicci's debut, an atmospheric, highly charged, elegant coming-of-age novel.At sixteen Edie knew things. She knew that her mother was charming and beautiful, that her older sister Stella was the star of the family and that her father, clumsy, quiet Vic, was loving and gentle.Then Edie discovered what it was to fall in love; she dared to let herself be happy. But in one terrible moment of tragedy, her teenage dreams were torn apart.Twenty years on, Edie is now a mother and a wife. When family duty calls, the sisters come together again, and it looks like the truth of what happened all those years ago may finally become clear.

Penguin

Irene has a husband, Adrian, three small children and - though she doesn't know it - a marriage that is going wrong. When she discovers that Adrian is having an affair, the family is blown apart. Solace is a story of contrasts. While Adrian finds new love and excitement, Irene spirals into exhaustion, self-destruction and a kind of madness. With their marriage in shreds and Adrian whisking their daughters on a trip of a lifetime ti Australia with his new lover, Irene finally reaches rock bottom. She decides to leave the unbearable silence of her home for a trip by herself to visit her brother Jem in France. And as Irene soon realises, being along can mean discovering freedom, elation and even in the darkest of times, finding your solace.

Solace

Genre Fiction

Michael, Joseph

Magna Large Print Books

BBC Audiobooks/Penguin Books

Het Voorbijgaan (Passing)

De Boekerij, Amsterdam

Het weerzien / druk Heruitgave

Boekerij, De

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