Women's Fiction

Lou Clark knows a lot of things. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop, and she might not love her boyfriend Patrick....

After serving five years in prison for a tragic mistake, Kenna Rowan returns to the town where it all went wrong, hoping to reunite with her four-year-old daughter. But the bridges Kenna burned are proving impossible to rebuild....

Discover the haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy set in a deserted world....

Is it possible to write a sidesplitting novel about the breakup of the perfect marriage? If the writer is Nora Ephron, the answer is a resounding yes....

Change is sometimes hard to face up to. Rachel is a rising tennis star. But does she want success more than she wants a 'real' life, and a steady boyfriend like everyone else....

For the young girls and women brought to life in these stories, the possibility of change, of starting anew, is both as terrifying and filled with promise....

An alpha among the wolves of Wall Street, Kennedy Dawson rose to the top of the pack by striking the right contracts at the right times. But there's one deal that's been giving him a run for his money - a pact to never again let his assistant, Kate, get under his skin....

Rabih and Kirsten's friends always ask them the same question: how did you meet? The answer comes easily - it's a happy story, one they both love to tell. But there is a second part to this story....

For two decades Zeba was a loving wife, a patient mother, and a peaceful villager. But her quiet life is shattered when her husband, Kamal, is found brutally murdered....

Jane Jackson knows that true love is a lie. Laughter is the only truth: and having spent her adolescence as the barbecue-sauce-in-her-braces punchline on America's fifth-favourite sitcom, she's still trying to shake off that role.

Meet Keiko. Keiko is 36 years old. She's never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years...

Daughter of a cold, controlling mother and an anonymous donor, studious, obedient Elizabeth Fitch finally let loose one night, drinking too much at a nightclub and allowing a strange man’s seductive Russian accent to lure her to a house on Lake Shore Drive....

Boy Parts is the incendiary debut novel from Eliza Clark, a pitch-black comedy both shocking and hilarious, fearlessly exploring the taboo regions of sexuality and gender roles in the 21st century....

Miri thinks she has got her wife back when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong....

I was upgraded to first class on a flight from London to New York. The food, champagne, and service were impeccable. The blue-eyed man sitting next to me, even better. He was suave and intelligent....

Khai Diep has no feelings, but his family knows better - his autism means he just processes emotions differently. When he steadfastly avoids relationships, Khai's mother takes matters into her own hands and returns to Vietnam to find him the perfect bride....

After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar.

ரகு, மதுமிதா, ரத்னா, ராதா கிருஷ்ணன் இப்படி நான்கு முக்கிய கதாபாத்திரங்களை மட்டும் வைத்து வாழ்க்கைக்குத் தேவையான பல பாடங்களை சொல்லித்தருகிறார் எழுத்தாளர் சுஜாதா. காதல் ஏற்படுத்தும் சுகம், வலி, விழிப்புணர்வு, விபரீத முடிவு என அனைத்துத் தளத்தையும் காட்சிப்படுத்தியிருப்பது நாவலுக்கு கூடுதல் பலம்.

The troubled teenager continues to struggle valiantly against the slings and arrows of growing up and his own family's attempts to scar him for life....

Two women. Two eggs. One switch. It'll take a custody battle like no other to decide who really deserves to be the baby's mother – a battle that will push both women to the brink....

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases - a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with as well as way less experience in the dating department than the average 30-year-old....

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University....

Freshly back from an unjust suspension, Simone is forced to team up with DSP Zoya Bharucha, an empathetic officer who's as loved in the police force as Simone is shunned....

Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children and manage the family apple orchard; the other followed a dream and traveled the world to become a famous photojournalist....

As teenagers, Ifemelu and Obinze fall in love....

Nigeriana di nascita e americana di adozione, Chiamaka si porta appresso da sempre il nomignolo di Latteburro: è ricca, è bellissima, di mestiere viaggia comodamente da un posto all'altro ascoltando reportage leggeri sulla vita quotidiana nei luoghi del mondo. Ma che stia riferendo di un rave party a Budapest, delle rovine antiche e dei gabinetti moderni di Gede, o dei ristoranti rustici e un po' razzisti di Skopje, l'obiettivo della sua ricerca rimane altrove: un essere umano che la conosca fino in fondo e per sempre.

"Che vuoi fare da grande?" è la domanda più comune del mondo, tranne se a farla è una madre diversa dalle altre. Una che si trascina per casa con le gambe di piombo, che si veste di tutto punto solo quando piove per inzupparsi in giardino, che si rifugia a letto come fosse l'unico posto sicuro in compagnia dei suoi aiutini farmaceutici. Mentre i suoi coetanei giocano a fare gli adulti, lui spaesato cerca di capire cosa significhi diventare un uomo, in una casa dove gli uomini non ci sono neanche in fotografia e gli oggetti sembrano avere più vita delle persone.

A protagonista deste livro não tem nome. Aos oito anos, ela tem um corpo que brinca, sonha e ama. Tem pais que se preocupam com ela. Tem uma melhor amiga com quem se diverte durante os intervalos da escola. Tem como vizinhos uma senhora querida que cozinha o melhor pudim do mundo e um enigmático benzedeiro de óculos escuros que cura tudo em um passe de mágica. Tem, sobretudo, um futuro repleto de possibilidades pela frente.

Depois do sucesso de O peso do pássaro morto e Pequena coreografia do adeus, Aline Bei volta a explorar temas como maternidade e infância em Uma delicada coleção de ausências, um romance emocionante sobre três mulheres—neta, avó e bisavó—que precisam conviver em suas individualidades enquanto dividem traumas e mágoas que perpassam gerações.

Mandy, Emma and Jill O'Toole are as close as three sisters who live hundreds of miles apart can be. They grew up together on Nantucket, but have scattered around the country. When their beloved grandmother passes peacefully in her sleep a week before her ninety-ninth birthday she leaves them quite a surprise. In addition to her Nantucket home, they learn that they've inherited Mimi's Place, one of Nantucket's most popular year-round restaurants. They had no idea that she was the silent owner of a restaurant, and no idea how they're going to handle this kind of inheritance.

Inside Half Moon Bay, a sparkling California coastal town, Ester Prynn is dulled and diminished by struggles with work, money, marriage, her senile father, a troubled teenage son, and old guilt she can't assuage. When a masked gunman robs the convenience store where Ester works, he upends her fraught life and propels her toward passions buried, like singing; desires discovered, like a same-sex infatuation; and wrongs righted, like bringing the violent assailant to justice.

A year after the tragic death of her four-year-old son, Charlotte Fleming is sleepwalking through life, trapped in a spiral of devastating grief. Then, she sees something online that jolts her awake: her son, Sebastion, alive and well . . . in a stranger's social media post. Charlotte desperately wants to believe that what she sees is real, that her son is out there somewhere waiting to be brought home. After all, Sebastion's body was never recovered from the accident that supposedly killed him.

Thirty years ago, two families shared seven magical summers together, vacationing in a shared beach house on the white sands of Destin, Florida. For three months every year, they basked in laughter, love, and endless beachside memories... until a mysterious falling out ended those sun-soaked summers, leaving the families estranged for decades. When that very house—newly renovated and twice the original size—goes up for sale, it sparks an unexpected reunion among the five adults who'd spent their teenage summers there.

With Thanksgiving right around the corner, Bridget has a lot to be grateful for. Elise has re-hired her at Firefly Bistro, and despite her earlier stumbles with love, she's formed a connection with local police officer Timothy Parsons. But just as she's starting to turn over a new leaf, her past collides with her present, threatening to destroy everything.

Camilla’s childhood was immersed in love and chaos, and steeped in perfection. As an adult she hasn’t looked back, refusing to acknowledge the people and places that scarred her so many years ago. But a cancer diagnosis forces Camilla to turn to the past, and all its pain, to save her daughter. As Camilla discovers the bittersweet limitations of motherhood and reconciliation, she also awakens an inspiring message about the mortality issues we all must face.

This enchanting and atmospheric fantasy brings listeners to a Paris breathless with excitement at the dawn of the twentieth century. But for a select few there is a second, secret Paris where the magic of the City of Light is very real.

One year after her ex–best friend posted their private correspondence on social media, good girl Jake Nolan is still reeling. Thanks to Shelby’s betrayal, Jake lost her job, her house, and her husband, not to mention a cherished friendship that turned out to be built on deceit. Circle Shelby; cross out Jake. But enough is enough, and after moving into a bungalow on idyllic Sweetwater Lane, Jake decides to retaliate by doing some crossing out of her own.

Gorgeous, charismatic Paige White has always lived a picture-perfect life. Her meticulously curated social pages exude an old-fashioned, wholesome lifestyle set against a picturesque town in Australia. Images of breakfasts lakeside with her daughter, sunny afternoons in the family van, and romantic picnics with her husband are the envy of her thousands of followers. But when a dark, brooding image pops up on Paige’s page, where she appears waterlogged and disheveled–and shortly after she’s discovered drowned–alarm bells go off.

رحلة عمر قصة واقعية للكاتبة شهناز حسن حول مجموعة من الفتيات أثناء فترة الدراسة الجامعية، التي تمثل مكانا للتحرر والانطلاق، وكيف ترسم الحياة أقدار تلك الفتيات بعيدا عن أحلامهن وطموحاتهن. في مطلع القصة تقول الكاتبة: لن تكون النهايات سعيدة إلا إذا أحسنا البدايات، هكذا بدأت أميرة كتابة مذكراتها. كان الجو صيفيًا حارًا، ولكن الشمس كانت تميل إلى الغروب، لذلك كانت نسمات الهواء العليل تداعب وجهها بنعومة بالغة. ثم أكملت كتابتها وقالت أنا أميرة وعمري الآن أربعون عامًا ولا أدري كيف مرت السنون بهذه السرعة ولكن الأوقات التي تمر بين الأهل والأصدقاء لا تضيع ولا تموت ولكن تخزن في ذاكرة العمر مع بصمة ود عميقة.

Audrey Mae Scott has felt the sting of her mother's whipping stick far too many times. Unlike her little brother, Harry, she must do whatever she's told without question . . . or else. Her only solace from her fear and loneliness comes from writing about her plight. Though outwardly obedient, Audrey refuses to give up on her dreams, and she is determined to never become like her mother, Edith.