Results for: books tagged ‘Marriage’
Amenable Women: Mavis Cheek
Flora Chapman is in her fifties when her dashing and infuriating husband, Edward, dies in a bizarre ballooning accident. Ever pragmatic, Flora seizes upon her new freedom and decides to ... More
Ariel's Gift: Erica Wagner
Erica Wagner provides a comprehensive guide to the poems that must constitute one of the most extraordinary and powerful volumes published in the last century. When Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters ... More
The Best Way You Know How: Christine Pountney
A work of immense feeling and power, The best way you know how tells the story of Hannah and her marriage to Daniel. Exploring themes of love and isolation, guilt ... More
Birthday Letters: Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters are addressed, with just two exceptions, to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom he was married. They were written over a period of more than ... More
The Circle: Elaine Feinstein
'Feinstein's triumph is to write so well that she makes Lena's predicament not only moving, in a perfunctory dismissive way, but also painful ... [she has] an accurate and acute ... More
The City: Martin Crimp
Clair wants to be kissed - but not now - and certainly not by her husband. Chris wants to celebrate his new job by driving into the oncoming traffic. Jenny ... More
Creatures of the Earth: John McGahern
John McGahern is considered by many to be the most important Irish prose writer of the last fifty years. McGahern's short stories equal his finest novels, reflecting both the richness ... More
Dog Days: Mavis Cheek
Patricia's marriage of eleven years is over. Despite her doubts about the arrival of Brian, a dog who has become a father-substitute for her ten year old daughter Rachel, Patricia ... More
Duchess of Nothing: Heather McGowan
After leaving a suffocating marriage for her new lover Edmund, the narrator of Duchess of Nothing thinks that she has found her freedom, but she's still trapped by the routine ... More
Elegies: Douglas Dunn
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