Results for: books tagged ‘Self discovery’
Remembering Light and Stone: Deirdre Madden
Remembering Light and Stone is a moving study of a young woman coming to terms with herself in a changing world.'Not only is Madden's book a joy to read: it ... More
Five Miles From Outer Hope: Nicola Barker
Five Miles from Outer Hope is an instant classic of teenage self-discovery in the tradition of Absolute Beginners and The Catcher in the Rye. It's the summer of 1981. You're ... More
Gabriel's Gift: Hanif Kureishi
The protagonist of Hanif Kureishi's delightful novel is Gabriel, a fifteen-year-old North London schoolboy trying to come to terms with a new life, after the equilibrium of his family home ... More
Schooling: Heather McGowan
Caitrin Jones, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her American accent, Caitrin ... More
Promises, Promises: Adam Phillips
Has psychoanalysis failed to keep its promise? What are psychoanalysis and literature good for? And what, if anything, have they got to do with each other? Promises, Promises is a ... More
The Mother: Hanif Kureishi
‘Kureishi’s screenplay is one of his most focused and engaging since My Beautiful Laundrette.’ Allan Hunter, Screen InternationalAt sixty-five years of age, May fears that life has passed her by ... More
Buenas Noches, Buenos Aires: Gilbert Adair
Gilbert Adair's extraordinary new novel constitutes both the exuberant celebration of, and the melancholy elegy for, that poignantly brief period in the early 1980s when homosexuals marched collectively, arm in ... More
Being Bindy: Alyssa Brugman
What happens when your worst friend, who used to be your best friend, turns out to be your sister?'Everywhere I looked I saw smirking faces, people whispering to each other, ... More
Housekeeping: Marilynne Robinson
Acclaimed on publication as a contemporary classic, Housekeeping is the story of Ruth and Lucille, orphans growing up in the small desolate town of Fingerbone in the vast northwest of ... More
The Mrs Marridge Project: Pauline Fisk
According to Mum, it was only brainless film stars who got married these days. It certainly wasn't something to be considered before a woman hit her thirties, and even then ... More
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