Contemporary Family Life Women Fiction

Friendship and inner strength bind four women together. Whenever one struggles, the others are there to lift them up. They know they’ll come out of these trials stronger, better, and happier—and with lifelong friendships to treasure.

Paige Watts er født ind i en ægte Hollywood-familie. Og nu udlever hun sine egne skuespillerdrømme gennem datteren, Emma. Allerede som niårig spiller Emma en central rolle i en populær tv-serie. Indtil en tragisk ulykke knuser alt. Nu bor Emma med sin moster, Whitney, som har valgt et meget anderledes liv end Paige. Langt fra Hollywoods glamour lever og ånder hun for sit arbejde som psykiater, da hun med blot et øjebliks varsel må smide alt for at være der for sin niece.

Is it more dangerous to forget...or to remember? Phoebe's life has fallen apart and there's only one place left to go. Alone and adrift after a failed marriage proposal, she flees Sydney to her family's abandoned holiday cottage. On the slow-moving river Phoebe is confronted with the legacy of her older sister's suicide, a year before. Why did Karin leave a note written in flowers and walk into the water?

High on the clifftops, Lettie takes a deep breath of salty air and opens the letter. There is no signature, and the old-fashioned handwriting is faint against the yellowed paper. The message, and the tiny gold key inside, will turn her life upside down. Lettie Starcross makes her way along the cobbled streets of Heaven’s Cove, clutching a little key and searching for answers about her kind, great-aunt Iris, whom she misses terribly. With no job back home, and no one in her family understanding how adrift she feels, Lettie wonders if her aunt was lonely just like her.

Después del abismo narra la vida de una mujer que tuvo que alejarse de su familia y que confió en la persona equivocada, pero se atrevió a resistir y a cambiar. A veces, la felicidad es animarse a soltar.

Things are looking up for Anaya Goode after the deaths of her brother and mother. She is the youngest (and highest paid) executive in Alameda County. She is in an adoring relationship with the love of her life, her natural twists are on point, and she runs a six-minute mile. What else matters? When Anaya is tasked with leading negotiations for the most significant development agreement in County history, her world unravels.

Since childhood, Jen and Kemi have lived like sisters in the McFadden family home in Edinburgh, brought together by a shared family history which stretches back generations. Kemi was educated in Britain alongside Jen, and the girls could not be closer, nor could they be more different in the paths they take in life. But the ties that bind them are strong and complicated, and a dark family secret exists in their joint history.

On her favorite day of the year, Elizabeth Davenport awakens in her cottage on the wild and windy Cornish coast, opens her front door, and discovers a precious gift: the small blue crocus and a note that begins "I Wish". The notes are never signed, but she knows they’ve been left by her first and truest love, Tom Hale. Each of these precious missives convey a simple wish for something they had missed, and the life they might have shared, if circumstances hadn't forced them apart all those years ago. She has kept them all.

When Ava Green turns 28, she discovers this will be her last birthday. The cancer she thought she'd beaten three years ago is back, only now it's terminal and she's not going to waste any of the time she has left. All she truly wants is the one thing she's been dreaming of since she was a little girl: a wedding. There's only one problem. She doesn't have a groom. Ava's friends and family rally around her to help throw the wedding of her dreams - without the husband-to-be. As word spreads on social media, the bridal planning goes viral, attracting the attention of a prominent women's magazine.

De tre väninnorna Jenny, Sofia och Jessika träffas allt mer sällan på sin favvo-restaurang Dorsia, i Göteborg. Det kan bero på att Sofia knappt når fram till bordet nu när hon väntar tvillingar, samtidigt som hon har en omöjlig tonårsdotter i Chloe. Jenny har i sin tur rökt fredspipa med sin man Magnus, men freden visar sig vara bräcklig. Och när hennes mamma blir tokförälskad i Bjarne, som försöker pracka på Jenny skönhets- och hälsokostprodukter som snarare tycks vara hälsovådliga, inser hon att hon nu har två dränerande karlslokar på halsen.

Grappig en virtuoos geschreven, vol kleurrijke personages en in een setting waar je zo naartoe zou willen: de Zuid-Engelse kust. Als Merle hoort dat haar hippie-oma haar enige bezit, het oude statige huis op de rotsen van Cornwall, heeft verkocht aan een investeerder, vreest ze dat de oude vrouw het slachtoffer is geworden van een harteloze oplichter.

"Wer auf meiner Beerdigung weint, mit dem rede ich kein Wort mehr", hat Lou oft gewitzelt. Lou, die auf der kleinen bretonischen Insel ein echter Paradiesvogel war und von allen geliebt wurde. Lou mit ihren Spleens - Champagner, bitte, aber nur von Mercier! - und Macken - sie kochte miserabel, aber mit Liebe -, einem Lachen, das lauter war als das Kreischen der Möwen, und einem Herzen so weit wie das Meer. Nun ist Lou tot - und die Familie droht auseinanderzubrechen. Im Testament bittet sie ihren Mann Jo, ihr einen letzten Wunsch zu erfüllen.

Zum Weinen schön: Familien-Drama, Liebes-Geschichte und eine Hymne an die Mutter-Liebe von der britischen Bestseller-Autorin Dani Atkins. Stell dir vor, an deiner Seite steht der Mann, den du liebst. Du spürst seine Hand in deiner, und sie passt perfekt in deine. Es ist sein Lächeln, das dich morgens weckt. Die Zukunft gehört euch beiden, ihr werdet heiraten. Und in deinem Bauch wächst euer Kind heran. Allein der Gedanke daran lässt dein Herz überlaufen vor Glück. Doch dann: ein unachtsamer Schritt. Ein abgelenkter Autofahrer. Ein schrecklicher Unfall.

When rock star Risk Keller shows up in Frankie’s diner with his heart on his sleeve, it turns her world upside down. Letting him go was the hardest thing she ever had to do. For years, his voice has been a reminder of everything she sacrificed, and now it’s time to face the music. For Risk, coming home shows him what he’s always known deep down - every song, every gig, every drink, every girl - it’s always been about Frankie.

While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she's supposed to feel a warm glow that her husband is nine time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But the reality is that she is exhausted. Then Liam's three-year absence turns into something more, changing everything and plunging her into a sunless grief. As Mara struggles to find her footing, she discovers that even when hope is tenuous, faith is fragile, and the future is unknown, we can be sure we are not forgotten...or unloved.

On paper, Sadie's got it all—the partner, the children, the house. But in real life, that doesn't feel quite enough. Sadie can't help harking back to the time when she was a career woman by day and a party animal by night. And what happened to feeling like a sex kitten, anyway? The only sleepless nights she's getting now are due to the baby. Maybe a little reinvention is the answer. Sadie can't resist creating a fictitious online identity for herself as a hot TV producer. It's only a bit of harmless fun...until truth and fantasy become dangerously tangled.

Genova. Quando Agata varca la soglia, l'appartamento è silenzioso e tremendamente buio. Sua madre non c'è più, da diversi mesi ormai. Resta soltanto l'odore delle stanze vuote, la polvere sui mobili, insieme all'eco dei ricordi e ai segreti, che ora nessuno può più mantenere, e che i vecchi quaderni dell'amata zia Alice, rimasti a lungo nascosti, sono pronti a rivelare. Quelle pagine custodiscono, infatti, il ritratto di una donna che Agata stenta a riconoscere come la sua zia Alice, e la storia di un grande amore proibito, di cui non ha mai saputo nulla.

1976. Rushing out of the University Library, undergraduate Alice Kenzie bumps straight into PhD student Tristan Somers. There begins a whirlwind romance, and Alice falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby girl. Then Tristan is killed in a car accident. Unable to cope, Alice takes her baby to Summer House, Tristan's family home in Suffolk, leaves her there and disappears. 2018. Olivia Somers has always been told that her mother died in the same accident as her father. When she finds old letters in Summer House, everything she ever believed about her mother is called into question.

Mareike Fallwickls neuer Roman über die Last, die auf den ­Frauen ­abgeladen wird, und das Aufbegehren: ­radikal, wachrüttelnd, empowernd. Helene, Mutter von drei Kindern, steht beim Abendessen auf, geht zum Balkon und stürzt sich ohne ein Wort in den Tod. Die Familie ist im Schockzustand. Plötzlich fehlt ihnen alles, was sie bisher zusammengehalten hat: Liebe, Fürsorge, Sicherheit. Helenes beste Freundin Sarah, die ­Helene ­ihrer Familie wegen zugleich beneidet und bemitleidet hat, wird in den Strudel der ­Trauer und des Chaos gezogen.

Zigaretten, Cognac und Bücher - ihre letzten Jahre verbringt die über hundertjährige Lucile am liebsten lesend im Bett ihrer Pariser Wohnung. Als kurz nach Luciles Tod auch ihre Tochter Marie stirbt, erbt Lisa das Appartement in der Avenue de Flandre. Ihr bleiben nur noch die Erinnerungen an die zwei eigenständigen, vom Leben gezeichneten Frauen der Familie. Das Verhältnis von Mutter und Großmutter war explosiv.