Showing results for "Julia Kelly" in Genre Fiction

Isabelle Shelton has always found comfort in the predictable world of her mother’s dressmaking shop, Mrs. Shelton’s Fashions, while her sister Sylvia turned her back on the family years ago to marry a wealthy doctor whom Izzie detests. When their mother dies unexpectedly, the sisters are stunned to find they’ve jointly inherited the family business. Izzie is determined to buy Sylvia out, but when she’s conscripted into the WAAF, she’s forced to seek Sylvia’s help to keep the shop open.

When it’s announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year’s most coveted invitation: a chance for their daughters to curtsy to the young Queen Elizabeth and officially come out into society. In an effort to appease her traditional mother, aspiring university student Lily Nichols agrees to become a debutante and do the Season, a glittering and grueling string of countless balls and cocktail parties. In doing so, she befriends two very different women.

Liverpool, 1935: Raised in a strict Catholic family, Viv Byrne knows what’s expected of her: marry a Catholic man from her working-class neighborhood and have his children. However, when she finds herself pregnant after a fling with Joshua Levinson, a Jewish man with dreams of becoming a famous jazz musician, Viv knows that a swift wedding is the only answer. Her only solace is that marrying Joshua will mean escaping her strict mother’s scrutiny. But when Joshua makes a life-changing choice on their wedding day, Viv is forced once again into the arms of her disapproving family.

Une exploration éblouissante des sentiments au féminin, des jeux entre l'apparence et la vérité. Son nom est Liv Maria Christensen. Enfant solitaire née sur une île bretonne, entre une mère tenancière de café et un père marin norvégien. Envoyée subitement à Berlin à l'âge de 17 ans, elle tombe amoureuse de son professeur d'anglais. Le temps d'un été, elle apprend tout. Le plaisir des corps, l'intensité des échanges. Mais, à peine sortie de l'adolescence, elle a déjà perdu tous ses repères.

Liverpool 1940. Viele schwierige Situationen hat Viv in ihrem Leben schon gemeistert. Bereits als Teenager wurde sie schwanger; ihre Tochter Maggie zog sie allein und unter der Fuchtel ihrer missbilligenden Eltern auf. All dies ist jedoch nichts verglichen mit der Entscheidung, die sie nun, am Vorabend des Zweiten Weltkriegs, treffen muss: Soll sie der Evakuierung ihrer heißgeliebten Tochter zustimmen? Das kleine Mädchen in die Obhut fremder Leute geben? In der festen Hoffnung, sie bald wieder in die Arme schließen zu können, schickt sie Maggie aufs Land.

It’s 1900 and Skerry, a small Scottish fishing village, is destined for an unyielding winter. During a storm, a young boy washes up on the shore. He bears an uncanny resemblance to teacher Dorothy’s son, lost to the sea at the same age many years before, his body never found. The village is soon snowed in, and Dorothy agrees to look after the child until they can uncover the mystery of his origins. But over time, the lines between reality and desperate hope start to blur as the boy reminds Dorothy more and more of her own lost child.

Frankie Piccione is done running away from her responsibilities - for now, anyway. Two years after fleeing Westenbury with a shattered heart, it's time to return and take up her place on the board of the family business. Piccione's Pickles and Preserves is floundering, and Frankie knows she can turn it around. But with her brother Luca and the new, rather attractive, Cameron Mancini watching her every move, she's going to have to come up with something special to persuade them that she belongs on the board just as much as they do.

Celeste und Wendy sind Nachbarinnen. Während Supermami Celeste ihre Familie stets gesund ernährt, den Haushalt mit links schmeißt und nebenbei noch Zeit für Ehrenämter hat, klettert Wendy nicht nur eine, sondern zwei Karriereleitern hinauf und schafft es dennoch, täglich eine Stunde für ihre Kinder zu reservieren. Was haben Celeste und Wendy gemeinsam? Sie wünschen sich das, was sie nicht haben. Bis zu diesem einen denkwürdigen Morgen, als sie nach einem Nachbarschaftspicknick und ein wenig zu viel Sangria... im Körper der Anderen erwachen.