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Bohaterką powieści jest kobieta o imieniu Liv Kellerman. Autorka opisuje w jej drogę na szczyt i jej relacje z mężem i ojcem w świetle przemian w jej życiu.
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Mary Gooch gazes out into the night, waiting for her husband to come home. He is late but he will - surely? - be back soon. Tomorrow is special: the anniversary of the day when, barely out of high school, Mary and Gooch were married. As she waits, Mary reflects on the sad accumulations of their life together: the secrets and silences that have grown between them, and her gaining of pounds and worries. She now finds herself imprisoned in a vast body she no longer recognizes, her isolation and anxiety made manifest.
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In a dusty post-war summer in rural Warwickshire, a doctor is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall. Home to the Ayres family for over two centuries, the Georgian house, once grand and handsome, is now in decline, the clock in its stable yard permanently fixed at twenty to nine. But are the Ayreses haunted by something more sinister than a dying way of life? Little does Dr Faraday know how closely, and how terrifyingly, their story is about to become entwined with his. Prepare yourself for a chilling ghost story from the shortlisted Man Booker and Orange Prize author. After her award-winning trilogy...
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When the genteely impoverished and rebellious Evelyn marries the charming Emil, scion of a privileged Sinhalese family, she thinks that her dream of a life in England can now at last come true. So the family travel, with their young son, Milton from Ceylon to Tilbury Docks. But this is England in the 1950s and, no matter how hard Evelyn wishes that it would, England does not take kindly to strangers, especially families who are half black and half white.A profound and moving novel, this is the story about the search to feel at home in your own skin.
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In the Company of the Courtesan
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Autor: Sarah Dunant
Wydawnictwo: Virago
1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks down their doors. Though almost as damaged as their beloved city, Fiammetta Bianchini and Bucino Teodoldi - a fabulous courtesan and her dwarf companion - are already planning their future. They head for the shimmering beauty of Venice, a honey pot of wealth and trade where they start to rebuild their business. As a partnership they are invincible: Bucino...
