Sophie Winter
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Edwards, Michael

Wild Oats

The Waterfords and the Oxfords are two fairly ordinary families, with one significant exception: they are the inventions of a depressed writer who now seems unable to control them: ‘I’m quite happy to rattle off their name, their shoe size, the colour of their hair, and let genius and instinct take it from there.’ Little does he suspect where this laissez-faire policy will lead him. Colleagues Martin Oxford and Josh Waterford have the bright idea to take their families on a break together to a remote farm in Devon. As they and the bewildered narrator soon discover, the Oxfords’ idea of a gratifying leisure pursuit differs – mortifyingly – from the more staid Waterfords’. Even the children are fed up. Only the Oxfords’ excitable Labrador Brewster is really having any fun, amusing himself by harassing Sammy, the decrepit but wise farmyard cat. Meanwhile, Sammy’s owners have problems of their own. Mr Broadfield (‘"Farmer Giles" would be a bit too obvious’) is facing bankruptcy; his son wants to abandon the family business and move away - to London, of all places; even Mrs Broadfield is thinking about escaping. But as relations amongst the three families reach a crescendo of embarrassment, resentment and mutual distaste, a certain cat and dog seem to have established their own sort of peace. Wild Oats is a brilliantly assured novel of sexual politics, social mores, and the changing countryside. A riveting, worldly and memorably original work of fiction, it is also riotously funny.

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Hudson, Suzanne

In The Dark Of The Moon

In 1955, Emmitt Till is murdered in Mississippi, an event that drives Elizabeth Lacey - the unwitting architect of another cruel lynching - to madness. Consumed by guilt, Elizabeth takes her own life, leaving her four-year-old daughter in the care of her extended family. Seven years later, the precocious Kansas Lacey is intensely curious about a world she devours through National Geographic magazines and endless questions to the adults around her. When her curiosity extends to the circumstances of her mother's suicide, the dark history of repression, addiction, and violence surrounding the prominent and respected Lacey family finally emerges.Suzanne Hudson is the acclaimed author of In a Temple of Trees and Opposable Thumbs. She lives in Baldwin County, Alabama, where she is a middle school guidance counselor and creative writing teacher.

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Anna Katharina Hahn

Kürzere Tage

Mustermütter und Karrierefrauen, Eurythmie und Hysterie, Alleinerziehende und Problemkinder, Wohlstand und Verwahrlosung. Was geschieht, wenn man das Leben, das man immer haben wollte, endlich führt? Wenn die Kompromisse in Zwang umschlagen und das Glück sich nicht einstellt? In ihrer literarisch bestechenden Bestandsaufnahme erzählt Anna Katharina Hahn von Frauen, deren Lebensraum zum Käfig geworden ist – und von einem Jungen, der ausbricht.

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223 pages

Dees, Cindy

Taken By the Spy

Don't mess with a man on a mission Kinsey Hollingsworth's tropical-getaway plans didn't include dodging gunshots. Or a speedboat chase with Mitch Perovski, the tall and tempting spy who'd commandeered her boat. But the socialite would handle anything Mitch demanded - whether it meant going undercover or under the covers. Mitch didn't work with partners. Kinsey was more than a pampered heiress, but she was no match for the assassin targeting them... He only had to get through this one high-stakes task with her. Yet after a night in Kinsey's arms, could he walk away from their partnership for good?

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