My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time -- their struggles, their joys and their secret longings. Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. My Favourite Wife is a book about the men and women of our time -- their struggles, their joys and their secret longings. Above all it is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins. Hot shot young lawyer Bill Holden and his wife Becca move with their four year old daughter to the booming, gold-rush city of Shanghai, a place of enormous wealth and crushing poverty, where fortunes are made and foreign marriages come apart in spectacular fashion. Bill's law firm houses the Holden family in Paradise Mansions -- a luxury apartment block where newly rich Chinese men install their second wives: fabulous young beauties like JinJin Li, ex-school teacher, crossword addict and the Holdens' neighbour. After Becca witnesses a tragedy that awakens her to the reality of life beyond the glitzy surface of the city, she returns temporarily to London with Holly -- and Bill and JinJin are thrown together. Bill wants to be a better man than the millionaire who keeps JinJin Li as a second wife on the side. A better man than anyone who cheats. Becca is his best friend.And, in the end, adrift without his young family, can he give JinJin anything better than she had before? My Favourite Wife is a book about where sex, romance and obsession ends, and where true love begins.

Mariée depuis six ans à Jean, Marie considère son existence comme heureuse. Et pourtant... le bonheur n'est-il qu'une douce routine baignée d'ennui et de vide ? Marie prend soin de Jean comme si elle était sa mère, Jean lui parle comme à une enfant. Est-elle encore femme ? Oui, elle l'est tout à coup, pour un autre qui enflamme son désir, un tout jeune homme qui lui a demandé "Vous aimez l'aventure ?" et qui lui laisse son numéro de téléphone. Marie, cette eau qui dort, rêve de tempêtes. Marie la patiente, la silencieuse, ouvre les yeux et se rend disponible au monde. Histoire d'un voyage introspectif et d'un retour à la lumière, A la recherche de Marie évoque les tourments de l'âme et du cœur avec une sensualité fraîche pleine de pudeur. Dans une langue épurée, légère et précise, Madeleine Bourdouxhe célèbre l'écoute intime et l'émancipation des prisons bâties par la tradition, la famille, l'habitude - et par soi-même.

They call them women of love, but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding their families by offering up their bodies for sale. The girls belong to the Nat which includes some of Indias very poorest. For centuries, the Nat men have sent their daughters, sisters, and wives into sex trafficking. Baby girls are welcome arrivals in these towns of love -- everyone knows that one day, they will be the breadwinners. As a Nat, you are untouchable, despised by Indian society. How would anyone dare break free of this legacy of prostitution, when it also would mean being shunned by your entire family? Tamanna dares. As a nineteen-year-old, she breaks free and runs away. But it costs her dearly -- she is forced to leave her five-year-old daughter Rupa behind with Jabbar, in the house with the big gleaming knife. Eight years later, Tamanna knows that time is running out for Rupa. She demands help, both from the police and from the underfunded aid organisation Pukaar. And who could look a mother in the face and argue that saving her daughter isnt worth risking everything? With insight and brutal honesty, Anne Ch. Ostby paints a vivid picture of some of the worlds most vulnerable women and children. And the women of love do exist in India today, in the northern state of Bihar, where the author has travelled extensively and come to know them. Town of Love is a raw and gripping story that is guaranteed to leave you breathless. With a Preface by Ruchira Gupta, founder of the Indian NGO Apne Aap on which Pukaar is based.

Een Frans-Engelse terminaal zieke vrouw wordt in 1995 geconfronteerd met de pijnlijkste periode uit haar leven als een Duitse oorlogsmisdadiger asiel zoekt in een Engelse abdijkerk.

Als een psychiater na het verlies van zijn vrouw zijn praktijk hervat, krijgt hij via een student te maken met het dilemma tussen het doorvoelen en benoemen versus het verdoven van pijn.

A modern knight-errant, Fabian drives his VanHome--a stable for his two horses--through the American landscape, engaging in occasional games of a brutal form of polo, a one-to-one, life-threatening duel between two horsemen

Het huwelijk van een werkloze academicus bevindt zich in een wankel evenwicht van bedrog en liefde.

Tijdens de Watersnoodramp in 1953 raakt een ongehuwde moeder haar baby kwijt.

Een jonge vrouw probeert haar leven een andere wending te geven door af te rekenen met list, bedrog en ontrouw maar ontdekt dat het erg moeilijk is tot in laatste instantie eerlijk te blijven.

Een ongeneeslijk zieke vader en zijn volwassen zoon bezoeken een eiland.