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.

"Every writer, unpublished to bestselling, faces rejection from literary agents, editors, publishers, critics, even loved ones. In this collection of lively conversations, twenty-three successful authors talk about these experiences. Rich with personal anecdotes and stories of the publishing world, these interviews journey through the thorny thickets of rejection, criticism, and frustration and into the heart of the creative process itself. From those who know best, here are insight, inspiration, and strategies that work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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.

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Examines the works of three Victorian writers, looks at the ways they subverted and affirmed their society, and discusses women's higher education in nineteenth century England

A series of short stories features such offbeat characters as a doctor-detective-warrior who sleeps like a hippo in a cistern and a homicidal maniac housewife whose husband ends up in the hospital with a stomach full of needles.

At the beginning of the 20th century, Virginia Woolf reacted against literary tradition, sought a new definition of fiction, applied her modern, post-Freudian outlook and radically feminist ideas to the problem of writing novels and, in so doing, helped re-define our concept of this literary form.