Douglas Kennedy Libri

Ben ha tutto dalla vita: due figli, una bella moglie ed è un avvocato di grido a New York. Eppure non è felice, perché da sempre il suo sogno è di dedicarsi alla fotografia. Un sogno che assume contorni beffardi quando scopre che la consorte lo tradisce... proprio con un fotografo. Disperato, lo affronta in un drammatico confronto, uccidendolo. Nei terribili momenti che seguono, Ben si rende conto che la sua vita è distrutta. Gli resta solo una via d'uscita. Ma è di quelle che non consentono di tornare indietro.

Sally Goochild, trentasette anni, affermata giornalista, è una donna tenace e sicura di ciò che vuole, almeno fino a quando la sua strada non si incrocia con quella del cronista Tony Hobbs inviato come lei in Somalia per un reportage. Nel giro di alcune settimane i piani a lungo termine di Sally vengono stravolti: abbandona il lavoro di corrispondente, si sposa, si trasferisce a Londra e scopre di aspettare un bambino. La vita, però, non è tutta rose e fiori.

Contents: -- Paradise house / Erica James -- A special relationship / Douglas Kennedy -- The children's hour / Marcia Willett.

On the face of it, Ben Bradford is a standard Wall Street hotshot - six-figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting: Ben hates it. Whe he realizes that the state of his marriage has less to do with baby-induced sleeplessness and more to do with a wife who's playing outside the ground, a moment of madness provides Ben with the opportunity to redesign his life. But as the roller-coaster trajectory of his new existence takes hold, he begins to question the price of fulfilment. Because finding yourself means nothing when you're pretending to be someone else.

Manhattan, Thanksgiving Eve 1945. War is over and Eric Smythe's party is swinging. Everyone is there, including his sister Sara. Then in walks the gatecrasher - Jack Malone, an army journalist fresh from a defeated Germany. This chance meeting between Sara and Jack will have profound consequences

This collection of essays is concerned with fatherhood. It includes disparate viewpoints—funny, poignant, and philisophical, and reflects on the first inklings of male broodiness, the nine months of pregnancy, and the moment of birth and beyond.

'Accomplished...a strangely mesmerising effect...absolutely excellent'New StatesmanNew York, 1980sAlice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life.

Before Isabelle I knew nothing of sex. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of freedom. Before Isabelle I knew nothing of life. Paris in the early Seventies. Sam, an American student, meets a woman in a bookshop. Isabelle is enigmatic, beautiful, older and, unlike Sam, experienced in love's many contradictions. Sam is instantly smitten but wary of the wedding ring on her finger. What begins as a regular arrangement in Isabelle's tiny Parisian apartment transforms into a true affair of the heart, and one which lasts for decades to come. Isabelle in the Afternoon is a novel that questions what we seek, what we find, what we settle for and shows how love, when not lived day in, day out, can become the passion of a lifetime.

Thomas Nesbitt lives a very private life in Maine, where he is still trying to reconcile himself to the fact that his long marriage has ended. But when a package arrives on his doorstep one morning, he is forced to confront a past he has never discussed with any living person.

America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.