Harry Silver er skilt og bor med sin nye kone og hendes datter af et tidligere ægteskab. Harrys søn bor hos sin mor som også er gift igen. Harry har svært ved at få det familieliv, han havde ønsket sig Titel: Man and wife Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: roman_samtid Sammendrag: Harry Silver forsøger at jonglere alle sine forpligtelser: over for sin nuværende kone og hendes datter, sin ekskone, søn og stedbarn, sin mor, sit arbejde og sin kones karriere. Hans drøm om et enkelt og harmonisk familieliv kolliderer med virkelighedens sammensatte patchworkfamilie, hvor loyalitet og kærlighed hele tiden skal fordeles mellem flere hjem. Da en ny kvinde dukker op, bliver Harry tvunget til at konfrontere, hvorfor vi gifter os, hvorfor vi bliver, og hvorfor vi går. Romanen skildrer med humor og alvor moderne parforhold, skilsmisse, deleforældre, faderskab og følelsesmæssigt ansvar og fortsætter historien
Harry Silver har alt, en smuk hustru, et godt job og en vidunderlig søn, men en dag mister han selvforskyldt alt Titel: Man and boy Udgave: 1. udgave Genre: roman_samtid Sammendrag: Harry Silver har alt: en smuk hustru, et godt job i medierne og en vidunderlig lille søn. På sin 30-års fødselsdag begår han en affære, som får hans ægteskab til at falde fra hinanden. Kort efter står han alene med ansvaret for sin fireårige søn og må samtidig håndtere et tabt job, nye forhold og en far, der selv kæmper med alvorlig sygdom. Romanen følger Harrys forsøg på at blive en nærværende og kærlig far, mens han langsomt bygger et nyt liv op og finder ud af, hvad der virkelig betyder noget. Type: Paperback
The Worldwide, Mega-Selling Author Of Man And Boy Is Back With A Sizzling, Shanghai Tale Of Sex, Romance And Second Wives. Hotshot 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 Jinji
Now a major motion picture starring Glenn Close in her Golden Globe–winning role! One of bestselling author Meg Wolitzer’s most beloved books—an “acerbically funny” (Entertainment Weekly) and “intelligent…portrait of deception” (The New York Times). The Wife is the story of the long and stormy marriage between a world-famous novelist, Joe Castleman, and his wife Joan, and the secret they’ve kept for decades. The novel opens just as Joe is about to receive a prestigious international award, The Helsinki Prize, to honor his career as one of America’s preeminent novelists. Joan, who has spent forty years subjugating her own literary talents to fan the flames of his career, finally decides to stop. Important and ambitious, The Wife is a sharp-eyed and compulsively readable story about a woman forced to confront the sacrifices she’s made in order to achieve the life she thought she wanted. “A
Robert Beckwith lever i et lykkeligt og harmonisk ægteskab med Sheila og deres to døtre, Paula og Jessica, på 9 og 12 år. Indtil en dag det franske konsulat meddeler, at den franske læge Nicole Guérin er død ved en ulykke, og at Robert er far til hendes 9-årige søn, Jean-Claude – frugten af en kort kærlighedsaffære i Frankrig. Nyheden kommer som et chok for både Robert og Sheila. Med et slag er alt ændret, deres ægteskab er truet, og intet er, hvad efter har været før. Og problemet med, hvad der skal ske med drengen, vender op og ned på familiens tilværelse. Og midt i følelsernes kaos står drengen med sin stumme bøn: lad mig ikke alene. Type: Paperback
Will Jackson is a desperate man - desperate to be a dad, that is. Tired of his laddish lifestyle, he's redecorated the spare room, traded in his beloved sports car for a 4x4, and even drawn up a list of his favourite baby names. In fact, there's only one thing left he's got to do - find a female who'll have his child. But where on earth is he going to find a woman who meets his exacting standards? Certainly not in the usual bars and clubs he frequents. But Will has a plan - you can find everything else on the Internet these days, why not someone to start a family with? From Friends Reunited, through the weird world of online dating, even to auctioning his 'service' on eBay, Will's journey to paternity is a hilarious romp through the pitfalls of procreation. But when push comes to shove, is Will prepared to trade passion for Pampers? What do men really look for when it comes to starting a
4 kvinder - 4 hemmeligheder, 1 politiker - 1 giftemål. Da den irske politiker Paddy de Courcy skal giftes, har det særlig betydning for 4 kvinder, som han har været i berøring med i gennem tiden. Langsomt afsløres, hvorfor og hvordan han er blevet den, han er Forfatter: Marian Keyes Forlag: Penguin Udgivelsesår: 2009 Sider: 884 Sprog: Engelsk
From their first meeting at the student union over a decade ago, Jim and Alison successfully navigated their way through first dates, meeting parents, moving in together and more... Then they split up and divided their worldly goods (including a sofa, a cat and their flat) into his 'n' hers. Now, three years on and with new lives and new loves, they couldn't be happier. Until a chance encounter throws them back together, and causes them to embark on a journey through their past to ask themselves the big question: where did it all go wrong, and is it too late to put it all right? Type: Paperback
