"How history's greatest artists failed, floundered and made something brilliant anyway." The notion that famous artists were destined for greatness, somehow chosen or fated, and they they lead charmed lives is put under the microscope in this book. What the author explores is a less dramatic and more realistic truth: often artists are famous because …
Claire Hopper is a normal teenage girl, studying for exams and hanging out with her best friend Evie, and living in the cozy Glenridge, Connecticut. But Claire has a secret: she used to be a child star on a TV sitcom in LA, before her father embezzled all her money and the abusive producer ruined …
After growing up with her dysfunctional parents, Ophelia vowed she would never get married and end up miserable like them, but when her mother develops dementia, she starts to feel like dying alone isn't such a good option. Then she meets Luke, a handsome man her mother would approve of, so she quickly agrees to …
When Guinevere is promoting her new memoir about her mother, Edith Sharpe, who wrote a huge bestseller book series called the Ninth City, she finds out her estranged brother Ennis, a controversial artist, has a new exhibition coming up called Mother. Their mother's books were about two children that were based on them, making them …
1950's Massachusetts: two very different young women attend Radcliffe College. Ava has grown up shut away from other people on an apple orchard, with her religious and controlling parents who don't want her to know her true self. And Lauren comes from a wealthy family and from a long line of wild women, but after …
The story of a boy whose mother is an actress trying to make a comeback, after a series of crappy relationships and her most famous films are starting to fade into history. In the past, she's shunted her son off to his Grandparents in Ohio to be raised when things get difficult, so he really …
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When orphaned Claire's fiance dies of a strange neurological disease, she thinks the happiness and belonging in she finally had in her life is over forever, but then Elias wealthy family invites her for three days to Harrow Point, their private island, for his funeral. Hoping to find the family she so desperately craves, Claire …
Back in 1943, scientists started to receive a mysterious transmission. The created WOT, a small robot, to house this alien communication, and this book houses a collection of documents and case notes of what they learned about this intelligence, as it wanders through our world, noticing the small details of life and sometimes day dreaming! …
Translated by Laurel Taylor. Yuko is an ordinary, happy little girl, though she was raised in an unusual way, with a succession of foster parents, all of whom loved her very much. The book follows a year in her life, as she reaches her last year of high school, and faces moving out into the …
Translated from the French by Hildegard Serle (who also translated other books by this author and Mona's Eyes) Agnes, a filmmaker in France, gets a call one day that her beloved Aunt Colette has died, which is impossible because Agnes attended her Aunt's funeral three years before. She returns to the French provinces where she …
