Resultados para "Families" en Narrativa femenina

María es profesora universitaria en Castellón y una mujer independiente, libre, que se embarca en un viaje a Colombia tras recibir la llamada de su amiga de la infancia, Carmen, una monja oblata que trabaja en un centro en las afueras de Bogotá donde acogen a niños huérfanos o abandonados que han llegado allí tras vivir infancias muy duras. En su visita al centro María conecta de una manera muy intensa con Ava, una niñita que decide adoptar y con la que regresará a España.

Planeta Audio presenta "Historias de mujeres casadas. El pódcast", en el que Cristina Campos, la autora de "Historias de mujeres casadas", y la periodista Chiara Arroyo se unen para explorar la vida íntima de las mujeres a partir de los 40 años.

"Con esto y un bizcocho, hasta mañana a las ocho" es la frase que pronuncia el doctor Morales, el psicólogo al que acude Mariana Nogueira para combatir los fantasmas del pasado. A pesar de llevar una vida independiente y vivir en Madrid, la joven abogada acaba de regresar a casa de su familia tras sufrir un accidente de coche que le ha dejado graves secuelas en una pierna.

They're a glamorous family, the Caseys. Johnny Casey, his two brothers Ed and Liam, their beautiful, talented wives and all their kids spend a lot of time together - birthday parties, anniversary celebrations, weekends away. And they're a happy family. Johnny's wife, Jessie - who has the most money - insists on it. Under the surface, though, conditions are murkier. While some people clash, other people like each other far too much.... Everything stays under control until Ed's wife Cara, gets concussion and can't keep her thoughts to herself.

Violet Deveraux fue la chica más popular de Studio 54 en los años setenta. Fue la socialité favorita de Nueva York en los ochenta. Se convirtió en la escritora de culto del fin de milenio. Hoy, con sesenta años recién cumplidos, es ya un icono. Si alguien escribiera su biografía, hablaría de una sucesión de eventos glamurosos, bodas, escándalos, bancarrotas, divorcios y éxitos. Pero, en medio de todo ello, también tuvo tres hijas, aunque nadie se acuerde. En ocasiones, ni siquiera ella.

¿Qué no consigue el chocolate? En un invierno muy frío, entre la rutina y los cambios, la esperanza y el desencanto, el chocolate es refugio y alivio; a veces dulce, otras amargo, pero siempre intenso, cálido y oscuro. Adela, una reputada psicóloga, trata de sobrevivir al peso del recuerdo de su madre y sus propias obsesiones. Raquel, soltera y desempleada, busca encauzar el rumbo de su vida, pero ha perdido la dirección. Helia regresa a casa después de pasar una temporada en Londres con su novio.

Lisa Edwards, top London magazine editor, has been fantasizing about promotion to New York. Instead, she's asked to launch a new women's magazine in Dublin. She thinks nothing could be worse - until she meets her new staff. They're friendly, helpful, and enthusiastic - in other words, they wouldn't last two minutes in London!

Sicilia, prima metà del Settecento. Marianna Ucrìa, una bambina che appartiene a una nobile famiglia...

La vida, a menudo, se divierte y, escondido en una palabra, una sonrisa, un billete de metro o el pliegue de una cortina, nos entrega un diamante capaz de colmar todas nuestras expectativas. Para Joséphine el diamante podría ser la propuesta de su editor de que escriba una nueva novela, las llamadas de Philippe a las que no contesta o la incondicional amistad de su amiga Shirley. ¿Será Joséphine el diamante de Philippe? ¿Y cuál es el que persigue Shirley?

Le famiglie non sono mai quello che appaiono e Alma lo scopre tardi, dopo vent'anni di matrimonio con Albino e due figli, Alice e Achille. Pensava che bastasse essere una madre premurosa, una moglie attenta e devota per avere la vita che tutti le invidiano. Le era sempre sembrata una scelta naturale e scontata, che aveva visto fare a tutte le donne intorno a lei. Credeva si conquistasse così la felicità: mettendo al centro chi si ama.

One day, sitting in traffic, Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. But in this event is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar, wrenching her whole family apart. For the first time real, honest-to-goodness happiness is just within her reach. But is Stella Sweeney, Dublin housewife, ready to grasp it?

To the outside world, Electra D’Aplièse seems to be the woman with everything: as one of the world’s top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous. Yet beneath the veneer, Electra’s already tenuous control over her state of mind has been rocked by the death of her father, Pa Salt, the elusive billionaire who adopted his six daughters from across the globe. Struggling to cope, she turns to alcohol and drugs. As those around her fear for her health, Electra receives a letter from a complete stranger who claims to be her grandmother.

The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the everyday - school-age crushes, paying bills, the sickness of parents - with the surreal-rivers of thighs, men for sale, and fields of throats - Cassie's realities alternate to create a blurred, fantastic world of haunting beauty.

An achingly beautiful work of historical fiction, Send for Me moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present-day Wisconsin, unspooling a thread of love, longing, and the powerful bonds of family.

Marnie MacGraw wants an ordinary life - a husband, kids, and a minivan in the suburbs. Now that she’s marrying the man of her dreams, she’s sure this is the life she’ll get. Then Marnie meets Blix Holliday, her fiancé’s irascible matchmaking great-aunt who’s dying, and everything changes - just as Blix told her it would. When her marriage ends after two miserable weeks, Marnie is understandably shocked.

"La storia di un grande amore e di un delitto": così l'autrice stessa definì "Dalla parte di lei". Narratrice e protagonista è Alessandra Corteggiani che in questo lungo memoriale rievoca le proprie vicende familiari e personali per raccontare - rigorosamente "dalla parte di lei" - la storia italiana degli anni a cavallo tra fascismo, resistenza e ricostruzione. Spicca in particolare il personaggio della madre, suicida per amore, di cui la figlia rifiuta di ripetere il destino.

Che cosa è accaduto ad Amalia? Chi c'era con lei la notte in cui è morta? È stata davvero la donna ambigua e incontentabile che sua figlia si è sempre immaginata? L'indagine di Delia si snoda in una Napoli plumbea che non dà tregua, trasformando una vicenda di quotidiani strazi familiari in un thriller domestico che mozza il respiro.

Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.

Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death - and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father.

After discovering her mother’s secret life, Cara doesn’t have much faith in marriage. So when the love of her life, Simeon, proposes, she struggles to say "I do." She adores him, but why risk the perfect relationship by signing on a dotted line that could ruin everything? If her parents’ marriage taught her anything, it was that a gold ring doesn’t equal happiness, and she has no desire to follow in their dysfunctional footsteps.