Resultados para "MEMO" en Narrativa femenina

Winner of the Readings New Australian Fiction Prize 2024 Mary Anne is haunted by the death of her sister and worn down by depression. She's not a good wife and she's not a good mother. Then, one morning, she wakes to find her life completely unfamiliar to her, and she leaves her family to become...

Jenny Green is dreading her Class of 2007 reunion. While her friends are killing it, Jenny's promising career as an artisanal baker went up in flames (literally) and her deadbeat, commitment-phobe boyfriend is cheating on her with their swishy-ponytailed neighbour. She feels like she didn't get the memo... As it turns out, she didn't. Begrudgingly back at university, she receives a text from an unlisted number: Jenny Green - please collect your memo. Hidden on her old campus is a secret female-led organisation providing memos to select students; blueprints for success.

""The perfect summer read: a novel both quick and funny."" —Airmail “A total joyride of a novel. The Memo is a funny, fascinating exploration of love, friendship, ambition and what it truly means to live a good life. I loved it.”—J. Courtney Sullivan, New York Times bestselling author of...

L’adolescence n’est facile pour personne. On se cherche une identité à travers les nouvelles expériences, les jobines et les premières amours. Mais Mariana a un avantage sur les autres, elle sait déjà quoi faire de sa vie : si elle ne meurt pas – d’ennui dans un trop long trajet d’autobus ou d’un coup de couteau dans une bagarre –, avec son talent naturel, elle sera joueuse de soccer professionnelle! Rivière-des-Prairies, c’est l’intensité de l’adolescence combinée à celle de Mariana. Tenez-vous bien : ça va chauffer.

A beautiful and brilliant portrait of two generations of women. Set in India’s railway colonies, this is the story of Kamini and her mother Saroja, nicknamed Tamarind Mem due to her sour tongue. While in Canada beginning her graduate studies, Kamini receives a postcard from her mother saying...

When your husband cheats, there’s only one rule worth following… Julia Bennett’s husband of twenty-five years is having an affair. Her immediate reaction is to hate the idea of being a betrayed cliché and her second is to scream, “I JUST WANT MY LIFE BACK!”

'One of the significant writers of her generation.' Saul Bellow 'Her prose is cooler than a cocktail and sharper than a Japanese knife . . . Nora Ephron meets Lorrie Moore, which is about as good as it gets.' Observer 'We should be glad to have her back . . . Howland has the pinpoint vision that...

Are you willing to pay any price if it means reaching your dreams? In the heart of Benin City's impoverished streets, sixteen-year-old Esosa clings to a dream that shines brighter than her bleak reality. Despite her humble upbringing, she's drawn to the glamour of wealth and fame, a path that seems within reach when she's offered a modeling career in Europe. For Esosa, this is the miracle she's always yearned for, a way to escape poverty and secure a future for her struggling family. But behind the promise of a better life lurks a darkness she never anticipated.

This audiobook features original music and performances by Joshua Grange with backing vocals from Eric Blanchard and Eric Dion. Perfect for fans of Daisy Jones & The Six and Almost Famous, a gripping debut about the complicated legacy of a legendary rock band and the ghostwriter telling their...

From the bestselling author of The Land Girls comes a beautifully realised novel that speaks to the true history and real experiences of post-war Australian women. Sydney 1945 The war is over, the fight begins. The war is over and so are the jobs (and freedoms) of tens of thousands of Australian...

Present day For the last twenty years, Summer has lived a solitary life, focusing on her career as a vet and trying not to think of the past. Every year she escapes for a few weeks to beautiful Greek islands, losing herself in photography and wreck diving. When the junk room of her clifftop...