Resultados para "Miss Jane" en Narrativa femenina

A daring re-imagining of an Austen classic from the unflinching viewpoint of the misunderstood Miss Bates. Henrietta Bates, the iconic bore of Austen’s Emma, is the opposite of handsome, clever, and rich Emma: she is plain, ill-educated, and impoverished. An unmarried woman of quite a...

Drawing on the story of his own great-aunt, Watson explores the life of Miss Jane Chisolm, born in rural, early-20th-century Mississippi with a genital birth defect that would stand in the way of the central "uses" for a woman in that time and place: sex and marriage. From the highly erotic world of nature around her to the hard tactile labor of farm life, from the country doctor who befriends her to the boy who loved but was forced to leave her, Miss Jane Chisolm and her world are anything but barren.

After becoming trapped in present-day Bath due to a mishap with her time-traveling charm, Jane Austen is safe and sound back in the 1800s thanks to Rose Wallace’s help. Now, Rose is ready to focus on her fledgling romance with dreamy Dr. Aiden Trevellyan. But when Jane reappears in the present, it looks like Rose and Aiden have no choice but to follow her back to 1813.... 

Rose Wallace’s world revolves around all things Jane Austen, and with the annual festival in Bath - and the arrival of dishy archaeologist Dr. Aiden Trevellyan - just around the corner, all is well with the world. But then a mysterious woman who bears more than a passing resemblance to the great author moves in upstairs, and things take a disastrous turn. Rose’s new neighbour is none other than Jane Austen herself, now trapped in the 21st century after her time-travel adventure was sabotaged by a mischievous dog. Rose’s life is instantly changed.

With her husband busy on an archaeological dig, Agatha invites her friend, Mary Westmacott to accompany her on a luxury cruise. But, upon boarding the Ocean Princess, Agatha and Mary find certain behaviours slightly odd. Why is Captain Harkness so unusually attentive? And why are they invited to the Captain’s Table, along with three bright young things, who seem to be involved in a rather scandalous love triangle?

Als Simons Ehe in Scherben liegt, flüchtet der Architekt zu seiner Oma Frida ins idyllische Hareby an der dänischen Küste. Nirgends fühlt er sich so geborgen wie in dem gemütlichen Reetdachhaus, das schon morgens nach Zimtschnecken duftet. Doch alles ist anders als früher, denn dort lebt nun auch Fridas jüngere Mitbewohnerin.

Everybody believes that Charlotte Lucas has no prospects. She is unmarried, plain, poor and reaching a dangerous age. When she stuns the neighbourhood by accepting the proposal of buffoonish clergyman Mr Collins, her best friend Lizzy Bennet is appalled by her decision. Yet this is the only way...

A missing maid. A murder most foul. A highly imprudent adventure. ‘Wonderful scene setting and addictively pacey, this book will delight Jane Austen and Agatha Christie fans alike’ Fliss Chester 'Intriguing, sharply funny, and a beautifully written mystery. I laughed out loud as I read –...

Brought to you by Penguin. It is a truth universally acknowledged, that every good mystery is in need of a brilliant sleuth... Welcome to Hampshire, 1795, where a young Jane Austen has her sights set on securing a marriage proposal from the dashing Tom Lefroy at a local ball. But when a shocking...

"Once upon a time there lived a version of me, eager to be your martyr, waiting for my turn to die on an alter for you." Für Kate beginnt der Ernst des Lebens – wie aufregend! Endlich ist sie dieser Hölle an Schule und ihrem Mobber Damien entkommen. Nun kann sie ihr Leben komponieren, wie es ihr gefällt. Leider hat das Leben nicht so richtig Bock auf sie. Keine WG scheint die passende für Kate zu sein, dabei steht das Studium schon in den Startlöchern. Nach siebzehn Fehlversuchen sieht Kate nur noch schwarz, bis ihre erste große Liebe ihr plötzlich die Tür von Wohnung Nummer Achtzehn öffnet.

'One of those delicious books you just can't put down. Utter PERFECTION!' Marian Keyes Selected for the Radio 2 summer book club. A funny, feminist and all-too-relatable novel about our obsession with coupling up, settling down and the battle we all have with accepting ourselves, The Shelf...

This audio edition features original music composed and recorded for the audiobook. How does a family pick up the pieces, when the one person who held them all together has gone? When forty-year-old Rabbit Hayes dies, she leaves behind a family broken by grief. Her mother Molly is distraught and...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Ivy and Abe by Elizabeth Enfield, read by Cassidy Janson. Meet Ivy and Abe. Childhood friends in the 1960s, Ivy and Abe were inseparable until a chance event tore them apart. Now in their early seventies, fate once again brings them together - both...