- Location(s): Austin, Texas
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): currentt
“A book that is at once riveting and relevant as it unpeels the various meanings of motherhood, family, and loyalty. I tore through it.”–Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper Palace The bonds between three picture-perfect–but viciously protective–mothers and...
- Location(s): Chicago, Paris
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1990s looking back to 1920s
‘Soulfulness and emotional insight meet laugh-out-loud humour’ PAULA McLAIN, author of The Paris Wife Chicago, 1999. Madeleine is trapped – by her family’s expectations, by her controlling husband – in an unhappy marriage and a life she never wanted....
- Location(s): Florida
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): The near future
Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state’s infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast. Kirby Lowe, an electrical line worker, his pregnant wife,...
The Light That Bends Round Corners
- Location(s): Kuala Lumpur
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Laura, a successful fashion journalist based in London, finds herself uprooted from the world she knows and loves after she moves with her husband and two small children to a dilapidated bungalow in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Behind the house...










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