Showing results for "Animals" in Women's Fiction

Laura and Tyler are best friends who live together, angrily philosophising and leading each other astray in the pubs and flats of Manchester. But things are set to change. Laura is engaged to teetotal Jim, the wedding is just months away, and Tyler becomes hell-bent on sabotaging her friend's plans for a different life.

From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon Three Women, comes an “intoxicating” (Entertainment Weekly), “fearless” (Los Angeles Times), and “explosive” (People) novel about “what happens when women are pushed beyond the brink, and what comes after the...

When an ex-catholic woman develops a sexual relationship with a vampire, she is forced to confront the memories that haunt her religious past. Struggling to deal with the familial trauma of her Catholic upbringing, hotel cleaner, Noelle, travels to the Isle of Bute. There, she meets a man who claims to be a vampire, and a relationship blooms between them based solely on confession.

‘Ella Baxter’s debut novel is drenched in sex and death . . . there’s also much love . . . An intense, viscerally affecting book, with the quotient of tenderness to violence in an equal scale.’ - Sydney Morning Herald Amelia is no stranger to sex and death. Her job in her family’s...

Centered in Rome but transporting us into worlds as varied and alluring as they are emotionally real, Francesca Marciano’s stories paint landscapes that are populated—vividly, hauntingly—by animals: from violent seagulls and starlings circling the evening sky in exhilarating formation to...

Bloomsbury presents Falling Animals by Sheila Armstrong, read by Aoife McMahon. *A BBC 2 BETWEEN THE COVERS BOOK CLUB PICK* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024* ‘Vivid, sensuous ... A subtle tale of loss, loneliness and disconnection’ PAUL LYNCH, IRISH INDEPENDENT ‘Lush, lyrical...

In the next nature-filled romance by Birding with Benefits author Sarah T. Dubb, a journalist shadows a prickly wildlife rehabilitator as they gain the trust of a wary hawk, all while trying—and failing—to keep things professional. Katrina Harrison isn’t a people person. After a lifetime...

Three women. One dog park. Things are about to get messy. Val Caruso, Alex Reed, and June Kennerson come from completely different worlds—Val is a tough-talking private investigator; Alex is reticent, nervous and on the run from her past; and June is an athlete turned housewife whose true love...

An NPR Books We Love 2025 One of Brooklyn Public Library’s Books We Love 2025 The world has stopped. But Rachel is just getting started… It’s spring of 2020 and Rachel Bloomstein—mother of three, recent divorcée, and Brooklynite—is stuck inside. But her newly awakened sexual desire...

Die Liebe in den letzten Tagen des Patriarchats - der neue Roman der Nr.-1-Bestsellerautorin von "Three Women - Drei Frauen". Viel zu lange hat Joan die Grausamkeiten von Männern ertragen. Den einen liebt sie, doch er bleibt kalt. Und der, der sie liebt, gibt sich eines Tages vor ihren Augen die Kugel. Joan flieht aus New York nach Los Angeles und sucht die einzige Frau, die ihr helfen kann, ihre Vergangenheit zu überwinden und eine andere zu werden: ihre Halbschwester Alice.

Brought to you by Penguin. With the Great War raging and Christmas on the horizon, can one woman’s bravery save the day? East London, 1916: The Sanctuary Lane Animal Hospital is proving a huge success. For its founder Ruby Archer, this is a dream come true – and her blossoming romance with a...

In this unforgettable debut, a moment of metaphysical transformation launches a woman’s beautiful and terrifying journey through her twenties, through loneliness and complicated love that takes her from the depths of the Pacific Ocean to the plains of Texas A Real Animal follows Lucy through...

Named a most anticipated novel by Oprah Daily, Vogue, Parade, The Millions, and Electric Lit A Reader’s Digest Quarantine Book Club Pick Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize A “rugged and ravishing” (Oprah Daily) debut novel of desire, betrayal, and loss...

Il romanzo vincitore del Premio Calvino all'unanimità. Il difficile percorso di emancipazione, lavorativa ed esistenziale, di una giovane donna alla ricerca di sé stessa. Fuggita da un malinconico paese e dal controllo asfittico della madre, Rosita cerca di costruirsi una propria indipendenza a Padova. Le cose non vanno come spera e si ritrova così schiacciata tra un lavoro poco gratificante e una relazione con un uomo sposato.

“In villages where women bore most of the weight of a constricted life, witches flew by night on broomsticks,” said Italo Calvino of the way imagination bridges the gap between everyday existence and an idealized alternative. The 15 stories of Animal Wife are each about girls and women who cross this threshold seeking liberation from family responsibilities, from societal expectations, from their own minds.

From the winner of the 2016 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction comes a “heartwarming and sharp-witted debut” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) set over one emotionally charged weekend at an animal sanctuary in western Kansas, where maternal, romantic, and community bonds are...