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Product: The Bottom of the Sky
Description: The Bottom of the Sky is an aching rags-to-riches family saga that surges from rural squalor into the opulent power chambers of Wall Street and Silicon Valley. The story contrasts the 30-year struggles of an abused sister and brother who seek to reclaim themselves from their abhorrent past. One remains at home, trapped by desecration and addiction. The other escapes and uses uncanny genius and unrelenting ambition to amass staggering wealth.

Greed and betrayal power a tense plot involving the FBI, the SEC, and billions of dollars fleeced from brokerage customers and shareholders, while isolation and envy lead to deadly confrontations back home. It is a riveting tale of two disparate worlds joined by one desperate man and his ultimate redemption.

This poignant family journey watches dispossessed children become women and men, rising and buckling from their condemnable legacy, craving what they cannot have, loving who they must, hating what they cannot reconcile. The novel deals head on with childhood shame, promiscuity, prejudice and Wall Street’s rape of Main Street. It is a tale of genius, madness, and violence; one of extraordinary sacrifice and discovery. It is a journey of hidden destiny.

The Bottom of the Sky is a debut novel and contender for the 2010 Pulitzer Prize, written by a native Montanan and former senior executive of a Wall Street giant. It is taut and heart-wrenching…and sometimes funny. It is tender and raw and surprising until the shocking end.
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Product: Judith und Hamnet: Roman | Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 | British Book Award 2021 (German Edition)
Description: Über ein halbes Jahr in den Top 10 der Sunday Times
Einer der fünf besten Romane des Jahres der New York Times
»Maggie O’Farrell erzählt eine der spannendsten Geschichten überhaupt: die Geschichte, wie aus Leben Literatur wird. Magisch!« Denis Scheck
Agnes sieht ihn und weiß: Das wird er sein. Dabei ist der schmächtige Lateinlehrer aus Stratford-upon-Avon noch nicht einmal achtzehn. Egal, besser, sie küsst ihn schnell. Besser, sie erwartet ein Kind, bevor ihr einer die Heirat verbieten kann. Vierzehn Jahre später sind es drei Kinder geworden. Doch wie sollen sie auskommen, solange ihr Mann wer weiß was mit diesen Theaterstücken treibt? Er ist in London, als der elfjährige Hamnet die Beulen am Hals seiner Zwillingsschwester Judith ertastet. Als Agnes im Blick ihres Sohnes den Schwarzen Tod erkennt.
Maggie O’Farrell entdeckt den bedeutendsten aller Dramatiker neu, als Liebenden und als Vater. Vor allem aber erzählt sie zum ersten Mal die unvergessliche Geschichte seiner eigensinnigen, zärtlich kühnen Frau: Agnes.
»Judith und Hamnet verknüpft auf grandiose Weise Liebe und Tod, untröstliche Trauer und Hoffnung, Hamnets einsames Sterben und sein Fortleben im Werk des abwesenden Vaters.« Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
»Maggie O’Farrell ist eine absolute Ausnahmeerscheinung. Offenbar kann sie beim Schreiben so ziemlich alles tun, was sie will.« The Guardian
»Judith und Hamnet ist ein brillanter Roman.« Süddeutsche Zeitung
»O’Farrells Geniestreich besteht darin, die Spärlichkeit der Informationen über Shakespeares Privatleben als literarische Chance zu begreifen – und in der Verbindung, die sie zwischen seinem toten Sohn und seinem großartigsten Stück herstellt.« The New York Times
»Was Maggie O’Farrells Schaffen auf eine andere Stufe hebt, sind ihre scharfsinnige Beobachtungsgabe und ihre Figuren, so herzzerreißend lebendig, dass man sie manchmal direkt in den Arm nehmen will.« The Sunday Times
»Es gibt Bücher, die stoßen eine Tür auf und schubsen einen hinein in ein Jetzt, das so nah, so absolut erscheint wie der eigene Herzschlag. Jede Zeile hat bei Maggie O’Farrell etwas Pulsierendes, und zugleich spürt man in jedem Moment, wie fragil der Lebensstrom ist und dass jede Fülle plötzlich vorbei sein kann.« Brigitte
»Maggie O’Farrell gelingt es meisterlich, sich in die Gefühle von Agnes, einer Frau, die im 16. Jahrhundert lebte, hineinzuversetzen.« Deutschlandfunk
»Eine zu Tränen rührende und doch tröstliche Geschichte über Liebe und Tod in Pandemie-Zeiten.« MDR Kultur
»Ein Buch wie ein schimmerndes Wunder.« David Mitchell
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Product: Hamnet
Description: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare’s life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you." —The Boston Globe
In 1580’s England, during the Black Plague a young Latin tutor falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman in this “exceptional historical novel” (The New Yorker) and best-selling winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family’s land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding plants and potions better than she does people. Once she settles with her husband on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon she becomes a fiercely protective mother and a steadfast, centrifugal force in the life of her young husband, whose career on the London stage is taking off when his beloved young son succumbs to sudden fever.
A luminous portrait of a marriage, a shattering evocation of a family ravaged by grief and loss, and a tender and unforgettable re-imagining of a boy whose life has been all but forgotten, and whose name was given to one of the most celebrated plays of all time, Hamnet is mesmerizing, seductive, impossible to put down—a magnificent leap forward from one of our most gifted novelists.
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Product: The Jane Austen Society: A Novel
Description: * INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER *
"This novel delivers sweet, smart escapism." —People
"Fans of The Chilbury Ladies’ Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society… A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris
Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people band together to attempt something remarkable.
One hundred and fifty years ago, Chawton was the final home of Jane Austen, one of England's finest novelists. Now it's home to a few distant relatives and their diminishing estate. With the last bit of Austen's legacy threatened, a group of disparate individuals come together to preserve both Jane Austen's home and her legacy. These people—a laborer, a young widow, the local doctor, and a movie star, among others—could not be more different and yet they are united in their love for the works and words of Austen. As each of them endures their own quiet struggle with loss and trauma, some from the recent war, others from more distant tragedies, they rally together to create the Jane Austen Society.
A powerful and moving novel that explores the tragedies and triumphs of life, both large and small, and the universal humanity in us all, Natalie Jenner's The Jane Austen Society is destined to resonate with readers for years to come.
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Product: The Second Mrs Thistlewood
Description: In Regency England, it takes courage to end a marriage.

Arthur Thistlewood is fighting for a revolution. Susan Thistlewood is fighting for freedom. From Arthur.

Unloved and mistreated by her militant husband, Susan finds comfort in food and books. As Arthur’s legal property, leaving the marriage seems an impossible dream — until a chance encounter with a charismatic Bow Street Runner. In the sanctuary of an inconspicuous London bookshop, the Runner’s easy manner and unexpected generosity compel Susan to pursue a life without her husband. But will the Bow Street officer provide a key to Susan’s freedom? Or will he place her in the greatest danger of all?

Inspired by true events from the Cato Street Conspiracy of 1820, this is a tale of courage, determination and love.
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Product: The Painter's Apprentice: A Novel of 16th-Century Venice (Venetian Artisans Book 1)
Description: Would you rather sacrifice your livelihood, your lover, or your life?

When the Black Death comes knocking on your door, you'd better decide quickly.

2018 WRITER'S DIGEST SELF-PUBLISHED BOOK AWARD, HONORABLE MENTION

ERIC HOFFER GRAND PRIZE FINALIST

EDITOR'S CHOICE, HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

Venice, 1510. Maria Bartolini wants nothing more than to carry on her father’s legacy as a master gilder. Instead, her father has sent her away from the only home she’s ever known to train as an apprentice to Master Trevisan, a renowned painter.

Maria arranges to leave the painter’s workshop to return to her family workshop and to a secret lover waiting for her back home. But the encroaching Black Death foils her plans…

When the painter’s servants uncover the real reason why Maria has been sent away to train with Master Trevisan, they threaten to reveal a secret that could tear down her family and the future of their trade. She is forced to buy the servants’ silence, but as their greed steadily grows, Maria resorts to more desperate measures.

She questions whether her heart’s desire is worth risking her family, her trade, and her future, but Maria’s sacrifices may amount to nothing if the plague arrives on her father’s doorstep and steals away everything she’s ever loved…

From the author of the award-winning The Gondola Maker comes a rich tale of Renaissance Venice, a heroine with a lust for life, and love against all odds.

Buy The Painter’s Apprentice today to transport yourself to the vibrant and dangerous world of 16th-century Venice…
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Product: I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death
Description: On seventeen occasions, award-winning novelist Maggie O’Farrell has stared death in the face—and lived to tell the tale. In this astonishing memoir, the New York Times bestselling author of Hamnet shares the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life.
The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life’s myriad dangers.
Here, O’Farrell stiches together these discrete encounters to tell the story of her entire life. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, she captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
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Product: Instructions for a Heatwave: A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
Description: An unforgettable narrative of a family falling apart and coming together with hard-won, life-changing truths about who they really are. From the New York Times bestselling author of Hamnet.
“Strange weather brings out strange behavior.” London, 1976. In the thick of a record-breaking heatwave, Gretta Riordan’s newly retired husband has cleaned out his bank account and vanished. Now, for the first time in years, Gretta calls her children home: Michael Francis, a history teacher whose marriage is failing; Monica, whose blighted past has driven a wedge between her and her younger sister; and Aoife, the youngest, whose new life in Manhattan is elaborately arranged to conceal a devastating secret.
In a story that stretches from the Upper West Side to a village on the coast of Ireland, Maggie O’Farrell explores the mysteries that inhere within families, and reveals the fault lines over which we build our lives.
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Product: Queenie By Candice Carty-Williams & Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell 2 Books Collection Set
Description: Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:
Queenie By Candice Carty-Williams & Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell 2 Books Collection Set:
Queenie:
Queenie is a twenty-five-year-old Black woman living in south London, straddling Jamaican and British culture whilst slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper where she's constantly forced to compare herself to her white, middle-class peers, and beg to write about Black Lives Matter. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie finds herself seeking comfort in all the wrong places. As Queenie veers from one regrettable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be? - the questions that every woman today must face in a world that keeps trying to provide the answers for them.
Hamnet:
TWO EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE. A LOVE THAT DRAWS THEM TOGETHER. A LOSS THAT THREATENS TO TEAR THEM APART.On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs. Their father is working in London. Neither parent knows that one of the children will not survive the week.
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Product: The Hand That First Held Mine
Description: Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself.

Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. She creates many lives--all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own.

Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood. She doesn't recognize herself: she finds herself walking outside with no shoes; she goes to the restaurant for lunch at nine in the morning; she can't recall the small matter of giving birth. But for her boyfriend, Ted, fatherhood is calling up lost memories, with images he cannot place.

As Ted's memories become more disconcerting and more frequent, it seems that something might connect these two stories-- these two women-- something that becomes all the more heartbreaking and beautiful as they all hurtle toward its revelation.

Here Maggie O'Farrell brings us a spellbinding novel of two women connected across fifty years by art, love, betrayals, secrets, and motherhood. Like her acclaimed The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, it is a "breathtaking, heart-breaking creation."* And it is a gorgeous inquiry into the ways we make and unmake our lives, who we know ourselves to be, and how even our most accidental legacies connect us.

*The Washington Post Book World
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Product: This Must Be the Place (Vintage Contemporaries)
Brand: Vintage
Color: Sky/Pale blue
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Product: Woman in White
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Product: The Vanishing Act Of Esme Lennox
Description: From the New York Times best-selling author of Hamnet comes a gothic, intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth…
In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage-clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfirend's attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital––where she has been locked away for more than 61 years.
Iris's grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme's papers prove she is Kitty's sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme's face. Esme has been labeled harmless––sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But she's still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward.
If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit? Exposing the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox will haunt you long past its final page...
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Product: Maggie O'Farrell 4 Books Collection Set (The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine, Instructions for a Heatwave, Hamnet)
Description: Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:
Maggie O'Farrell 4 Books Collection Set:
Instructions for a Heatwave:
It's July 1976. In London, it hasn't rained for months, gardens are filled with aphids, water comes from a standpipe, and Robert Riordan tells his wife Gretta that he's going round the corner to buy a newspaper. He doesn't come back. The search for Robert brings Gretta's children - two estranged sisters and a brother on the brink of divorce.
The Hand That First Held Mine:
When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child.
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox:
Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done.Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released.
Hamnet:
On a summer's day in 1596, a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a fever. Her twin brother, Hamnet, searches everywhere for help. Why is nobody at home? Their mother, Agnes, is over a mile away, in the garden where she grows medicinal herbs.
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Product: Hamnet By Maggie O'Farrell & Olive Again By Elizabeth Strout 2 Books Collection Set
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Product: Hamnet (Oberon Modern Plays)
Brand: Oberon Books
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