Sam Baker Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

Women over forty and in their post-fertility years are the most underestimated and ignored demographic in society. In The Shift writer and journalist Sam Baker seeks to empower and give voice to women to create a new narrative.

'Wildly gripping and unputdownable. This is a brilliant book' Marian Keyes She can't remember. But someone else can. What is making Helen Graham so jumpy and evasive? Newly arrived in a tiny Yorkshire village, she finds the locals' curiosity her worst nightmare. Looking over her shoulder every day, she tries to piece together her past before it can catch up with her. But with everything she knows in fragments, from her marriage to her career as a war photographer, how can she work out who to trust and what to believe? Most days she can barely remember who she is... She can run. But can she hide? Praise for The Woman Who Ran: 'Disquieting, thought-provoking ...keeps twisting and turning as it hurtles towards a hair-raising climax' Guardian 'Clever and absorbing' Stylist 'Superbly executed, with a creeping sense of dread that builds to an explosive finish' Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

Eve schwor, sich nie in einen verheirateten Mann zu verlieben, doch die Monate mit Ian und seinen drei Kindern sind unbeschwert. Als sie die Kinder kennenlernen muss, scheitert sie als Stiefmutter. Doch mit der Unterstützung ihrer Freundinnen stellt sie sich der Herausforderung, ihre Lieben und deren Kinder zu gewinnen.

Nicci Morrison was always the first among her friends to experience new things, but she never expected to be the first to die.

Eve had nooit gedacht dat ze ooit moeder zou worden, laat staan stiefmoeder. Maar toen werd ze verliefd op Ian, weduwnaar en vader van drie kinderen. Ians dochter Hannah heeft al een hekel aan Eve voordat ze haar heeft ontmoet en doet geen enkele moeite deze mening bij te stellen. Sarcastische opmerkingen, hongerstakingen en dodelijke blikken; Hannah schuwt geen enkel middel om het bloed onder haar nagels vandaan te halen. Samen met haar vriendinnen Clare, Chloe, Melanie en Mandy vormt Eve het stiefmoederscollectief. Onder het genot van een kop koffie in de Starbucks bespreken ze hun liefdeslevens, ambities en natuurlijk hun stiefmonsters. Want wie beweert dat alle stiefmoeders krengen zijn, heeft hun stiefkinderen nog nooit ontmoet!

Annie Anderson, feature writer with one of Britain's leading broadsheets, decides to take a break from the tougher end of journalism. After years working undercover befriending prostitutes and drug addicts, the strain is beginning to tell. At 29, Annie has enough baggage to sink a battleship, a strict all-caffeine-no-food diet and a total inability to maintain relationships with men. Where does a girl go from here? she asks. Fashion, that's where. Annie takes a job on the new flagship magazine Handbag, and prepares herself to be whisked into a world of glamour, beauty and power. But she has a sixth sense for trouble - and it doesn't take her long to find it. When New York's hottest young designer, is gunned down in what appears to be a random killing, Annie decides to do a little digging. What Annie discovers is more bizarre - and a whole lot more frightening - than anything seen at London Fashion Week. She has entered a world where beauty hides a multitude of sins, including fraud, corruption and murder. It doesn't take Annie long to see that she may well become fashion's next victim¿