Exploring the heart-wrenching theme of lost love, this story delves into the emotional turmoil faced by a protagonist whose partner has moved on after losing all memories of their relationship. As they grapple with feelings of betrayal and longing, the narrative unfolds through poignant moments and reflections on love, identity, and the power of memory. The journey highlights the struggle to reclaim a past that seems irretrievably lost while navigating the complexities of moving forward.
Emma Victor's life takes a turn when her adoptive parents have a biological child, Stella. After a tragic car crash leaves 19-year-old Emma responsible for raising her younger sister, she sacrifices her youth for parental duties. A decade later, while Stella is thriving at 19, Emma feels stagnant, both in her career and love life, approaching 30 with a sense of despair. An unexpected encounter with a homeless man on the tube jolts her into action, prompting her to finally seek out her birth mother—something she has long avoided due to fear of the potential impact on Stella. The children's book "Are You My Mother?" resonates with Emma as she embarks on this quest, reflecting her own feelings of being lost. With the help of her friend Mack, she identifies five women with the same name, hoping one will lead her to her mother. However, Emma soon realizes that her journey is less about finding her mother and more about discovering her own identity. Having spent years fulfilling roles for others—daughter, girlfriend, sister, surrogate mother—she grapples with the question of who she truly is. As her search gains momentum, it begins to transform her life in unexpected ways.
The narrative explores the journey of self-discovery and renewal, emphasizing that true transformation often follows a period of hardship. Characters confront their pasts and the challenges that led them to a crossroads, ultimately finding hope and new beginnings. The story highlights the resilience of the human spirit and the importance of embracing change after hitting rock bottom.
Helena Nicholls - ex world-famous pop star and prime-time DJ - wakes up in hospital to find her looks, her career and her personal life in tatters. She has been let down by her boyfriend, and the one person she loved most in the world - her best friend since the age of five - is dead. She feels that she belongs nowhere, and her sense of identity, fragile at the best of times, is in pieces. So Helena turns to the one thing that has always got her through, the one thing that has real resonance: music. And she begins to concoct The Plan. Using the request format that made her radio show so popular, where listeners rang in with detailed stories about why certain songs were so meaningful for them, she sets out the story of her own life, chapter by chapter, track by track. Thinking about the songs that represent important chapters in her own life, Helena begins to come to terms with her past. But the present is more of a problem as, while in hospital, she has remet an old friend to whom she is still hugely attracted. Her strict adherence to The Plan, however, means that time is not on her side. If she is to have a future at all, she must work out what it really means To Be Someone. With
Doesn't love always feel this way? Alex Parkinson is in love with his writing tutor, Siobhan. He has never loved anyone like this, but how can he convince Siobhan that they are meant to be together? So Alex stalks her on Facebook and finds out where she lives, buys her presents using her own credit card and sends her messages telling her exactly what he wants to do to her. He breaks into her house, reads her diary and secretly listens to her while she takes a bath. Isn't that what all lovers do? But when a love rival appears on the scene, Alex has to take drastic action, and soon a young woman lies dead after tumbling from the roof of her house. Now there is no-one standing in the way of Alex and his true love. But someone is watching Alex too and he is about to discover that there is a thin line between love -- and hate...
In the early twentieth century China?s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia called One Hundred Illustrated Beauties. This genre drew upon a centuries-old tradition of books featuring illustrations of women who embodied virtue, desirability, and Chinese cultural values, and changes in it reveal the foundational value shifts that would bring forth a democratic citizenry in the post-imperial era. The illustrations presented ordinary readers with tantalizing visions of the modern lifestyles that were imagined to accompany Republican China?s new civic consciousness. Citizens of Beauty is the first book to explore the One Hundred Illustrated Beauties in order to compare social ideals during China?s shift from imperial to Republican times. The book contextualizes the social and political significance of the aestheticized female body in a rapidly changing genre, showing how progressive commercial artists used images of women to promote a vision of Chinese modernity that was democratic, mobile, autonomous, and free from the crippling hierarchies and cultural norms of old China.
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The explosive new thriller featuring Kate Maddox, from the bestselling authors, Mark Edwards and Louise Voss. Time to Die… Two years on from uncovering a terrifying conspiracy of rogue scientists, all Kate Maddox wants is to lead a normal life with her partner Paul and son Jack. But then a face from the past turns up, bringing chilling news. A devastating new strain of the virus that killed Kate's parents is loose in L.A. – and when a bomb rips through a hotel killing many top scientists, it becomes clear someone will do anything to stop a cure being found. While Paul goes on the hunt for answers, Kate finds herself in a secret laboratory in the heart of California, desperately seeking a way to stop the contagion. But time is running out and soon it will be too late to save their loved ones, themselves, and the world…
Lynn se vzdala nejen milované práce, aby se mohla provdat za Eda, a stálo to za každý rok z jejich společného šťastného života. Po deseti letech ale Edovi diagnostikovali první stadium demence a začaly se dít divné věci – mnohem temnější a zrádnější než jen obvykle zapomenuté klíče a slova. Některé vzpomínky mizí, jiné dlouho pohřbené naopak vyplouvají na povrch… a Lynnin šťastný svět se začíná drolit
Vous ne me connaissez pas - ou plutôt vous ne nous connaissez pas. Je m'appelle Adam Ferris et mon fils se nomme Max. Il a quatre ans - bientôt cinq - et c'est à son propos que je vous écris. Il y a deux ans, Max était très malade: il souffrait d'une leucémie aiguë. Vous lui avez sauvé la vie grâce à votre généreux don de moelle ... Vous avez rendu la vie à mon petit garçon. Vous me l'avez rendu, à moi, alors que je croyais le perdre - oh zut, maintenant évidemment je pleure en écrivant ...!
