Marcus a onze ans quand sa mère meurt dans un accident de voiture. Il emménage alors chez sa grand-tante Charlotte, une originale qui, après trois mariages, s'est installée dans une maison en bord de mer sur une petite île de Caroline du Sud, pour se consacrer à sa passion : la peinture. Une maiso...
Justin Stokes would never forget the summer she turned fourteen, nor the woman who transformed her bleak adolescent life into a wondrous place of brilliant color. In the little pondside hut also known as the “finishing school,” eccentric, free-spirited Ursula DeVane opened up a world full of m...
Every evening at five oyes'>#8217;clock, Christina and Rudy stopped work and began the ritual commonly known as Happy Hour. Rudy mixed Christinayes'>#8217;s drink with loving precision, the cavalier slosh of Bombay Sapphire over ice shards, before settling across from her in his Stickley chair with ...
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Here at last is the eagerly awaited new novel from New York Times bestselling author Gail Godwin. Queen of the Underworld is sweeping and sultry literary fiction, featuring a memorable young heroine and engaging characters whose intimate dramas interconnect with hers. In the summer of 1959, as Cas...
True, time is the villain and we are trapped in him. True, love is sometimes not returned. True, friends are sometimes false. But to be aware of this--all of it--and still want to go on living, that is the triumph. It is the reward. As a young woman and aspiring author, Gail Godwi...
Gail Godwin was twenty-four years old and working as a waitress in the North Carolina mountains when she wrote: "I want to be everybody who is great; I want to create everything that has ever been created." It is a declaration that only a wildly ambitious young writer would make in the privacy of he...