A tribute to classic film and true romance, this is the story of a 31-year-old caf manager and an 11-year-old who is searching for her father--and the unexpected ways in which their lives are forever changed by chance.
In her first book, Marisa de los Santos writes about her mother's cancer, supermodels, a miscarriage, and the difficulties and pleasures of country living.
In de los Santos' second novel ("Love Walked In", 2006) having moved out of New York City after the double whammy of a miscarriage and 9/11, Cornelia finds herself a shunned outsider among the community's perfect blond matrons. Particularly unwelcoming is her tightly wound neighbour Piper, who is as sharp-tongued as she is judgmental about fashion ...
Everyone has secrets. Some we keep to protect ourselves, others we keep to protect those we love. A devoted city dweller, Cornelia Brown surprised no one more than herself when she was gripped by the sudden, inescapable desire to leave urban life behind and head for an idyllic suburb. Though she knows she and her beloved husband, Teo, have made ...
In this collection, a mother's death triggers poems that journey through grief into the unnameable origins of consciousness - before thought, talk, even printed words. These elegies weave stories and anecdotes from literature and the visual arts, trying to cheat death by facing it.
'My life, my real life, started when a man walked into it, a handsome stranger in a perfectly cut suit, and, yes, I know how that sounds'. For 31-year-old Cornelia Brown, life is a series of movie moments, and 'Jimmy Stewart is always and indisputably the best man in the world, unless Cary Grant should happen to show up'. So, imagine Cornelia's ...
I didn't love her. But, I suddenly understood, it wouldn't take much. Cornelia and Clare haven't met yet, but they need each other more than they realise. Cornelia is drifting through life, working in a cafe at 31, still waiting for Prince Charming to show up. On the other side of town, eleven-year-old Clare is broken-hearted. Her mother has ...
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