検索キーワード： "シュガー" 成長

Amelia Castaldi vive a Milano, ha trentadue anni, un impiego precario come redattrice del settimanale You Girl e una passione sconfinata per i dolci. Un improvviso viaggio a Londra inaugura una nuova stagione nella sua vita. Attraverso le ricette, che diventano espediente narrativo, e dopo una tragicomica catena di imprevisti, equivoci e sperimentazioni dolciarie, la protagonista trova il coraggio di seguire i suoi sogni.

The Sugar House is the second in the trilogy sequel to Frost in May, which began with The Lost Traveller and continues in Beyond the Glass. Although each is a complete novel in itself, together they form a brilliant portrait of a young girl's journey to adulthood.

For years, Harris Hayes has taught his daughter, Aggie, the ways of the northern woods, where she sketches nests of wild birds as an antidote to sadness. Then her depressed, unpredictable mother forbids her to climb the trees that give her sanctuary and comfort. Angry, ten-year-old Aggie accidentally lights a tragic fire and flees downriver. She lands her boat near untamed forest, then hides among trees and creatures she believes are her only friends—determined to remain undiscovered.

White Sugar, Brown Sugar is a novel set in Daytona Beach, Florida. An upper middle-class white boy from the peninsula, or beach-side, of the Inland Waterway, and a black boy of lesser means, who lives west of the railroad tracks, where Blacks (who were called Negroes and other names at the time) were required to live, become good friends, in spite of the racial separation in effect in the '60s in the south.