検索キーワード： "DEAR！" 女性文学

She’s been holding on for dear life, now she must learn to let go. Marathon runner and quintessential wife and mother Avery Decker appears to have it all together. But don’t let her smile fool you. Since the death of her daughter four years ago, she’s been trying to fake her way through life. So far, it hasn’t worked out so well. Avery is overwhelmed not only with the grief of losing her daughter, but with the fear that she’ll lose someone else she loves—her husband James. This time not to death, but to the secret demons he’s been using to cope with the loss of their little girl.

In the middle of the night, a woman wraps herself in a blanket and starts writing. In answer to a question you asked a long time ago, she writes, and so begins a letter that both women have preferred to forget. She writes night after night - a letter of friendship, by turns a belated outlet of...

Forty-year-old Jean Dornan cannot escape the summer of 1998, when, as a college student studying abroad in France, she embarked on an inappropriate relationship with her professor. Now, decades later, when that professor contacts her out of the blue with an invitation to his retirement ceremony...

Wannabe actress Dani Steele's résumé resembles a cautionary tale on how not to be famous. She's pushing thirty and stuck in a dead-end insurance job, and her relationship status is holding at uncommitted. With unbearably perfect sisters and a mother who won't let her forget it, Dani has two go-tos for consolation: maple scones and a blog in which she pours her heart out to her celebrity idol. He's the man her father never was, no boyfriend will ever be - and not so impossible a dream as one might think.

They were best friends who never meant to fall in love - but for one of them, it was already too late. Willow 'Banjo' Paterson and Tom Forrest were raised on neighbouring cattle stations in the heart of the Kimberley. But as young adults, something came between them that Willow cannot forget. Now 10 years have passed since she's spoken to Tom. When her father falls ill, Willow is called home to run the family property - but her vision for a sustainable organic cattle station is proving hard to achieve. She needs Tom's help, but is it too late to make amends?

I broke her heart 10 years ago and left town. She hates me, and rightly so. It doesn’t matter that the rest of the country loves me, that I’m a starting quarterback with a multimillion-dollar contract. Because when I look in the mirror, all I see is a failure who was too young - and too afraid - to fight for what I wanted. But I’m not that guy anymore, and all I need is one shot to convince her.

Chin up, Emily Thorn faces the pain and heartache of love lost and years wasted. At 40, all she has to show for 20 years of marriage is a Federal Express letter from her husband that begins "Dear Emily" - and ends their life together. She had put her own life on hold to pay Ian's way through medical school. She believed him when he told her that one day she'd have everything she ever wanted - children, an education, a career of her own. What she got was overweight, out of shape - and dumped.

Born between the wars in a working-class South London street, Harry Miles is a sensitive and capable boy who attends school on a scholarship and grows into a thoughtful young man. Full of energy and literary ambition, he visits Battersea Library in search of New Writing: instead, he discovers...

For as long as she can remember, Peppa Ryan has been guided by a benevolent voice in her head who she believes is Virginia Woolf. Though she’s an exceptionally bright twenty-year-old, she suffers from crippling low self-esteem and has barely left her parents’ ramshackle home in Queens, New York. Set at the turn of the millennium, Peppa defies her parent’s wishes and ventures out on her own to start a job at a Wall Street investment firm.

Ambitious and career-driven, I have zero time for dating until Blind Lovean app designed for those seeking genuine romantic connections without the hassle of awkward first dateshooks me in. The only catch? Ninety days of anonymous messaging are required before identities are revealed. I connect...

Mark and Philippa find themselves the subjects of hit breakup songs in different decades and different countries, suffering years of romantic disappointments as a result. Their lives take very different paths, but when their paths cross in adulthood, they may find their biggest humiliation leading to their deepest connection.

What begins as an anonymous "Dear Soldier" letter turns to burgeoning love. Vivian Castello is a government contractor working in Washington, D.C., and Matthew Jensen is an Army Ranger fighting the war in Afghanistan. Through emails, letters, and care packages, Vivian's and Matthew's secrets begin to unfold. Letter by letter, their barriers are torn down. But will their journey be one of hope or despair?

After his daughter, Vera, suffers a psychotic break at a high school party and is diagnosed as bipolar, Lucas decides to take her on a trip to Vilnius, hoping the change of scenery will help rouse her from the fog of her medication and bring them closer together. Lucas and his high school sweetheart, Katya, had Vera when they were only 18, and Lucas was not part of Vera's life for most of her childhood.

A brilliant new collection of stories from one of the most acclaimed and beloved writers of our time. Alice Munro’s peerless ability to give us the essence of a life in often brief but always spacious and timeless stories is once again everywhere apparent in this brilliant new collection. In...

The must-read book of 2019! Equal parts heartwarming and heartbreaking, fans of Jojo Moyes, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine and One Day in December will love this special novel by Drew Davies. Dear Lily, It’s me, Joy, your older sister. I thought I’d start a new tradition of letter...

Ten years after her mothers death, Eliza Levinger never imagined shed hear from her again. But then The Letter arrived. Elizas world broke apart when she was sixteen and her mom died of cancer. Now, years later, she has rebuilt her life to include a director-of-development job at a nonprofit, a...

Kat est enfin parvenue à mettre un nom sur ses sentiments pour Andrew, mais la distance qui les sépare ne facilite pas leur histoire naissante. Lui, sur la côte ouest, semble plus inaccessible que jamais, ce qui pousse Kat, depuis New York, à s'interroger sur leur avenir. Sont-ils promis au même destin tragique qu'Andrew et son ex-femme ou Kat sera-t-elle réellement son "exception", comme il le lui répète si souvent ?

Malgré toutes ses tentatives pour aller de l'avant, Kathleen ne peut se résoudre à accepter la décision d'Andrew. Elle est déterminée à le reconquérir et à lui faire entendre raison. Leur histoire ne peut s'arrêter ainsi, pas après toutes les épreuves qu'ils ont déjà réussi à traverser ! Heureusement, il reste à Kathleen un atout de poids, un allié qui ne peut rien lui refuser et représente son dernier espoir : Nathan, le bras droit et meilleur ami d'Andrew.

Kathleen attend avec impatience ses retrouvailles avec Andrew et compte les jours jusqu'à la soirée romantique qu'il leur a réservée. Pourtant, rien n'aurait pu la préparer à ce qu'elle va vivre cette nuit-là... Un coup de théâtre bouleversant qui changera son destin à jamais. Dans cette situation de désespoir, seul l'Inconnu et ses lettres, toujours plus touchantes, réussiront à redonner le sourire à Kat et à lui donner assez de courage pour reprendre sa vie en main.

En choisissant Dan plutôt qu'Andrew Blake, Kat était persuadée d'avoir pris la bonne décision, celle de la stabilité, celle que lui dictait sa raison... Pourtant, toutes ses certitudes sont bouleversées à chaque regard échangé avec Andrew. Rien ne paraît pouvoir arrêter ce dernier dans son entreprise de séduction et il se montre étrangement plus déterminé que jamais.