Kate Muir Knihy

An investigation into the menopause and how women are being let down by the health community.

Modern, passionate and crazy New York is contrasted with the austerity of Scotland and the plight of the suffragettes earlier this century in this, Kate Muir's debut novel.

A celebrated Brit Art photographer in noughties' London finds himself going over his childhood in a tenement with his resentful mother after his fisherman father drowns. Follow him from scabby-kneed schoolboy to ambitious artist, from a squat to a mansion, from rent boys to an aristocratic marriage.

Enter the world of Olivier and Madison Malin, glittering inhabitants of Paris's exclusive Left Bank. The Malins' life together with their daughter is the stuff of dreams - and carefully-selected celebrity magazines. Madison is a film star: her beauty, talent and perfect accent hiding her Texan roots, and the fact she's just turned forty. Her husband, Olivier, is the darling of the sophisticated Left Bank: philosopher and media personality, he craves adoration (and is a little too willing to return it). Everything seems perfect - if a touch pretentious - until the moment new English nanny, Anna, appears at the doors of their Rue du Bac apartment. Anna unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events that will endanger their charmed lives - in ways no-one could have foreseen...

Schon 187 Tage ohne Sex - das Leben meint es wirklich nicht gut mit Albertine. Ihr Durchbruch als Performance-Künstlerin und Malerin lässt auf sich warten, der Mann fürs Leben oder auch nur für eine Nacht ebenfalls. Dafür hat Albertine Besuch aus dem Jenseits: Agnes, der Geist ihrer Urahnin, mischt sich plötzlich ungefragt in alles ein. Ganz besonders in Albertines Suche nach Mr. Perfect - als wäre diese im Großstadtdschungel von New York nicht sowieso schon schwer genug!