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Názov i prvé stránky knihy naznačujú, že ústredným motívom bude pikantný škandálik, ktorý rozdúchala miestna tlač po odhalení nedovoleného sexuálneho vzťahu štyridsaťročnej učiteľky Sheby Hartovej so žiakom strednej školy v severnom Londýne. Samozvanou kronikárkou Shebinho príbehu je osamelá stará dievka, učiteľka dejepisu v preddôchodkovom veku, Barbara Covettová. Sheba, atraktívna, láskavá a aristokraticky bezstarostná vzbudí senzáciu, len čo sa na škole St George's zjaví ako nová učiteľka keramiky. Mnohí túžia získať si jej náklonnosť. Barbara sa stáva jej dôvernou priateľkou a domnieva sa, že sa jej naplnila životná túžba: že konečne našla blízkeho človeka a spriaznenú dušu. No keď zistí, že Sheba sa tajne stretáva s pätnásťročným Stevenom Connollym, zmocní sa jej sklamanie, ktoré prerastie v hnev...

A collection of pieces of memoir by contemporary international writers. Edited by the author of 'IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU'.

When New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff falls gravely ill, his wife Audrey uncovers a secret that forces her to re-examine both her belief in him and her commitment to their forty-year marriage. Meanwhile, her ne'er-do-well adopted son, Lenny, is back on drugs again and her daughters, Karla and Rosa, are grappling with their own catastrophes and dilemmas. Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary socialist, has found herself increasingly beguiled by the world of Orthodox Judaism; now she is being pressed to make a commitment and must decide if she is really ready to forsake all her cherished secular values for a Torah-observant life. Karla, an unhappily married hospital social worker and union activist, falls into a tumultuous affair with a conservative shopkeeper. Can she really love a man whose politics she reviles? And how to choose between a life of duty and principle and her own happiness?

Willy Muller's relationships with women are complicated. His girlfriend Penny pushes him to address his personal space issues, while Karen seeks more intimacy. His daughter Sophie wants financial support for her husband's drug habit, but it's his youngest daughter Sadie who is causing him the most stress.

WISH I MAY is a novel about the secrets of the past, and the search for how to live in the present, by the author of the bestselling memoir, IF THE SPIRIT MOVES YOU