Featuring a diverse array of complex characters, this collection of short stories delves into their unique journeys through life. The narratives blend the familiar with the bizarre, providing both delight and intrigue. Each tale serves as a reminder that even the most ordinary experiences can reveal unexpected depths and complexities.
Each story explores the diversity of young people's experiences as they emerge into adulthood and the wide-ranging themes are both contemporary and relatable to the modern reader. číst celé
‘Gemini Day’ is the rollercoaster epic of an Englishman and an American woman who meet and fall in love in the Spanish Civil War. They are both journalists forced to flee to southern France. In an old farmhouse, Ruth gives birth to their child, Susannah, on the same day as a fugitive Spanish woman shot by Nationalists gives birth to a son and dies almost immediately. Ruth and her husband Bob adopt the boy and call him Rafael after his murdered father. They name the day when their children were born as Gemini Day, and the story tracks the Gemini Days of the future.
A historical family saga with elements of war, crime and spy fiction.
After building a successful group of restaurants, Val Reynolds meets and marries jeweller Hugo Gilard, and forms the Gilrey Corporation. On Hugo's death, Val finds herself fighting against managers within the corporation who seek to take it over and turn into a more ruthless and profit-driven concern than she and Hugo envisaged.
This is a wedding that will change lives - and not just the lives of the bride and the groom.
In this perplexing and challenging ‘whodunnit’, will Inspector Bellamy succeed in solving the case, or will the shadows of deception prevail?