Die Verweigerung. Aus d. Engl. v. Monika Koch
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Kathleen Rowntree sa vo svojich dielach zameriava na ľudské vzťahy, ich zložitosť a slabosti. Jej próza je charakterizovaná bystrosťou, vtipom a satirickým pohľadom, napriek tomu si zachováva súcitný a zábavný tón. Autorka skúma ľudské chyby s chytrosťou a ostrosťou, no nezabúda ani na teplo a napätie. Jej písanie je zároveň inteligentné a prenikavé, čo čitateľom prináša pútavý zážitok.






Sonia Garrs is 55 but doesn't seem it. She is a cheerful and confident ex-wife, and a confessed shopaholic. Fran Topping, ten years younger and married to a farmer, couldn't be more different. What brings this unlikely pair together is Jason, boyish and handsome, a perfect innocent diversion.
Mr. Brightly, verheirateter Rechtsanwalt und Vermögensberater, kümmert sich um ältere Damen. Es stellt sich heraus, dass er nicht ganz ehrenhaft gehandelt und etliche der wohlhabenden Damen um ihr Vermögen gebracht hat, wofür er ins Gefängnis muss. Aber eine der Frauen hält zu ihm.
Rebecca Sheldon finds herself at war with her husband's grotesquely funny family as well as with the hypocrisy of the Edwardian society in which she lives. The Ludburys are an affluent Midlands farming clan - snobbish, possessive and malicious. By the author of Between Friends.
A comedy of village customs, manners, marriages and affairs. Past experience leads Tessa to suspect that her husband is having another affair, and a chance remark over mid-morning coffee indicates that things may be even worse than she thought. By the author of "The Quiet War of Rebecca Sheldon".