When her marriage ends, Laura Giovanni, an artist who draws the hidden pictures page for a children's magazine, falls in love with a woman, a situation that complicates her relations with her ex-husband, David, and her young son, Sam.

Alex Mendez, bored with the business empire he's created in London, leaves his wife Lalka behind and retreats to an isolated chateau in Provence. Both Polish Jews - and now with time on their hands, as they seemingly have little left to share - they seek their own personal revelations. Whilst Alex broods in Provence, gradually becoming aware of the chateau's ambiguous history during the Second World War, Lalka sets out for Poland with journalist friend Katie. But what was planned as a holiday and an assertion of independence comes to have other significance. A powerful exploration of the current and past lives of a group of people scarred by the result of war, Children of the Rose is a strong, emotional novel - written with Feinstein's characteristically delicate, brilliant prose - about the way in which memories can destroy lives and also, ultimately, provide redemption.

Adam Morris, Alan Parks, Mike Clode, Anna Cunnginham, Barbara Ransome and the others leave Cambridge University to discover varying degrees of satisfaction, success and material comfort. But over all of them lies the common memory of those heady, golden days spent in unravelling the knots of friendship, in exploratory sex and in Badinage, that none of them will ever quite forget.A compelling story, "The Glittering Prizes" reflects the changing attitudes and styles of a generaton that went to Cambridge in the fifties.The subject of a highly acclaimed television series starring Tom Conti, "The Glitter Prizes" is a witty, incisive, beautifully written evocation of an era and its children.

Part of the Gold Guides series, this book provides a guide to the Pacific coast resorts and the Baja Peninsular. The cities of Tijuana, Ensenada, Mexicali, Tecate, Rosarito Beach, Loreto, La Paz, Cabo San Lucas, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlan, Manzanillo, Los Mochis, El Fuerte and the states of Guaymas and Sanora are included. The best hotels, restaurants, beaches and excursions are listed as well as suggestions for excursions to Baja lagoons to see California grey whales.

Product Description Glady's Sperber remains home as one by one her younger brothers and sisters marry and move out, but finally, at sixty, she decides to marry From Publishers Weekly Originally published in England in 1960, this is a bleak rendition of a mother/daughter love/hate relationship by the Booker Prize-winning author (see review of Our Father below). Gladys Sperber, the family "martyr," is the oldest of five "failures" who, because her mother is "too busy," virtually raises her siblings. "She would take her food when the others had eaten. . . . She would wait for their happiness before she felt entitled to her own, and she would have looked after their dying if she'd been able." The title refers to Gladys's destructive symbiotic relationship with her mother: the biblical book of Ezekiel observes that fathers eat sour grapes and the children's teeth are set on edge. Although the novel, which covers two world wars, evokes the limited choices available to women in a man's world and is replete with manifestations of mother-daughter interdependence (an adult Gladys shares a bedroom with her widowed mother), it doesn't probe the psychodynamics of that relationship. The result is a contrived work that depresses rather than engrosses. Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The time is 1900, the setting a house and garden in the French countryside, the mood celebratory; but even as the sun rises through a clear blue sky on what is surely an idyllic summer's day, darker tones throw their shadows on the bright colors of the landscape, shadows of grief and loss, and the looming, unseen shadow of a catastrophe that will destroy the calm fabric of daily living. Only art and memory are proof against the destruction of time. Claude, creator of the garden, painter of light that constantly redefines the visible world, struggles to hold the shifting images of perfection. And two young children, their lives still ahead of them, take in the world with the fresh eyes of childhood, to hold in their memories a time when it was always summer, the sun always shone, and all things glowed in the light. A luminous, "impressionist" novel about a day in the life of Claude Monet.