The Love Child

Author: Edith Olivier
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 1447263340
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 107

Book Description
'What was she? Not a child, for she was seventeen, and taller than Kitty: not a girl, for she floated like a feather, and flew into trees like a bird; not a spirit - she was human to touch. But to-night she was all made of mischief and magic, remote form him, and yet calling him to here . . .' At thirty-two, her mother dead, Agatha Bodenham finds herself quite alone. She summons back to life the only friend she ever knew, Clarissa, the dream companion of her childhood. At first Clarissa comes by night, and then by day, gathering substance in the warmth of Agatha's obsessive love until it seems that others too can see her. See, but not touch, for Agatha has made her love child for herself alone. No man may approach her elfin creation of perfect beauty. If he does, the love which summoned her can spirit her away . . . The Love Child (1927) was Edith Olivier's first novel, acknowledged as a minor masterpiece: a perfectly imagined fable and a moving and perceptive portrayal of unfulfilled maternal love.

Love Child

Author: Allegra Huston
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439159262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description
When Allegra Huston was four years old, her mother was killed in a car crash. Soon afterward, she was introduced to an intimidating man wreathed in cigar smoke -- the legendary film director John Huston -- with the words, "This is your father." So began an extraordinary odyssey: from the magical Huston estate in Ireland to the Long Island suburbs to a hidden paradise in Mexico -- and, at the side of her older sister, Anjelica, into the hilltop retreats of Jack Nicholson, Ryan O'Neal, and Marlon Brando. Allegra's is the penetrating gaze of an outsider never quite sure if she belongs in this rarefied world and of a motherless child trying to make sense of her famous, fragmented family. Then, at the age of twelve, Allegra's precarious sense of self was shattered when she was, once more, introduced to her father -- her real one this time, the British aristocrat and historian John Julius Norwich. At the heart of Love Child is Allegra's search through the unreliable certainties of memory for the widely adored mother she never knew -- the ghost who shadowed her childhood and left her in a web of awkward and unwelcome truths. With clear-eyed tenderness, Allegra tells of how she forged bonds with both her famous fathers, transforming her mother's difficult legacy into a hard-won blessing. Beautifully written and forensically honest, Love Child is a seductive insight into one of Hollywood's great dynasties and the story of how, in a family that defied convention, one woman found her balance on the shifting sands of conflicting loyalties.

The Love Child

Author: Rachel Hore
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1471196747
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464

Book Description
Brilliantly evoking the changing attitudes of the time, The Love Child is a novel about love, family, separation, despair, and hope, full of tenderness and deep feeling. A young mother’s sacrifice. A child’s desperate search for the truth... London, 1917 When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby. She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away, and she mourns the father, a young soldier, so beloved, who will never have the chance to know his daughter. Edith and Philip Burns, a childless couple, yearn for a child of their own. When they secretly adopt a baby girl, Irene, their life together must surely be complete. Irene grows up knowing that she is different from other children, but no one will tell her the full truth. Putting hopes of marriage and children behind her, Alice embarks upon a pioneering medical career, striving to make her way in a male-dominated world. Meanwhile, Irene struggles to define her own life, eventually leaving her Suffolk home to find work in London. As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light?

Love Child's Hotbed of Occasional Poetry

Author: Nikky Finney
Publisher: TriQuarterly Books
ISBN: 9780810142015
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
National Book Award winner Nikky Finney's fifth collection of poems articulates the Black American history into a new language of "docu-poetry."

Love Child

Author: Gcina Mhlophe
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124

Book Description
Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's favorite storyteller. In this fascinating retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey through the social and political landscapes of the 1980s, with its recollected moments of struggle and transformation along the way. Written in a variety of styles and voices, ranging from anecdotal memory to historical moment to folklore tradition, these simply presented poems and stories are by turns funny, touching, chilling, thought-provoking and absorbing. Love Child is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights it has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author's personal recollection.

THE LOVE CHILD

Author: Edith Olivier
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244527814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description

THE LOVE-CHILD

Author: Miyako Fujiomi
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
ISBN: 4596623945
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
Living with a famous novelist… Will she be able to expose his secrets? There's no way she can tell him how she feels. Cathy has gone undercover as a nanny at popular novelist Pearce Tyrone's estate. Her real job, however, is as a gossip columnist. Exposing mysterious Pearce's private life to the public is her true goal. Could he really be this child's father? Is her mother really the famous actress Jodie Starling, just as the rumors say? But before she realizes it, she's charmed by Pearce's intelligence and unexpected kindness, and she falls hopelessly in love with him!

The Love Child

Author: Constance Heaven
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448107660
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 553

Book Description
Lose yourself in this beautifully written, emotional and enthralling novel from much loved author Constance Heaven. It conjures up the glittering society and changing times of the 1870s in London and Russia so wonderfully, you'll feel as if you are there yourself! 'Heady romance with glittering background' -- SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Readable and atmospheric' -- DUBLIN TIMES 'Excellent! Difficult to put down' - ***** Reader review 'Exciting read' - ***** Reader review 'A great novel from a great writer' - ***** Reader review *************************************************************************** Louise Defour's life is idyllic: as the love-child of a British diplomat and Russian dancer, she wants for nothing. But when her parents are killed, she finds herself penniless and alone, and must travel to England to meet a half-sister who does not even know of her existence. There, she becomes part of the world of the mysterious Daniel and Christine Hunter - with a potentially destructive effect.

The Love Child's Revenge

Author: Nicole Bailey Williams
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767931068
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
Shy and awkward, ruthlessly ridiculed by other children and carelessly treated by adults, Claudia Fryar flees her hometown of Philadelphia after her father’s death. But years of shame and silent suffering as the love child of the respected—and married—Louis Harrison finally come to a raging boil when Harrison’s jealous widow cheats Claudia out of her inheritance. Twice-scorned, Claudia transforms herself into Peach Harrison: bold, beautiful…and sinister. Now a successful newscaster, Peach makes a triumphant return to Philadelphia, to the welcoming arms of those who once cast her aside. But as Peach puts her “big payback” scheme into action, she realizes that revenge comes with some serious costs of its own.

Love Child

Author: Maureen Duffy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description