Everything You Ever Wanted

Author: Luiza Sauma
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241363578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
Read along with Florence Welch this February and March as part of the Between Two Books book club 'Wry, beautiful, surprising and deeply moving' Rachel Seiffert, Guardian 'Captures so excellently the low level anxiety that hums through everyday life' Daily Telegraph ____________________________________________ You wake up. You go to work. You have strategy meetings about how to use hashtags. After work you get so blackout drunk you can't remember the circumstances which have led you to waking up next to your colleague. The next day you stay in bed, scrolling through your social media feeds and wondering why everyone else seems to be achieving so much. Then you hear about Life on Nyx, a programme that offers the chance to move to another planet and start a new, meaningful way of life. But there's a caveat: if you go, you can never come back. ____________________________________________ 'An acute satire of our social media-dominated times and a haunting examination of depression and anxiety rendered in diamond sharp prose' i 'Sauma has the horrors of the workplace nailed with satirical precision' Sunday Times Culture 'Weird, wonderful and beautifully written' Daily Mail 'For fans of Black Mirror' Elle 'Millennial angst meets sci-fi' Stylist 'Uplifting, unputdownable and mordantly funny' Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

All We Ever Wanted Was Everything

Author: Janelle Brown
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448166292
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450

Book Description
Janice Miller knows this: she loves her husband, her two spirited daughters and the beautiful home in which she has raised her family. But what she doesn't know is how to stay afloat when a devastating discovery tears that familiar world apart. It is only once the damage has been done that she finally realises how distant her daughters have become - and that schoolgirl Lizzie and 28-year-old Margaret now have dark secrets of their own. After years of following separate lives, they are reluctantly drawn back together under the same roof.It's the outside world that has unravelled their dreams, but what they all fear most now is each other. Yet it's there, in the family home, that they are forced to confront their crises - and where, slowly, each of them begins to heal.

All I Ever Wanted

Author: Kristan Higgins
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
ISBN: 1742905595
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
For Callie Grey, turning thirty means coming to grips with the fact that her boss and five–week fling is way overdue with his marriage proposal. And way off track because Mark has surprisingly announced his engagement to the company's new 'Miss Perfect'. If that isn't bad enough, her mum decides to throw her a three–oh birthday bash in the family's funeral home. Bad goes to worse when Callie stirs up a crazy relationship with the town's not–so–warm and fuzzy veterinarian, Ian McFarland. So Ian is more comfortable with animals he's also formal, orderly and just a bit tense The ever–friendly, fun–loving and spontaneous Callie decides it's time for Ian to get a personality makeover. But darn, if he doesn't shock the heck out of her, she might actually fall for the town's unlikeliest eligible bachelor

All I've Never Wanted

Author: Ana Huang
Publisher: Ana Huang
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 451

Book Description
The Scions are the four richest, most powerful guys at Valesca Academy, and they rule the school with iron fists. Everyone wants to date them or be them...everyone, that is, except Maya Lindberg, who just wants to avoid them until she can graduate. She almost succeeds, until an ill-advised outburst puts her right in the Scions' path. Just like that, one becomes her fake boyfriend, one her unwanted matchmaker, one her guardian angel, and the one she can’t stand the most? Yeah, he's her new housemate. Is she happy about it? Hell no. All I’ve Never Wanted is a romantic comedy about what happens when a girl gets everything she never asked for, including a puppy, a new wardrobe, and, possibly, even true love.

All I Ever Wanted

Author: Vikki Wakefield
Publisher: Text Publishing
ISBN: 1921758309
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Mim knows what she wants, and where she wants to go—anywhere but home, stuck in the suburbs with her mother who won't get off the couch, and two brothers in prison. She's set herself rules to live by, but she's starting to break them. Now Mim has to retrieve a lost package for her mother. Does this make her a drug runner? Why is a monster dog called Gargoyle hidden in the back shed? And Jordan, the boy she sent Valentines to for years, why is he now suddenly a creep? How come there's a huge gap between her and her best friend, Tahnee? And who is the mysterious girl next door who moans at night? Over the nine days before her seventeenth birthday, Mim's life turns upside down. She has problems, and she's determined to solve them herself. But in the end, she works out who her people are, and the same things look entirely different.

All I Ever Wanted/Stories of Children of the Incarcerated

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780989353311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description

Everything We Ever Wanted

Author: Sara Shepard
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007328842
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18

Book Description
How do you choose between your family and your history? Emotional and compelling storytelling from Sara Shepard, author of All the Things We Didn’t Say.

All He Ever Wanted

Author: Anita Shreve
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0349140898
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 243

Book Description
A man escaping from a hotel fire sees a woman standing beneath a tree. He approaches her and sets in motion a series of events that will change his life forever. Years later, traveling from New England to Florida by train, he reflects back on his obsession with this unknown and ultimately unknowable woman - his courtship of her, his marriage to her, and the unforgivable act that ripped their family apart. Spanning three decades from 1899 to 1933, All He Ever Wanted gives us a tale of marriage, betrayal and the search for redemption. It has the unmatched attention to details of character, place and emotion that have made Anita Shreve one of the world's best-loved and bestselling novelists.

All We Ever Wanted

Author: Tyler Chin-Tanner
Publisher: Wave Blue World Incorporated
ISBN: 9781949518078
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178

Book Description
All We Ever Wanted offers a shot of optimism in a time when it's so desperately needed. Instead of wallowing in despair, these 24 stories provide a road map toward a brighter future. Will our salvation come from embracing te

All I Ever Wanted

Author: Francis Ray
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 1466815329
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
All I Ever Wanted Francis Ray Naomi Reese is a divorced mother with a small daughter named Kayla, a new life in Santa Fe, and, finally, some distance from her abusive ex-husband. All she wants now is a home of her own where she and Kayla can finally feel safe. With one bad marriage behind her, she can't even dream of falling in love again. Until she meets Richard... A tall, handsome veterinarian with a warm smile and big heart, Richard Youngblood is the kind of man any woman could fall for. Not only does he have a wonderful way with animals, he's great with little Kayla and—Naomi has to admit—he's easy on the eyes. Richard definitely has his sights set on her, too. But first, Naomi has to free herself from her past—and learn how to love again—before she can have all she ever wanted with the man of her dreams...