Jane Rogers
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a chilling future, one 16-year-old girl is driven to the ultimate act of heroism. The Testament of Jessie Lamb, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, is the breakout novel from award-winning author Jane Rogers. Its cunningly drawn characters and riveting vision of a dystopic future fraught with difficult moral choices will make The Testament of Jessie Lamb an instant favorite for fans of Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office.
The plan is simple. She'll find her mother, demand the answers she's always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides,...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
In the 1820s, Prophet John Wroe settled his Christian Israelite church in Lancashire, England, where he and his followers awaited the end of the world. And when God told Wroe to find "comfort and succour" with seven virgins, his followers supplied him their daughters. This is the story of those seven young women-faithful, cynical, canny, and desperate-and their charismatic leader, as they move headlong toward the historic trial that brings their household...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
A novel that delves into "the psychology behind the choice between career and homemaker faced by so many women. Delicately written and highly recommended" (Library Journal).
What happens when your husband falls in love with the woman you might have become?
Eighteen-year-old Carolyn Tanner lies in a hospital bed. Recovering from an accident, she imagines herself returning to her parents' home, marrying her childhood sweetheart, and becoming a mother....
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
"When Anne Harrington decides to return from her father's burial by ship, she is advised against it. The journey from Nigeria back to England is too long, she is warned: better to return to her old routine as quickly as possible. But Anne is not quite alone: she has her father's belongings and, more particularly, his diaries from his time in Africa." "In 1962 Anne's parents, Miriam and David, had made the opposite journey, arriving in Nigeria to work...
Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
In 1778, Royal Navy Lieutenant William Dawes sails to Australia with dreams of establishing a utopian society where the convict settlers on his ship and the Aborigines will learn from each other and live in harmony. Alas, it does not work. The story is recounted two centuries later by a history professor.
