Esta aclamada autora internacional descubrió la emoción de crear mundos ficticios a los once años. Tras estudiar Filología Inglesa en Oxford, se dedicó brevemente a la publicidad antes de mudarse a Argentina a los veinticinco años. Allí, se convirtió en periodista autónoma y escribió su primera novela. Desde entonces, se ha dedicado por completo a la escritura, produciendo numerosas novelas que exhiben su voz distintiva y su narrativa imaginativa.
Rachel is thirty-nine and the director of a successful advertising agency. She has a semi-detached lover and a smart flat in Chelsea. Rachel's many girlfriends envy her single, childless state - for she has all the benefits of parenthood, with her several godchildren, and none of the disadvantages. Something is lacking in Rachel's life, however. With her typical decisiveness, she focuses on it. She wants a baby. But unexpected hurdles rise up in her path...
Charlotte Turner faces challenges as she turns forty, dealing with a recent divorce, issues with her son, and unwanted attention from her best friend's husband. Is this the turning point in her life?
The Harrison family gathers as usual for Christmas in their big Sussex house - a tight safe world of festivity and family ritual. This year, however, outside realities are pressing hard: Pamela and John, married for four decades, know that time is catching up with them. And trouble is brewing in the lives of their four children. Cassie, the cossetted youngest, is in the throes of an affair with a married man; Elizabeth, her awkward older sister, is struggling with a faltering second marriage; Peter, the eldest and designated inheritor of Ashley House, is beginning to meet resistance to such a prospect from his career-orientated wife. Only Charlie, the charming and carefree younger son, and his wife Serena, seem truly content, with nothing to worry about except their adolescent twin girls and the simpler teething troubles of their toddler. Everywhere the scent of change is in the air. Yet, change, when it comes, strikes in the form of a tragedy of the most unforeseeable and devastating kind. The family, so apparently secure, begins to unravel.And secrets, past and present, are exposed, laying bare the fragility of human happiness and the myriad faces of love in an imperfect world.
For some families, a year can feel like a lifetime ... The Harrisons are a large and extremely close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world. As preparations for 42 year-old Cassie's long-awaited wedding gather pace and an exotic family holiday is planned, sibling and marital bonds are stretched to breaking adultery, an unwanted pregnancy, shadows of past losses ... suddenly a year of celebration threatens to become one of painful upheaval. Beset by such emotional chaos, how can the adults hope to guide their children in matters of the heart? Or are the children the ones who should be guiding them? A multi-generational story of love, lies and family ties, The Simple Rules of Love presents Amanda Brookfield at her perceptive and poignant best.
When Janine and Dougie fell in love they thought it would be for ever. .Fifteen years later their relationship is well and truly over, their daughter Stevie their one remaining connection. . Stevie is on the cusp of adulthood. .At sixteen, she's not quite a child, but not quite grown up: a dangerous age.
Beautiful Anna Lawrence, with a successful career in broadcasting and marriage to a wealthy man with a luxurious country home, has everything a thirty-two year old could wish for. Until she finds herself unexpectedly pregnant, too late to do anything about it. Her sister Becky longs for children but her husband, a struggling chef, has told her they have to put family life on hold for a few more years. Anna's pregnancy uncovers fractures in the sisters' relationship going back years, and the ramifications affect everyone in their lives.
Playboy Julian Blake weds Veronica Kembleton, but his rugby teammates-- bachelors Teddy, George and Peter-- rightly predict his dissatisfaction with marriage.
Die Familie Harrison freut sich auf ein Jahr voller Feste mit Cassies Hochzeit und einem Urlaub, doch Konflikte und unerwartete Wendungen stellen die familiären Beziehungen auf die Probe. Streitigkeiten, verlorene und gefundene Liebe bringen die Pläne durcheinander.
Der charmante und gutaussehende Matt, der es mit seiner Vaterrolle nicht immer so genau nimmt, fällt aus allen Wolken, als seine Frau Kath ihn verläßt. Während er alles versucht, um dem vierjährigen Josh die Mami zu ersetzen und Redaktionsalltag, Fischstäbchenorgien und Montessori-Kindergarten unter einen Hut zu bekommen, fliegen dem alleinerziehenden Daddy schnell die Herzen der Frauen zu. Doch eigentlich wünscht er sich nichts sehnlicher als seine Kath zurück … Amanda Brookfield gelang eine charmante Komödie um die Suche nach der einzig Richtigen. 'Ein amüsanter Roman über das Abenteuer namens Familie.' Für Sie
