Stone Dead by Linda Menzies
Stone Dead | Linda Menzies | The story is set in a rural area of a fictionalised Angus, Scotland. Barleyknowe is a farmhouse with semi-derelict outbuildings and land. A wealthy wo
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Dancing With Strings by Frances Cherry
Dancing With Strings | Frances Cherry | ‘Embarrassed daughter of ‘Commie’ parents in 1950s Wellington, bride of a deceptively engaging Aussie in the 60s, suburban mum in the 70s … Katherin
Washing Up In Parrot Bay by Frances Cherry
Washing Up In Parrot Bay | Frances Cherry | A ‘provocative and engaging black tragicomedy’ about a ‘world of lust, betrayal and obsession’ in a community that might be anywhere in New Zealand.
The Magician’s Girl by Doris Grumbach
The Magician’s Girl | Doris Grumbach | The Magician’s Girl tells the story of three New York women who meet at Barnard in the late 1930s and fulfill their separate destinies from the 1940s
New to Liberty by Demisty D. Bellinger
New to Liberty | Demisty D. Bellinger | Three women, decades apart from each other, fight for love and agency in a rural Kansas community seemingly frozen in time:
1966: Sissily is
Violets by Kyung-Sook Shin
Violets | Kyung-Sook Shin | By Man Asian Literary Prize winner Kyung-Sook Shin, ‘a moving delve into a lonely psyche’ that follows a neglected young woman’s search for human conn
Other People Manage by Ellen Hawley
Other People Manage | Ellen Hawley | It’s Minneapolis in the 1970s, and two women meet in the Women’s Coffeehouse. Marge is a bus driver, and Peg is training to be a psychotherapist.
Sedating Elaine by Dawn Winter
Sedating Elaine | Dawn Winter | An exuberant dark comedy about love, grief, sex, guilt, and one woman’s harebrained scheme to tranquilize her voraciously amorous girlfriend for a few
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Our Wives Under the Sea | Julia Armfield | Leah is changed. A marine biologist, she left for a routine expedition months earlier, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she fi
The Mathematics of Change by Amanda Kabak
The Mathematics of Change | Amanda Kabak | The Mathematics of Change breaks open and breaks down the equation of midlife, proving balance is imaginary and change the only possible solution. The