Tag: Great

Dorothy Allison | Cavedweller | From the author of Bastard Out of Carolina comes another compelling novel about four women whose lives converge unexpectedly and force all of them to

Elizabeth Jolley | Miss Peabody’s inheritance | ‘In this powerful tale of love and loneliness, Elizabeth Jolley has woven two parallel stories into a dazzlingly original novel. Arabella Thorne, a cu

Tereska Torres | Women’s Barracks |

Originally published in 1950, this account of life among female Free French soldiers in a London barracks during World War II sold four million cop

Pearl Luke | Burning Ground | Working in a fire tower in the Canadian woods, Percy Turner’s emotional state is hanging on by a thread. Fires smolder within her–the lifelong passio

Françoise Mallet-Joris | The Loving and the Daring | A Compelling Novel Of A Secret And Forbidden Love

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From the back cover: ‘A taut, sensitively written novel of a strange emotional al

Linnea A. Due | High and Outside | Star of her school softball team and with the highest point average in her class, Niki nonetheless has a severe drinking problem, and after nearly sel

Lisa Alther | Other Women | With two young sons, a failed marriage, a job as an emergency room nurse that leaves her feeling paralyzed and hopeless, and a relationship with a wom

Rita Mae Brown | A Plain Brown Rapper | A collection of essays on lesbianism and feminism.

Chinelo Okparanta | Under The Udala Trees | Ijeoma comes of age as her nation does; born before independence, she is 11 when civil war breaks out in the young republic of Nigeria. Sent away to s

Julie Anne Peters | Luna | Regan’s brother Liam can’t stand the person he is during the day. Like the moon from whom Liam has chosen his female namesake, his true self, Luna, on