Author: Gavanndra Hodge
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405943238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood . . . 'Brilliant and moving' The Times 'Dazzling' Evening Standard 'Beautifully written' Marian Keyes 'Unflinchingly honest Sunday Times 'Superbly written' Guardian 'A triumph' i _______ Her father was a hairdresser to the rich and famous - he was also their drug dealer. Her mother was an alcoholic fashion model. Her days and nights were non-stop parties - she spent them taking care of her little sister and putting out naked flames. And when her sister dies aged nine, Gavanndra is left alone with her grief. Growing up in the dazzling days and dark nights of her parents' social lives, surviving means fitting into their dysfunctional world, while stopping the family from falling apart . . . _________ 'A redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning' i 'This story will stay with you long after you put the book down' Emma Gannon 'There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism. By the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through' Evening Standard 'A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling' i
The Consequences of Love
Author: Gavanndra Hodge
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405943238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood . . . 'Brilliant and moving' The Times 'Dazzling' Evening Standard 'Beautifully written' Marian Keyes 'Unflinchingly honest Sunday Times 'Superbly written' Guardian 'A triumph' i _______ Her father was a hairdresser to the rich and famous - he was also their drug dealer. Her mother was an alcoholic fashion model. Her days and nights were non-stop parties - she spent them taking care of her little sister and putting out naked flames. And when her sister dies aged nine, Gavanndra is left alone with her grief. Growing up in the dazzling days and dark nights of her parents' social lives, surviving means fitting into their dysfunctional world, while stopping the family from falling apart . . . _________ 'A redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning' i 'This story will stay with you long after you put the book down' Emma Gannon 'There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism. By the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through' Evening Standard 'A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling' i
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 1405943238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
The must-read memoir about the dazzling days and dark nights of a Chelsea childhood . . . 'Brilliant and moving' The Times 'Dazzling' Evening Standard 'Beautifully written' Marian Keyes 'Unflinchingly honest Sunday Times 'Superbly written' Guardian 'A triumph' i _______ Her father was a hairdresser to the rich and famous - he was also their drug dealer. Her mother was an alcoholic fashion model. Her days and nights were non-stop parties - she spent them taking care of her little sister and putting out naked flames. And when her sister dies aged nine, Gavanndra is left alone with her grief. Growing up in the dazzling days and dark nights of her parents' social lives, surviving means fitting into their dysfunctional world, while stopping the family from falling apart . . . _________ 'A redemptive tale of an emotional reckoning' i 'This story will stay with you long after you put the book down' Emma Gannon 'There are scenes that will reduce you to tears, but there's also humour, forgiveness and uplifting optimism. By the end of this dazzling debut you just want to give her a huge cheer for coming through' Evening Standard 'A masterful writer with a gift for storytelling' i
The Unpredictable Consequences of Love
Author: Jill Mansell
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0755355997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Jill Mansell's bestseller THE UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE is an unforgettable tale of sunny days on the beach, Cornwall in the summer and secrets about to be revealed. Perfect for readers of Lucy Diamond and Veronica Henry. In the idyllic seaside town of St Carys, Sophie is putting the past firmly behind her. When Josh arrives in St Carys to run the family hotel, he can't understand why Sophie has zero interest in letting any man into her life. He also can't understand how he's been duped into employing Sophie's impulsive friend Tula, whose crush on him is decidedly unrequited. St Carys has more than its fair share of characters, including the charming but utterly feckless surfer Riley Bryant, who has a massive crush on Tula. Riley's aunt is superstar author Marguerite Marshall. And Marguerite has designs on Josh's grandfather...who in turn still adores his glamorous ex-wife, Dot... Just how many secrets can one seaside town keep? What readers are saying about The Unpredictable Consequences of Love: 'The way in which the various stories played out - with all their twists and turns, laughs and real sadness - against the vividly drawn Cornish setting made for quite engrossing reading' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wonderfully witty, highly compelling and absolutely impossible to resist' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'So much love is flowing in this little seaside town and each of the characters are loveable and entertaining. The perfect read with no flaws and had me hooked from start to finish' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0755355997
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Jill Mansell's bestseller THE UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE is an unforgettable tale of sunny days on the beach, Cornwall in the summer and secrets about to be revealed. Perfect for readers of Lucy Diamond and Veronica Henry. In the idyllic seaside town of St Carys, Sophie is putting the past firmly behind her. When Josh arrives in St Carys to run the family hotel, he can't understand why Sophie has zero interest in letting any man into her life. He also can't understand how he's been duped into employing Sophie's impulsive friend Tula, whose crush on him is decidedly unrequited. St Carys has more than its fair share of characters, including the charming but utterly feckless surfer Riley Bryant, who has a massive crush on Tula. Riley's aunt is superstar author Marguerite Marshall. And Marguerite has designs on Josh's grandfather...who in turn still adores his glamorous ex-wife, Dot... Just how many secrets can one seaside town keep? What readers are saying about The Unpredictable Consequences of Love: 'The way in which the various stories played out - with all their twists and turns, laughs and real sadness - against the vividly drawn Cornish setting made for quite engrossing reading' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wonderfully witty, highly compelling and absolutely impossible to resist' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'So much love is flowing in this little seaside town and each of the characters are loveable and entertaining. The perfect read with no flaws and had me hooked from start to finish' Amazon reviewer, 5 stars
Shyness & Love
Author: Brian G. Gilmartin
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761860606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes—both biomedical as well as situational—of “love-shyness” and the consequences for those afflicted with it. Gilmartin also discusses promising treatment modalities and what schools and communities can do to prevent severe love-shyness from developing in the first place. Shyness & Love examines the early family life as well as the peer group interactions of love-shy men. The book provides many statistical comparisons between the sampled love-shys and a comparison group of non-love-shy males of normal (but not superior) social self-confidence levels. These statistical comparisons allow for some informed speculations regarding the numerous interacting causes that underlie social phobia in informal, unstructured, heterosexual social situations. These statistical comparisons also provide the reader with some powerful suggestions regarding ways the American social structure (e.g., schools, family life, and communities) might be rearranged so that severe and intractable forms of love-shyness would never have an opportunity to develop in growing boys and teenagers in the first place. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, it has been determined that as many as forty percent of men afflicted with love-shyness are simultaneously comorbid for Asperger’s Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism. As many as half of all love-shy males are comorbid for the “male lesbian syndrome,” sometimes also referred to as the “passive, non-competitive male syndrome.” This second edition contains a new foreword that presents the latest findings in love-shyness research. It is more concise than the original Shyness & Love, yet retains the most significant chapters.
Publisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 0761860606
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Shyness & Love covers the only major study conducted to date on social anxiety disorder as it is manifested in informal, unstructured, male/female dating and courtship situations. It focuses on the causes—both biomedical as well as situational—of “love-shyness” and the consequences for those afflicted with it. Gilmartin also discusses promising treatment modalities and what schools and communities can do to prevent severe love-shyness from developing in the first place. Shyness & Love examines the early family life as well as the peer group interactions of love-shy men. The book provides many statistical comparisons between the sampled love-shys and a comparison group of non-love-shy males of normal (but not superior) social self-confidence levels. These statistical comparisons allow for some informed speculations regarding the numerous interacting causes that underlie social phobia in informal, unstructured, heterosexual social situations. These statistical comparisons also provide the reader with some powerful suggestions regarding ways the American social structure (e.g., schools, family life, and communities) might be rearranged so that severe and intractable forms of love-shyness would never have an opportunity to develop in growing boys and teenagers in the first place. Since the publication of the first edition of this book, it has been determined that as many as forty percent of men afflicted with love-shyness are simultaneously comorbid for Asperger’s Syndrome, also known as high-functioning autism. As many as half of all love-shy males are comorbid for the “male lesbian syndrome,” sometimes also referred to as the “passive, non-competitive male syndrome.” This second edition contains a new foreword that presents the latest findings in love-shyness research. It is more concise than the original Shyness & Love, yet retains the most significant chapters.
Love, Lies, and Consequences
Author: Blake Karrington
Publisher: Karrington Media Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Savannah Zaher has always prided herself in making the right decisions for her life, from the time she packed up her things to attend college and law school in California to coming back home ten years later grown, focused, and with a career she's always dreamed of. Only her best friend Reign knows the real reason behind her moving across the country all those years ago—trying to distance herself from a man. Lyfe Simmons is on top of the world. He has an empire that has been growing bigger every day, a group of friends who would die for each other, and a wife who is down for whatever. What could he possibly be missing? He has basically anything he could ever want right as his fingertips, but he doesn’t have the one thing he wants most: the woman he fell in love with and hasn't stopped loving since he first laid eyes on her. With so many obstacles and bitter people in the way, can love really conquer all? Or will the consequences of loving a man who belongs to someone else cost Savannah everything she’s worked so hard for?
Publisher: Karrington Media Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Savannah Zaher has always prided herself in making the right decisions for her life, from the time she packed up her things to attend college and law school in California to coming back home ten years later grown, focused, and with a career she's always dreamed of. Only her best friend Reign knows the real reason behind her moving across the country all those years ago—trying to distance herself from a man. Lyfe Simmons is on top of the world. He has an empire that has been growing bigger every day, a group of friends who would die for each other, and a wife who is down for whatever. What could he possibly be missing? He has basically anything he could ever want right as his fingertips, but he doesn’t have the one thing he wants most: the woman he fell in love with and hasn't stopped loving since he first laid eyes on her. With so many obstacles and bitter people in the way, can love really conquer all? Or will the consequences of loving a man who belongs to someone else cost Savannah everything she’s worked so hard for?
Of Love and Papers
Author: Laura E. Enriquez
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344359
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain family formation. The imprint of illegality remains, even upon obtaining DACA or permanent residency. Interweaving the perspectives of US citizen romantic partners and children, Enriquez illustrates the multigenerational punishment that limits the upward mobility of Latino families. Of Love and Papers sparks an intimate understanding of contemporary US immigration policies and their enduring consequences for immigrant families.
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520344359
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Enriquez investigates how immigration status creeps into the most personal aspects of everyday life, intersecting with gender to constrain family formation. The imprint of illegality remains, even upon obtaining DACA or permanent residency. Interweaving the perspectives of US citizen romantic partners and children, Enriquez illustrates the multigenerational punishment that limits the upward mobility of Latino families. Of Love and Papers sparks an intimate understanding of contemporary US immigration policies and their enduring consequences for immigrant families.
Love and Consequences
Author: Margaret B. Jones
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9781594489778
Category : Compact discs, Book
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A former child gang member who followed her foster brothers into the Bloods at the age of eight reveals her participation in drug activities and violence before finding the strength within herself to graduate college and break free.
Publisher: Riverhead Books
ISBN: 9781594489778
Category : Compact discs, Book
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A former child gang member who followed her foster brothers into the Bloods at the age of eight reveals her participation in drug activities and violence before finding the strength within herself to graduate college and break free.
The Unexpected Consequences of Love
Author: Jill Mansell
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492602094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sophie has no interest in finding love. But what happens when love finds her? Sophie Wells is a successful photographer with a focus on putting the past firmly behind her. When Josh Strachan returns to the seaside town of Cornwall from the States to run his family's hotel, he can't understand why the fun, sexy girl has zero interest in letting him—or any man for that matter—into her life. He also can't understand how he's been duped into employing Sophie's impulsive friend Tula, whose crush on him is decidedly unrequited. Both girls remain mum about the reasons behind Sophie's indifference to love. But that doesn't mean Josh is going to quit trying...
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1492602094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
Sophie has no interest in finding love. But what happens when love finds her? Sophie Wells is a successful photographer with a focus on putting the past firmly behind her. When Josh Strachan returns to the seaside town of Cornwall from the States to run his family's hotel, he can't understand why the fun, sexy girl has zero interest in letting him—or any man for that matter—into her life. He also can't understand how he's been duped into employing Sophie's impulsive friend Tula, whose crush on him is decidedly unrequited. Both girls remain mum about the reasons behind Sophie's indifference to love. But that doesn't mean Josh is going to quit trying...
The Color of Love
Author: Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477307885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” features often experience material and emotional hardships. From parental ties, to sibling interactions, to extended family and romantic relationships, the chapters chart new territory by revealing the connection between proximity to whiteness and the distribution of affection within families. Hordge-Freeman also explores how black Brazilian families, particularly mothers, rely on diverse strategies that reproduce, negotiate, and resist racism. She frames efforts to modify racial features as sometimes reflecting internalized racism, and at other times as responding to material and emotional considerations. Contextualizing their strategies within broader narratives of the African diaspora, she examines how Salvador’s inhabitants perceive the history of the slave trade itself in a city that is referred to as the “blackest” in Brazil. She argues that racial hierarchies may orchestrate family relationships in ways that reflect and reproduce racial inequality, but black Brazilian families actively negotiate these hierarchies to assert their citizenship and humanity.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477307885
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” features often experience material and emotional hardships. From parental ties, to sibling interactions, to extended family and romantic relationships, the chapters chart new territory by revealing the connection between proximity to whiteness and the distribution of affection within families. Hordge-Freeman also explores how black Brazilian families, particularly mothers, rely on diverse strategies that reproduce, negotiate, and resist racism. She frames efforts to modify racial features as sometimes reflecting internalized racism, and at other times as responding to material and emotional considerations. Contextualizing their strategies within broader narratives of the African diaspora, she examines how Salvador’s inhabitants perceive the history of the slave trade itself in a city that is referred to as the “blackest” in Brazil. She argues that racial hierarchies may orchestrate family relationships in ways that reflect and reproduce racial inequality, but black Brazilian families actively negotiate these hierarchies to assert their citizenship and humanity.
Living with the Consequences of Love & Care
Author: Eric Xaba
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145358868X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
This is a story of a boy named Tray. Throughout his life he was always in danger, caused by two people pretending to be lovers. Every time people judge things by its own action, but sometimes their judgment become false. Especially in life there is nothing for ever the promises as well become unreal. That is how it went down in this family of Tray. He grew up while his parents were still together. Things began to turn up side down on the day his sister was born. Trays family was punished a lot by his actions. He started to join the wrong groups where they were participating in illegal stuff. But this was the only way he could help his mother. He thought it would be easy money, fast money. Tray was on the move, dealing illegal to get the money for his mother who was in a lot of trouble. Sometimes the innocent person becomes the guilty person because of someone elses fault. It caused a lot of sadness to both Tray and his mother when his father left his mother to go and stay with his new lover. His mothers life was on the line because of her sickness that developed so fast, and because of that she stressed a lot. Tray was caught and had to be send to prison. After he did his time he went through lots of challenges. Tray was attacked and left in a burning shelter which he barely escaped. The enemy attacked again and again with all sorts off weapons like bottles and stuff. The enemy always had a knew plan to get rid of Tray. Most of his days he spent in Hospital. Believing his father caused all of the accidents. Different attacks took place several times but Tray survived all of them. To be a victim keeps a person is not at peace and his health also gets hurt. But at the end his enemies would end up in prison. The people in prison do eventually learn a lesson. After they finished their sentence they also live a peaceful better life, they become clean honest people. This was the same for Trays enemies. This is how we must live with one another in Love and Peace and Care.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 145358868X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
This is a story of a boy named Tray. Throughout his life he was always in danger, caused by two people pretending to be lovers. Every time people judge things by its own action, but sometimes their judgment become false. Especially in life there is nothing for ever the promises as well become unreal. That is how it went down in this family of Tray. He grew up while his parents were still together. Things began to turn up side down on the day his sister was born. Trays family was punished a lot by his actions. He started to join the wrong groups where they were participating in illegal stuff. But this was the only way he could help his mother. He thought it would be easy money, fast money. Tray was on the move, dealing illegal to get the money for his mother who was in a lot of trouble. Sometimes the innocent person becomes the guilty person because of someone elses fault. It caused a lot of sadness to both Tray and his mother when his father left his mother to go and stay with his new lover. His mothers life was on the line because of her sickness that developed so fast, and because of that she stressed a lot. Tray was caught and had to be send to prison. After he did his time he went through lots of challenges. Tray was attacked and left in a burning shelter which he barely escaped. The enemy attacked again and again with all sorts off weapons like bottles and stuff. The enemy always had a knew plan to get rid of Tray. Most of his days he spent in Hospital. Believing his father caused all of the accidents. Different attacks took place several times but Tray survived all of them. To be a victim keeps a person is not at peace and his health also gets hurt. But at the end his enemies would end up in prison. The people in prison do eventually learn a lesson. After they finished their sentence they also live a peaceful better life, they become clean honest people. This was the same for Trays enemies. This is how we must live with one another in Love and Peace and Care.
The Consequences of Love
Author: Sulaiman S.M.Y. Addonia
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781588368645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together. Under a relentless summer sun, women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Naser’s friends have left town to escape the heat, he must stay behind to work. An African immigrant and outsider, Naser spends his spare time frequenting a friend’s café, writing letters to his mother in Eritrea, and daydreaming about the glamorous girlfriend he hopes to one day have. Naser and his younger brother were sent to Saudi Arabia to avoid the war back home, but though they live with their conservative Muslim uncle they remain under the watchful, wrathful eyes of the religious police, who monitor the community’s every action, govern the near indestructible boundaries between men and women–walls in mosques, panels on buses, separate visiting quarters in houses, and, of course, the black veil, or abaya, that adorns the women–and punish any disobedience by public beating or death. But a splash of color arrives in Naser’s world when unexpectedly a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note from a girl whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. To identify her among the sea of veiled women, she instructs him to look for a pair of pink shoes peeking out from under her draped abaya. Intrigued and encouraged, Naser rebels against Wahhabist Islamic convention and begins a clandestine correspondence with the girl. Yet even as the barriers that divide them begin to crumble under the weight of their passionate prose and devotion, the lovers’ illicit affair will face the ultimate and most heartrending test.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 9781588368645
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
A Romeo and Juliet story set against the strict Muslim laws of Saudi Arabia, Sulaiman Addonia’s astonishing debut novel is a sensuous and intensely wrought story of a young immigrant and a girl behind a veil who defy law and risk their lives to be together. Under a relentless summer sun, women dressed like long dark shadows and men decked out in light cotton robes roam the streets of Jeddah. While most of Naser’s friends have left town to escape the heat, he must stay behind to work. An African immigrant and outsider, Naser spends his spare time frequenting a friend’s café, writing letters to his mother in Eritrea, and daydreaming about the glamorous girlfriend he hopes to one day have. Naser and his younger brother were sent to Saudi Arabia to avoid the war back home, but though they live with their conservative Muslim uncle they remain under the watchful, wrathful eyes of the religious police, who monitor the community’s every action, govern the near indestructible boundaries between men and women–walls in mosques, panels on buses, separate visiting quarters in houses, and, of course, the black veil, or abaya, that adorns the women–and punish any disobedience by public beating or death. But a splash of color arrives in Naser’s world when unexpectedly a small piece of paper is dropped at his feet. It is a love note from a girl whose face he has never seen and whose voice he has never heard. To identify her among the sea of veiled women, she instructs him to look for a pair of pink shoes peeking out from under her draped abaya. Intrigued and encouraged, Naser rebels against Wahhabist Islamic convention and begins a clandestine correspondence with the girl. Yet even as the barriers that divide them begin to crumble under the weight of their passionate prose and devotion, the lovers’ illicit affair will face the ultimate and most heartrending test.