'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTONIs it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a...

Fin da bambina, a Amy Key è stato detto che una vita felice è una vita di coppia e che desideri e aspettative personali sarebbero passati in secondo piano una volta trovata "la persona giusta", dando così senso al tempo trascorso in attesa di quell'inderogabile momento di assestamento esistenziale. Ma superata la soglia dei quaranta, e a più di vent'anni dall'ultima relazione, niente di tutto ciò è accaduto. La sua vita ha preso una direzione diversa e la paura di rimanere sola, almeno per...

Brought to you by Penguin.When poet Amy Key was growing up, she looked forward to a life shaped by romance, fuelled by desire, longing and the conventional markers of success that come when you share a life with another person. But that didn't happen for her. Now in her forties, she sets out to explore the realities of a life lived in the absence of romantic love.Using Joni Mitchell's seminal album Blue - an album that shaped Key's expectations of ...

Poetry Book Society Wild Card Choice. Amy Key’s Isn’t Forever is a grimoire for feminine selfhood in a world where a sense of self is flimsy, elusive and unrequited. The poems in this book are obsessive in their desire to construct and breach the terms of their own intimacy. They have their own ‘narrative costume’ but are vexed with it, not quite able to master the ‘diligence of having a body’. This is a book where a tender and sabotaging shame of aloneness has taken root. Where wants clus...

Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining meadow. As summer turns to autumn and then winter, the Pond is still visited by a large ...

When Ethel's grandmother dies, Ethel goes to live with her father, brother, and the stepmother and little siblings she has never met. She also must live with, and endure, the spitefulness of Aunt Sophie, who rules the house under a cloud of bad-temper and bitterness. Ethel’s Text is a Victorian story edited gently for a modern audience. It is a simple, heart-warming tale of overcoming grief and adversity through the guiding lights of past love, new friends and family and the words of the S...

When Ethel's grandmother dies, Ethel goes to live with her father, brother, and the stepmother and little siblings she has never met. She also must live with, and endure, the spitefulness of Aunt Sophie, who rules the house under a cloud of bad-temper and bitterness. Ethel’s Text is a Victorian story edited gently for a modern audience. It is a simple, heart-warming tale of overcoming grief and adversity through the guiding lights of past love, new friends and family and the words of the S...

Trust is an easy thing to lose… but a much harder thing to earn back once it's gone.After the disappearance of his wife left his world shattered, Lee Young has done his best to start over. With a proposal in his future and his daughter, Jessie, returning home at last, peace in sunny Key West seems within reach.That is, until Vicky Donovan arrives back in town.Despite betraying Lee years ago, Vicky is determined to enlist his help in taking down the corrupt criminal ...

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You never know which unfinished story will change your life—or who will help you write the next chapter.Ten years after vanishing from Key West, investigative reporter Tilly Young is a fugitive, framed for a murder she didn't commit and cut off from the daughter she left behind. Her only ally is Garry Garrison, a scarred ex–agent whose job is to keep her alive—and whose secrets run almost as deep as her own.When Tilly's teenage daughter, Hannah, and fearless cousin Morgan t...

What lengths would you go to clear the names of your loved ones... and would you be willing to pay the price?When evidence that could clear her estranged husband, Jack Young, of a brutal crime lands in her hands, Tarryn Young becomes a target. The file can save Jack—but it could also destroy her family. Someone close to her is involved, and they'll do anything to keep their secret buried.Out of options and on the run, Tarryn turns to the one person who might help her expose...

Can you outwit a demon and escape the labyrinth alive?When best friends Eevie and Tommy hear a rumor of pure evil rising beneath their town, they know they should stay away. They don’t.One wrong step plunges them into a deadly labyrinth—a shifting maze of riddles, traps, and secrets never meant to be uncovered. Now, escape is their only hope. But the labyrinth is watching... and it doesn’t let its challengers leave unchanged.To survive, Eevie and ...