Libraries and archives are liminal spaces between what once was and what might be remembered.This edited collection explores this dynamic through international case studies, theoretical discussions and practical guidance, considering how these spaces activate moments of grief through preservation and documentation. Drawing on cultural, personal and literary perspectives, this volume examines grief across temporalities and the ephemerality of digital and material memory spaces....

"A man's sudden death touches off seismic shifts in the lives of three women . . . in this affecting weeper about friendship and family." — Publishers WeeklyThe Brighton to London line. The 7:44 am train. Cars packed with commuters. One woman occupies her time observing the people around her. Opposite, a girl puts on her make-up. Across the aisle, a husband strokes his wife's hand. Further along, another woman flicks through a glossy magazine. Then, abruptl...

A memorable and moving page-turner about two very different women, each yearning to create a family of her ownWhat if the thing you most longed for was resting on a two week wait? From the author of the international bestselling One Moment, One Morning, comes a moving portrait about what it truly means to be a family.After a health scare, Brighton-based Lou is forced to confront the fact that her time to have a baby is running out. She can't imagine a future without ...

From the internationally bestselling author Sarah Rayner, Another Night, Another Day is the emotional story of a group of strangers who come together to heal, creating lifelong friendships along the way.Three people, each crying out for help.There's Karen, about to lose her father; Abby, whose son has autism and needs constant care; and Michael, a family man on the verge of bankruptcy. As each sinks under the strain, they're brought together at Morel...

In the internationally bestselling author Sarah Rayner's The Other Half, Chloe, bright, hip and single, is a feature writer with ambitions to launch a magazine of her own. When she meets James, her potential new boss, she knows she shouldn't mix business with pleasure, but finds it impossible to resist...Maggie appears to have it all. She's beautiful, a talented writer, and has a gorgeous husband. But something's not quite right: his job as a magazine publisher is keeping h...

Revenge has never been such funHow would you feel if your best friend at work betrayed you? Was secretly having an affair with an influential colleague? Won a coveted promotion, then teamed you up with a mere junior, leaving you feeling completely demoted? What would you do? For Ivy there's no choice. The only person she has ever trusted, Orianna, has blown it big time. So there's only one way forward: revenge.Ivy's campaign is brilliant, if horribly destruct...

When the father she never knew dies and leaves her a gold mine, recently divorced Maggie Stevens heads for the remote community of Eureka, Colorado to claim her inheritance and to solve the mystery of the man who abandoned the family when Maggie was only three days old.But the answers Maggie hopes to find aren't buried in her father's past or deep inside the mine. The real treasures in Eureka are the people she meets – from the colorful town mayor, Lucille and her prodigal daughter Olivia,...

From New York Times bestselling author Eileen Goudge comes a poignant new novel that asks the question, “What would you do if you were told you had only six months to live?” For one professional matchmaker the answer is heart-wrenching: She must find her husband’s next wife.Camille Hart, one of Manhattan’s most sought-after matchmakers, has survived more than her fair share of hardships. Her mother died when she was a young girl, leaving her and her sister...

With a baby on the way and a wedding to plan, Maggie Stevens has her hands full as spring rolls into Eureka, Colorado. With the warming weather comes a movie crew to film in the town, and rumors that the Lucky Lady mine is haunted. While some chase stardom with the movie crew, others are chasing ghosts, real and imagined. New arrivals and long-buried secrets threaten to turn everyone upside down. With so much going on, will the town's fortunes finally take a turn for the better, and will M...

The eyes of the wider world are on Eureka, Colorado as residents prepare for the annual Founders' Day celebration and a reporter arrives to profile a local celebrity – except no one is sure who the reporter is asking questions about. As gossip circulates and the reporter's target tries to avoid having their secret revealed, Maggie and Jameson struggle to adjust to marriage and new parenthood and Cassie tries to completely revamp the Founders' Day Festival to focus on her own illustrious fa...

The inspiration for the Hallmark Hall of Fame film Christmas Everlasting, “a feel-good goldmine” from the New York Times bestselling author (USA Today).Years of long workdays and little sleep as a political campaigner are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey’s boss is entering the White House. But when her estranged older sister, Alice, unexpectedly dies, Lucy is drawn back to Nilson’s Bay, her small, close-knit Wisconsin hometown.

Anne Rivers Siddons's New York Times bestselling novel about four friends whose lives are forever changed by the events of one summer.For fifteen years, four "girls of August" would gather together to spend a week at the beach, until tragedy interrupts their ritual. Now they reunite for a startling week of discoveries.The ritual began when they were in their twenties and their husbands were in medical school, and became a mainstay of every summer t...