Bøger af Jessica Andrews

A stunning new voice in British literary fiction, for fans of Rachel Cusk and Sally Rooney.

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This is Lily-Color Me! is a sweet coloring book for kids ages 4-8. It is all about a little girl named Lily, the sweet girl with a loving family and a dog. Lily is always in trouble and a trouble maker! The book contains 32 drawings, ready to color, printed on a single side sheet; so, your little one can use any kind of colors, the colors will not bleed through. The blank pages also provide a space where kids can draw their own pictures or write. Funny rhymes accompany each illustration, nice to read with mummy or grandma. This is a wonderful rhymes for kids coloring book for 4 year old and ups, so you will can spend time with your kids reading the rhymes or let them enjoy it by themselves.

A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review"Andrews's writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna O'Brien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up."-Penelope Green, The New York Times Book ReviewThis "luminous" (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her motherIt begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in Lucy's life has been her mother: comforting and mysterious, ferociously loving, tirelessly devoted, as much a part of Lucy as her own skin. Her mother's lessons in womanhood shape Lucy's appreciation for desire, her sense of duty as a caretaker, her hunger for a better, perhaps reckless life.At university in glamorous London, Lucy's background sets her apart. And then she is finished, graduated, adrift. She escapes to a tiny house in Donegal left empty by her grandfather, a place where her mother once found happiness. There she will take a lover, live inside art and the past, and track back through her memories and her mother's stories to make sense of her place in the world.In "a stunning new voice in British literary fiction" (The Independent) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica Andrews's debut honors the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. Intricately woven in lyrical vignettes, Saltwater is a novel of becoming-- a woman, an artist-- and of finding a way forward by looking back.

A Best Book of 2020: Open Letters Review"AndrewsΓÇÖs writing is transportingly voluptuous, conjuring tastes and smells and sounds like her literary godmother, Edna OΓÇÖBrien . . . What makes her novel sing is its universal themes: how a young woman tries to make sense of her world, and how she grows up."ΓÇôPenelope Green, The New York Times Book ReviewThis ΓÇ£luminousΓÇ¥ (The Observer) feminist coming-of-age novel captures in sensuous, blistering prose the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her motherIt begins with our bodies . . . Safe together in the violet dark and yet already there are spaces beginning to open between us.From that first immaculate, fluid connection, through the ups and downs of a working-class childhood in northern England, the one constant in LucyΓÇÖs life has been her mother: comforting and mysterious, ferociously loving, tirelessly devoted, as much a part of Lucy as her own skin. Her mother''s lessons in womanhood shape LucyΓÇÖs appreciation for desire, her sense of duty as a caretaker, her hunger for a better, perhaps reckless life.At university in glamorous London, LucyΓÇÖs background sets her apart. And then she is finished, graduated, adrift. She escapes to a tiny house in Donegal left empty by her grandfather, a place where her mother once found happiness. There she will take a lover, live inside art and the past, and track back through her memories and her motherΓÇÖs stories to make sense of her place in the world.In ΓÇ£a stunning new voice in British literary fictionΓÇ¥ (The Independent) that lays bare our raw, dark selves, Jessica AndrewsΓÇÖs debut honors the richness and imperfection of the bond between a daughter and her mother. Intricately woven in lyrical vignettes, Saltwater is a novel of becoming-- a woman, an artist-- and of finding a way forward by looking back.

The Book of Newcastle brings together some of the city's most renowned literary talents, along with exciting new voices, proving that while Newcastle continues to feel the effects of its lost industrial past, it is also a city striving for a future that brims with promise.