Maiden Dinosaur
By: Janet McNeill
3.41
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
If it is difficult to accept middle-age, is it harder for those who are no longer beautiful and pas…
Want to Read"The most monstrous thing about being afraid all the time is the way it can go on and on long after you have decided you can't bear it any longer. There is no way of stopping, and nobody seems to notice. I am terrified how well I can pretend. I feel as if it was spelt out in big letters right across my face."-Janet McNeill, Maiden Dinosaur
"The most monstrous thing about being afraid all the time is the way it can go on and on long after you have decided you can't bear it any longer. There is no way of stopping, and nobody seems to notice. I am terrified how well I can pretend. I feel as if it was spelt out in big letters right across my face."-Janet McNeill, Maiden Dinosaur
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1. Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
By: Elizabeth Taylor , Paul Bailey
4.00
Format: 206 pages, Paperback
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"Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"If you don't praise people just sometimes a little early on they die of despair, or turn into Hitlers, you know?"-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
"...pensaba en el amor y en sus espantosas desigualdades. Siempre hay alguien que ofrece la mejilla y otro que la besa."-Elizabeth Taylor, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
2. Angel
By: Hilary Mantel , Elizabeth Taylor
3.76
Format: 6 pages, Paperback
Writing stories that are extravagant and fanciful, fifteen-year old Angel retreats to a world of ro… read more
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3. Hotel du Lac
By: Anita Brookner
3.93
Format: 245 pages, Paperback
"Impeccably written and suffused with pleasing wit."--Newsweek In the novel that won her the Booker… read more
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- fiction
4. The Pillow Book
By: Sei Shōnagon , Ivan Morris
3.91
Format: 163 pages, Paperback
"The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon" is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the … read more
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5. The Foolish Gentlewoman
By: Margery Sharp
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Light, humorous novel in the usual Sharp style, Isabel Brocken, a sentimental English widow, extend… read more
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- fiction
6. Quartet in Autumn
By: Barbara Pym
3.90
Format: 186 pages, Paperback
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief… read more
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7. Memento Mori
By: Muriel Spark
3.97
Format: None pages, Paperback
In late 1950s London, something uncanny besets a group of elderly friends: an insinuating voice on … read more
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8. A Wreath of Roses
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.90
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Spending the holiday with friends, as she has for many years, Camilla finds that their private abso… read more
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"For all civilisations are like elaborate campings-out, a complicated picnic in the face of nature's discomforts."-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting."-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"—Durante años vivimos al galope —dijo Frances— y de pronto las dudas nos asaltan, el paisaje se ensombrece, nos sentimos perdidas y solas, y repentinamente tomamos conciencia de que tendremos que seg…"-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
"Intentos de registrar la vida misma, pensó, de inmortalizar alguna de las escenas efímeras de cada día, de pintar los objetos cotidianos con ternura e intimidad: el café sucio con sus espejos carcomi…"-Elizabeth Taylor, A Wreath of Roses
9. The Seven Sisters
By: Margaret Drabble
4.00
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
When circumstances compel her to start over late in her life, Candida Wilton moves from a beautiful… read more
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10. The Hours Before Dawn
By: Celia Fremlin
3.81
Format: 75 pages, Paperback
This novel, one of the Virago Crime Classics, combines humour with a look at the danger and suspens… read more
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11. Bonjour tristesse
By: Françoise Sagan
3.72
Format: 154 pages, Mass Market Paperback
(English follows French) La villa est magnifique, l'été brûlant, la Méditerranée toute proche. C… read more
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"Je serais intelligente, cultivée, un peu détachée, comme Anne."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Il est très vaniteux ou très peu sûr de lui, comme vous voulez."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Bet juk taip malonu paklusti savo impulsams, o paskui gailėtis..."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
"Et de plus, Cyril m'aimait ... cette pensée suffisait à mon euphorie."-Françoise Sagan, Bonjour tristesse
12. The Country Girls (The Country Girls Trilogy, #1)
By: Edna O'Brien
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
Meet Kate and Baba, two young Irish country girls who have spent their childhood together. As they … read more
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13. The Book of Form and Emptiness
By: Ruth Ozeki
4.03
Format: 548 pages, Hardcover
A brilliantly inventive new novel about loss, growing up, and our relationship with things, by the … read more
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"Those are your divisions, the false dichotomies and the hegemonic hierarchies of materialist colonizers. We, too, have been the slaves of your desires, unwitting tools, forging the destruction of the…"-Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness
14. Close to Home
By: Michael Magee
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does everything he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more
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- fiction
15. The Sleeping Beauty (A Virago Modern Classic)
By: Elizabeth Taylor
3.75
Format: 250 pages, Paperback
Vinny Tumulty is a quiet, sensible man. When he goes to stay at a seaside town, his task is to comf… read more
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16. Soldier Sailor
By: Claire Kilroy
4.10
Format: 256 pages, ebook
Well, Sailor. Here we are once more, you and me in one another's arms. The Earth rotates beneath us… read more
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"I laughed and then we were doing that thing again, our thing: laughing into one another's eyes. All that time I had thought I was jollying you along when all that time you were jollying along me."-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I tell my husband about my childhood and he tells me about his but it isn't the same. We can never know each other as we were then. But I know you. I will see the child you were in the man you will b…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"Hated cling film. Hated it more than I hated kinetic sand. Defeated by something that lacked a third dimension. While I'd been off tinkering on the cerebral plane, the smart money has been mastering …"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
"I knelt down to pick up the hatchling to . . . . what? Give it back to its mother? Here is your dying chick? Just before I made contact with it, she dive-bombed me. The mother actually dive-bombed me…"-Claire Kilroy, Soldier Sailor
17. Trespasses
By: Louise Kennedy
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering novel about a young woman caught between … read more
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- fiction
18. The Years
By: Annie Ernaux
4.17
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when… read more
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"Sauver quelque chose du temps où l'on ne sera plus jamais."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"La profusion des choses cachait la rareté des idées et l'usure des croyances."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"The profusion of things concealed the scarcity of ideas and the erosion of beliefs."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
"Je ne suis nulle part dans le temps. Il est l'ange qui fait revivre le passé, rend éternel."-Annie Ernaux, The Years
19. Big Girl, Small Town
By: Michelle Gallen
3.35
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Meet Majella O’Neill, a heroine like no other, in this captivating Irish debut that has been called… read more
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20. Maiden Dinosaur
By: Janet McNeill
3.41
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
If it is difficult to accept middle-age, is it harder for those who are no longer beautiful and pas… read more
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"The most monstrous thing about being afraid all the time is the way it can go on and on long after you have decided you can't bear it any longer. There is no way of stopping, and nobody seems to noti…"-Janet McNeill, Maiden Dinosaur
