Kate, whose care for her terminally ill mother coincides with the birth of her first child in the early months of a young marriage, must, in a single year, come to terms with radiant beginnings and profound loss. This novel explores the spiritual education at the heart of that fundamental transition[...]

This book offers a Story of Love, Murder and Obsession Chicago, 1931. Asta Eicher, a lonely widow with three children, is thrilled when Harry Powers asks her to marry him, and agrees to travel with him to West Virginia. She and her children are never seen alive again. Emily Thornhill, one of the few[...]

A major new novel that depicts the challenges of family life with contemporary force and timeless grace, from the acclaimed author of Machine Dreams and Shelter.

Formerly free-spirited, unattached Kate enters into roles of enormous responsibility: as she takes the first steps into a new [...]

Jayne Anne Phillips has always been a master of portraiture, both in her widely acclaimed novels and in her short fiction. The stories in Fast Lanes demonstrated the breadth of her talent in a "tour de force" of voices, offering elegantly rendered views into the lives of characters torn between the [...]

A collection of short stories and vignettes by the author of Machine Dreams reveals the daily life and loneliness of common people in town and country settings. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.[...]

A spectacularly riveting novel based on a real life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: "a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction, Jayne Anne Phillips has written the novel of the year" (Stephen King)--"think "In Cold Blood" meets "The Lovely Bones--"but sexy" ("People").
In Chicago in 1931, [...]

Ny roman av författaren till Lark & Termite

Året är 1931. Trebarnsmodern Asta Eicher är ensam och i penganöd efter att hennes make plötsligt gått bort. Via en kontaktannons börjar hon brevväxla med en charmig man vid namn Cornelius Pierson. Han uppvaktar henne och lovar till slut att[...]

Kiuru ja Termiitti on kertomus sodasta ja perheestä. Se kertoo rakkauden ja kaipuun voimasta, sodan yhä uudelleen heijastuvista vaikutuksista, perheiden salaisuuksista, unelmista ja aaveista, sekä ihmisiä yhdistävistä näkymättömistä, miltei maagisista siteistä.

Sota on Korean s[...]

Efterlängtad och kritikerhyllad återkomst - Jayne Anne Phillips första roman på nio år

I samma ögonblick som Termite föds dör hans far. Han blir ett av Koreakrigets första offer, och hans död kommer att påverka det fortsatta livet för alla i hans närhet. Termite växer upp hos s[...]