Anne Sebba, Maria Semple, Anita Shreve and Lionel Shriver
That Woman : the life of Wallis Simpson - Anne Sebba (Non-fiction)
One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified woman of the last century.
Historian Anne Sebba has written the first full biography of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, by a woman which attempts to understand this fascinating and enigmatic American divorcee who nearly became Queen of England.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple
Bernadette Fox has disappeared and her 15-year-old daughter Bee must take a trip to the end of the earth to find her. A touching novel about misplaced genius and a mother and daughter's place in the world.
The Lives of Stella Bain - Anita Shreve
Hauled in a cart to a field hospital in northern France in March 1916, an American woman wakes from unconsciousness to the smell of gas gangrene, the sounds of men in pain, and an almost complete loss of memory: she knows only that she can drive an ambulance, she can draw, and her name is Stella Bain.
We Need to Talk About Kevin : a novel - Lionel Shriver
Eva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him.
Now, two years after her son's horrific rampage, Eva comes to terms with her role as Kevin's mother in a series of startlingly direct correspondences with her absent husband Franklyn about their son's upbringing.