The bestselling author of "Grace & Favor" returns with an unforgettable story of an Englishwoman who spends a summer with her American godmother in the Hamptons and unlocks a door into the past that leads to her family's hidden wounds.
When realtor Hope Collins-Calder has a child-care crisis, she hires inexperienced British nanny Annabel Quick. As she sets about getting Hope's chaotic house in order, Annabel notices her own sad heart miraculously mending. Over the course of a summer by the shore, Annabel finds herself becoming more a part of the Collins-Calder family than she, or Hope, bargained for. (June)
A rogue and a charmer, there was more to Lucas Cammel than met the eye. Did he abandon one child in favor of the other? The truth emerges only when, as an adult, Favor flies to America to find the sister she's never met.
Upcher delighted readers on both sides of the Atlantic with "Grace and Favor." In "The Visitors' Book" Upcher comes back to this emotional landscape, with the story of an upper class British family's entanglements with marriage partners and illicit liaisons, as a young man marries in haste, and like his father before him, brings home a bride who wants to change everything.
A rogue and a charmer, there was more to Lucas Cammel than met the eye. Did he abandon one child in favor of the other? The truth emerges only when, as an adult, Favor flies to America to find the sister she's never met.
The bestselling author of "Grace & Favor" returns with an unforgettable story of an Englishwoman who spends a summer with her American godmother in the Hamptons and unlocks a door into the past that leads to her family's hidden wounds.
The author captures a wonderful sense of place and atmosphere in this heart-warming story that takes the reader on a truly emotional journey. When a middle-aged English woman takes a job as a nanny to a chaotic American family who live on Long Island, she thinks she will be able to escape her past. But it is not so simple as that.
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London 1721. William Spandel is deeply in debt and desperate. Sir Theodore Janssen, director of the recently collapsed South Sea Company, Spandel's major creditor, comes to his rescue. But there is a catch. Spandrel must secretly deliver a package to Amsterdam to a man named de Vries, a friend of Janssen. A man of his word, Spandrel delivers the package as promised, but things soon take a turn for the worse. He narrowly escapes an attempt on his life, only to find himself accused of murdering de Vries. Then de Vries' secretary and wife go missing, along with the secret package. Spandrel senses that he has become a pawn in a game of international proportions involving many players. British government agents, among others, are hot on his trail, convinced that the package contains secret details concerning the great South Sea financial scandal, information so explosive it could spark a revolution in England. Spandrel believes his only chance is to find the package and to place it in the right hands. But he's not sure whose hands. And he is definitely not sure what the package contained.
Other Girls to Burn is a collection of formally inventive essays that explores the relationship between women and violence, from the Santa Barbara shooting to 13th century virgin martyrs, mixed martial arts, true crime, and rape culture. What does it mean for women to be complicit in the violence of the patriarchy? How do women navigate risk as well as revel in thrill? What does it mean to both fear and perpetuate violence? The essays in this collection are in conversation with contemporary nonfiction writers such as Maggie Nelson, Sarah Manguso and Anne Boyer. These formally inventive, lyric-leaning essays shift between cultural criticism and personal essay. The book coheres around a central motif of female mystics"--
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