A Woman's Story Jeff VanderMeer Sōsuke and Oyone find the

Sōsuke and Oyone find the delicate equilibrium of their household upset by a new obligation to meet the educational expenses of Sōsuke’s brash younger brother

They can do nothing for Sir Charles - but his heir

The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC series All Creatures Great and Small

‘On his rigid face there stood an expression of horror such as I have never seen upon human features’ When Dr Watson meets Sherlock Holmes for the first time the ‘consulting detective’ immediately demonstrates his inimitable powers of observation

is an iconic book of incisive and electric honesty

A Woman's Story Jeff VanderMeer Sōsuke and Oyone find theOn 7 April 1986, Annie Ernauxs mother, after years of suffering from Alzheimers disease, died in a retirement home in the suburbs of Paris. Shocked by this loss which, despite her mothers condition, she had refused to fathom, Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time in an effort to recover the different facets of a woman whose openness to the world and appetite for reading created the conditions for the authors own social ascent.