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Elaine, a painter, returns to Toronto and finds herself overwhelmed by her past - memories of her childhood, betrayals and cruelties surface relentlessly. She must face the spectre of Cordelia who has been her best friend and her tormentor, and who has haunted her for 40 years.

Even now, at the age of 82, Iris lives in the shadow cast by her younger sister Laura. Now poor and trying to cope with a failing body, Iris reflects on her far from exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death and the novel which earned her such notoriety.

Joan Fosterová je ženou najmenej s dvoma identitami a prehnanou predstavivosťou. V detstve mala problémy s nadváhou a zložitý vzťah s matkou, zato veľmi dobre vychádzala s otcovou sestrou Lou. Pred skončením strednej školy utiekla z domu, udržiavala milenecký pomer so starším mužom, potom sa zaľúbila do bipolárneho Arthura, za ktorého sa neskôr aj vydala. Teraz píše pod pseudonymom brakové romány. Keď sa však jej zbierka poézie nečakane stane literárnou senzáciou, Joan je nútená nafingovať vlastnú smrť a utiecť z rodného Toronta do Talianska, aby začala nový život. Román prvý raz vyšiel v roku 1976, autorka v ňom viac-menej paroduje romantické horory v štýle kostýmovej gotiky, s typickým nadhľadom poukazuje na niektoré pálčivé problémy svojej doby a opäť dokazuje, prečo je považovaná za jednu z najvýznamnejších a najuznávanejších spisovateliek 20. a 21. storočia.

A clever and addictive thriller from the bestselling author of The Handmaid’s Tale and The Testaments Rennie Wilford is a young journalist running from her life. When she takes an assignment to a Caribbean island she tumbles into a world where no one is quite what they seem, least of all ‘Yankee’ Paul. Is Paul a drug smuggler? A CIA operative? Either way he’s trouble and his offer to Rennie of a no-hooks, no strings affair, will suddenly draw her into in a lethal web of corruption.

From cultural icon Margaret Atwood comes a brilliant collection of essays — funny, erudite, endlessly curious, uncannily prescient — which seek answers to Burning Questions such as: Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? How can we live on our planet? What do zombies have to do with authoritarianism? In Burning Questions Atwood aims her prodigious intellect and impish humour at our world, and reports back to us on what she finds. The roller-coaster period covered in the collection brought an end to the end of history, a financial crash, the rise of Trump and a pandemic. From debt to tech, the climate crisis to freedom; from when to dispense advice to the young (answer: only when asked) to how to define granola, we have no better questioner of the many and varied mysteries of our human universe.