House of Daughters
Title | House of Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah-Kate Lynch |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2008-07-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1440632421 |
Lonely Clementine is the rightful heir to the House of Peine, the vineyard that has been in the family for generations. She has spent her whole life caring for the vines, not to mention her sour brute of a father. But now the Peine patriarch is dead, and to Clementine’s distress his will stipulates that she must share the vineyard with a half-sister she hasn’t seen in twenty years and another she didn’t even know existed. Secrets tumble out as the three sisters struggle to rescue the family heritage while overcoming their own differences. As a precious blend of grapes, tears and triumph brings these estranged siblings together, readers will savor this heartfelt toast to sisterhood and inspired celebration of champagne.
House Of Peine
Title | House Of Peine PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah-Kate Lynch |
Publisher | Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited |
Total Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 1775533662 |
Tender, funny and bubbling with charm, this novel is another delicious drop from best-selling author Sarah-Kate Lynch. When curmudgeonly Clementine’s miserable papa meets his end one frosty French night, she assumes the family Champagne house will finally be hers. Salut! But her celebration is short-lived. Suddenly the broken-down Peine chateau is heaving with unwanted visitors, unpaid debts and secrets perhaps best left buried. This is not the inheritance of which Clementine has so long dreamed but - as her precious grapes battle the elements in the hope of ripening and sweetening and one day re-inventing themselves as something truly magnificent - so must she.
Russ & Daughters
Title | Russ & Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Russ Federman |
Publisher | Schocken |
Total Pages | 226 |
Release | 2013-03-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0805243119 |
The former owner/proprietor of the beloved appetizing store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side tells the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle of caviar, smoked salmon, ethereal herring, and silken chopped liver” (The New York Times Magazine). When Joel Russ started peddling herring from a barrel shortly after his arrival in America from Poland, he could not have imagined that he was giving birth to a gastronomic legend. Here is the story of this “Louvre of lox” (The Sunday Times, London): its humble beginnings, the struggle to keep it going during the Great Depression, the food rationing of World War II, the passing of the torch to the next generation as the flight from the Lower East Side was beginning, the heartbreaking years of neighborhood blight, and the almost miraculous renaissance of an area from which hundreds of other family-owned stores had fled. Filled with delightful anecdotes about how a ferociously hardworking family turned a passion for selling perfectly smoked and pickled fish into an institution with a devoted national clientele, Mark Russ Federman’s reminiscences combine a heartwarming and triumphant immigrant saga with a panoramic history of twentieth-century New York, a meditation on the creation and selling of gourmet food by a family that has mastered this art, and an enchanting behind-the-scenes look at four generations of people who are just a little bit crazy on the subject of fish. Color photographs © Matthew Hranek
A House Full of Daughters
Title | A House Full of Daughters PDF eBook |
Author | Juliet Nicolson |
Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-06-14 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0374715327 |
A family memoir that traces the myths, legends, and secrets of seven generations of remarkable women All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers--the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her grandmother Vita Sackville-West, her mother’s Tory-conventional background. But then Juliet, a distinguished historian, started to question. As she did so, she sifted fact from fiction, uncovering details and secrets long held just out of sight. A House Full of Daughters takes us through seven generations of women. In the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siecle Washington D.C., an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, the knife-edge that was New York City in the 1980s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she is and where she has come from. A House Full of Daughters is one woman’s investigation into the nature of family, memory, and the past. As Juliet finds uncomfortable patterns reflected in these distant and more recent versions of herself, she realizes her challenge is to embrace the good and reject the hazards that have trapped past generations.
Daughters of the House
Title | Daughters of the House PDF eBook |
Author | Michèle Roberts |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2013-10-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1466854979 |
A Booker Prize Finalist, Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts' acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents' and servants' guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives.
Daughters of the House
Title | Daughters of the House PDF eBook |
Author | Indrani Aikath-Gyaltsen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Set in modern India, Chchanda, 18, tells of her household of 3 generations of self-sufficient women and how love, lust, betrayal, and loyalty change them.
Daughters of the House
Title | Daughters of the House PDF eBook |
Author | A. Milbank |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 1992-06-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230372414 |
Through innovative and controversial readings of Victorian Gothic and 'sensation' fiction, this book interrogates current feminist assumptions about the relation of women to the private sphere, and reveals the unexpectedly radical potential of this association. It is argued that this potential is an intrinsic aspect of the 'female' Gothic tradition traceable back to Ann Radcliffe. A new typology of 'male' and 'female' Gothic is shown to be relevant to contemporary French feminist debates about sexual difference.