Marisa de los SantosWhat would you do if an old friend needed you, but it meant turning your new life upside down? Pen, Will, and Cat met during the first...

Doris LessingAnna is a writer, author of one very successful novel, who now keeps four notebooks. In one, with a black cover, she reviews the African experience of her earlier...

Gwendolen GrossAmanda is a successful book editor at a prominent publishing house in New York City. Thea is a stay-at-home mother of three who has never really left the community...

Jennifer Finney BoylanThe exuberant memoir of a man named James who became a woman named Jenny.She’s Not There is the story of a person changing genders, the story of a...

Angela CarterI know nothing. I am a tabula rasa, a blank sheet of paper, an unhatched egg. I have not yet become a woman, although I possess a woman's shape....

Helen ZahaviA dark and brilliant novel about a woman who decides not to be a victim anymore. She takes her life and the law into her own hands, exacting her...

Jane Juska'Before I turn 67 - next March - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope...

Susan Vreeland   From extraordinary highs - patronage by the Medicis, friendship with Galileo and, most importantly of all, beautiful and outstandingly original paintings - to rape by her father's...

Mona BermanWaking up on your 70 birthday is not to be taken lightly. Mona Berman takes on this rite of passage with self deprecating humour and a lightness of touch....

Raphaelle GiordanoThe feel-good #1 bestselling French novel about a woman whose mission to cure her "routine-itis" leads her to lasting joy and true fulfillment, for fans of The Alchemist and...

Louise Candlish   Why did she direct me to the only man in the world who can make me feel like this?The day Maggie Lane dies, she sends her daughter...

Jennifer PaddockJennifer Paddock's incandescent debut novel spans fifteen years in the lives of friends Leigh, Sarah, and Chandler, beginning one fateful day in high school that forever connects them. While...