Mi vida sin ellos

Welcome to Albert Keane's beautifully designed medieval kingdom nestled in a completely isolated river valley in the Canadian wilderness. Peaceful, happy, and prosperous, it takes nothing from the modern world, not so much as a single clock. There is a castle, of course, and a monastery. There is even a pitch dark, rat-infested dungeon -- because you simply have to have one if you are trying a rule a feudal kingdom! Farmers work the land, artisans ply their trades, monks keep school and visit the sick, and nobody (well, almost nobody) misses the modern world at all. So why has Jack Darcey --...

Un cambio inesperado puede ser como una bocanada de aire fresco: un poco desapacible al principio, pero magica para cuerpo y alma... Sarah Moon se enfrentaba a las dificultades de la vida con el humor acido e inteligente que le inspiraba su tira comica Just Breathe, en la que la ficcion solia reflejar a veces la realidad. Por ejemplo tanto Sarah como Shirl, la protagonista de su tira, se estaban sometiendo a tratamientos de fertilidad, pero lo que nunca habia previsto su creadora que apareciera en el guion era la infidelidad de su marido. Arrastrada por el viento del desastre, se dejo llevar...

Can a grandmother's love ward off a curse that's haunted her family for four generations? When three-year-old Sonny witnessed his father's brutal murder, he didn't know a curse haunting the men in his family was to blame. But his grandmother, Constance Jackson, did. For 20 years, Constance clung to her abusive marriage and church hoping that she could save her son. But hope and prayers were not enough, and her son died an unnatural death just like four generations of Jackson men before him. Now, she's stuck raising her grandson-Sonny. As time goes on, Constance sees Sonny as a chance to make...

A través de la emblemática figura de unas hermanas solteronas asistimos a los pequeños y grandes acontecimientos de una pequeña comunidad. El paisaje, la ambientación e incluso los personajes de esta novela están tomados del pueblecito en que la autora pasó su infancia, Knutsford, y en un retrato lleno de humor y afecto se nos presentan valores y costumbres que la Revolución Industrial estaba transformando rápidamente