This is a story about Peter Duke who went on to be a famous actor. This is a story about falling in love with Peter Duke who wasn\"t famous at all. It\"s about falling so wildly in love with him – the way one will at twenty-four – that it felt like jumping off a roof at midnight. There was no way to foresee the mess it would come to in the end....

In the spring of 2020, Lara\"s three daughters return to the family\"s orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company called Tom Lake....

This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage is an irresistible blend of literature and memoir revealing the big experiences and little moments that shaped Ann Patchett as a daughter, wife, friend and writer....

Like swallows, like salmon, we were the helpless captives of our migratory patterns. We pretended that what we had lost was the house, not our mother, not our father. We pretended that what we had lost had been taken from us by the person who still lived inside....

Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father\"s protective plans for them....

It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating\"s christening party uninvited and notices a heart stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host\"s wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later....

The first novel from the bestselling author of The Dutch House, Commonwealth and Bel Canto, Winner of The Women\"s Prize for Fiction and the Pen/Faulkner Award. It is 1968. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth\"s, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky....

Ann Patchett\"s second novel to be published in the UK, following the Orange Prize-shortlisted \"The Magician\"s Assistant\". John Nickel is a black ex-jazz musician who only wants to be a good father. When his son is taken away to Miami by his mother, Nickel is left with nothing but Muddy\"s, the Memphis blues bar that he manages....

There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever....

At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia....

\\\"\"Do you think it\"s possible to ever see the past as it actually was?\" I asked my sister. We were sitting in her car, parked in front of the Dutch House in the broad daylight of early summer.\\\" Danny Conroy grows up in the Dutch House, a lavish mansion....

One Sunday afternoon in Southern California, Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating’s christening party uninvited. Before evening falls, he has kissed Franny’s mother, Beverly thus setting in motion the dissolution of their marriages and the joining......

It is 1964: Bert Cousins shows up at Franny Keating\"s christening party uninvited and notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When he kisses Beverly Keating, his host\"s wife, he sets in motion the joining of two families, whose shared fate will be defined on a day seven years later....

In a narrative replete with poison arrows, devouring snakes, scientific miracles, and spiritual transformations, State of Wonder presents a world of stunning surprise and danger, rich in emotional resonance and moral complexity. As Dr....

Winner of The Women\"s Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. The poignant - and at times very funny - novel from the author of The Dutch House and Commonwealth. Somewhere in South America, at the home of the country\"s vice president, a lavish birthday party is being held in honour of the powerful businessman Mr. Hosokawa....