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3 filles, 3 continents, 3 voyages pour partir à la découverte de soi-même ! Voici trois courts romans mettant en scène trois filles qui partent à l'aventure en mode découverte. Remises en question, aventures improbables, amour ou amitié qui se font ou se défont, tout est possible une fois qu'on a choisi de partir. Suivez nos héroïnes à l'autre bout du monde : que ce soit en Nouvelle-Zélande, au Mexique ou en Thaïlande, leurs expériences respectives les changeront profondément et les marqueront pour la vie !

Le roman gravite autour de la vie d'une femme d'âge mûr, aidante naturelle de sa mère malade, et de celles des membres de la famille élargie. Ce récit traite de divers thèmes dont les relations parfois houleuses parmi la fratrie lorsque celle-ci est confrontée au vieillissement de la mère, à la maladie et à la mort. Sont également décrits les intérêts personnels, parfois nobles, parfois calculateurs face à cette réalité de l'existence. (tirée de la Préface)

Depuis la mort de sa petite fille, Marianne n'est plus que l'ombre d'elle-même. Sa vie si parfaite a volé en éclat, emportant avec elle le merveilleux couple qu'elle formait avec Charles. Depuis, plus rien ne la retient dans ce monde. Déterminée à mettre fin à ses jours, elle s'isole dans un chalet situé au bord d'un lac encore gelé. Mais la présence de Samuel, le propriétaire des lieux, complique ses plans. Il refuse catégoriquement de la laisser quitter cette vie qui lui pèse tant.

À l'approche de Noël de 1938, les membres du personnel de l'hôpital Nightingale aspirent à leurs propres voeux pour le temps des Fêtes. Soeur Frannie Wallace espère ne pas avoir à vivre une autre guerre comme celle dont a été victime son bien-aimé fiancé. Mais alors que des abris contre les bombardements se construisent partout dans Londres, ses espoirs semblent vains. L'infirmière adjointe Helen Dawson désire retrouver le bonheur depuis la mort de son mari Charlie. Un séduisant étranger semble lui offrir cette chance.

Like a Québécois Bridget Jones's Diary, Marie-Renée Lavoie's Autopsy of a Boring Wife tells the hysterically funny and ultimately touching tale of forty-eight-year-old Diane, a woman whose husband leaves her and is having an affair because, he says, she bores him. Diane takes the charge to heart and undertakes an often ribald, highly entertaining journey to restoring trust in herself and others that is at the same time an astute commentary on women and girls, gender differences, and the curious institution of marriage in the twenty-first century.

Strong female voice, a clear-eyed narrator examining self and family.Ash from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano fills the skies. Flights are grounded throughout Europe. Dessie, a cosmopolitan flight attendant from Canada, finds herself stranded in Addis Ababa - her birth place.Grieving her mother's recent death, Dessie heads to see her grandfather, the Shaleqa - compelled as much by duty as her own will. But Dessie's conflicted past stands in her way.

Just as fourteen-year-old Lucy is starting to figure out life after her mom's death, her dad ships her off to Cape John, her mom's hometown, for the summer. Worse, she has to live with her nutty great-aunt Josie, who doesn't cook edible food or suffer fools. Soon Lucy meets Colin, freshly moved from the West Coast, who's digging an enormous hole in his new yard. He spends every day digging deeper in protest of his family's unilateral decision to move to this tiny oceanside community.

A Joy To Be Hidden is set in a vividly recreated late-90s New York City. The protagonist is Alice Stein, a graduate student whose father died a year before, and who has now lost her grandmother. In the process of sorting through the grandmother's belongings, Alice unlocks a family secret. In addition to its wisdom and rich humour, the novel is full of memorable characters. We can never quite forget the title quote-"It Is a joy to be hidden, and a disaster not to be found" (D. W.

Sadie works as a framer, building houses. She lost her own home in a recent divorce and now lives with her two daughters in a rented bungalow. When her landlady says she needs to move out, Sadie finds there's a housing crisis in her community. She can't find a place to live and is forced to move her family into a travel trailer at a local campsite. When her ex-husband finds out, he insists that the girls come live with him in another city. Desperate to keep her daughters with her in their home community, Sadie is forced to rethink her dream of living in a full-sized house.

Reluctant debutante Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason and one reason alone: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found during her debutante year only left her with more questions and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite all-female secret society called the White Gloves, Sawyer soon discovers that someone in the group's ranks may have the answers she's looking for.