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Ein warmes, lebendiges Familienepos voller Charme und Witz. Ein kluger, zeitloser Roman über das Erinnern und die Geschichten, die unser Leben bestimmen: Linda Grant erzählt von einer Frau, die lernt, für sich einzustehen, und ihrem Leben, das ein ganzes Jahrhundert umspannt: vom Rigaer Hafenviertel über Liverpool bis ins wilde Soho der Nachkriegszeit ... Lettland, 1913: Mina Mendel geht zum Pilzesammeln in den Wald und trifft dort einen hübschen jungen Bolschewiken, der eine Revolution plant. Sie ahnt nicht, dass diese zufällige Begegnung sie über das Meer und in eine neue Welt führen wird – sie bricht nach Amerika auf und landet in Liverpool. Auch dort nimmt ihr Schicksal unerwartete Wendungen: Ihr Bruder kämpft im Ersten Weltkrieg und rettet einem Mann das Leben, den Mina später heiratet; sie bekommt eine Tochter, die wie eine Prinzessin aus dem Hause Windsor zu sprechen lernt und versucht, ihre Herkunft hinter sich zu lassen ... Linda Grant, die u. a. mit dem Orange Prize for Fiction ausgezeichnet wurde, erzählt voller Wärme und Leichtigkeit über das Aufbrechen und Ankommen, die Suche nach Glück und die Macht des Geschichtenerzählens, ein großer Familienroman, mit dem man eine der wichtigsten Stimmen der englischen Literatur endlich auf Deutsch entdecken kann.

A brilliant novel about the London of today - a shifting, exciting, dangerous place where people search for the meaning of home. Peopled with wonderful characters and, as is usual for this author, a provocative story about our times.

A dedicated study of how classical Latin erotic elegy was read in the Renaissance and helped shape the emergence of English love poetry. This book will be of interest to scholars of early modern literature and classical literature, in particular love, gender, sex and the body.

Focusing on essential pronunciation skills, this series targets students from beginner to advanced levels, emphasizing stress, rhythm, and intonation. It includes a structured course plan and over fifty pages of supplemental activities dedicated to consonant and vowel sounds. The intermediate to advanced level introduces crucial pronunciation features, while a free website offers access to the complete audio program for both teachers and students, enhancing the learning experience.

The new novel by the acclaimed author of Upstairs at the Party and the Booker-shortlisted The Clothes on Their Backs.

This volume was conceived as a "best practices" resource for pronunciation and speaking teachers in the way that Vocabulary Myths by Keith S. Folse is one for reading and vocabulary teachers. Like others in the Myths series, this book combines research with good pedagogical practices.The book opens with a Prologue by Linda Grant (author of the Well Said textbook series), which reviews the last four decades of pronunciation teaching, the differences between accent and intelligibility, the rudiments of the English sound system, and other factors related to the ways that pronunciation is learned and taught.The myths challenged in this book are:§  Once you’ve been speaking a second language for years, it’s too late to change your pronunciation. (Derwing and Munro)§  Pronunciation instruction is not appropriate for beginning-level learners. (Zielinski and Yates)§  Pronunciation teaching has to establish in the minds of language learners a set of distinct consonant and vowel sounds.  (Field)§  Intonation is hard to teach. (Gilbert)§  Students would make better progress if they just practiced more. (Grant)§  Accent reduction and pronunciation instruction are the same thing. (Thomson)§  Teacher training programs provide adequate preparation in how to teach pronunciation (Murphy).The book concludes with an Epilogue by Donna M. Brinton, who synthesizes some of the best practices explored in the volume.

If you go back and look at your life there are certain scenes, acts, or maybe just incidents on which everything that follows seems to depend. If only you could narrate them, then you might be understood. I mean the part of yourself that you don't know how to explain.In the early Seventies a glamorous and androgynous couple known collectively as Evie/Stevie appear out of nowhere on the isolated concrete campus of a new university. To a group of teenagers experimenting with radical ideas they seem blown back from the future, unsettling everything and uncovering covert desires. But the varnished patina of youth and flamboyant self-expression hides deep anxieties and hidden histories. For Adele, with the most to conceal, Evie/Stevie become a lifelong obsession, as she examines what happened on the night of her own twentieth birthday and her friends' complicity in their fate. A set of school exercise books might reveal everything, but they have been missing for nearly forty years. From summers in Cornwall to London in the twenty-first century, long after they have disappeared, Evie/Stevie go on challenging everyone's ideas of what their lives should turn out to be.

This wonderfully gossipy novel whisks readers through the glamorous worlds of turn-of-the-century Vienna, Paris and London.

Linda Grant's 'best novel yet' (Financial Times) is a thoughtful and engaging story of a London family from the late sixties to the present

'A skilful, moving, even humorous book. It is more than an elegy for a lost mother or the charting of one human being's decline ... It is an investigation of memory, which concludes that Memory, I have come to understand, is everything, it's life itself' Scotland on Sunday