検索キーワード： ナレーター "Louise Marie" すべてのカテゴリー

MARIA er en roman om de livsvalg, vi træffer i feltet mellem ungdom, familie og karriere, og hvordan de former os som mennesker. Vi følger to kvinder på deres 40-års fødselsdag, deres tanker om den runde dag og de uundgåelige og svære beslutninger, de hver især står overfor. For denne morgen afleverer Maria og Maria deres børn i institutioner og går en uvis fremtid i møde. Den ene Maria har netop fundet ud af, at hendes mand er hende utro. Den anden Maria er lige blevet degraderet fra sin høje stilling og kan ikke finde ud af at fortælle det til sin mand, som netop beundrer hende så meget for hendes succes.

16-årige Moe blev taget i at stjæle. Så nu er hun tvunget til at gå til afvænningsmøder sammen med folk, der er dobbelt så gammel som hende. Men så end dag træder Tabitha og Elodie træder ind ad døren, og alt forandrer sig. De tre piger er vidt forskellige, men de har alle sammen en ting til fælles: de elsker at stjæle. Historien fortælles skiftevis fra de tre pigers perspektiv med humor og varme. Måske lærer de ikke, hvordan man skal holde op med at stjæle, men de lærer noget om venskab.

Annemette drev engang et hestestutteri, men så kom stormfloden og kostede hende både gården, ægteskabet og 12 udmærkede tænder. I dag er hun sosu-assistent, datteren er flyttet hjemmefra, eksmanden er i fængsel, og hendes mund blafrer i blæsevejr. Hver uge mødes hun med sin strikkeklub, "De hårde nåle", der består af den halvdemente pensionist Vibse og hendes datter Jean, som er langtidssygemeldt lægesekretær og gift med en midaldrende mand i lycra. En torsdag eftermiddag forvilder de sig ind at se Leonardo DiCaprios nye klimadokumentar. De er i chok.

Fra forfatterne bag bestselleren KVINDEN MELLEM OS kommer EN ANONYM PIGE, en psykologisk thriller, der løfter genren til nye niveauer. Da Jessica melder sig til en psykologisk undersøgelse, som ledes af den karismatiske doktor Shields, regner hun bare med at skulle svare på et par spørgsmål, før hun kan indkassere pengene og gå. Jessicas paranoia vokser, da spørgsmålene langsomt bliver mere og mere intime, og hun bliver sendt på suspekte opgaver ude i byen.

Kit Averin er alt andet end en spillefugl, alligevel har hun lige vundet flere millioner i lotto sammen med sine to bedste veninder. Til daglig er hun naturvidenskabelig akademiker med et stabilt job på det lokale universitet - og stabilitet er et af Kits hovedmål i livet efter en omflakkende barndom. Det har hendes nye millionærstatus ikke ændret på, på nær en enkelt ting: hun er i stand til at købe sit første rigtige hjem, der dog kræver en kærlig hånd.

Den attraktive greve Gabriel Gripklo er vendt tilbage til hjemlandet efter mange år udenlands. Med sig har han et blakket ry. Det siges, at han ikke har nogen skrupler. Nu leder hans mor og søstre efter en hustru til ham. Magdelena Swärd er den evige ungmø. Dannet, men fattig, der af sine omstændigheder bliver tvunget til at agere selskabsdame for en ung, forkælet baronesse sommeren over. Hendes opgave er at sikre en forlovelse mellem de to. Med sit hvasse tungebånd og puritanske kjoler er Magdelena indbegrebet af alt det, Gabriel ikke bryder sig om hos kvinder.

Den unge Alice Miller får i 1947 tilbudt en stilling som guvernante på et stort herresæde i Cornwall. Tiltrædelse straks da den tidligere guvernante forsvandt pludselig grundet familieproblemer. Da Alice ankommer til Winterbourne rejser det sig ensomt og majestætisk op oven over klipperne og Alice kan straks mærke, at hvis hun skal skjule sig for sin fortid et sted, så er det her et godt bud. Og hvem er bedre til at lege gemmeleg end de to moderløse tvillinger, Constance and Edmund, som hun skal tage sig af.

Based on extensive interviews with Turnbull as well as those who have worked with him, this is an essay full of revelations. Crabb delves into young Malcolm's university exploits - which included co-authoring a musical with Bob Ellis - and his remarkable relationship with Kerry Packer, the man for whom he was at first a prized attack dog, and then a mortal enemy. She asks whether Turnbull - colourful, aggressive, humorous and ruthless - has what it takes to re-invigorate the Australian Liberal Party in the wake of John Howard.

Are you madly in love or driven mad by it? Happily single or looking for a partner? Living together, married with kids, or dumped and desperate? Whatever the state of your love life, Hot Relationships has the answers to all your dating and relating dilemmas. It's packed with advice on everything from flirting and flings to monogamy and marriage. There's hot tips on getting over an ex, where to meet a partner, how to spot the losers, and how to breeze through that first date, as well as hints on fixing the fights, surviving jealousy and infidelity, and breaking bad love habits.

Marnie, Tina and Lee are in their 20s when they share a house in Bondi. Each is running away from something: Marnie, wild, privileged and impetuous, is escaping from the stifling conservatism of Melbourne - and a father who will mark her relationship with men forever. Tina, driven to leave Brisbane and her migrant background, promises herself she'll own a home on the harbour by the time she's 30. But what if the price of success is too high? Lee dreams of showbiz fame to save her from suffocating life in the suburbs of Newcastle.

In Love & Money, Anne Manne looks at the religion of work - its high priests and sacrificial lambs. As family life and motherhood feel the pressure of the market, she asks whether the chief beneficiaries are self-interested employers and child-care corporations. Manne argues that devaluing motherhood - still central to so many women's lives - has done feminism few favours. For women on the frontline of the work-centred society, it has made for hard choices. Manne eloquently tells what happened when feminism adapted itself to the free market.

In the third Quarterly Essay for 2006, Inga Clendinnen looks past the skirmishes and pitched battles of the history wars and asks what's at stake - what kind of history do we want and need? Should our historians be producing the "objective record of achievement" that the Prime Minister has called for? For Clendinnen, historians cannot be the midwives of national identity and also be true to their profession: History cannot do the work of myth.

From the Hillsong Church to the Family First Party, Australia appears to be experiencing an evangelical revival. In the second Quarterly Essay for 2006, Amanda Lohrey investigates that revival - its shape and scope, and what it means for the mainstream churches and the nation's politics. She talks to young believers and analyses the machinations of the Christian Right. She discusses, with humour and insight, the appeal of the megachurch, the changing image of Jesus and the political theories of George Pell and Peter Jensen.

What is the Liberal Party's core appeal to Australian voters? Has John Howard made a dramatic break with the past, or has he ingeniously modernised the strategies of his party's founder, Sir Robert Menzies? For Judith Brett, the government of John Howard has done what successful Liberal governments have always done: it has presented itself as the true guardian of the national interest. Full of provocative ideas, Relaxed & Comfortable will change the way Australians see the last decade of national politics.

In the second Quarterly Essay of 2005, Gail Bell investigates Australia's depression epidemic. Why, she wonders, do well over a million Australians now take anti-depressant drugs? This is a fresh, frank and independent look at the depression culture and the move to medicalise sadness. Bell examines how the prescription culture operates, scrutinising the role of big drug companies and GPs and talking to those who take - and don't take - the new anti-depressants, from anxious students to lonely retirees.

In the third Quarterly Essay of 2004, Margaret Simons takes a long hard look at Mark Latham, the self-proclaimed "club buster" and the man who would be prime minister. Few doubt Latham's intelligence and ambition, but what will this amount to in government? Simons argues that if Labor is elected, it will not be "business as usual". Rather we can expect a reformist government in the spirit - if not the letter - of Latham's political tutor, Gough Whitlam. It is also likely to be a government that has little time for the totemic issues of the Labor elites.

Where were you when America elected Barack Obama? Kate Jennings was in New York, eyes wide open, completing her take on an amazing time: "the run-up to the election... a time when every day felt like a year and we became slightly crazed from worry but also mesmerised, unable to switch off the cable news stations, obsessively tracking the DOW, VIX, LIBOR spreads, polls in red states. So much at stake. American Revolution is a dazzling and perceptive look at the United States between hope and despair.

After many thousands of years, the nomads are disappearing, swept away by modernity. Robyn Davidson has spent a good part of her life with nomadic cultures - in Australia, north-west India, Tibet and the Indian Himalayas - and she herself calls three countries home. In the last Quarterly Essay for 2006, she draws on her unique experience to delineate a vanishing way of life. In a time of environmental peril, Davidson argues that the nomadic way with nature offers valuable lessons.

Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome, and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately - from their campaigning days, and further back still, to when Margot married Laurence.

Surprising, illuminating, and at times shocking, What Men Don't Talk About reveals how real men and boys view their world. What do men and boys long for, agonize over, aspire to? Every day, we read articles about men: men at home, men at work, and men in bed, but still the confusion and frustration between the sexes remain. Can we put the differences between men and women down to the influence of Venus and Mars, or are there more intricate dynamics at play?