Лучшие книги Элеоноры Браун

Коллекция удивительных очерков о Париже под редакцией Элеоноры Браун, автора бестселлеров по версии New York Times. Предупреждение: читая эту книгу, вы можете случайно уехать в город, вдохновивший саму Коко Шанель.

Роман «Світло Парижа», опублікований в США 2016 року, заслужено став бестселером, підкоривши не тільки читачів, але і критиків. Це історія про те, як непросто стати самим собою і яка це насолода — знех­тувати всіма умовностями, що відокремлюють нас від мрії. Дві історії — нашої сучасниці Мадлен і її бабусі, яка ще в 20-х роках, в «епоху джазу», здійснила романтичну подорож до Парижа, тісно переплітаються, знову і знову нагадуючи, що жити варто тільки на власних умовах, підкоряючись лише поклику серця і душі.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Weird Sisters returns with a striking and intimate new novel about three very different women facing an impossible question: What makes a family?

They look just like any other family. But they aren't a family like any other – not quite. Instead, they are three sets of parents who adopted four biological siblings, committing to keeping the children connected after the death of their grandmother.



Tabitha, who adopted the twins, is the planner of the group, responsible for coordinating playdates and birthdays and Sunday night dinners, insistent that everything happens just so. Quiet and steady Ginger, single mother to the eldest daughter, resists the forced togetherness, her own unsettled childhood leaving her wary of trusting too much. And Elizabeth is still reeling from going directly from failed fertility treatments into adopting a newborn, terrified that her unhappiness means she was not meant to be a mother at all.

But when the three women receive a surprising call from their children’s birth mother, announcing she is pregnant again and wants them to help her find an adoptive family for this child too, the delicate bonds they are still struggling to form threaten to collapse. As tensions rise, the women reckon with their own feelings about what it means to be a mother and what they owe each other as a family.

Set across the span of a family vacation, one full of boisterous laughter and emotional upheaval, Any Other Family is a thought-provoking and poignant look at how families shift and evolve and a striking portrait of motherhood in all its forms.

Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library card can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father-a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse-named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to.

The sisters have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially with one another. What can the shy homebody eldest sister, the fast-living middle child, and the bohemian youngest sibling have in common? Only that none has found life to be what was expected; and now, faced with their parents' frailty and their own personal disappointments, not even a book can solve what ails them...