“Astonishingly immersive… and beautifully wrought.” -- Lisa Harding, author of Bright Burning Things, a READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK “A brilliant portrayal of female strength… In a genre that thrives on the mistreatment of women, Mey shows us the other side.” --Anna Bailey The addictive French noir about coercive control and survival that turns on a knife edge—the perfect next read for fans of The Perfect Nanny Missing persons don’t always stay that way… Sandrine is unhappy in her body, her house, and her life. But none of that matters when she meets her man. He makes room for her, a place in his home, with his son. He cares about where she is, and who she is speaking to. He loves her, intensely. Everything would be perfect, if only the first woman--the one from before--would just stay away. . . TV RIGHTS SOLD FOR ADAPTATION SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAISON DE LA PRESSE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE LANDERNEAU CRIME FICTION PRIZE From a high-profile French feminist comes a noir thriller that is both a suspenseful page-turner and fiercely empathetic with victims of domestic control--not to be missed!

THE REESE WITHERSPOON X HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the most twisted and entertaining plots."—Reese Witherspoon "Whiplash-inducing."—New York Times Book Review "Such fun you'll cheer [Emily's] chutzpah."—PEOPLE "This thriller will hit close to home."—Refinery29 The most twisty, addictive and gripping debut thriller you'll read this year. HE LOVES YOU: Adam adores Emily. Emily thinks Adam’s perfect, the man she thought she’d never meet. BUT SHE LOVES YOU NOT: Lurking in the shadows is a rival, a woman who shares a deep bond with the man she loves. AND SHE'LL STOP AT NOTHING: Emily chose Adam, but she didn’t choose his mother Pammie. There’s nothing a mother wouldn’t do for her son, and now Emily is about to find out just how far Pammie will go to get what she wants: Emily gone forever. The Other Woman will have you questioning her on every page, in Sandie Jones' chilling psychological suspense about a man, his new girlfriend, and the mother who will not let him go.

In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful. This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged, tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a modest but contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white boyfriend back to France, where his delusional depression and sense of failure poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband’s family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) who lives in France, a place Khady can scarcely conceive of but toward which she must now take desperate flight. With lyrical intensity, Marie NDiaye masterfully evokes the relentless denial of dignity, to say nothing of happiness, in these lives caught between Africa and Europe. We see with stunning emotional exactitude how ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength, even as their humanity is chipped away. Three Strong Women admits us to an immigrant experience rarely if ever examined in fiction, but even more into the depths of the suffering heart.

‘A timely, gripping and morally complex thriller’ MAIL ON SUNDAY ‘Philby is a skilled and evocative writer’ FINANCIAL TIMES Two women are found dead. Both had a secret. Both had a choice.

The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life.

Documents the changes in approaches to gender in opera in the early 19th century.

An updated edition of a standard in its field that remains relevant more than thirty years after its original publication. Over thirty years ago, sociologist and University of California, Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild set off a tidal wave of conversation and controversy with her bestselling book, The Second Shift. Hochschild's examination of life in dual-career housholds finds that, factoring in paid work, child care, and housework, working mothers put in one month of labor more than their spouses do every year. Updated for a workforce that is now half female, this edition cites a range of updated studies and statistics, with an afterword from Hochschild that addresses how far working mothers have come since the book's first publication, and how much farther we all still must go.