Showing results for "the centre" in Contemporary Fiction

Shetland: a place of sheep and soil, close ties and an age-old way of life. A place where David has lived all his life, like his father and grandfather before him. A place where Sandy, a newcomer but already a crofter, may have finally found a home. A place that Alice has fled to after the death of her husband. In the wind and sun and storms from the Atlantic, these islanders must decide: what is left of us when the day's work is done, the children grown, and all our choices have been made?

A wry narrator fresh from an abusive romantic debacle takes us on her journey into the skewed world of a rehabilitation center, befriending along the way fellow patient Amp, a bold woman with a destructive proclivity for self-amputation. Forced to come to terms with the ways in which she has hurt and been hurt by her family, our narrator must learn how to live life on her own terms despite her troubled past.

Stuck on a cruise ship with two annoying little sisters and an unquenchable reading habit, Jess wanders into the ship's bookstore in search of a book to pass the time. She discovers Gobblegroomer, a book that, to Jess' amazement, contains an adventure even stranger than its title. Davis' The Library at the Center of the World is the imaginative story of a young bibliophile's journey into the heart of storytelling.