Showing results for "the mind" in Family Life

It's been six years since 14-year-old Marvel Trustrom went missing - six long years for Marvel's seriously ill father, Tom Trustom, who's desperate to know what happened to his daughter. DS Zed Willard has always believed that Jonah Kobi, a serial killer serving life for the murders of four other girls in the area, is responsible for Marvel's disappearance. Can Dr Claire Roget persuade Kobi to reveal the truth and finally confess to Marvel's murder?

At his mother’s family house in the south of France, Patrick Melrose has the run of a magical garden. Bravely imaginative and self-sufficient, five-year-old Patrick encounters the volatile lives of adults with care. His father, David, rules with considered cruelty, and Eleanor, his mother, has retreated into drink. They are expecting guests for dinner. But this afternoon is unlike the chain of summer days before, and the shocking events that precede the guests’ arrival tear Patrick's world in two.

The Mind Spins is an exploration of the creative process, of the mind as it plots a narrative and builds characters. The thirteen stories included in the collection are divided into two parts, Awake and Dreaming. The six that make up the Part I, Awake, explore how the human mind creates a story in its waking state.

Seventy-one and a man used to controlling those around him, Saul finds himself slipping into what he describes as his slow dance with death. His ramblings, humor, emotions, lucid moments, and confusion are laid bare as well as the thoughts and feelings of his loved ones: his wife, Monique, conflicted and depressed, caring yet angry; his daughter, Florence, compassionate yet proper and reserved; his son, Joey, self-centered and narcissistic, seemingly indifferent to his family's challenges.

Yolanda, as a child, was a very confident girl. Despite born with one leg shorter than the other, she always showed a great attitude in front of others. That security was gradually lost when she married Alfred, her great love. Alfred did not have the same feelings for his wife. At all times, he reminded Yolanda how horrible she was and the huge mistake he made by marrying her. For her part, Yolanda always tried to give her best, fighting to regain what one day was lost in her marriage.

The main characters Nathanial and Gabrielle are high-class business-minded go-getters, with everything they could every want, and when it comes to love, they find themselves opening a new door into their relationship, crossing a path never before imagined. Their brains are more alive than anything else, and they find themselves connecting beyond connection.