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When Maria turns 20, she falls in love. She is in the wrong town, and he is the wrong sort of man. Going through his things, she finds a photo of herself when she was 12 years old. She has the same smile, but she is wearing the wrong clothes. Anne Enright's astonishing novel moves between Dublin, New York and London, following the lives of the real Maria and the girl in the picture. Stepping through the mirror to tell the story of the two women, both haunted by their missing selves, What Are You Like? Is an exquisitely written disquisition on families and identity.

The book opens in Paris with Eliza in bed with Francisco Solano Lopez - heir to the untold wealth of Paraguay. The fruit of their congress will be extraordinary, and will send her across the Atlantic on the regal voyage to claim her glorious future in Asunción. With the lavish imaginative richness of Márquez and the crazed panoramic sweep of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, The Pleasure of Eliza Lynch is a bold and brilliantly achieved novel about sex, beauty and corruption at the end of the old world.

A brilliant and moving novel about celebrity, sexual power, and a daughter’s search to understand her mother’s hidden truths. Bringing to life two generations of women with difficult sexual histories, both assaulted and silenced, both finding - or failing to find - their powers of recovery, Actress touches a raw and timely nerve. With virtuosic storytelling and in prose at turns lyrical and knife-sharp, Enright takes readers to the heart of the maddening yet tender love that binds a mother and daughter.

Katherine O'Dell è una leggenda del teatro irlandese. Sua figlia Norah, nel corso di un'intervista, inizia a tratteggiarne un ritratto, rievocando la figura magnetica e ingombrante della madre. Katherine aveva conosciuto il teatro seguendo la compagnia di cui faceva parte il padre per poi approdare a Londra, Broadway e, infine, Hollywood in un'ascesa fulminea e inarrestabile. Ma il successo, arrivato così rapidamente, altrettanto velocemente la abbandona.

Es ist keine Liebe auf den ersten Blick zwischen Gina und dem Familienvater Seán, nur ein flüchtiger Blickwechsel auf einer Gartenparty...