Sleepless in Staffordshire
Author | : Celeste Bradley |
Publisher | : Celeste Bradley |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Celeste Bradley |
Publisher | : Celeste Bradley |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2017-12-06 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Celeste Bradley |
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Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Christmas stories |
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Grief-stricken widower Lord Matthias Waterford, master of Havensbeck Manor, sends messages in a bottle to his lost wife and child. He throws them into the river by night, never knowing they are being found and read by spirited vicar's ward Bernadette Goodrich! A Christmas Ball brings the two together in a plot by a mischievous little brother and an interfering butler! By turns heartfelt and hilarious, Sleepless in Staffordshire is a charming Regency romance take on the romantic Nora Ephron film "Sleepless in Seattle".
Author | : Marie Darrieussecq |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2023-09-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1635901774 |
A restless inquiry into the cultural and psychic sources of insomnia by one of contemporary French literature’s most elegant voices. Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at 4 a.m. and then defines the next day. “Insomniac mornings are dead mornings,” she observes. Prevented from falling asleep by her dread of exhaustion the next day, Darrieussecq turns to hypnosis, psychoanalysis, alcohol, pills, and meditation. Her entrapment within this spiraling anguish prompts her inspired, ingenious search across literature, geopolitical history, psychoanalysis, and her own experience to better understand where insomnia comes from and what it might mean. There are those, she writes, in Rwanda, whose vivid memories of genocide leave them awake and transfixed by complete horror; there is the insomnia of the unhoused, who have nowhere to put their heads down. The hyperconnection of urban professional life transforms her bedroom from a haven to a dormant electrified node. Ranging between autobiography, clinical observation, and criticism, Sleepless is a graceful, inventive meditation by one of the most daring, inventive novelists writing today.
Author | : Annabel Abbs-Streets |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2024-02-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0593714156 |
Why women’s brains work differently at night—and how we can harness that altered state for greater creativity, insight, and courage. In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs-Streets experienced a series of losses: her stepfather, then father, and finally her family’s puppy. Unmoored by grief, she couldn’t sleep. But she discovered something surprising: during her wakeful nights, the darkness became a place of sanctuary, filled with creativity, reflection, and wonder. And once she stopped fighting her insomnia, Annabel tapped into something mysterious and beguiling: her Night Self. In the tradition of books like Breath and Wintering, Sleepless combines science, historical research, and personal experience to explore the complicated relationship women have with darkness. Her night journeys range from quiet country fields to brightly lit city streets to the darkest reaches of the Arctic Circle. And from women of the past—Lee Krasner, Virginia Woolf, Louise Bourgeois, and dozens more—who opened their minds on sleepless nights, to contemporary women who found a form of healing in darkness. From moth hunters to astronomers, from artists to photographers, Annabel found she wasn’t alone. Cut loose from the anxiety of insomnia, numerous women discovered strength, imagination, and inner knowledge at night. Many also learned to—finally—sleep.
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Release | : 1885 |
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Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : American periodicals |
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Author | : John Holmes Agnew |
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Total Pages | : 880 |
Release | : 1885 |
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Total Pages | : 888 |
Release | : 1885 |
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Total Pages | : 970 |
Release | : 1885 |
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Author | : David Roberts |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 532 |
Release | : 2003-12-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780312302177 |
Jean Stafford burst on the literary scene in 1944, when, at the age of twenty-nine, she published her bestselling novel, Boston Adventure. Three years later, Life magazine hailed her as the "most brilliant of the new fiction writers." Bafflingly, for the rest of her life, Stafford would struggle--and fail--to capitalize on that early promise. David Roberts' compelling biography examines Stafford's disastrous marriages, including her first marriage to the volatile poet Robert Lowell, which culminated for her in a lengthy stay in a psychiatric hospital. Beautiful and gifted, Stafford squandered her health as well as her talent, ending her life embittered and alone.