Henry Carter Hull

British newlyweds Margaret and Patrick decide to spend a year living in Kenya, where photojournalist Margaret begins to realize how little she knows about her husband, but when the couple is invited on a climbing expedition to Mount Kenya, tragedy strikes and scars their marriage forever.

"A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore"--

Examines the complicated relationships between members of the Ramsay family and their guests during stays at their summer home in Scotland between 1910 and 1920.

A group of thirtysomething couples with kids in tow gather at a beach-house on the Long Island Sound for a weekend. Throughout the weekend, conflicts intensify and painful truths surface; friendships and alliances crack, forcing the house party to confront a new order.

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • Frank and April Wheeler are a bright, beautiful, talented couple in the 1950s whose perfect suburban life is about to crumble in this "moving and absorbing story” (The Atlantic Monthly) from one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century.

"The Great Gatsby of my time...one of the best books by a member of my generation." —Kurt Vonnegut, acclaimed author of Slaughterhouse-Five

Perhaps...

Presents two novellas by Phillip Lopate, "The Stoic's Marriage," in which a young man falls in love with the nurse sent to care for his dying mother, and "Eleanor, or, The Second Marriage," recounting the story of a couple whose perfect romantic weekend is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of the man's son.

From the acclaimed author of The Feast of Love- a National Book Award nominee- comes a light-hearted and deeply moving novel about events and emotions that shape the lives of a young married couple. Five Oaks, Michigan is not exactly where Saul and Patsy meant to end up. Both from the East Coast, they met in college, fell in love, and settled down to married life in the Midwest. Saul is Jewish and a compulsively inventive...

In a crooked house in South London, Melissa feels increasingly that she's defined solely by motherhood, while Michael mourns the former thrill of their romance. In the suburbs, Stephanie's aspirations for bliss on the commuter belt, coupled with her white middle-class upbringing, compound Damian's itch for a bigger life catalyzed by the death of his activist father. Longtime friends from the years when passion seemed permanent, the couples have stayed...