false 153935 0 0 977374 1853816000 9781853816000 2 <![CDATA[Daughters of the House]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179953276m/977374.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179953276s/977374.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/977374.Daughters_of_the_House 3.56 25 Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts’s acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents’ and servants’ guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives.
]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 1995 712498 0156006596 9780156006590 0 <![CDATA[Impossible Saints (Harvest Book)]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177547539m/712498.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177547539s/712498.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/712498.Impossible_Saints 3.94 16 An original exploration of love, faith, and desire, Impossible Saints is a funny, disturbing, and utterly compelling novel about modern women who came before their time.

]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 1997 360635 1933648562 9781933648569 7 <![CDATA[The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene: a novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174088200m/360635.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174088200s/360635.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/360635.The_Secret_Gospel_of_Mary_Magdalene_a_novel 3.53 15 "An assured tour de force of passion. The power with which it reclaims spiritual and sexual strength for women cannot be ignored."-Time Out London

"Michele Roberts is intelligent and passionate; by her rich use of symbols and metaphor she transforms feminist cliché into something alive and moving."-The Times Literary Supplement

"Roberts' deft pacing highlights the intense, sensual beauty of her prose. Hardly a page goes by without a sentence of such lovely cadence that a reader must pause to consider it."-The Washington Post Book World

"Roberts has a gift for making the ordinary extraordinary."-People

In the parched soil of Provence, a fifth gospel has been discovered: Mary Magdalene's account of Jesus' teachings and her vital relationship with him. It is a book of revelation, for it unveils a new Christianity, one that embraces the female equally with the male and acknowledges-and celebrates-the spirituality of women. It is also a passionate story of love and loss, of separation and rebirth, centered on the Magdalene as the wellspring of womanhood.

In this dramatic tale Michele Roberts offers a brilliant and moving vision of Jesus that is also startlingly modern in its conclusions. Perhaps most importantly, it confirms her stature as one of the most talented and exciting writers of her generation.

Michele Roberts is the author of eleven novels, including Reader, I Married Him and Daughters of the House, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and was winner of the WHSmith Literary Award. She lives in England.

]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 1984 1343632 1933648023 9781933648026 4 <![CDATA[Reader, I Married Him]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182878361m/1343632.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1182878361s/1343632.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1343632.Reader_I_Married_Him 2.60 15 After three abruptly ended marriages, Aurora is ready to lose her dreary black trouser-suit and find refuge in the Tuscan sun. It's her new eau de nil frock that she sheds, however, when she finds herself in the hotel room of the disconcertingly magnetic Father Michael. He rides a Harley Davidson, and he may not be a priest at all. One thing is certain, Aurora's radical friend Leonora is now the head of the local convent, even if Aurora can't imagine what an abbess might want with her gun.

Michele Roberts is the author of 11 novels, including Daughters of the House, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize and winner of the WHSmith Literary Award. She lives in England.

]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 2005 386968 0312420374 9780312420376 2 <![CDATA[Fair Exchange: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174358148m/386968.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174358148s/386968.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/386968.Fair_Exchange_A_Novel 3.45 11 Fair Exchange is a spellbinding and sensual novel of passion and guilt.
</div>]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 1999 468298 0312420838 9780312420833 2 <![CDATA[The Looking Glass: A Novel]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175021115m/468298.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175021115s/468298.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/468298.The_Looking_Glass_A_Novel 2.71 7 </div>]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 2000 1401202 1860499821 9781860499821 2 <![CDATA[The Mistressclass]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183316871m/1401202.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1183316871s/1401202.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1401202.The_Mistressclass 2.12 8 A painter's death sets into motion a story of desire-past and present-and its enduring repercussions

Catherine and Vinny are sisters and writers living in contemporary London. Catherine, a professor, publishes erotic novels under an assumed name, keeping her acclaimed novelist husband, Adam, in the dark. When not writing her poetry, Vinny wanders the streets of the city marking the houses of female authors with chalk quotations from their work.

When Adam's father dies, both women are forced to reconsider the event that shaped their lives, the betrayal at the heart of their relationships. Haunted by their individual and common pasts, they must come to terms with each other, and with their present-day lives.

Acclaimed author Michèle Roberts not only brings history to life-interwoven into this contemporary narrative is the story of another set of sisters, the Brontës-but illuminates the way it informs, or shadows, the present. Evocative, emotional, and intelligent, The Mistressclass is an exploration of the desires that move us-toward art and literature, and toward each other.
</div>]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 2003 2303691 186049935X 9781860499357 0 <![CDATA[Playing Sardines]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2303691.Playing_Sardines 3.75 4 Playing Sardines is a wickedly gorgeous concoction of the sweet, bittersweet and downright sickly. Roberts has created each female narrator or heroine with as much care as any cook measuring out the ingredients for a rich chocolate mousse, and though not all the stories take food as their main theme, they leave the reader just as sated. Not surprisingly, France--its countryside, its cooking, Paris--takes a lead role in the stories, whether eating cordon bleu food from the perspective of a naive young English bride or roaming the streets of Paris seen through the older eyes of a 60-year-old. Stories which do dwell less on food, such as "Blathering Frights" and "A Bodice Rips" blackly and yet gently mock Roberts' own profession; creative writing courses and romantic novels are turned inside out with little twists of plot and extended metaphors.

Michele Roberts has a light touch that makes these stories very readable, and her subtly insinuating tone makes the mockery and morbidity all the more horrific after each story has finished. Playing Sardines is a literary dish to be appreciated in small but perfect portions. --Olivia Dickinson

]]> 153935 3.43 141 27 2002 2693663 070433903X 9780704339033 0 <![CDATA[The Visitation]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2693663.The_Visitation 4.00 3 153935 3.43 141 27 1983 2176154 041363020X 9780413630209 1 <![CDATA[In the Red Kitchen]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2176154.In_the_Red_Kitchen 3.33 3 153935 3.43 141 27 1990