Carola

With these words to Boswell, Samuel Johnson dismissed Lady Di Beauclerk, the wife of one of his closest friends, a woman of the highest rank, the daughter of a duke, who had forsaken her reputation, her place in society, her children, and her role as lady-in-waiting to the Queen for love. Born Lady Diana Spencer in 1735, the eldest child of the third Duke of Marlborough, she was expected rigidly to follow a traditional path through life: educated...

En una residencia de ancianos, Verónica se pregunta: "¿por qué nos hemos dejado atrapar?". Los relatos de Las primaveras de Verónica buscan dar con la respuesta abriendo más interrogantes en el camino. Uno a uno, tejen un tapiz que es la historia de una familia, de una casa, de un país, donde los secretos se emparedan en los tabiques o se entierran bajo un chopo, y los fantasmas nunca se van del todo. Con su prosa ya reconocible, Carola Aikin...

Rocco discovers his powers and build an army. He takes over the world. Moon searching for Rocco to finish the job. Moon discovers a new creature and bumps into a girl, who is the queen's daughter.

Carola Luther's ‘On the Way to Jerusalem Farm’ explores the complexities of living in a damaged world. How, it asks, does such a world live in us, and we in it? At the centre of the collection are three sequences, 'Letters to Rasool', 'Birthday at Emily Court' and 'The Escape'. On the Way to Jerusalem Farm moves through the world, seeking and finding not answers, but sometimes, a means of continuing. The speaker in 'Letters to Rasool' travels...

"I have told Rose that there will be a chauffeur for dinner," she ended, frowning slightly at the cannibalistic sound of her sentence. Unmarried and nicknamed "Button" by her friends, Mary Morrison is a (very mildly) distressed gentlewoman. She no longer lives in her family home, but remains at the very center of village life, surrounded by friends including carefree, irresponsible Catha, Lady Rollo, just back from India and setting up lavish housekeeping...

Inez wanders a post-pandemic world, strangely immune to disease, making her living by volunteering as a test subject. She is hired to provide genetic material to a grief-stricken, affluent mother, who lost all four of her daughters within four short weeks. This experimental genetic work is policed by a hazy network of governmental Ethics committees, and threatened by the Knights of Life, religious zealots who raze the rural farms where much of this...