Sarah May se zaměřuje na zranitelnost lidského ducha a temné stránky společnosti. Její próza, často zasazená do drsných a zkorumpovaných prostředí, zkoumá komplexní vztahy mezi postavami a jejich vnitřními démony. S citem pro detail a znepokojivou atmosférou Mayová vtahuje čtenáře do příběhů, které odhalují skryté aspekty lidské povahy a společenských struktur.
Set against the 90s tabloid era, &i;>Becky &/i>is the story of Becky Sharp, a young woman determined to make a place for herself in high society and get to the top of the ladder at the newspaper where she works, no matter how many lives she ruins in the process.
It's hard to keep a secret when the secret just keeps on getting bigger….Four teenage girls - Grace, Vicky, Ruth and Saskia - all at the same school; all with the same secret.October. Burwood. The corridors of Burwood Girls School are once more full of oestrogen; Platform number one at Burwood Station is packed with commuters waiting for delayed trains to London; the gym at Oasis Leisure centre is full of fading tans while leaves fall and pile up on lawns ripe for raking. Just like any other October. Until life gets turned inside out in this affluent South-eastern town when not one but four teenage girls fall pregnant.As the media descends on Burwood with unprecedented ferocity, headlines suchWHO ARE THE BABIES' FATHERS?DO ALL FOUR BABIES SHARE THE SAME FATHER?GIRLS REVEAL PREGNANCIES WEREN'T ACCIDENTAL…ARE THE BURWOOD GIRLS PART OF A TEENAGE PREGNANCY CULT?…at first seem to corrupt this small, leafy, affluent community until we realise that the corruption was there all along, bubbling just beneath the surface.Before things get better, they're going to get much, much worse. But then, at the end of the day, the last thing anyone in Burwood wants is life to return to normal.
The queen of the black-hearted soap opera is back!Welcome to the upwardly mobile Prendergast Road…On Prendergast Road, deep in Nappy Valley, among olive trees in terracotta, lower fuel emissions, Lithuanian prostitutes, teenage drug dealers, stalkers and soaring house prices, five desperate women wait…The progeny of the IVF generation is ready to start school and only one of them is destined to get a place in Nappy Valley's most oversubscribed cradle of learning. How far will these women go to get that place?Follow Kate Hunter into the depths of her impeccably honed life, as she struggles to maintain the façade of perfection. When exactly did life become a life class? Is happiness overrated? Is it just possible that beneath the flawless sheen of her friends' and neighbours' amazingly trouble-free lives, beneath the freshly-ironed shirts and home-grown veg, lie the same half-truths, the same uncertainties and the same desperation to keep up with the Joneses…?Sarah May is an intimate observer of society (AKA curtain-twitcher of the highest order) and her novel is an hilariously dark-hearted soap opera of our everyday lives. In a society that always strives to be more organic, less carbon-polluting, more virtuous than any other, 'The Rise and Fall of the Domestic Diva' is a breath of fresh air (imported from the mountains of Nepal and filtered organically for purity, of course. A snip at only £6.99.).
Do you know what your neighbours get up to behind closed doors? And more to the point, do you want to know? ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia is a darkly comic portrayal of marriage, relationships, neighbours and suburbia. Welcome to Littlehaven, where serving pineapple with cottage cheese at a dinner party is the very height of glamorous sophistication; where sulky teenagers join CND and obsess as much about the threat of nuclear war as they do about their latest acne outbreak; and where missing a Green Goddess-led aerobics session is the true definition of disaster. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia’ follows the intertwined stories of the inhabitants of Pollards Close in love and out of love, in marriage and in flagrante, in health and in sickness, in work and out of work, in triumph and in tragedy. ‘The Rise and Fall of the Queen of Suburbia’ is a black-hearted soap opera, a smart, sharp study of obsession, paranoia and class, set against an all-too-recognisable backdrop of the decade that taste forgot.
Negotiating, Performing, and Navigating Moral Standards in Contexts of Work
'Alltag und Stadt sind nicht einfach da. Es sind die Menschen, die in ihrem Alltag ihre Stadt machen.' Was ist das Besondere an Freiburg? Ist es das Flair seiner Innenstadt, die Vielzahl an Fahrrädern, die Nähe zur Schweiz oder doch das Nachtleben? Dieser Band mit seinen 16 ethnografischen Studien und Fotostrecken rückt die Handlungen und Wahrnehmungsweisen derjenigen, die in Freiburg wohnen, arbeiten und interagieren, in den Mittelpunkt. Er macht dadurch Verstrickungen von Routinen des städtischen Alltags sichtbar, die auf den ersten Blick nicht verbunden Straßenbahnfahren,Geigenbauen und Nachbarschaftsstreit zum Beispiel. So zeigt sich, dass es gerade die verschiedenen und vermeintlich widersprüchlichen Merkmale des städtischen Alltags sind, die Freiburg ausmachen. Alltag und Stadt bedingen sich. Alltag findet statt - oder Alltag findet Stadt.
Die Bergmäuse sind ein lustiges Völkchen, aber auf dem Berg ist es kalt, und die Mäuse frieren. Wie schaffen sie es bloß, dass ihnen warm wird? Sarah May, gerade mal 16 Jahre alt, erzählt in hinreißend komischen Bildern die Geschichte von den Mäusen, die auf die Idee kommen, nicht den Tiger in den Tank, sondern die Sonne in den Ofen zu packen, damit sie im Bedarfsfall gleich an der Wärmequelle sitzen. – Die ausdrucksstarken Aquarellzeichnungen machen auch ohne den knappen, kindgerechten Begleittext unmittelbar verständlich, worum es geht, und machen schon die kleinsten Leser und Zuhörer mit einem wichtigen Umweltthema bekannt, der Bedeutung regenerativer Energien.
