Results for "Ward, Sophie"

From the Booker Prize-longlisted author of Love and Other Thought Experiments comes a masterful and gripping thriller about truth, silence, and the weight of the past.Isobel lives an isolated life in North London, where she works at a nearby library. She feels safe, so long as she keeps to her routi... Read More about The Schoolhouse: A novel

This impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best-known thought experiments in philosophy—the what-ifs of philosophical investigation—and uses them to talk about love in a wholly unique way.Married couple Rachel and Eliza are co... Read More about Love and Other Thought Experiments

Set in England and Hong Kong in the 1920s, The Painted Veil is the story of the beautiful but love-starved Kitty Fane. When her husband discovers her adulterous affair, he forces her to accompany him to the heart of a cholera epidemic. Stripped of the status she fought so hard to attain in Hong Kong... Read More about The Painted Veil