Island Wife

Author : Judy Fairbairns
Publisher : Charnwood
ISBN 13 : 9781444820904
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Wife written by Judy Fairbairns and published by Charnwood. This book was released on 1914-09-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy who, at 19, meets her Wild Pioneer. He whisks her off into an adventure: a marriage of forty years, and life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way, she bears five children, learns how to run a farm and holiday cottages, and starts a recording studio and the island's first whale-watching business with her husband - all while inventively making fraying ends meet. When her children start to leave home, things fall apart, and there is sadness and joy in how she puts them back together. Judy tells her story in a clear and unique voice - in turns funny, unforgettable and intensely moving.

Author : Judy Fairbairns
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1444759612
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Wife written by Judy Fairbairns and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dream of living on a remote Scottish island? ISLAND WIFE tells one woman's true life story from 19-year-old bride to mother of five, running a family hotel a recording studio and a whale watching business. By turns unflinching, moving and very funny, this is a memoir of a 40 year marriage and a woman's extraordinary life. 'A hugely entertaining story of family travails and triumphs' KIRSTY WARK 'A sensitive, brave and honest look at a life lived in the wake of others' needs' DAILY MAIL Judy, at 19, met her future husband, who whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of over forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way she bears five children, learns how to run a rocky hill farm, a hotel, a recording studio and the first whale watching business in the UK - all the while inventively making fraying ends meet. When her children start to leave home, things fall apart and there is sadness and joy in how she puts things back together. Funny and tender, this is a book of endless horizons and a breath of fresh air. It is also the story of a creative woman coming out from under and finding her true self.

Author : Christian White
Publisher : Minotaur Books
ISBN 13 : 1250194385
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wife and the Widow written by Christian White and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second standalone thriller from the award-winning author of The Nowhere Child, Christian White. Set against the backdrop of an eerie island town in the dead of winter, The Wife and The Widow is an unsettling thriller told from two perspectives: Kate, a widow whose grief is compounded by what she learns about her dead husband’s secret life; and Abby, an island local whose world is turned upside when she’s forced to confront the evidence of her husband’s guilt. But nothing on this island is quite as it seems, and only when these women come together can they discover the whole story about the men in their lives. Brilliant and beguiling, The Wife and The Widow takes you to a cliff edge and asks the question: how well do we really know the people we love?

Author : Margaret Holden Eaton
Publisher : McNally & Loftin Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diary of a Sea Captain's Wife written by Margaret Holden Eaton and published by McNally & Loftin Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judy Fairbairns
Publisher : Two Roads
ISBN 13 : 1444759612
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Wife written by Judy Fairbairns and published by Two Roads. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funny and tender, this is a book of endless horizons and a breath of fresh air. 'An unflinching and hugely entertaining story of family travails and triumphs' Kirsty Wark 'A sensitive, brave and honest look at a life lived in the wake of others' needs' Daily Mail ISLAND WIFE tells the story of Judy, who, at 19, met her Wild Pioneer. He whisked her off into an adventure, a marriage of forty years, and a life on a remote Hebridean island. Along the way she bears five children, learns how to run a rocky hill farm, a hotel, a recording studio and the first whale watching business in the UK - all the while inventively making fraying ends meet. When her children start to leave home, things fall apart and there is sadness and joy in how she puts things back together. Judy tells her story in a clear and unique voice, in turns funny, unforgettable and intensely moving.

Author : Fiona Stocker
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912618095
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apple Island Wife written by Fiona Stocker and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when you leave city life and move to five acres on a hunch, with a husband who’s an aspiring alpaca-whisperer, and a feral cockerel for company? Can you eat the cockerel for dinner? Or has it got rigor mortis? In search of a good life and a slower pace, Fiona Stocker upped-sticks and moved to Tasmania, a land of promise, wilderness, and family homes of uncertain build quality. It was the lifestyle change that many dream of and most are too sensible to attempt. Wife, mother and now reluctant alpaca owner, Fiona jumped in at the deep end. Gradually Tasmania got under her skin as she learned to stack wood, round up the kids with a retired lady sheepdog, and stand on a scorpion without getting stung. This charming tale captures the tussles and euphoria of living on the land in a place of untrammelled beauty, raising your family where you want to and seeing your husband in a whole new light. Not just a memoir but an everywoman’s story, and a paean to a new, slower age.

Author : Jessica Stirling
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444744941
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Island Wife written by Jessica Stirling and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2012-03-29 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in 1878, this is the story of Biddy and Innes, two young girls from a large crofting and fishing family on the Isle of Mull, whose world is thrown into confusion by the arrival of a handsome young shepherd. Tragedy follows when they both fall in love with the same man.

Author : Amity Gaige
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525566929
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sea Wife written by Amity Gaige and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of the Year “Brilliantly breathes life not only into the perils of living at sea, but also into the hidden dangers of domesticity, parenthood, and marriage. What a smart, swift, and thrilling novel.” —Lauren Groff, author of Florida Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids—Sybil, age seven, and George, age two—Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being at sea. The vast horizons and isolated islands offer Juliet and Michael reprieve – until they are tested by the unforeseen. A transporting novel about marriage, family and love in a time of unprecedented turmoil, Sea Wife is unforgettable in its power and astonishingly perceptive in its portrayal of optimism, disillusionment, and survival.

Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451681755
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Light Between Oceans written by M.L. Stedman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cloth bag containing ten copies of the title.

Author : William Steig
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 1466839171
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abel's Island written by William Steig and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2013-07-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William's Steig's Abel's Island tells the story of a mouse who gets swept away from his beloved wife—a truly timeless classic about life's simple pleasures. Abel's place in his familiar, mouse world has always been secure; he had an allowance from his mother, a comfortable home, and a lovely wife, Amanda. But one stormy August day, furious flood water carry him off and dump him on an uninhabited island. Despite his determination and stubborn resourcefulness--he tried crossing the river with boats and ropes and even on stepping-stones--Abel can't find a way to get back home. Days, then weeks and months, pass. Slowly, his soft habits disappear as he forages for food, fashions a warm nest in a hollow log, models clay statues of his family for company, and continues to brood on the problem of how to get across the river--and home. Abel's time on the island brings him a new understanding of the world he's separated from. Faced with the daily adventure of survival in his solitary, somewhat hostile domain, he is moved to reexamine the easy way of life he had always accepted and discovers skills and talents in himself that hold promise of a more meaningful life, if and when he should finally return to Mossville and his dear Amanda again. Abel's Island is a 1976 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and Outstanding Book of the Year, and a 1977 Newbery Honor Book. It was adapted to a short animated film directed by Michael Sporn in 1988.