Pippa Bennett-Warner
1) Swing time
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An ambitious, exuberant new novel moving from North West London to West Africa, from the multi-award-winning author of White Teeth and On Beauty. Two brown girls dream of being dancers--but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It's a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties,...
2) Wakefield
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A successful suburbanite commuter Howard Wakefield takes a perverse detour from family life: He vanishes without a trace. Hidden in the attic of his carriage house garage, surviving by scavenging at night, Howard secretly observes the lives of his wife and children and neighbors. Wakefield becomes a fraught meditation on marriage and identity, as Howard slowly realizes that he has not in fact left his family, he has left himself.
Publisher
Warner Bros Ent. Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Max owns an influential media empire where information is his trade: he has secrets on everyone and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden is the editor of Max's newspaper, but Caden is crumbling under the pressure. He is left like a helpless child after suffering a massive stroke. For Kathryn, Max's estranged wife, this is a chance to reconnect with the sensitive boy Max ripped away from her. Caden knows secrets that could bring Max's empire crashing...
