Bøker av Donna Wootton

Isadora Duncan, a Canadian millennial, is in Oxford to research Lucia Joyce for her PhD. Her advisor, the enigmatic Antonia Galsworthy is a former student of her father. Isadora meets the talented photographer and sexually ambivalent Lewis Dodgson, thus awakening a passion for romance in a foreign land while her research leads her to take expressive dance, Lucia's obsession and nemesis. When Isadora is invited to the Galsworthy villa in Vignola, she falls in love with the handsome and entitled Rufus. Will their love prevail while family secrets, hidden for a generation across the ocean, come tumbling out?A Literary Grand Tour. Looking for Lucia, Isadora finds love. And a lot more than she bargained for. Dr. Mary M. Talbot, U. K., author of the graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's EyesI couldn't put the book down with its various but well-connected threads of both artistic and academic life, travel, romance, adventure, and mystery. Mary Jane Warner, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Dance, York University

Serve hash brownies to her bridge club? Check. Attend her granddaughter's prom channeling her inner Thelma and Louise? Check. Get arrested? Check. Shirley Palmer is determined to have the most exciting summer of her life. And her husband, daughter, grandkids, and friends can either come along for the ride or stay and pick up the pieces. Their choice. But Shirley's bucket list is widening the fault lines in her relationships. Some fractures create new understanding with those she loves. Others release resentments that threaten everything she holds dear. Ultimately Shirley comes to realize what really matters and what she must do. But first there's that last golden wish to fulfill, perhaps the most dangerous one of all... "What Shirley Missed" will resonate with anyone who has loved- and hated- their family. Donna Wootton has created unforgettable characters with complex inner lives that will keep you turning the pages long after you should have turned out the light.