Siobhan Adcock Livres

"A young man's search for his missing sister leads him into a disturbing and desperate underworld, where bitter freedoms are bought at a terrible price. Darlingly inventive, The Completionist brings us a hauntingly familiar future world in which plummeting birth rates have ominous political and personal implications for women. "Find her. You need to keep looking, no matter what. I'm afraid of what might've happened to her. You be afraid too." A young Marine, Carter Quinn, comes home from war to his fractured family, in a near-future America in which water is artificially engineered and technology is startlingly embedded in people's everyday lives. At the same time, a fertility crisis has terrifying implications for women, including Carter's two beloved sisters, Fred and Gardner. Fred, accomplished but impetuous, the eldest sibling, is naturally pregnant--a rare and miraculous event that puts her independence in jeopardy. And Gardner, the idealistic younger sister who lived for her job as a Nurse Completionist, has mysteriously vanished, after months of disturbing behavior. Carter's efforts to find Gard (and stay on Fred's good side) keep leading him back home to their father, a veteran of a decades-long war just like Carter himself, who may be concealing a painful truth that could save or condemn them all. In the spirit of Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven and The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, The Completionist is a deeply human mystery set in a future that holds our own world in a black mirror"-- Provided by publisher

“Eerie and atmospheric, this psychological thriller will twist its way into readers’ psyches.” —Booklist In today’s “lean in” era, debut novelist Siobhan Adcock casts the issue of whether women can ever “have it all” into a superbly written novel that will have readers everywhere talking. Bridget has given up her career to raise her daughter, but now a terrifying presence has entered their Texas home—and only Bridget can feel it. In 1902, motherhood spurs Rebecca to turn her back on her husband, despite her own misgivings. As Adcock crosscuts these two women’s stories with mounting tension, each arrives at a terrible ordeal of her own making.

Sind Sie in der Lage, Ihre Wohnung innerhalb von 45 Minuten aufzuräumen, wenn sich Besuch spontan ankündigt? Und können Sie eine Champagnerflasche öffnen, einen „Blues“ tanzen, einen „Kater“ kurieren, einen Kompass benutzen oder gar einen Reifen wechseln? Nein? Dann ist es höchste Zeit, dass Sie es lernen! Siobhan Adcocks Ratgeber verrät auf anschauliche und überaus unterhaltsame Weise, wie Sie diese und 24 weitere essentielle Fähigkeiten erwerben, mit denen Sie Ihr Gesicht wahren, Leben retten oder die Welt einfach nur zu einem netteren Ort machen. Wer weiß, vielleicht werden Sie ja schon morgen gebeten, eine Windel zu wechseln.

Praktische Fähigkeiten für den Alltag stehen im Mittelpunkt dieses unterhaltsamen Ratgebers. Von der schnellen Wohnungsreinigung bis hin zu nützlichen Fertigkeiten wie Reifenwechseln und dem Öffnen einer Champagnerflasche – Siobhan Adcock vermittelt 25 essentielle Tipps, die helfen, in verschiedenen Situationen souverän zu agieren. Der humorvolle Ansatz macht das Lernen dieser Fähigkeiten nicht nur informativ, sondern auch unterhaltsam. Ein unverzichtbarer Leitfaden, um alltägliche Herausforderungen mit Leichtigkeit zu meistern.