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Morality Tale: A Novel
Sylvia Brownrigg

Counterpoint, 2008

When this novel's unnamed narrator meets the elusive but exciting Richard (an envelope salesman with a nice layman's line in Zen philosophies), he offers her a friendly escape from her dreary domestic life. Burdened by her husband's ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals, she finds that the life of a “second marryer” leaves much to ...

Pages for You: A Novel

34 reviews
Sylvia Brownrigg

Picador, 2002

Different- Sensual, Sweet and Heartbreaking
There are books like Stella Duffy's "Calendar Girl" that have abrupt, tragic endings, and then there are books like Sylvia Brownrigg's "Pages For You". The book is not a happy one, and neither is the story. We, as the readers, know it's going end badly. "Happily ever after" is the thing of childhood fairy tales and falsehoods, this book has the harsh tragedies of life, but also the sweet ...

Ten Women Who Shook the World

3 reviews
Sylvia Brownrigg

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997

Fresh visions, cosmic comics, good stuff!
I love this book. The ten stories are fresh, comic, poignant--fun and funny and thoughtful. The writing is tremendous: Brownrigg's use of language is cool and assured even as she paints seemingly outrageous pictures. Highly recommended.

Quelques pages pour toi
Sylvia Brownrigg, Josette Chicheportiche

Mercure de France, 2002

The Metaphysical Touch: A Novel

23 reviews
Sylvia Brownrigg

Picador, 2000

I almost quit on this one... you shouldn't
The beginning of this book was slow, painfully so at times. The verbosity of the author makes it hard to get into the story. Then, as the story begins to move in and out of the email converstations things pick up and I couldn't put the book down. At that point I realized (or at least speculated) that the writing style was meant to set a tone for the story. As the book switches characters, the ...

The Delivery Room: A Novel
Sylvia Brownrigg

Counterpoint, 2008

It is 1998. In the safe haven of her London office—a room her husband jokingly calls “The Delivery Room”—therapist Mira Braverman listens to the stories of her troubled patients, including an aristocratic woman going through an intense infertility drama, an American journalist who is eager to have a baby, and an irritable divorcé who likes to taunt Mira about her Serbian nationality. As the novel unfolds, Mira discovers ...