TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krien,Daniela
AU  - Bulloch,Jamie
TI  - Love in five acts
SN  - 9781529406399
PY  - 2021///
CY  - London
PB  - MacLehose Press
KW  - Women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Choice (Psychology)
KW  - Love
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - First published as Die liebe im Ernsfall by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, in 2019
N2  - Five women attempt the impossible - to love, to be strong, and to stay true to themselves. Bookseller Paula has lost a child, and a husband. Where will she find her happiness? Fiercely independent Judith thinks more of horses than men, but that doesn't stop her looking for love online. Brida is a writer with no time to write, until she faces a choice between her work and her family. Abandoned by the "perfect" man, Malika struggles for recognition from her parents. Her sister Jorinde, an actor, is pregnant for a third time, but how can she provide for her family alone? Love in Five Acts explores what is left to five women when they have fulfilled their roles as wives, mothers, friends, lovers, sisters and daughters. As teenagers they experienced the fall of the Berlin Wall, but freedom brings with it another form of pressure: the pressure of choice. Punchy and entirely of the moment, Love in Five Acts engages head-on with what it is to be a woman in the twenty-first century
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