Böcker av Patricia Friedrich

Arizona, 2019. When Nurse Pia Norwak spots Rikke Taylor, burn survivor and local heroine, at an emergency room in Sedona, Pia experiences an intensifying attraction, only matched by the puzzling visions that come to her with increasing frequency and clarity. Rikke, however reluctantly, cannot deny something mysterious is unfolding. Yorkshire, 1840. As Rory Allen travels back to her cottage at the Moorsgrange estate, she realizes she is also returning to Jules Ermsworth, piano virtuoso, heir to the Victorian estate, and her soulmate. But he's sickly and fragile, so his mother and doctor oppose the union. What connects these two love stories across time and space, and what will it take for Pia and Rikke to right the wrongs of that distant past?

Art history student Darcey Mendes needs a new topic for her thesis in order to graduate, but time is against her. Family debts are pressing. She fears she must give up all hopes of an academic career. Yet, without her degree, would she earn enough to provide for her secret daughter's future? Archie Northwood, rich and from a privileged family, s...

This book presents a literary and linguistic reading of obsessive-compulsive disorder to argue that medical understandings of disability need their social, political, literary and linguistic counterparts, especially if we aspire to create a more inclusive, self-reflective society.