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The story of two women, Rose and her partner Adelle; they have lived together for eight years and they have made accommodations that all long-term partners do. Then Adelle's doctor finds a mass in her breast. ... Rose copes with her increasing fear by doing all the things she does best, and the one thing she does best is cook. A story of how a couple cope with news no one wants to hear.
12) Cactus
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"Cactus is a novel about four women, how they affect each other, how they struggle to survive. As her daughters grow up, Bea begins to reassess her marriage, her youth, her likely future as a superfluous middle-aged, middle class woman. Ann and Dee are lesbian feminists trying, against formidable odds, to make a world in which they would be at home. Eleanor, finding herself drawn into relationships with the others, sees her painfully acquired independence...
13) Gut symmetries
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Aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2 and under the stars, three lives converge. Two physicists - Jove, a married man, and Alice, a single woman - meet and commence an affair, only for Alice to fall in love with Jove's wife, Stella, a poet. Winterson captures all three sides of this triangle of desire - and the rich history that has brought them together - with her prodigious passion and intellect. Encompassing ideas that reach from the Greeks to the Grand...
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"Marking the appearance of a masterly literary talent, Christopher Osborn's richly drawn, sexually charged, and extremely lyrical first novel plumbs the consciousness and relationships of a young gay pianist, Robert, on the day of his concert debut. Incited by the beauty and power of Robert's playing, his thoughts and those of his parents, friends, and a few lovers scattered throughout the audience turn to the events and emotions that bind them all...