Book City of Girls + The Bridges of Madison County + The Recipe for the Perfect Wife (set of 3 books)
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"City of Girls" is the new bestseller by Elizabeth Gilbert, who conquered the world with her novels "Eat, Pray, Love" and "The Nature of All Things".
This is an intriguing novel about female sexuality and freedom, about the courage to be yourself and the right to live the way you want. It is also a story of a very unusual love, shadowed by the war, and true friendship, which is not easy to find, understand and appreciate, especially in a city as complex and volatile as New York City.
The novel "City of Girls" begins in 1940, when nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris is expelled from a prestigious college. Her parents send their daughter to Manhattan to live with her aunt, who owns a small but very eccentric theatre. Unexpectedly, Vivian finds herself in a real whirlpool of pre-war bohemian life. Meetings with stars, unusual theatrical performances, unrestrained sex, rivers of alcohol and a feeling of complete freedom first fascinate and seduce her, and then knock the ground out from under her feet. And this is just the beginning of Vivian's lifelong journey to understand that you don't have to be a good girl to be a good person."
Book 2. The Bridges of Madison County
Fall in love with one of the most popular novels of all time - the legendary love story that became a favourite film starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep.
She is a farmer's wife and mother of two. He is a lonely photographer who travels the world all the time and considers himself the last cowboy. They met by chance and immediately realised that they had been looking for each other for a long time. And when they found each other, they parted forever. Fate gave them only four days, and in this short time they managed to live a whole life full of the brightest moments."
The Bridges of Madison County is not just a love story. It is a story of people who created a new being, "we", out of two "I's" and have not existed outside of it since."
Book 3. The Recipe for an Ideal Wife
Alice Hale, the protagonist of the novel, leaves her career in PR to become a writer. But this is not the only change in her life - she and her husband move from New York to a quiet suburb. Not everything goes according to plan, she spends a lot of time in a large empty house, she is very bored there, and her plans do not coincide with her husband's. One day, she finds an old cookbook by the previous owner of this house, Nellie Murdock, who was a housewife and lived here with her husband in the 50s . This makes her question her relationship with her husband. She begins to take control of her life and defend herself with the help of a few secrets she learns from the book.