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• Christine Bell : The Perez Family ( Cuban exiles in Florida)
• Kate Bingham : Mummy's Legs (three generations of women thinking they can do without men)
• Lily Brett : Just Like That ( Holocaust survivors and their children in contemporary New York)
• James M. Cain: Mildred Pierce (ungrateful daughter)
• Erskine Caldwell: Tobacco Road (poor whites trying to make ends meet in the American South)
• Ernest Callenbach: EcotopiaEcotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston is the title of a seminal book by Ernest Callenbach, published in 1975. The society described in the book is one of the first ecological utopias and was influential on the counterculture, and the green ( greenThe Green movement encompasses the Green parties and the larger ecology movement, peace movement, conservation movement, environmental movement and general trend towards environmentalism of which they are a part the most extreme members of which are somet utopia devoid of conventional sexual morality)
• Ivy Compton-BurnettDame Ivy Compton-Burnett D. 1884 August 27, 1969) was an English novelist. The daughter of a well-known doctor, Compton-Burnett grew up amongst numerous siblings in Hove and London. She never married, but from 1919 shared her Kensington flat with interior: The Present and the PastThe Present and the Past ( 1953) is a novel by Ivy Compton-Burnett about the head of a family who, although outwardly powerful and in charge, is suffering under the fact that he is being belittled and at some point even outright ignored by family and serv and all her other novels (love, hate and incest in EdwardianEdward VII Albert Edward ( 9 November 1841 6 May 1910) was the first British monarch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. As well as being the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the Sea, Edward was also England)
• Amanda Craig: A Vicious Circle and the other novels in her cycle ( satires of contemporary Britain)
• Helen Dunmore: Your Blue-Eyed Boy (the past catching up with a mother of two)
• Jeffrey Eugenides: The Virgin Suicides (five sisters committing suicide in quick succession in surburban America)
• Joy Fielding: Kiss Mommy Goodbye ( divorce, battle over custody, and subsequent kidnapping)
• David Gates: Jernigan (dysfunctional family headed by a hard-drinking, slightly paranoid father)
• Kaye Gibbons : Ellen Foster (little girl looking for love and protection)
• Kent Haruf : The Tie That Binds (several generations of a farming family on the Great Plains of Colorado)
• Nick Hornby: About a Boy (single mother suffering from depression)
• Marsha Hunt: Joy (family secrets)
• Christopher Isherwood: All the Conspirators ( evil mother)
• P.D. James: Innocent Blood (blood ties are stronger than anything else)
• Tama Janowitz: By the Shores of Gitchee Gumee ( white trash heading for Hollywood to realize their American Dream)
• Nella Larsen: Passing ( African American wife and mother torn between allegiance to her race and her friendship with another woman)
• Nancy Mitford: The Pursuit of Love (eccentric aristocratic family spend the interwar years in Britain falling in and out of love)
• Bharati Mukherjee: Jasmine ( Indian immigrant ends up as the mother in a patchwork family )
• Marge Piercy: Woman On the Edge of Time ( feminist utopia advocating complete equality between men and women)
• Bernice Rubens: A Solitary Grief (a father unable to cope with the fact that his child has Down's syndrome)
• Anne Tyler: A Patchwork Planet (a young father as the black sheep of the family)