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The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under—maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made The Bell Jar a haunting American classic.

"As far back as I can recall, I have been in the bunker." A young woman is kept in a cage underground with thirty-nine other females, guarded by armed men who never speak; her crimes unremembered... if indeed there were crimes. The youngest of forty—a child with no name and no past—she survives for some purpose long forgotten in a world ravaged and wasted. In this reality where intimacy is forbidden—in the unrelenting sameness of the artificial days and nights—she knows nothing of books and time, of needs and feelings. Then everything changes... and nothing changes. A young woman who has never known men—a child who knows of no history before the bars and restraints—must now reinvent herself, piece by piece, in a place she has never been... and in the face of the most challenging and terrifying of unknowns: freedom.

Blue Sisters tells the story of three exceptional – and exceptionally different – sisters as they return to their family home in New York from their respective lives in Paris, London and LA in the wake of the death of their beloved fourth sister. As they are reunited whilst attempting to cope with this terrible loss, they must navigate addiction, grief and ambition and learn what it takes to fall in love with life again.

Una historia para reír, llorar y reconciliarse con la vida Sin nada que perder y todo por ganar, Rita Racons emprende el que será el viaje de su vida. Animada por su abuela, decide coger un avión y trasladarse a Estados Unidos para trabajar como au\-pair y aprender inglés. El azar la llevará a la casa de los Bookland, en Atlanta, donde cuidará de los tres hijos de la familia durante un año entero. Los Bookland lo son todo menos la típica familia americana. Insoportablemente intelectuales, esperan que la nueva au\-pair esté a la altura de lo que exigen unas pequeñas mentes ávidas de conocimientos. Y, pese a que no acabará de estarlo, Rita y su caos constante llevarán a los pequeños Bookland a disfrutar de aquello que no está escrito en los libros. Regina Rodríguez Sirvent construye, gracias a un estilo desternillante y locuaz, una novela divertidísima sobre lo que sucede cuando nos atrevemos a vivir.