Elizabeth Alexandris

Anna, a friendly but reclusive fortysomething, harbors an unusual phobia: she’s terrified of children. When she reconnects with Alexandre, her ex-boyfriend she never stopped loving, she thinks she’s finally found happiness… until she discovers he has two kids. When circumstances force her to care for them alone, a panicked Anna reluctantly agrees. Between ridiculous rules and absurd situations, this forced living arrangement might just change everything… for worse, but also for better.

In an effort to reconnect with his estranged father, 13-year-old Roy agrees to spend a formative year of adventure on the remote Sukkwan Island deep in the Norwegian fjords. What starts as a chance to rebuild their relationship quickly descends into a test of survival as they face the harsh realities of their environment and confront their unresolved turmoil.

In Tuscany to promote his latest book, a middle-aged English writer meets a French woman who leads him to the village of Lucignano.

After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.