Kaylie Jones

The daughter of James Jones here offers a discerning, brightly written, apparently semiautobiographical bildungsroman. Channe Willis, the daughter of an eminent American novelist and his loving wife, grows up happy and spoiled in Paris. One day, her idyllic bubble is burst when her parents adopt a young French boy her own age, whose foster mother has committed suicide. Jones ( Quite the Other Way ...

Set in the Soviet Union this novel centres on the daughter of a World War II correspondent. Ten years later she travels to Russia to discover that the people who had known her father are reluctant to reveal the truth about his war experiences. The author also wrote "As Soon As It Rains".

In this splendid novel, Celeste finds herself engaged to Alex, a wealthy man whose standards are as exacting as her own - or so she thought. As she begins to question their relationship and herself, Celeste is haunted by painful memories: of her past in well-heeled, blue-blooded Connecticut; of the friends and family who seem to have disappeared from her life; and of Nathan, for whom Celeste still...

In her riveting memoir Lies My Mother Never Told Me, Kaylie Jones—the daughter of author James Jones (From Here to Eternity) and an acclaimed author in her own right (A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries; Celeste Ascending; As Soon As It Rains)—tells the poignant story of her relationship with her famous father and her alcoholic mother, and of her own struggles with the disease. A true story of privil...

In this dark and powerful work, Clara Sverdlow--the daughter of a former Russian political prisoner at Auschwitz--works to address the past and confront her present situation before it's too late.