A.J.

Alice Howland, a Harvard psychology professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s at fifty, gradually loses her memory, career and independence.

Five-year-old Jack and his Ma escape the shed where she has been held captive for seven years by a man they call Old Nick, after Ma has Jack fake his death.

Andrea Sachs, the overworked assistant to the tyrannical fashion editor Miranda Priestly, finally snaps during Paris Fashion Week and tells Miranda off in public after learning her best friend Lily has been in a car crash.

Bridget Jones, a thirty-something Londoner who spent a year trying to lose weight, quit smoking and find love, discovers that her charming boss Daniel Cleaver is a cad and that the stiff lawyer Mark Darcy is the man who truly loves her.

Mia Thermopolis, a fourteen-year-old New Yorker who learns she is the heir to the throne of the small European country of Genovia, accepts her role.

Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart, best friends since childhood who kept missing their chance at love for decades through misunderstandings, marriages and distance, finally get together in their fifties.

Holly Kennedy, whose husband Gerry died of a brain tumour, follows the monthly letters he left her, each ending “P.S.

Francesca Johnson, an Iowa farm wife, chooses to stay with her husband and children rather than leave with Robert Kincaid, the photographer she fell in love with during four days in 1965.

Tom Sherbourne, a lighthouse keeper who with his wife Isabel kept a baby that washed ashore in a boat with a dead man, confesses after learning the baby’s real mother, Hannah Roennfeldt, is alive.