Fabienne Duvigneau Knihy

When his estranged daughter Katherine appears on his doorstep, ex-Detective Frank Elder knows that something is wrong. Katherine has long been troubled, and Elder has always felt powerless to help her. But now she has begun to self-destruct. The breakdown of her affair with a controversial artist has sent her into a tailspin that culminates in murder. And as Elder struggles to protect his daughter and prove her innocence, the terrors of the past threaten them both once more...

*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it' Stephen King* For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for him. Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she's losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days - including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built. When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?

Coventry Dakin accidentally kills a man and is forced to flee the law and become one of Britain's homeless

Co je příčinou Eviny krize, která ji přiměla schovávat se pod peřinou? Možná pověstných stokrát nic… Počínaje matčinými a učitelčinými drobnými, „dobře míněnými“ radami a poznámkami v době dospívání, schopnými navždy podkopat tolik potřebné sebevědomí. Přes manželovo samozřejmé přijímání vzorné péče o chod domu a domácnosti. Konče čím? Nevděkem vlastních dětí? Nedostatkem „času na sebe“? Nedostatkem lásky? Nedostatkem obyčejné lidskosti? Román britské autorky, proslavené především humornou ságou o nesnadném dospívání Adriana Molea, není vůbec lacině feministický. Ani v příběhu ženy, která odmítala vstát z postele, nechybí břitká ironie, tentokrát je ovšem zaměřena méně politicky. O to více se týká „obyčejných“ lidských vztahů.