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A Great American Novel -- from the author of 'Borrowed Finery'. Otto and Sophie Bentwood live childless in a renovated Brooklyn brownstone. The complete works of Goethe line their bookshelf, their stainless steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked outside. After Sophie is bitten on the hand while trying to feed a half-starved neighbourhood cat, a series of small and ominous disasters begin to plague their lives, revealing the faultlines and fractures in a marriage -- and a society -- wrenching itself apart. Includes an introduction by Jonathan Franzen.

Městečko Crosby v Maine se může jevit jako zcela bezvýznamné. Pro učitelku v penzi však představuje střed světa. Lidé zde prožívají svá dramata — touhu, zoufalství, žárlivost, naději i lásku. Olive Kitteridgeová, občas přísná, jindy trpělivá, vnímavá, pak zase smutně odmítavá, bolestně prožívá změny v městečku a ve světě vůbec. Ne vždy však rozpozná proměny blízkých lidí, mezi něž patří hudebnice pronásledovaná vzpomínkami na starou lásku, bývalý student, který ztratil vůli k životu, Olivin dospělý syn, jenž se cítí tyranizován její iracionální přecitlivělostí, nebo její manžel Henry, který považuje loajalitu k vlastnímu manželství současně za požehnání i prokletí. Jak se lidé z městečka potýkají se všemi svými problémy, Olive dospívá k pochopení sebe sama a svého života; někdy bolestně, ale vždy s nelítostnou upřímností.

Marianne Baker is happy. Sort of. She’s worked at the same job for years (nearly 15, but who’s counting), she lives at home with her mum (who is driving her crazy) and sleeps in a single bed (yep, her love life is stalled). Playing the violin is her only real passion – but nobody like her does that for a living. Then one night everything changes. The father who abandoned Marianne as a child turns up on her doorstep, with a shocking secret that changes her life forever. Suddenly Marianne’s safe, comfortable world is shattered. If her father isn’t the man she thought he was, then who is he? And, more to the point, who is she? It’s time to find out who the real Marianne Baker is.

________________________ A gripping psychological suspense novel from the author of Until You're Mine. Oh God, please don't let me die. It has taken nearly two years for the Warwickshire village of Radcote to put a spate of teenage suicides behind it. Then a young man is killed in a freak motorbike accident, and a suicide note is found among his belongings. A second homeless boy takes his own life, this time on the railway tracks. Is history about to repeat itself? DI Lorraine Fisher has just arrived for a relaxing summer break with her sister. Soon she finds herself caught up in the resulting police enquiry. And when her nephew disappears, she knows she must act quickly. Are the recent deaths suicide - or murder? And is the nightmare starting all over again? ________________________ 'You'll be hooked to this one well into the early hours of the morning!' ESSENTIALS