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Kim Lock

    Kim Lock tisse des récits captivants qui explorent la complexité des relations humaines et les nuances de l'expérience féminine. Son écriture se caractérise par une perspicacité psychologique aiguë et une prose élégante qui immerge le lecteur dans la vie intérieure de ses personnages. Lock saisit magistralement la texture de l'existence quotidienne, dévoilant des significations plus profondes dans des moments ordinaires. Son œuvre explore constamment les thèmes de l'identité, de la connexion et de la quête d'appartenance.

    Weißt du, warum ich tot bin?
    The Other Side of Beautiful
    • The Other Side of Beautiful

      • 400pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Lost & Found meets The Rosie Project in a stunning break-out novel where a vulnerable misfit is forced to re-engage with the world, despite her best efforts. Meet Mercy Blain, whose house has just burnt down. Unfortunately for Mercy, this goes beyond the disaster it would be for most people: she hasn't been outside that house for two years now. Flung out into the world she's been studiously ignoring, Mercy goes to the only place she can. Her not-quite-ex-husband Eugene's house. But it turns out she can't stay there, either. And so begins Mercy's unwilling journey. After the chance purchase of a cult classic campervan (read tiny, old and smelly), with the company of her sausage dog, Wasabi, and a mysterious box of cremated remains, Mercy heads north from Adelaide to Darwin. On the road, through badly timed breakdowns, gregarious troupes of grey nomads, and run-ins with a rogue adversary, Mercy's carefully constructed walls start crumbling. But what was Mercy hiding from in her house? And why is Eugene desperate to have her back in the city? They say you can't run forever... Exquisite, tender and wry, this is a break-out novel about facing anxiety and embracing life from an extraordinary new talent.

      The Other Side of Beautiful2021
    • Fairlie Winter erhält einen Brief von ihrer besten Freundin Jenna. Doch Jenna ist seit einigen Tagen tot. Den Brief hat sie abgeschickt, bevor sie starb. Jennas kleine Familie schien perfekt, aber jetzt wird Fairlie klar, dass ihre Freundin Geheimnisse vor ihr hatte. Geheimnisse, die sie das Leben gekostet haben. Fairlie muss die Wahrheit herausfinden. Eine Wahrheit, für die sie möglicherweise nicht bereit ist.

      Weißt du, warum ich tot bin?2018
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