'The Following Girls' weaves the minutiae of a seventies girlhood into an unsparing tragi-comedy of shrinking horizons, dangerous alliances and not-so-happy families.
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Louise Levene tisse des récits délicieusement pervers et spirituels qui explorent les aspects les plus sombres de la nature humaine, mêlant des thèmes de scandale, de désir et les intersections inattendues entre la science et la société. Ses narrations se distinguent par un style aiguisé et incisif qui capture les complexités de la vie historique et contemporaine. La voix singulière de Levene offre un mélange captivant d'entertainment et de commentaires perspicaces sur les folies et les triomphes de ses personnages. Son œuvre invite les lecteurs dans des mondes où l'intrigue et l'observation intelligente prévalent.
An Education meets The Talented Mr Ripley in dark comic gem of a novel that recreates the grubby glamour of early sixties LondonA BBC Radio Four Book at Bedtime
'A whip-smart comedy, chock-full with glamour, secret agents and sun-drenched Californian orange groves - seriously, what could be more heavenly?' Saga It is September 1940 and Evelyn Murdoch, a translator from the Postal Censorship department, is uprooted from her home in wartime Woking and transferred to Hollywood. She is to assist a mysterious British agent in his attempts to outwit the Los Angeles German delegation and boost the British propaganda war effort. The unhappy young widow is supplied with a new Californian wardrobe, a Bel Air bungalow and her own desk in the writers' block of Miracle Studios. At first bewildered by the glamorous excesses of this strange new world, she is gradually seduced by the sunlight, orange groves and clever, fast-talking men. But, just as she begins to blossom, her new technicolor ending threatens to slip from her grasp.