Lisa Taddeo Livres

'Joan is an unforgettable anti-heroine. I don't think I'll ever stop thinking about her' ELIZABETH DAY 'So insanely good and true and twisted it'll make your teeth sweat' OLIVIA WILDE 'One of my favourite writers of all time' DUA LIPA 'Like a series of grenades exploding' MARIAN KEYES I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me. He was a gluttonous man and when his blood came out it looked like the blood of a pig. That's a cruel thing to think, I know. He did it in a restaurant where I was having dinner with another man, another married man. Do you see how this is going? But I wasn't always that way. I am depraved. I hope you like me. ------------ A FINALIST FOR THE MCKITTERICK PRIZE 2022 A 2021 Highlight for: Guardian - Sunday Express - Independent - New Statesman - Evening Standard - Cosmopolitan - Red - Grazia - Daily Mail - Daily Express - The Week - Irish Times - i - The Sun

A true story about the sex lives of three real American women, based on nearly a decade of reporting. It is a portrait of erotic longing in today's America, exposing the fragility, complexity, and inequality of female desire

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Three Women and Animal comes an electric masterclass in short fiction 'Fearless . . . This summer's must-read literary thriller' EVENING STANDARD 'Showcases Taddeo's dark imagination, confronting prose and vodka-dry humour' RED ---------------- Behind anonymous screens, an army of cool and beautiful girls manage the dating service Ghost Lover, a forwarding system for text messages that promises to spare you the anguish of trying to stay composed while communicating with your crush. At a star-studded political fundraiser in a Los Angeles mansion, a trio of women compete to win the heart of the slick guest of honour. In a tense hospital waiting room, an inseparable pair of hard-partying friends crash into life's responsibilities, but the magic of their glory days comes alive again at the moment they least expect it. In these nine riveting stories, Lisa Taddeo brings to life the fever of obsession, the blindness of love and the mania of grief. Featuring Taddeo's arresting prose that continues to thrill her legions of fans, Ghost Lover dares you to look away. ---------------- PRAISE FOR LISA TADDEO: 'One of my favourite writers of all time' DUA LIPA 'A pre-eminent channeller of women's interior lives' FINANCIAL TIMES 'A brilliant writer, and a storyteller possessed of almost supernatural humanity' ELIZABETH GILBERT

Jack Reacher is back in a brand new white-knuckle read from Lee Child, creator of 'today's James Bond, a thriller hero we can't get enough of' (Ken Follett). In a nameless city, two ruthless rival criminal gangs, one Albanian, the other Ukrainian, are competing for control. But they hadn't counted on Jack Reacher arriving on their patch. Reacher is trained to notice things. He's on a Greyhound bus, watching an elderly man sleeping in his seat, with a fat envelope of cash hanging out of his pocket. Another passenger is watching too ... obviously hoping to get rich quick. As the mugger makes his move, Reacher steps in. The old man is grateful, yet he turns down Reacher's offer to help him home. He's vulnerable, scared, and clearly in big, big trouble. What hold could the gangs possibly have on the old guy? Will Reacher sit back and let bad things happen? Or can he twist the situation to everyone's benefit? 'This is a random universe,' he says. 'Once in a blue moon things turn out just right.' The odds are better with Reacher involved. That's for damn sure.

Il desiderio ci emoziona e tormenta, controllando i nostri pensieri e definendo le nostre vite. Questa forza primordiale trasforma la banalità quotidiana, rimanendo però un continente inesplorato. Negli ultimi otto anni, l'autrice ha viaggiato attraverso gli Stati Uniti per ascoltare le storie di donne comuni e del loro desiderio. Il risultato di questa ricerca è un ritratto indimenticabile che dà voce a bisogni insoddisfatti, pensieri inespressi e speranze. Lina, casalinga e madre, vive un matrimonio privo di passione e affronta attacchi di panico, finché un giorno riallaccia una relazione con un ex sui social. Maggie, una studentessa diciassettenne, si confida con un affascinante insegnante sposato, ma la loro relazione clandestina termina bruscamente quando lui la lascia. Dopo aver scoperto che è stato nominato Insegnante dell’Anno, Maggie decide di raccontare la sua storia, affrontando incredulità e giudizi. Infine, Sloane, proprietaria di un ristorante, è felicemente sposata con un uomo che ama vederla con altri. Si interroga sulle dinamiche del loro desiderio condiviso, costretta a confrontarsi con la realtà della loro relazione. Raccontato con immediatezza, questo libro offre un ritratto rivoluzionario del desiderio femminile, rivelando fragilità e complessità, e illuminando il mistero di cosa significhi essere donne oggi.