Eefje Bosch Livres

De jonge Marie-Laure is blind. Ze woont met haar vader in Parijs naast het natuurhistorisch museum waar hij werkt als curator. Als ze twaalf is bezetten de nazi's Parijs en vader en dochter vluchten naar het Bretonse Saint-Malo. Ze hebben de grootste en meest waardevolle schat van het museum meegenomen. In een mijnstadje in Duitsland groeit Werner Pfennig samen met zijn jongere zusje Jutta op in een weeshuis. Werner belandt bij de Hitlerjeugd en wordt vervolgens naar het front gestuurd. Via Rusland komt hij ten slotte in Saint-Malo terecht, waar zijn verhaal en dat van Marie-Laure samenkomen.

Beatrice Kizza, a woman in flight from a homeland that condemned her for daring to love, flees to London. There, she shields her sorrow from the indifference of her adopted city, and navigates a night-time world of shift-work and bedsits. Howard Pink is a self-made millionaire who has risen from Petticoat Lane to the mansions of Kensington on a tide of determination and bluster. Yet self-doubt still snaps at his heels and his life is shadowed by the terrible loss that has shaken him to his foundations. Carol Hetherington, recently widowed, is living the quiet life in Wandsworth with her cat and The Jeremy Kyle Show for company. As she tries to come to terms with the absence her husband has left on the other side of the bed, she frets over her daughter's prospects and wonders if she'll ever be happy again. Esme Reade is a young journalist learning to muck-rake and doorstep in pursuit of the elusive scoop, even as she longs to find some greater meaning and leave her imprint on the world. Four strangers, each inhabitants of the same city, where the gulf between those who have too much and those who will never have enough is impossibly vast. But when the glass that separates Howard's and Beatrice's worlds is shattered by an inexcusable act, they discover that the capital has connected them in ways they could never have imagined.

Lutte des classes, ambition politique, désirs refoulés et violence sourde... Une oeuvre originale et parfaitement construite qui allie roman noir à la tension implacable et comédie sociale mordante, quelque part entre le Monsieur Ripley de Patricia Highsmith et Le Dîner de Herman Koch, le tout porté par un humour grinçant tout britannique. Ben Fitzmaurice est devenu le meilleur ami de Martin Gilmour le jour où, dans la cour de leur très chic école, Ben, héritier d'une prestigieuse dynastie, a pris la défense de Martin, petit boursier, fils unique d'une mère célibataire sans le sou. Depuis, Ben s'est fait un nom en politique, Martin est devenu critique d'art ; Ben a épousé la très parfaite Serena, Martin vit avec la très discrète Lucy. Et Ben est toujours le meilleur ami de Martin. Ce soir, Ben fête ses quarante ans. Tout le gratin est présent. Martin aussi. Naturellement... Le lendemain, Serena est dans le coma ; Lucy est internée. Ben est à l'hôpital ; Martin, lui, répond aux questions des policiers : que s'est-il passé durant cette soirée ? Pourquoi un tel déchaînement de violence ? Et si cette amitié en apparence parfaite cachait en réalité des sentiments bien plus troubles ?

In this new heart-pounding standalone from the internationally bestselling author that People calls "razor sharp," a single mother suspects her young daughter has witnessed a horrible crime when she draws a disturbing picture--but the deadly path to unravel the truth could cost her everything. Maybe Tess is overprotective, but passing her daughter off to her ex and his new young wife fills her with a sense of dread. It's not that Jason is a bad father--it just hurts to see him enjoying married life with someone else. Still, she owes it to her daughter Poppy to make this arrangement work. But Poppy returns from the weekend tired and withdrawn. And when she shows Tess a crayon drawing--an image so simple and violent that Tess can hardly make sense of it----Poppy can only explain with the words, "He did kill her." Something is horribly wrong. Tess is certain Poppy saw something--or something happened to her--that she's too young to understand. Jason insists the weekend went off without a hitch. Doctors advise that Poppy may be reacting to her parents' separation. And as the days go on, even Poppy's disturbing memory seems to fade. But a mother knows her daughter, and Tess is determined to discover the truth. Her search will set off an explosive tempest of dark secrets and buried crimes--and more than one life may be at stake.