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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.

Olive est l'épouse du pharmacien de Crosby, une petite ville côtière du Maine. Elle a un fils, Christopher, qu'elle étouffe. Et c'est aussi un professeur de mathématiques brutal et tyrannique, capable, pourtant, d'élans de bonté. Personnalité hors normes, a priori peu aimable, mais ô combien attachante, Olive traverse cette fresque polyphonique où les destins des habitants de Crosby - héros ordinaires - s'entremêlent sur une période de trente ans. Salué outre-Atlantique pour la virtuosité de sa construction et la finesse de son ton, Olive Kitteridge s'inscrit dans la lignée de romans comme Le cœur est un chasseur solitaire, de Carson McCullers, ou Les Corrections, de Jonathan Franzen. Ce livre a reçu le prix Pulitzer.

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.