A dazzling, panoramic epic of love and survival set in late 19th century Paris in the vein of Hilary Mantel and Susanna Clarke from an award-winning author.
Stef Penney Livres
1 janvier 1969
Stef Penney tisse des récits qui explorent la beauté austère et l'obscurité cachée au sein de la psyché humaine. Son style littéraire, nourri par son expérience dans le cinéma, se distingue par des descriptions saisissantes et un sens palpable de l'atmosphère. À travers ses histoires, l'auteure plonge souvent dans les profondeurs psychologiques de ses personnages, examinant leurs motivations et leurs conflits intérieurs. Penney écrit avec une profonde compréhension de la condition humaine, offrant aux lecteurs une expérience littéraire captivante et stimulante.
1867, Canada: as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a man is brutally murdered and a 17-year old boy disappears. Tracks leaving the dead man's cabin head north towards the forest and the tundra beyond. In the wake of such violence, people are drawn to the township - journalists, Hudson's Bay Company men, trappers, traders - but do they want to solve the crime or exploit it?One-by-one the assembled searchers set out from Dove River, pursuing the tracks across a desolate landscape home only to wild animals, madmen and fugitives, variously seeking a murderer, a son, two sisters missing for 17 years, a Native American culture, and a fortune in stolen furs before the snows settle and cover the tracks of the past for good.In an astonishingly assured debut, Stef Penney deftly waves adventure, suspense, revelation and humour into a panoramic historical romance, an exhilarating thriller, a keen murder mystery and ultimately, with the sheer scope and quality of her storytelling, one of the books of the year.
The Invisible Ones
- 533pages
- 19 heures de lecture
Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, this is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.
Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, and fell in love with the land and people of the far north. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously
Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town.
Ein fesselnder Roman über Privatdetektiv Ray Lovell, der dem Rätsel um das seit über sechs Jahren verschwundene Roma-Mädchen Rose nachgeht. Während er in ein Netz aus Geheimnissen und Lügen eintaucht, wird ihm die Wahrheit fast zum Verhängnis. Nur der 14-jährige JJ scheint Antworten zu suchen.