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Yvonne Carmichael is a geneticist, a scientist renowned in her field but one day, she makes the most irrational of decisions. While she is giving evidence to a Select Committee at the Houses of Parliament, she meets a man and has sex with him in the secluded Chapel in the Crypt beneath the Great Hall of Westminster. It's the beginning of a reckless liaison, but there is more to her lover than is at first apparent - as Yvonne discovers when the...

Wie viel kann eine Mutter verzeihen?Es ist der schlimmste Alptraum jeder Mutter, den die geschiedene Laura durchlebt: Ihre neunjährige Tochter wird von einem Auto überfahren. Es wirft sie aus der Bahn. Nichts ist mehr so, wie es einmal war. Doch wie weit wird Laura für ihre Rache gehen? Wird sie dem Unfallfahrer je verzeihen können, dass er ihr genommen hat, was sie am meisten liebt? Oder liegt in der gemeinsamen Trauer gar eine neue Chance au...

An essential guide for every aspiring novelist! The thought of writing a full-length novel can be daunting. But in "A Novel in a Year, " Louise Doughty makes a seemingly vast and unconquerable task manageable by walking aspiring authors through the different aspects of writing technique in eminently accessible bite-size chunks. Here are fifty-two chapters offering useful advice on all the facets of writing and exercises designed to help writer...

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Harper wakes each night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut in Bali. He is afraid that his mercenary past has caught up with him and he is in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own past tragedy. From the 1960s to the 1990s, BLACK WATER turns around the 1965 Indonesian massacres, one of the great untold tragedies of the twentieth century.

Moving between Europe during the cold war, California and the Civil Rights struggle, and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the decades of military dictatorship that followed, "Black Water" is a dark exploration of some of the events in recent history, told through the story of one man. 'Doughty's language is punchy, visually striking and emotionally potent... This is a compelling and vivid psychological drama, with plenty of bite' Ley...

Released to coincide with the flagship BBC One four part series, this is the latest edition of Louise Doughty's massive bestselling novel. "There can't be a woman alive who hasn't once realised, in a moment of panic, that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. A compelling and bravely-written book." (HILARY MANTEL). "Once you start you can't stop reading. Terrific." (HELEN DUNMORE). Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to ...

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A novel about ghosts, mental illness and sexual betrayal from the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC Drama

Apple Tree Yard is a psychological thriller about one woman's adultery and an insightful examination of the values we live by and the choices we make, from an acclaimed writer at the height of her powers.

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Soon To Be a STARZ Mini-Series, Starring Emily Watson Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happily married, a successful scientist, a mother of two. Now she is a suspect, squirming under florescent lights and the penetrating gaze of the alleged accomplice who is sitting across from her, watching: a man who is also her lover. As Yvonne faces hostile questioning, she must piece together the...

When the bodies of the Cowpers, a reclusive middle-aged couple, are discovered brutally slaughtered — and their teenage daughter goes missing — the tiny village of Nether Bowston reels in shock. And as the townspeople mull over the first murder in a century, everyone is asking the same question: Where is Gemma Cowper?Just down the road from the murder scene, Alison Akenside divides her time between cultivating her roses and reporting for the R...

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Quando, in un corridoio di Westminster, Yvonne Carmichael incontra lo sguardo ipnotico di un uomo elegante, sicuro di sé, non sospetta che la sua vita sta per cambiare in modo radicale. A 52 anni, Yvonne è una donna attraente, una scienziata brillante nel campo della genetica, ha una bella casa, un buon marito, due figli adulti e una cerchia di amici fedeli. Ma in un istante decide di seguire lo sconosciuto nella cappella della cripta del parl...

From the author of Apple Tree Yard, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of what he's already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own tragic history. They begin an affair, but can they off...

Siamo nella provincia costiera inglese. Una bambina di nove anni viene falciata da un automobilista mentre torna da scuola, e muore. Il tremendo dolore e smarrimento di Laura, la madre, si innesta su una situazione già molto difficile: il marito e padre della piccola se n'è andato per sposare una donna molto più giovane e fragile, che gli ha appena dato un altro figlio. Non basta: il pirata della strada se la cava con una pena ridicola, suscit...