Louise Doughty
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The latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise Doughty
Bird is a woman on the run. One minute, she''s in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, she''s walking out on her job, her home, her life. It''s a day she thought might come, one she''s prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next.
As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who - if anyone - she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?
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***** ''If you like strong female leads that aren''t perfect, then you will devour this.''
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Assise devant les jurés, sur le banc des accusés, Yvonne Carmichael écoute impassible les avocats retracer son histoire. Celle d'une femme de cinquante-deux ans, mère et épouse dévouée, généticienne reconnue et respectée. Mais aussi celle d'une femme insatisfaite, en mal de passion. L'histoire d'une rencontre, de hasard, dans les couloirs de Westminster, d'une attraction immédiate, irrésistible. De retrouvailles clandestines, hâtives et torrides. Et l'histoire de ce soir où tout a basculé. Coupable ou innocente ? Victime séduite ou femme indigne ? La cour va devoir trancher.
Née en Angleterre en 1963, Louise Doughty est romancière, critique littéraire, et dramaturge. Elle a publié sept romans qui ont connu un grand succès en Angleterre. Je trouverai ce que tu aimes, son premier roman traduit en français, est disponible en Points.
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Il est quatre heures du matin dans la gare de Peterborough, en Angleterre. Un renard solitaire trotte sur les voies tandis que le silence est parfois rompu par le lent crissement d'un train de marchandises. Un homme se croyant seul se dirige vers une partie isolée de la gare, au bord du quai numéro 7, et se jette sur les rails. Ce qu'il ne sait pas, c'est qu'il est observé par Lisa Evans, ou plutôt par son fantôme : elle aussi est décédée au même endroit, dix-huit mois plus tôt.
Deux décès en dix-huit mois : pourraient-ils être liés ? Personne n'est plus désespéré de comprendre ce qui les relie que Lisa Evans elle-même. Après tout, elle a été la première des deux à mourir. Et elle est bien décidée à comprendre ce qui a poussé cet inconnu à commettre l'irréparable.
Quai numéro 7 décrit la mécanique implacable qui peut faire basculer les vies dans la tragédie, et transformer l'amour en une relation d'emprise et de manipulation. Louise Doughty explore les zones d'ombre présentes au coeur de nos vies.
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John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he's already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair - but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk? 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 follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man. Black Water confirms Louise Doughty's position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence and a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the reader's mind long after the final page has been turned.
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'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' Hilary Mantel The new novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Louise Doughty Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident he's alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - he's as far away from the night staff as he can get. What the man doesn't realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge. Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely they're connected? No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die.
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Suite à la mort violente de sa fille de neuf ans, Betty, renversée par une voiture, Laura Needham est seule face à sa douleur : personne ne comprend sa souffrance. Paul, son ex-mari, est lui aussi dans la tourmente. Une idée l'obsède : elle veut faire justice. Elle apprend l'identité du conducteur, décide de découvrir ce à quoi il tient le plus et de le lui arracher.
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Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible.