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Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment. Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness? For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She's supported her husband through redundancy, she's worried about her son, she's encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless. She's stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she'd like to go and the books she'd like to talk about. But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become. How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. After a passionate but uneasy romance, Sally's life is turned upside down when she unexpectedly finds herself married, pregnant and living in London. Married life in a foreign place is a far bigger adjustment than Sally and Tony could ever have imagined - and as their lives shift from freedom and adventure to responsibility and hard work, everyday problems soon spiral into nightmares. After the birth of their son, Sally finds herself trapped in a downward spiral of post-natal depression over which she has little control, whilst Tony's life returns to relative normality. Filled with resentment and unable to cope with the cards life has dealt her, Sally is shocked when the man she trusted above all others turns against her. As her world begins to fall down around her, Sally quickly realises she must fight before she loses everything. In this authentic and compelling novel, Kennedy explores the misunderstandings that can occur when two people speak the same language but miss all the vital signs.

Is it ever too late to find the life you always wanted? A modern day Brief Encounter or The Bridges of Madison County, this is a novel which poses the ultimate romantic dilemma, from the bestselling author of The Pursuit of Happiness, A Special Relationship, and The Moment.Is it ever too late to have the life you wanted? Or do we owe it to ourselves to pursue the promise of happiness?For twenty years, Laura has been a good wife and mother. She''s supported her husband through redundancy, she''s worried about her son, she''s encouraged her daughter. She has been constant, caring and selfless.She''s stopped thinking about her own dreams, the places she''d like to go and the books she''d like to talk about.But a chance meeting with a man in a hotel lobby - and the five days that follow - remind Laura of the young woman she used to be, and the woman she could have become.How long does it take to fall in love and leave your life behind?

Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. But when Paul suddenly disappears, and Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry, everything changes. As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel, Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara, caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape. With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think, Douglas Kennedy takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question: what would you do if your life depended on it? "Kennedy is a complete genius when it comes to understanding the minds of stylish but troubled women." (Daily Mirror). "Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists." (The Times). "Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story." (Esquire).

Con su aclamada habilidad para escribir adictivas historias que también te hacen pensar, Douglas Kennedy lleva al lector en un viaje trepidante al corazón de la oscuridad que le obligará a hacerse la pregunta: ¿Que haria si su vida dependiera de ello?

J'ai demandé à Maman si c'était vrai que les autres avaient des problèmes à cause de moi. Elle m'a répondu : "Ne laisse personne te dire ça, Aurore. Tu es comme ton prénom : un vrai soleil". Aurore.

All families are secret societies. Realms of intrigue and internal warfare, governed by their own rules . . .Its 1980s New York. Heady, excessive times. Alice Burns - a young book editor - is deep into a manuscript about the morass of family life. The observations resonates, perhaps because she has just watched her own family implode.As she reads she wonders: When did the sadness start? And could it be that unhappiness is a choice?Thus begins a great American epic which follows Alice as she navigates high school bullying, first love and sexism at an elite college, a spell in 1970''s Ireland, and a tragedy that sends her stateside as the US embraces a cowboy actor named Reagan. But it is also the tale of her endlessly complex parents and brothers; how their destinies are written by the lies they tell themselves and others.The Great Wide Open is an immensely ambitious and compulsive saga; a novel which will speak volumes to anyone who has marvelled at that pain that can only be caused by family itself.

Douglas Kennedys new novel demonstrates once again his talent for writing serious popular fiction. The Pursuit of Happiness and A Special Relationship were both Sunday Times bestsellers in paperback. That was the year my life fell apart, and that was the year I moved to Paris. When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a dark scandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. With no money and nowhere to live, Harry swiftly falls in with the citys underclass, barely scraping a living while trying to finish the book hed always dreamed of writing. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar, with whom Harry falls in love, is his only hope of a brighter future. However, Margit isnt all she seems to be and Harry soon has to make a decision that will alter his life forever.

THE EXPLOSIVE NEW THRILLER FROM INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, DOUGLAS KENNEDY__________________________'A pulse-racing thriller centred on hot-button debates' Daily MailBrendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber.When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process.

LÆAurora i el misteri de la cambra secreta és el segon títol de Lesfabuloses aventures de lÆAurora, tot i que es tracten de títolsautoconclusius. La saga dÆAurora és la primera incursió en laliteratu

« Remarquable ! » ; « Drôle et terrifiant » ; « Impeccablement construit, j'ai adoré »… Autant de propos de lecteurs entendus après la découverte de ce premier roman ou comment réussir du premier coup un véritable exploit et devenir du jour au lendemain le créateur de l'un des meilleurs romans noirs de l'histoire du genre. Ni plus, ni moins. Ce récit d'un voyage au paradis des grands espaces australiens qui vire au cauchemar éveillé est un petit bijou. Nick, héros bien malgré lui de ce thriller féroce, n'avait rien contre ce pays avant d'écraser un kangourou par une nuit sans lune. Sa rencontre avec la jeune et robuste Angie va le mener en plein cœur du bush. Au milieu de nulle part. Au sein d'un clan d'allumés coupés du monde, sans aucune route pour quitter ce traquenard. Nick, désormais, n'aura qu'une seule obsession : comprendre ce qu'il fait là et sauver sa peau. Fuir alors que toute la communauté le surveille…

Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, hes tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say overnight success, hes the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Suddenly a player in Tinsel Town, he finds that he''s reinventing himself at great speed - especially when it comes to walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But Davids upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and suddenly finds himself inadvertently entering into a Faustian Pact, and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle.

L'actualité politique récente des Etats-Unis ne cesse de rappeler le poids considérable que joue la religion - en particulier, les fondamentalistes chrétiens - dans la vie publique de ce pays.Douglas Kennedy avait pressenti cette evolution. Pousse par le desir de comprendre, il est alors parti a la decouverte des Etats du sud du pays - connus sous le nom de " Ceinture de la Bible " -, et de leurs habitants, ces hommes et ces femmes animes d'une foi inebranlable. Un ancien mafieux, de jeunes rockers, un pretre faiseur de miracles, une femme d'affaires impitoyable sont quelques-uns des personnages insolites qu'il a rencontres et qui composent sous sa plume incisive une galerie de portraits aussi fascinante qu'inquietante.

America in the Sixties was an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren''t supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor''s wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ... until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.