Sadie Jones

I wonder if it hurts them to shed their skins,' she said. She didn't feel afraid standing in the darkness, imagining snakes, even with the smell of death in the air.Bea and Dan, recently married, rent out their tiny flat to escape London for a few precious months. Driving through France they visit Bea's dropout brother Alex at the hotel he runs in Burgundy. Disturbingly, they find him all alone and the ramshackle hotel deserted, apart from the nest of snakes in the attic.When Alex and Bea's parents make a surprise visit, Dan can't understand why Bea is so appalled, or why she's never wanted him to know them; Liv and Griff Adamson are charming, and rich. They are the richest people he has ever met. Maybe Bea's ashamed of him, or maybe she regrets the secrets she's been keeping.Tragedy strikes suddenly, brutally, and in its aftermath the family is stripped back to its rotten core, and even Bea with all her strength and goodness can't escape.

Luke is a young playwright: intense, magnetic and hungry for experience. Fleeing a disastrous upbringing in the North East he arrives in London and shares a flat with Paul, an aspiring producer, and beautiful, fiery Leigh.The three of them set up a radical theatre company, their friendship forged in rehearsal rooms above pubs, candlelit power cuts, and smoky late-night parties, part of a thrilling new generation of writers, directors and rising voices.When Nina, a fragile actress, strays towards their group, Luke recognises a damaged soul and the balance between the friends is threatened. Luke is torn between loyalty, desire and his own painful past, until everything he values, even the promise of the future, is in danger. Suddenly the fallout threatens to be immense.

1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy.

Hal Treherne is a young and dedicated soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other deep commitment is to Clara, his beautiful red, white and blue girl, who sustains him as he rises through the ranks. When Hal is transferred to the Mediterranean, Clara, now his wife, and their baby daughters join him. But Cyprus is no sunshine posting, and the island is in the heat of the Emergency: the British are defending the colony against Cypriots schoolboys and armed guerrillas alike battling for enosis, union with Greece. The skirmishes are far from glorious and operations often rough and bloody. Still, in serving his country and leading his men, Hal has a taste of triumph. Clara shares his sense of duty. She must settle down, make no fuss, smile. But action changes Hal, and Clara becomes fearful of the lethal tit-for-tat beyond the army base, and her increasingly distant husband. The atrocities Hal is drawn into take him further from Clara; a betrayal that is only part of the shocking personal crisis to come. The prizewinning and bestselling author of The Outcast returns with an emotionally powerful portrait of a marriage in extremis and a world-view in question. Sadie Jones has produced a passionate, gut-wrenching and brilliantly researched depiction of a small wars with devastating consequences; and in doing so, raises important questions that resonate profoundly today.

The prizewinning and No 1 bestselling author Sadie Jones moves toa gorgeous and bewitching historical setting in a blissful new novelfull of surprisesA brilliant new setting for Sadie: a riotous, theatrical romp throughEdwardian country house life, but with a dark and nasty twist (fans ofthe 1950s novels won't be disappointed)...

1957, and Lewis Aldridge is travelling back to his family home in the South of England. He is straight out of jail and just nineteen years old. His return will trigger the implosion not just of his family, but of a whole community. A decade earlier, his father's homecoming casts a different shape. The war is over and Gilbert has recently been demobbed. He reverts easily to suburban life - cocktails at six thirty, church on Sundays - but his wife and young son resist the stuffy routine. Lewis and his mother escape to the woods for picnics, just as they did in wartime days. Nobody is surprised that Gilbert's wife counters convention, but they are all shocked when, after one of their jaunts, Lewis comes back without her. Not far away, Kit Carmichael keeps watch. She has always understood more than most, not least from what she has been dealt by her own father's hand. Lewis's grief and burgeoning rage are all too plain, and Kit makes a private vow to help. But in her attempts to set them both free, she fails to predict the painful and horrifying secrets that must first be forced into the open. As menacing as it is beautiful, The Outcast is a devastating portrait of small-town hypocrisy from an astonishing new voice.

Una historia de amor y desencuentro en la Inglaterra de la posguerra.Una novela intensa y dramática que retrata magistralmente la hipocresía de la sociedad y los desencuentros familiares.

This debut novel was longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2008 and received rave reviews. A portrait of small-town hypocrisy, transgression and redemption, in a similar vein to Ian McEwan's "Atonement" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remain's Of The Day ". 'The prose is elegant and spare, but the story it reveals is raw and explosive... Devastatingly good' Eithne Farry, "Daily Mail "

Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. the British are defending the colony against Cypriots - schoolboys and armed guerillas alike - battling for union with Greece. Clara shares Hals sense of duty and honour

Over 600,000 copies of Sadie Jones's novels sold to datePrizewinning pedigree: The Outcast was an R&J Summer Read, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and winner of Costa First Book Award; Small Wars was longlisted for the Orange Prize.A hero to root for: in charismatic Luke Kanowski Sadie Jones has created a character to rival Lewis, the hero of her bestselling first novelFor fans of Ian McEwan, Maggie O'Farrell, William Boyd, Colm Toibin, Sebastian FaulksSadie Jones at the BBC: Fallout was a Radio 4 Book at Bedtime, and primetime 2-part BBC Films production of The Outcast coming soon to TV

The prizewinning and No 1 bestselling author Sadie Jones moves to a gorgeous and bewitching historical setting in a blissful new novel full of surprises. A brilliant new setting for Sadie: a riotous, theatrical romp through Edwardian country house life, but with a dark and nasty twist (fans of the 1950s novels won't be disappointed). Fabulous new cover look: innovative graphic design with bespoke endpapers and text design. Perfect for gifting. Prizewinning pedigree: The Outcast was an R&J Summer Read, shortlisted for the Orange Prize, and winner of Costa First Book Award; Small Wars was longlisted for the Orange Prize.

Cuatro jóvenes en el Londres de los años setenta que corren hacia el futuro, llevados por el amor, la traición y la ambición creativa. Dejando atrás una dura infancia en una ciudad de provincias,

Al atardecer de un día de primavera de 1912, la mansión Sterne bulle de actividad con los preparativos para una cena con motivo del vigésimo cumpleaños de la joven Emerald Torrington. Nada hace presagiar lo que se avecina, o quizá solo los problemas de una familia acomodada que no pasa por su mejor época, compuesta por una evanescente madre, su segundo marido y tres hijos: Emerald, Clovis y la pequeña Smudge. Sin embargo, a pocos kilómetros de allí se produce un accidente de tren que obliga a la familia a acoger a los supervivientes. Eso empieza a sembrar la confusión en la celebración del aniversario, al que han acudido, entre otros, la joven Patiente y el adinerado John Buchanan. Un hombre procedente de la zona del accidente, y que decididamente no es un caballero, se las ingenia para unirse a la cena. Es el momento elegido por Smudge para llevar a cabo su Gran Empresa, que coincidirá con una estruendosa tormenta, con la accidentada cena de cumpleaños y con el inquietante tropel de supervivientes, en un crescendo de consecuencias insospechadas. Lo más temido, perder las formas en una velada exquisita, quedará largamente superado por las circunstancias.