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nonfiction is Julie Myerson's new novel about mothers: what it is like to have one, what it is like to be one. In it, a mother narrates the relationship with her child who is struggling with addiction.

"Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead. Even in a family of alcoholics, Zelda Antipova was the wild one, notorious for her mind games and destructive behavior. Stuck tending the vineyard and the girls' increasingly unstable mother, Zelda was allegedly burned alive when she passed out in the barn with a lit cigarette. But Ava finds the official explanation a little too neat. A little too Zelda. Then she receives a cryptic message--from her sister..."--Book jacket

'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train A New Statesman Book of the YearSome memories are too powerful to live only in the past. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk.

Rachel and Dan want to go somewhere hot in January. Why not turn it into a honeymoon, Dan says? Except that, for Rachel, it's not.As furniture shifts and objects fly around, as a waitress begs her to leave and a fellow guest makes her increasingly uneasy, Rachel realises everything she holds most dear is at stake and nothing is quite as it seems...

A blasted world. In the wasted ruins of London, a woman pieces together fragments of her memory. As her past emerges, her own apocalypse begins.Then is a novel of singular invention and bravery. With it, Julie Myerson has created an echo chamber of the heartbreaking and the terrifying, and an enduring dystopian vision.

'The most controversial book in Britain' Jeremy Paxman

It's the summer holidays. And suddenly there's a strange boy at the bottom of Flynn's garden. Soon, she and her wayward brother Sam are walking out of the house in the middle of the night and crossing four fields to find him again. But as well as the boy, Flynn and Sam find a whole gang of runaway kids.

A freezing room in a student house, a sagging mattress on the floor, and two people, one nineteen, the other twenty, kissing passionately. And why, when he emails her out of the blue two days later, does he write as though they haven't met for twenty years?

Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, this gripping historical novel intertwines themes of murder and love, exploring the profound depths of loss and human need. The narrative delves into the lives of its characters as they navigate the complexities of their emotions and the societal challenges of the era, creating a poignant and compelling story.

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.