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Enrica Budetta

    Le strade: Sirene
    S.
    Girl In Pieces
    Wrong Place Wrong Time
    Weyward
    Big Little Lies
    • Big Little Lies

      • 482 pages
      • 17 hours of reading

      Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste - two women with seemingly perfect lives - and their own secrets behind closed doors. But then a small incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground causing a rift between them and the other parents of the school. Minor at first but escalating fast, until whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder.

      Big Little Lies
      4.3
    • KATE, 2019 Kate flees London – abandoning everything – for Cumbria and Weyward Cottage, inherited from her great-aunt. There, a secret lurks in the bones of the house, hidden ever since the witch-hunts of the 17th century. VIOLET, 1942 Violet is more interested in collecting insects and climbing trees than in becoming a proper young lady. Until a chain of shocking events changes her life forever. ALTHA, 1619 Altha is on trial for witchcraft, accused of killing a local man. Known for her uncanny connection with nature and animals, she is a threat that must be eliminated. But Weyward women belong to the wild. And they cannot be tamed… Weaving together the stories of three women across five centuries, Weyward is an enthralling novel of female resilience and the transformative power of the natural world.

      Weyward
      4.1
    • It's every parent's nightmare. Your happy, funny, innocent son commits a terrible crime: murdering a complete stranger. You don't know who. You don't know why. You only know your teenage boy is in custody and his future lost. That night you fall asleep in despair. Until you wake... ...and it is yesterday. Every morning you wake up a day earlier, another day before the murder. Another chance to stop it. Somewhere in the past lie the answers, and you don't have a choice but to find them...[Bokinfo].

      Wrong Place Wrong Time
      4.0
    • Girl In Pieces

      • 416 pages
      • 15 hours of reading

      'A haunting, beautiful and necessary book' Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything A Barnes & Noble Best Young Adult Books of 2016 | A New York Public Library Best Books for Teens in 2016| An Amazon Best YA Books of 2016 A heartbreaking, triumphant, funny and hopeful story of one girl's battle with self harm. Charlie Davis is in pieces. At seventeen, she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget it through cutting; the pain washes out the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. She doesn't have to think about her father or what happened under the bridge. Her best friend, Ellis, who is gone forever. Or the mother who has nothing left to give her. Kicked out of a special treatment center when her insurance runs out, Charlie finds herself in the bright and wild landscape of Tucson, Arizona, where she begins the unthinkable: the long journey of putting herself back together. Kathleen Glasgow is also the author of How to Make Friends with the Dark and You'd be Home Now

      Girl In Pieces
      4.0
    • S.

      • 456 pages
      • 16 hours of reading

      S. is a novel about two readers, Jennifer and Eric, who connect through margin notes in a book left by a stranger. As they engage in an unlikely conversation, they explore the mysterious story of "Ship of Theseus" and its enigmatic author, V.M. Straka, while confronting their own identities and fears.

      S.
      3.9
    • Alla fine andrà tutto bene

      • 272 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      Carla, sei sempre pessimista, ti piace soffrire. È un meccanismo di difesa, per non restarci male se qualcosa va storto.  Oddio, che teoria. È tremenda! Non siamo tutti ottimisti come te, che ripeti sempre che alla fine andrà tutto bene… È che alla fine andrà davvero tutto bene, Carla. E se non va bene… non è ancora la fine.

      Alla fine andrà tutto bene
      3.1
    • Nel negozio di Olivia, nel quartiere più bohémien di Madrid, all’ombra di un ulivo centenario, si incrociano le vite di cinque donne che comprano fiori. Tutte all’inizio lo fanno per gli altri, mai per sé: Victoria li compra per il suo amante segreto, Casandra per ostentarli in ufficio, Aurora per dipingerli e Marina, per una persona che non c’è più. Dopo la perdita del marito, infatti, Marina si sente del tutto smarrita. Mentre cerca disperatamente un modo per rimettersi in piedi, si imbatte per caso in Olivia e accetta di lavorare nel suo negozio. Lì conoscerà altre quattro donne, molto diverse tra loro, ma che, come lei, stanno attraversando un momento cruciale della propria esistenza… Un romanzo intenso e pieno di passione, un viaggio nei sogni e nei desideri delle donne di oggi, alla conquista dell’indipendenza.

      Donne che comprano fiori
      3.5
    • HER PERFECT LIFE IS A PERFECT LIE. . .Ani FaNelli is the woman you love to hate. The woman who has it all. But behind the meticulously crafted façade lies the darkest and most violent of pasts . . .When a documentary producer invites Ani to tell her side of the chilling and violent incident that took place when she was a teenager, she hopes it will be an opportunity to prove how far she's come since then. She'll even let the production company film her wedding to the wealthy Luke Harrison, the final step in her transformation.But as the wedding and filming converge, Ani's immaculate façade begins to crack, and she soon realises that there's always a price to pay for perfection.

      Luckiest Girl Alive
      3.5