Noor Koch Books

From the bestselling, critically acclaimed author of HAMNET and I AM, I AM, I AM, comes an intense, breathtakingly accomplished story of a woman's life stolen, and reclaimed. 'Unputdownable' Ali Smith Edinburgh in the 1930s. The Lennox family is having trouble with its youngest daughter. Esme is outspoken, unconventional, and repeatedly embarrasses them in polite society. Something will have to be done. Years later, a young woman named Iris Lockhart receives a letter informing her that she has a great-aunt in a psychiatric unit who is about to be released. Iris has never heard of Esme Lennox and the one person who should know more, her grandmother Kitty, seems unable to answer Iris's questions. What could Esme have done to warrant a lifetime in an institution? And how is it possible for a person to be so completely erased from a family's history?

Colombe Barou is een onopvallende vrouw van in de dertig, met een echtgenoot die vaak op reis is, een tienertweeling en een baan als ghostwriter die haar niet echt boeit. Haar saaie bestaan verandert op slag wanneer het gezin verhuist naar een ander, prachtig appartement. Er is één keerzijde: de bovenbuurman, dokter Faucleroy, draait midden in de nacht keiharde rockmuziek, maar alleen als Colombes man niet thuis is. Dan vraagt de uitgeverij haar de memoires te schrijven van een filmster met een turbulent seksleven. De preutse Colombe moet daarvoor erotische literatuur lezen om de juiste toon te treffen. Al lezend 's avonds, wanneer ze gespannen zit te wachten tot Faucleroy de Stones weer opzet, ontluikt haar sensualiteit en komt ze tot de conclusie dat haar eigen seksleven niet veel voorstelt. Colombes frustraties, hernieuwde seksuele verlangens en woede ten opzichte van haar bovenbuurman stapelen zich op en raken verstrengeld. Wanneer Colombe uiteindelijk besluit het appartement van de mysterieuze Faucleroy binnen te sluipen, zet dat een reeks onomkeerbare gebeurtenissen in gang, met onvoorziene gevolgen.

It is raining non-stop over Paris. The Malegarde family – split between France, London, and the US – is reunited for the first time in years. When Paul, a famous yet withdrawn arborist, suffers a stroke in the middle of his 70th birthday celebrations, his son Linden is stuck in a city that is undergoing a stunning natural disaster. As the Seine bursts its banks and floods the streets, the family will have to fight to keep their unity as hidden fears and secrets also begin to rise. In this profound and intense novel of love and redemption, De Rosnay demonstrates her wealth of skills both as an incredible storyteller and also as a connoisseur of the human soul.

Soon to be an NBC event series directed by Lisa Cholodenko and starring Uma Thurman, Peter Sarsgaard, and Zachary Quinto. In this powerful and riveting novel, literary phenomenon Christos Tsiolkas unflinchingly exposes the inner workings of domestic life, friendship, and parenthood in the twenty-first century, and reminds us of the passions and malice that family loyalty can provoke. When a man slaps another couple’s child at a neighborhood barbecue, the event send unforeseeable shock waves through the lives of all who are witness to it. Told from the points of view of eight people who were present, The Slap shows how a single action can change the way people think about how they live, what they want, and what they believe forever.