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    Sweet tooth
    Here We Are
    Du monde entier: Dans une coque de noix
    On Chesil Beach
    Other people's money
    Nutshell
    • Here We Are

      • 208 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      The extraordinary new novel from the author of Mothering Sunday and winner of the Booker Prize

      Here We Are2021
      3.4
    • **The Number One Sunday Times bestseller** A Daily Telegraph / Guardian / Irish Times / Spectator / Sunday Times / The Times Book of the Year Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home - a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse - but not with John. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers.

      Nutshell2019
      3.7
    • Du monde entier: Dans une coque de noix

      Roman

      • 224 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      "À l'étroit dans le ventre de ma mère, alors qu'il ne reste plus que quelques semaines avant mon entrée dans le monde, je veille. J'entends tout. Un complot se trame contre mon père. Ma mère et son amant veulent se débarrasser de lui. La belle, si belle Trudy préfère à mon père, John, poète talentueux en mal de reconnaissance et qui pourtant l'aime à la folie, cet ignare de Claude. Et voilà que j'apprends que Claude n'est autre que mon oncle : le frère de mon père. Un crime passionnel doublé d'un fratricide qui me fera peut-être voir le jour en prison, orphelin pour toujours ! Je dois les en empêcher." Il y a quelque chose de pourri au royaume d'Angleterre du XXIe siècle? Après L'intérêt de l'enfant, Ian McEwan n'en finit pas de surprendre et compose ici, dans un bref roman à l'intensité remarquable, une brillante réécriture d'Hamlet in utero.

      Du monde entier: Dans une coque de noix2017
      3.4
    • Other people's money

      • 259 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      The Trevelyan family is in grave trouble. Their private bank of Tubal & Co. is in on the verge of collapsing. It's not the first time in its three-hundred-and-forty year history, but it may be the last. A sale is under way, and a number of important facts need to be kept hidden, not only from the public, but also from Julian Trevelyan-Tubal's deeply traditional father, Sir Harry, who is incapacitated in the family villa in Antibes. Great families, great fortunes and even greater secrets collide in this gripping, satirical and acutely observed story of our time

      Other people's money2014
      3.5
    • Sweet tooth

      • 370 pages
      • 13 hours of reading

      'Riveting... Delicious... Gripping' Guardian The year is 1972. The Cold War is far from over. Britain is being torn apart by industrial unrest and terrorism. Serena Frome, in her final year at Cambridge, is being groomed for MI5. Serena is sent on a secret mission - Operation Sweet Tooth - which brings her into the world of Tom Haley, a promising young writer. First she loves his stories, then she begins to love the man. Can she maintain the fiction of her undercover life? And who is inventing whom? To answer these questions, Serena must abandon the first rule of espionage - trust no one. 'Sweet Tooth takes the expectations and tropes of the Cold War thriller and ratchets up the suspense, while turning it into something else... A well-crafted pleasure to read, its smooth prose and slippery intelligence sliding down like cream'Independent 'Sublime...impressive...rich and enjoyable' Financial Times 'Gloriously readable and, at times, wickedly funny' Irish Times

      Sweet tooth2013
      3.4
    • Solar

      • 390 pages
      • 14 hours of reading

      Ranging from the Arctic Circle to the deserts of New Mexico, 'Solar' is a serious and darkly satirical novel, showing human frailty struggling with the most pressing and complex problem of our time. It is a story of one man's greed and self-deception

      Solar2011
      3.2
    • A Desirable Residence

      • 332 pages
      • 12 hours of reading

      Liz and Jonathan are in trouble. They can't sell their old house.Here they are, stuck with two mortgages, mounting debts and a miserable adolescent daughter who hadn't wanted to move anyway. Then it seems Marcus Witherstone will solve all their problems. He knows the perfect tenants from London who will rent their old house - glamorous PR girl Ginny and almost-famous Piers. Everything is going to be OK. Or is it? As Marcus starts to become involved with Liz, while her teenage daughter develops a passion for the lodgers, it seems that some deceptions are too close to home... Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella- "I almost cried with laughter" Daily Mail "Hilarious . . . you'll laugh and gasp on every page" Jenny Colgan "Properly mood-altering . . . funny, fast and farcical. I loved it" Jojo Moyes "A superb tale. Five stars!" Heat

      A Desirable Residence2010
      3.0
    • In Manhattan, just after the century's turn, three thirty-year-old friends, Danielle, Marina and Julius, are seeking their fortunes. But the arrival of Marina's young cousin Bootie - fresh from the provinces and keen, too, to make his mark - forces them to confront their own desires and expectations.

      The Emperor's Children2008
      3.0
    • England in den frühen 60-er Jahren. Von Jugendaufbruch, Beatlemania, sexueller Befreiung noch keine Spur. Edward und Florence haben geheiratet und sehen in einem Hotel am Strand ihrer Hochzeitsnacht entgegen, die furchtbar daneben geht; es kommt zu einem vernichtenden Streit, der beider Leben für immer bestimmt. Wie Ian McEwan in seinem kurzen, 2007 erschienenen Roman (deutsch: 'Am Strand') seine Figuren schildert, ihre Erwartungen, Verklemmtheiten, Scham, Ekel, ihr Scheitern, ist großartig und herzzerreißend. Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

      On Chesil Beach1999
      3.6