Anne Jongeling Books

'A coming-of-age story filled with magic in language and plot: beautiful and devastating' Observer, Books of the Year 'I felt consumed by this book. I loved it, you will love it' Daisy Johnson, author of Sisters 'A page-turning Appalachian coming-of-age story told in undulating prose that settles right into you' Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times 'Vivid and lucid, Betty has stayed with me' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies 'I loved Betty' Fiona Mozley, author of Hot Stew 'Breahtaking' Vogue 'A GIRL COMES OF AGE AGAINST THE KNIFE' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings: the world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and loss, of lush landscapes and blazing stars. Despite the hardships she encounters, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters and her father's brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness - the horrors of her family's past and present - Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write.

Winner of NSW Premier's Literary Award People's Choice for Fiction 2009. Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2009 and Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2008 and Guardian First Book Award 2008 and NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2009 and Miles Franklin Literary Award 2009.

Gabriel Allon, secret agent, assassin and master art restorer, returns in a spellbinding new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author Europe is exploding. And one man must find out why. For Gabriel Allon and his wife Chiara, it was supposed to be the start of a romantic weekend in London. But nothing is ever that simple when you're an off-duty spy and assassin. Bombings in Paris and Copenhagen have put him on edge and when Gabriel notices a man exhibiting several traits common to suicide bombers, he follows him into the Covent Garden throng. He's determined to prevent the carnage he fears is about to take place, but before Gabriel can draw his sidearm, he is knocked to the pavement by two plain-clothes police officers. A moment later he looks up to find a scene from his nightmares. From the streets of New York and London,to the unforgiving landscape of the Saudi desert,Gabriel Allon is in a race to the death against a calculating mass-murderer that he dare not lose...

A sweeping, tenderhearted love story unfolds as two families endure World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic, centered around a shy young woman who connects them both. In 1940, as German bombs rain down on London, working-class parents Millie and Reginald Thompson make the heart-wrenching decision to send their eleven-year-old daughter, Beatrix, to America for safety. Arriving in Boston, Bea feels scared and displaced but is welcomed by the Gregory family, who seamlessly integrate her into their lives. She learns their ways, adjusts to their affluent lifestyle, and forms close bonds with the two Gregory brothers, William and Gerald. As she grows more comfortable, life with the Gregorys becomes more natural than her quiet existence back in England. With summers spent on the Maine coast and new friends eager to hear her stories, Bea begins to shed her former self. However, her world shifts again when the war ends, and she must return to London. Torn between her past and her new life, Bea embarks on the journey back across the Atlantic, carrying the memories of her American family. As she navigates her dual existence, the narrative beautifully explores themes of grace, heartache, forgiveness, and love, capturing Bea's struggle to reconcile her two worlds and pursue her own path.

"Ingenious⁵ Builds to one of the most memorable final scenes I've read in a novel this century." ₇The New York Times LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The suspenseful and heartbreaking story of an immigrant family driven to pit love against loyalty, with devastating consequences Isma is free. After years of watching out for her younger siblings in the wake of their mother's death, she's accepted an invitation from a mentor in America that allows her to resume a dream long deferred. But she can't stop worrying about Aneeka, her beautiful, headstrong sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who's disappeared in pursuit of his own dream, to prove himself to the dark legacy of the jihadist father he never knew. When he resurfaces half a globe away, Isma's worst fears are confirmed. Then Eamonn enters the sisters' lives. Son of a powerful political figure, he has his own birthright to live up to₇or defy. Is he to be a chance at love? The means of Parvaiz's salvation? Suddenly, two families' fates are inextricably, devastatingly entwined, in this searing novel that asks: What sacrifices will we make in the name of love?

Sunday Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns with a brand new standalone - a story about the power of love to light a way through the darkness

Edal Jones komt op haar fietstochten een dakloze tiener tegen, die dode vogels van de stoep opraapt en vergezeld wordt door een enorme zwarte hond. Op een dag volgt Edal haar naar een ratjetoe van een huis aan de rand van Don Valley. Eigenaar Guy Howell biedt opvang voor zieke en gewonde dieren (en mensen): een halfdode havik, een weesnest wasbeertjes, een soldaat met hartfalen tijdens zijn eerste tour of duty, Stephen, het weggelopen tienermeisje en haar hond. Maar ook dierenarts Kate vindt haar weg naar Guys wereld van toegewijde dierenliefhebbers. Aarzelend en voorzichtig sluit Edal zich aan bij het groepje, al houdt ze haar werkelijke functie als ambtenaar van natuurbeheer verborgen. Ze beseft donders goed dat de geïmproviseerde opvang niet voldoet aan de honderden wettelijke bepalingen, maar het is een heilzame plek voor alle bewoners, dier en mens. De spanning loopt op als ‘Coyote Cop’ stelselmatig coyotes mutileert en afmaakt.

An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics

Jende Jonga, a Cameroonian immigrant living in Harlem, has come to the United States to provide a better life for himself, his wife, Neni, and their six-year old son. In the fall of 2007, Jende can hardly believe his luck when he lands a job as a chauffeur for Clark Edwards, a senior executive at Lehman Brothers, Clark's wife, Cindy, even offers Neni temporary work at their summer home in the Hamptons. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can at last imagine a brighter future. However, the world of grdat privilege conceals troubling secrets, and soon Jende and Neni notice cracks in their employers' facades

From one of our most perceptive and provocative voices comes a deeply researched account of the last days of Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Salter - an arresting and wholly original meditation on mortality.

Opgegroeid in een exclusieve kring van Britse expats in Florence in de jaren twintig, verrast Alice iedereen als ze trouwt met Claudio, de zoon van een kleine landeigenaar, en verhuist naar San Martino, een vervallen villa in Toscane. In hun nieuwe paradijs bouwen ze aan hun toekomst, ze knappen San Martino op en krijgen een zoon. Ze zijn gelukkig. Naarmate de tijd verstrijkt begint Alice zich eenzaam te voelen en start ze een affaire met een jeugdliefde. Haar zoon wordt ernstig ziek en sterft terwijl zij bij haar minnaar is. Claudio vertrekt zonder afscheid te nemen, ontroostbaar door de dood van zijn zoon en het verraad van zijn vrouw. Dan komt Kristín aan op San Martino; zij is op zoek naar een waardevol doek dat haar leermeester bij Alice verstopt heeft, een doek waar ook de Duitsers naar op zoek zijn. Op het moment dat de Duitsers aanvallen en de vrouwen geconfronteerd worden met de vernietiging van alles wat hun dierbaar is, moeten ze de gevolgen van de fouten uit hun verleden onder ogen zien.

I still think about Peter, the man I loved most in the world, all the time. We were friends, soul mates and lovers. I was seven. He was fifty-one.

I have held you every night for ten years and I didn't even know your name. We have a child together. A dog, a house. Who are you? Emma loves her husband Leo and their young daughter Ruby: she'd do anything for them. But almost everything she's told them about herself is a lie. And she might just have got away with it, if it weren't for her husband's job. Leo is an obituary writer and Emma is a well-known marine biologist, so, when she suffers a serious illness, Leo copes by doing what he knows best - reading and writing about her life. But as he starts to unravel her past, he discovers the woman he loves doesn't really exist. Even her name is fictitious. When the very darkest moments of Emma's past life finally emerge, she must somehow prove to Leo that she really is the woman he always thought she was . . . But first, she must tell him about the love of her other life. The Love of My Life is the astounding new novel from Rosie Walsh, bestselling author of The Man Who Didn't Call.

In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision- they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal.

Imagine you meet a man, spend six glorious days together, and fall in love. And it’s mutual: you’ve never been so certain of anything. So when he leaves for a long-booked holiday and promises to call from the airport, you have no cause to doubt him. But he doesn’t call. Your friends tell you to forget him, but you know they're wrong: something must have happened; there must be a reason for his silence. What do you do when you finally discover you're right? That there is a reason -- and that reason is the one thing you didn't share with each other? The truth.

Winner of the 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

A revenge killing. A dead public attorney. A family caught in the crossfire. For Ty Hauck, the local detective who gets caught in the cross-fire, it seems as if inner-city violence has invaded his quiet Greenwich suburb. Or does someone just want it to appear that way?

'Intelligent, suspenseful, provocative, and intensely disturbing - everything a great novel should be' LEE CHILD 'Extraordinary' LOUISE O'NEILL 'A truly compulsive novel.' STYLIST'The book of the moment!' MARIE CLAIRE'This book will blow your mind' PRIMA'A petrifying reimagining of The Handmaid's Tale' ELLE'A fast-paced, twisting thriller that left me speechless.' DAILY MAIL'Terrifying' RED'A novel ripe for the #MeToo era' VANITY FAIR'A dazzling debut.' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'Thought-provoking and thrilling. I was left speechless!' WOMAN & HOMESilence can be deafening. Jean McClellan spends her time in almost complete silence, limited to just one hundred words a day. Any more, and a thousand volts of electricity will course through her veins. Now the new government is in power, everything has changed. But only if you're a woman. Almost overnight, bank accounts are frozen, passports are taken away and seventy million women lose their jobs. Even more terrifyingly, young girls are no longer taught to read or write. For herself, her daughter, and for every woman silenced, Jean will reclaim her voice. This is only the beginning... [100 WORD LIMIT REACHED]

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.