Susanna Jones crafts narratives that delve into the human psyche and the elusive edges of reality. Her distinctive style blends penetrating insights into the darker aspects of the human condition with a lyrical prose that draws readers into extraordinary worlds. Through her stories, she explores the liminal spaces between dream and waking, reality and illusion, seeking to unravel the profound questions that resonate within us all. Her work offers a captivating exploration of what it means to be human.
Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the country to avoid the scandal she has created by sleeping with one of her students. She steals her sister's passport and boards the ferry to Shanghai. Then, careful to impersonate her sister, she is quiet, docile and discreet.
Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection - that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen - for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything . . . So begins The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . .Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting? As Lucy's story unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both past and present, obsess her waking life . . .
A gripping tale of ambition and rivalry, madness and revenge - in the vein of Sarah Waters and Beryl Bainbridge
Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace—an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of England for Owen’s funeral. She hadn’t seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket together; he was sent to prison and she, just shy of her 18th birthday, to a young offenders’ centre. Isabel suspects that Owen was responsible for Julia’s murder, and she’s hoping finally to find some kind of resolution . Feeling cut off from her husband and child in Turkey, and awash with unexpected memories, Isabel ventures further into the murky depths of her past. But nothing is as it seems—either past or present—and as Isabel’s world unravels we finally realise the stunning, shattering truth . . .
Aan het begin van de 20e eeuw odernemen vier jonge Engelse vrouwen klimexpedities in Schotland en in de Alpen met tragische gevolgen voor enkele van hen.
Psychologický příběh osamělého Angličana, muže, který hledá ideální a pokornou ženu, s níž by strávil zbytek svého života. Ralp je typický Angličan, který se nechal omámit kouzlem asijských žen. Jeho první žena byla Thajka, po krátkém soužití za záhadných okolností zmizela. Nový objekt jeho zájmu je mladičká Japonka, která má problémy se zákonem. Ralp si představuje tichou, empatickou bytost bez vlastních názorů, která by plula po jeho boku pokud možno do smrti. Jeho představy o ženách jsou však velmi naivní, a jak se brzy přesvědčí, naprosto nereálné.
Mladá Angličanka Lucy Flyová žije a pracuje v Tokiu jako překladatelka. Jednoho dne se stane hlavní podezřelou z vraždy své nejlepší přítelkyně Lily. Byla poslední osobou, která viděla oběť naživu – tak proč si nepamatuje okolnosti jejich setkání? Jaká tajemství obklopují život Lucy Flyové? A byla by kvůli nim schopna spáchat vraždu?
