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Om Pauls zeventigste verjaardag te vieren, organiseert zijn vrouw een familieweekend in Parijs. Paul Malegarde, een beroemd bomenkenner, is getrouwd met de Amerikaanse Lauren en samen hebben ze twee volwassen kinderen, Tilia en Linden. Alle vier dragen ze een geheim met zich mee. Doordat de Seine buiten zijn oevers dreigt te treden door aanhoudende regen is het gezin tot elkaar veroordeeld en kunnen hun geheimen niet langer verborgen blijven. De emoties lopen, net als het kolkende water, hoog op. Paul, Lauren, Tilia en Linden zullen ieder moeten vechten voor hun identiteit en zijn tegelijkertijd genoodzaakt een gesloten front te vormen om het stijgende water het hoofd te bieden.

Un mari souvent absent. Un métier qui ne l'épanouit guère. Un quotidien banal. Colombe Barou est une femme sans histoires. Comment imaginer ce qui l'attend dans le charmant appartement où elle vient d'emménager ? À l'étage supérieur, un inconnu lui a déclaré la guerre. Seule l'épaisseur d'un plancher la sépare désormais de son pire ennemi... Quel prix est-elle prète à payer pour retrouver sommeil et sérénité ? Grâce à un scénario implacable, Tatiana de Rosnay installe une tension psychologique extrème. Situant le danger à notre porte, elle réveille nos terreurs intimes. Rien ne se passe comme le lecteur habitué aux films d'horreur ou aux comédies romantiques pourrait s'y attendre: entre thriller domestique, conflit intime et roman initiatique, l'auteure brouille les cartes et conduit son histoire vers une issue aussi subtile qu'inattendue. Karine Papillaud, Le Point.

Winner of the 2009 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. When a man slaps a child who is not his own at a neighborhood barbecue, the act triggers a series of repercussions in the lives of the people who witness the event.

Maggie O’Farrell takes readers on a journey to the darker places of the human heart, where desires struggle with the imposition of social mores. This haunting story explores the seedy past of Victorian asylums, the oppression of family secrets, and the way truth can change everything. In the middle of tending to the everyday business at her vintage clothing shop and sidestepping her married boyfriend’s attempts at commitment, Iris Lockhart receives a stunning phone call: Her great-aunt Esme, whom she never knew existed, is being released from Cauldstone Hospital - where she has been locked away for over sixty years. Iris’s grandmother Kitty always claimed to be an only child. But Esme’s papers prove she is Kitty’s sister, and Iris can see the shadow of her dead father in Esme’s face. Esme has been labeled harmless - sane enough to coexist with the rest of the world. But Esme’s still basically a stranger, a family member never mentioned by the family, and one who is sure to bring life-altering secrets with her when she leaves the ward. If Iris takes her in, what dangerous truths might she inherit? Maggie O’Farrell’s intricate tale of family secrets, lost lives, and the freedom brought by truth will haunt readers long past its final page.

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?