Alexandra Andrews

¿HASTA DÓNDE SERÍAS CAPAZ DE LLEGAR PARA TENER LA VIDA QUE SIEMPRE DESEASTE?Florence Darrow es una empleada de una editorial que cree estar destinada a ser una célebre escritora. Cuando le llueve un puesto como ayudante de la brillante y enigmatica novelista Maud Dixon, cuya verdadera identidad es secreta, pareceque los hados por fin le sonrien.El arreglo es perfecto. Maud Dixon, en realidad Helen Wilcox, puede ser quisquillosa, perorebosa una mordaz sabiduria, no solo literaria, sino tambien existencial. Florence cae de inmediato bajo su hechizo y la acompaña entusiasmada a Marruecos, donde tiene lugar la nueva novela de la autora. Perdida en laspintorescas calles de Marrakech y en las ventosas playas cercanas, su vida es al fin lo bastante interesante como para inspirarle una obra propia. Pero, cuando Florence despierta en un hospital despues de un terrible accidente de trafico, sin recuerdo alguno de la noche anterior ni rastro de Helen, se ve tentada de tomar un atajo. En vez de vivir a la sombra de la autora, ¿por que no adoptar su vida... y su popular pseudonimo literario?¿Quienes Maud Dixon?, tenso, retorcido y entretenidisimo, es un refinado thriller psicologico sobre las maldades de que uno es capaz por llevar la vida que siempre quiso.

Jusquoù seriez-vous prêt à aller pour vivre la vie dont vous avez toujours rêvé ?Parce que Mississippi Foxtrot, le bestseller de lannée, a projeté Maud Dixon au sommet des meilleures ventes, la jeune

Clever, cunning, and diabolical in the best possible way. Anyone longing for a good old-fashioned thrill need look no furtherAnn PatchettCelebrated, bestselling, elusive...who is Maud Dixon?Florence Darrow wants to be a writer. Correction: Florence Darrow IS going to be a writer. Fired from her first job in publishing, she jumps at the chance to be assistant to the celebrated Maud Dixon, the anonymous bestselling novelist. The arrangement comes with conditions - high secrecy, living in an isolated house in the countryside. Before long, the two of them are on a research trip to Morocco, to inspire the much-promised second novel. Beach walks, red sunsets and long, whisky-filled evening discussions...win-win, surely? Until Florence wakes up in a hospital, having narrowly survived a car crash.How did it happen - and where is Maud Dixon, who was in the car with her? Florence feels she may have been played, but wait, if Maud is no longer around, maybe Florence can make her mark as a writer after all...Stylish, sharp, with wicked hairpin turns...pure fun Maria Semple

A taut and twisty suspense novel about a famous novelist and a small-town striver locked in a struggle for fortune and fame. Part Patricia Highsmith, part All About Eve and pure fun.Maria Semple Florence Darrow has always felt she was destined for greatness, but after a disastrous affair with her married boss, she starts to doubt herself. All that changes when she sets off for Morocco with her new boss, the celebrated but reclusive author Maud Dixon. Amidst the colorful streets of Marrakesh and the wind-swept beaches of the coast, Florence begins to feel shes leading the sort of interesting, cosmopolitan life she deserves. But when she wakes up in the hospital after a terrible car accident, with no memory of the previous nightand no sign of Mauda dangerous idea begins to take form. . . A Best Book of the Year: New York Times, NPR, New York Post, Entertainment Weekly, CrimeReads

Alexandra Andrews is monied Manhattans very own Agatha Christie.Ada CalhounFrom the critically acclaimed author of Who is Maud Dixon? comes a riveting new novel about a young wife and mother in a world of wealth and privilege, whose rash mistake sets off a domino effect of murder and betrayal.In the beginning, there was art.It was Clare Basts love of art that saved her from a bleak, predictable life in upstate New York, and drew her to the cultured world of Manhattans Upper East Side where she met Jed, her doting, affluent husband.Despite her best effortsincluding a half-finished PhD, abandoned when her daughter Sadie was bornClare secretly cant help but feel like an imposter in Jeds one-percent, Park-Avenue life.When the well-connected wife of Jeds new boss introduces her to influential friendsa curator here, a gallerist there, an aficionado abroadClare feels an essential part of herself coming alive again. And when she discovers that an important work painted by the subject of her unfinished dissertation is hanging in the brownstone of a seductively attractive dealer, she believes fate is leading her where she belongs . . . until she finds herself at the scene of a gruesome murder and a stolen masterpiece. Caught in the perfectly wrong place at the perfectly wrong time, every clue the investigation uncovers points back to her.Suddenly, Clare is trapped inside a dark and treacherous art world filled with unscrupulous dealers and international criminals. What, exactly, has she gotten herself into . . . and how is she going to get herself, and her family, out?

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¿HASTA DÓNDE SERÍAS CAPAZ DE LLEGAR PARA TENER LA VIDA QUE SIEMPRE DESEASTE?Florence Darrow es una empleada de una editorial que cree estar destinada a ser una célebre escritora. Cuando le llueve un puesto como ayudante de la brillante y enigmatica novelista Maud Dixon, cuya verdadera identidad es secreta, pareceque los hados por fin le sonrien.El arreglo es perfecto. Maud Dixon, en realidad Helen Wilcox, puede ser quisquillosa, perorebosa una mordaz sabiduria, no solo literaria, sino tambien existencial. Florence cae de inmediato bajo su hechizo y la acompaña entusiasmada a Marruecos, donde tiene lugar la nueva novela de la autora. Perdida en laspintorescas calles de Marrakech y en las ventosas playas cercanas, su vida es al fin lo bastante interesante como para inspirarle una obra propia. Pero, cuando Florence despierta en un hospital despues de un terrible accidente de trafico, sin recuerdo alguno de la noche anterior ni rastro de Helen, se ve tentada de tomar un atajo. En vez de vivir a la sombra de la autora, ¿por que no adoptar su vida... y su popular pseudonimo literario?¿Quienes Maud Dixon?, tenso, retorcido y entretenidisimo, es un refinado thriller psicologico sobre las maldades de que uno es capaz por llevar la vida que siempre quiso.