Louise Doughty

Toda mujer ha sentido alguna vez, en un momento de pánico, que se encontraba en el lugar equivocado, en el momento equivocado, con el hombre equivocado...Durante toda su vida Yvonne Carmichael ha trabajado duro para cumplir sus sueños. A los cincuenta y dos años es madre de dos hijos, tiene un buen marido y ha forjado una brillante carrera. Esta renombrada genetista nunca ha tomado una decision irracional... pero siempre hay una primera vez.Sucede el dia en que comparece como especialista en una comision cientifica convocada en el palacio de Westminster. Alli conoce a un hombre atractivo y misterioso con quien empieza una excitante relacion marcada por un sexo salvaje y cargado de riesgo. Yvonne se siente mas viva que nunca, aunque con el tiempo descubrira que su amante tiene mucho que ocultar... Pero ya no habra marcha atras. Un acto violento desencadenara una serie de acontecimientos que trastocaran la vida de Yvonne de una manera inimaginable.Un devastadorthrillerpsicologico sobre los valores por los que nos regimos y las decisiones que tomamos.Otros autores opinan...Totalmente adictiva.S.J. WatsonLouise Doughty, cada vez mas solida, perturba a sus lectores y les conduce a traves de un territorio oscuro.Hillary MantelY la prensa ha dicho...Tensa y psicologicamente persuasiva... Una lectura inquietante, intuitiva y apasionante.Daily MailDoughty es una brillante escritora que sabe como construir el suspense y llevarlo al limite.The TimesInteligente y cautivadora.En el momento equivocado nos hace caer en la cuenta de como una mala decision puede cambiarte la vida para siempre.StylistUn analisis de las actitudes sociales, la lujuria, el sexo, el acoso, el riesgo y la responsabilidad...En el momento equivocado es mucho mas que una fascinante novela.HeraldOtros autores opinan...Totalmente adictiva.S.J. WatsonLouise Doughty, cada vez mas solida, perturba a sus lectores y les conduce a traves de un territorio oscuro.Hillary MantelY la prensa ha dicho...Tensa y psicologicamente persuasiva... Una lectura inquietante, intuitiva y apasionante.Daily MailDoughty es una brillante escritora que sabe como construir el suspense y llevarlo al limite.The TimesInteligente y cautivadora.En el momento equivocado nos hace caer en la cuenta de como una mala decision puede cambiarte la vida para siempre.StylistUn analisis de las actitudes sociales, la lujuria, el sexo, el acoso, el riesgo y la responsabilidad...En el momento equivocado es mucho mas que una fascinante novela.Herald

"There can't be a woman alive who hasn't once realised, in a moment of panic, that she's in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong man. Louise Doughty, more sure-footed with each novel, leads her unnerved reader into dark territory. A compelling and bravely-written book." (Hilary Mantel). "A superb novel. Grown-up, genuinely suspenseful, wonderfully well-constructed, intelligent and provocative. I really didn't want to finish it. And I don't say that very often." (Julie Myerson). "Once you start you can't stop reading. Terrific." (Helen Dunmore). Yvonne Carmichael has worked hard to achieve the life she always wanted: a high-flying career in genetics, a beautiful home, a good relationship with her husband and their two grown-up children. Then one day she meets a stranger at the Houses of Parliament and, on impulse, begins a passionate affair with him - a decision that will put everything she values at risk. At first she believes she can keep the relationship separate from the rest of her life, but she can't control what happens next. All of her careful plans spiral into greater deceit and, eventually, a life-changing act of violence. Apple Tree Yard is a psychological thriller about one woman's adultery and an insightful examination of the values we live by and the choices we make, from an acclaimed writer at the height of her powers.

AS SEEN ON ITVXOVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLDThe perfect thriller.StylistScarily plausible . . . desperately moving.GuardianGripping.Good Housekeeping The novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Platform Seven at 4am: Peterborough Railway Station is deserted. The man crossing the covered walkway on this freezing November morning is confident hes alone. As he sits on the metal bench at the far end of the platform it is clear his choice is strategic - hes as far away from the night staff as he can get.What the man doesnt realise is that he has company. Lisa Evans knows what he has decided. She knows what he is about to do as she tries and fails to stop him walking to the platform edge.Two deaths on Platform Seven. Two fatalities in eighteen months - surely theyre connected?No one is more desperate to understand what connects them than Lisa Evans herself. After all, she was the first of the two to die . . .Readers are gripped by Platform Seven: ***** Had me hooked from the start - a real page turner! ***** Brilliant . . . punches you straight in heart. ***** Amazing . . . A thriller with a difference! ***** The best book I have read in along while

A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her.

John Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something he's already done. In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair - but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk? Moving between Europe during the cold war, California and the Civil Rights struggle, and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the decades of military dictatorship that follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man. Black Water confirms Louise Doughty's position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence and a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the reader's mind long after the final page has been turned

Il est quatre heures du matin dans la gare de Peterborough, en Angleterre. Un renard solitaire trotte sur les voies tandis que le silence est parfois rompu par le lent crissement dun train de marchandises. Un homme se croyant seul se dirige vers une partie isolee de la gare, au bord du quai numero 7, et se jette sur les rails. Ce quil ne sait pas, cest quil est observe par Lisa Evans, ou plutot par son fantome : elle aussi est decedee au meme endroit, dix-huit mois plus tot.Deux deces en dix-huit mois : pourraient-ils etre lies ? Personne nest plus desespere de comprendre ce qui les relie que Lisa Evans elle-meme. Apres tout, elle a ete la premiere des deux a mourir. Et elle est bien decidee a comprendre ce qui a pousse cet inconnu a commettre lirreparable.Quai numero 7 decrit la mecanique implacable qui peut faire basculer les vies dans la tragedie, et transformer lamour en une relation demprise et de manipulation. Louise Doughty explore les zones dombre presentes au cur de nos vies.

Harper wakes every night, terrified of the sounds outside his hut halfway up a mountain in Bali. He is afraid that his past as a mercenary has caught up with him - and that his life may now been in danger. As he waits to discover his fate, he meets Rita, a woman with her own past tragedy, and begins a passionate affair. Their relationship makes Harper realise that exile comes in many forms - but can Rita and Harper save each other while they are putting each other very much at risk? Moving between Indonesia, the Netherlands and California, from the 1960s to the 1990s, Black Water turns around the 1965 Indonesian massacres, one of the great untold tragedies of the twentieth century.

Brilliant psychological suspense from the author of APPLE TREE YARD, now a major BBC drama. Against a rising tide of commuter mayhem, three women struggle in to work. Caught up in the chaos on the streets - and in the equally savage battle surrounding their bosss extortion racket - Annette, Joan and Helly are forced to ditch everything for an offensive of their own, only to find the cruellest circumstances can make heroines of us all.

A man dies a week after re-writing his will. In it, he has left everything he owns to a woman he has known for only three weeks. As Bet investigates Peters past, she discovers that her ex-lover was not all that he seemed In a crumbling office block, another woman has a different sort of ghost to confront. Iris runs her own business but strange things keep happening. Her phone rings and theres no one there. Somebody taps at her door. In the basement, something unpleasant is lurking...

A brutal murder punctures the tranquillity of a rural idyll: a middle-aged couple are found stabbed to death; their teenaged daughter is missing. Where is Gemma? Demands the headline of the Rutland Record. Alison, chief reporter, endeavours to unravel the truth and in doing so must confront the shadows of her own, shocking past and the bleakness at the heart of the prettiest of the prettiest of English Country Counties.

Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book, it will seem like a vast and unconquerable task, impossibly daunting. The way to make it less daunting is to break it down into its constituent parts, to do it bit by bit. Over the chapters herein, different aspects of technique are divided up into bite size chunks, the better to aid digestion. The book will look at different aspects of writing, with set exercises to help the reader along in their confidence and technique. It is designed to be read a chapter a week, with the aim of the fledgling writer having a body of material at the years end which should form a solid start to their novel. Deeply practical, with sound advice at every stage, A NOVEL IN A YEAR is essential reading for any would-be novelist.

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES OF APPLE TREE YARD SOLDPsychologically acute. Terrific.Daily MailA page-turning read. Kept me reading well past bedtime! VAL McDERMID Pacey and propulsive.GuardianA rare combination of elegance and unbelievable tension . . . Utterly brilliant. Joanna CannonGripping.Marie ClaireThe latest from the Number One Sunday Times Bestselling author Louise DoughtyBird is a woman on the run. One minute, shes in a meeting in her office in Birmingham - the next, shes walking out on her job, her home, her life. Its a day she thought might come, one shes prepared for. But nothing could prepare her for what will happen next. As Bird tries to work out who exactly is on her trail, she must also decide who - if anyone - she can trust. Is her greatest fear that she will be hunted down, or that she will never be found?Readers are gripped by A Bird in Winter:***** Bird is a character who will stay with me for a long time.***** As good as Apple Tree Yard, it was impossible to put this book down. ***** Cleverly plotted and full of thought provoking situations and twists. ***** If you like strong female leads that arent perfect, then you will devour this. ***** A beautiful, intricately plotted, and intriguing narrative.

FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIREAn epic novel ... absorbing, shocking, hopeful.Mail on Sunday _________ Fires in the Dark a breathtaking novel of grand scope which also sheds new light on the Holocaust and its Roma victims. Yenko is born in 1920s Bohemia to a nomadic Roma family who try to protect him from the hardships imposed on his people. But his childhood world is soon overwhelmed by the Great Depression and the German invasion. Yenko and his parents become fugitives from the Nazis, and ultimately Yenko must decide who and what is worth saving.

**A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIREJohn Harper lies awake at night in an isolated hut on an Indonesian island, listening to the rain on the roof and believing his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what is going to happen than of something hes already done.In a local town, he meets Rita, a woman with her own troubled history. They begin an affair - but can he allow himself to get involved when he knows this might put her at risk?Moving between Europe during the cold war, California and the Civil Rights struggle, and Indonesia during the massacres of 1965 and the decades of military dictatorship that follow, Black Water is an epic novel that explores some of the darkest events of recent world history through the story of one troubled man.Black Water confirms Louise Doughtys position as one of our most important contemporary novelists. She writes with fierce intelligence and a fine-tuned sense of moral ambiguity that makes her fiction resonate in the readers mind long after the final page has been turned.

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, WITH OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLDShortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller and the Specsavers National Book Awards Crime & Thriller of the Year Yvonne Carmichael has a high-flying career, a beautiful home and a good marriage.But when she meets a stranger she is drawn into a passionate affair.Keeping the two halves of her life separate seems easy at first.But she cant control what happens next.

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