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When Harry Ricks arrives in Paris on a bleak January morning, he is a broken man. He is running away from a failed marriage and a darkscandal that ruined his career as a film lecturer in a small American university. A chance meeting with a mysterious woman, Margit Kadar,with whom Harry falls in love is his only hope of a brighter future. Now a film starring Kristen Scott Thomas and Ethan Hawke.

'About an hour after I met Tony Hobbs, he saved my life. I know that sounds just a little melodramatic, but it's the truth. Or, at least, as true as anything a journalist will tell you.'Sally Goodchild is a thirty-seven-year-old American who, after nearly two decades as a highly independent journalist, finds herself pregnant and in London- married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset Sally's relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - especially as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her adjustment problems soon turn to nightmare when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you..

Ambientada en Nueva York, entre el dinámico optimismo de posguerra y la pesadilla de la caza de brujas de McCarthy, En busca de la felicidad, historia trágica de un amor,es una narración sobre lealtades contrapuestas, decisiones morales y azarosos destinos. Es un relato epico e intimo tremendamente conmovedor."Una delicia: Kennedy es un escritor exigente, habil e ingenioso." Financial Times"Inteligente..., esta oscura fabula moral arrastra al lector hasta el final." Mail on Sunday"Kennedy ha escrito una historia apasionante y descarnada." Irish Times

En mission au Moyen-Orient, Sally rencontre Tony. Elle est reporter au Boston Post, il est journaliste au Chronicle. Elle est pétillante, il est charmeur. Elle est célibataire, lui aussi. Ce qui doit arriver arrive: coup de foudre. Mais Sally ignore que le reve va virer au cauchemar. Et que le pire viendra de celui qu'elle pensait pourtant bien connaitre, son mari...

Sally Goodchild, a thirty-seven-year-old American journalist, suddenly finds herself pregnant and married to an English foreign correspondent, Tony Hobbs, whom she met while they were both on assignment in Cairo. From the outset Sally's relationship with both Tony and London is an uneasy one - as she finds her husband and his city to be far more foreign than imagined. But her problems soon turn to nightmares when she discovers that everything can be taken down and used against you.

Like all would-be Hollywood screenwriters, David Armitage wants to be rich and famous. But for the past eleven years, he's tasted nothing but failure. Then, out of nowhere, big-time luck comes his way when one of his scripts is bought for television - and before you can say 'overnight success', he's the new toast of Hollywood as the creator of a hit series. Suddenly a 'player' in Tinsel Town, he finds that he's reinventing himself at great speed - especially when it comes to walking out on his wife and daughter for a young producer who worships only at the altar of ambition. But David's upward mobility takes a decidedly strange turn when a billionaire film buff named Philip Fleck barges into his life, proposing a very curious collaboration. David takes the bait, and suddenly finds himself inadvertently entering into a Faustian Pact, and an express ride to the lower depths of the Hollywood jungle.

« Remarquable ! » ; « Drôle et terrifiant » ; « Impeccablement construit, j'ai adoré »… Autant de propos de lecteurs entendus après la découverte de ce premier roman ou comment réussir du premier coup un véritable exploit et devenir du jour au lendemain le créateur de l'un des meilleurs romans noirs de l'histoire du genre. Ni plus, ni moins. Ce récit d'un voyage au paradis des grands espaces australiens qui vire au cauchemar éveillé est un petit bijou. Nick, héros bien malgré lui de ce thriller féroce, n'avait rien contre ce pays avant d'écraser un kangourou par une nuit sans lune. Sa rencontre avec la jeune et robuste Angie va le mener en plein cœur du bush. Au milieu de nulle part. Au sein d'un clan d'allumés coupés du monde, sans aucune route pour quitter ce traquenard. Nick, désormais, n'aura qu'une seule obsession : comprendre ce qu'il fait là et sauver sa peau. Fuir alors que toute la communauté le surveille…

Brendan has always lived a careful, constrained life. A salesman who never liked the work, he's a man who has stayed in his marriage and his faith because it was what was expected of him. But now, having lost his job after corporate downsizing and on the cusp of sixty, he finds himself scrambling to somehow stay afloat in the only Los Angeles work on offer to a man his age - driving for Uber.When one of his rides, a retired professor named Elise, asks to be dropped off outside an abortion clinic where she now volunteers, Brendan finds himself literally driving right into the virulent epicentre of one of the major issues of our time, engulfing his life in the process. A novel of high suspense and considerable moral complexity, Afraid of the Light is a tough, affecting social thriller that speaks volumes about the corrosive divisions of our troubled times. 'Kennedy is skilled at zigzag plotting, blending domestic twists with turns created by globalaffairs' OBSERVER

Après le succès d'Isabellel'après-midi, Douglas Kennedy se réinvente encore et change de décor. Direction Los Angeles et une Amérique rongée par la crise... A mi-chemin entre roman noir et chronique

Manhattan, víspera del día de Acción de Gracias de 1945. La guerra ha terminado y la fiesta de Eric Smythe está en pleno apogeo. Todos sus amigos de Greenwich Village están allí. También su hermana Sara, una joven independiente y despierta, que empieza a abrirse camino en la gran ciudad. Es entonces cuando Jack Malone, un periodista del Ejército estadounidense que acaba de llegar de Alemania, se cuela en la fiesta.En busca de la felicidad, historia trágica de un amor, es la historia de lealtades contrapuestas, decisiones morales y azarosos destinos.

America in the Sixties is an era of radical upheaval - of civil rights protests and anti-war marches; of sexual liberation and hallucinogenic drugs. More tellingly, it was a time when you weren't supposed to trust anyone over the age of thirty; when, if you were young, you rebelled against your parents and their conservative values. But not Hannah Buchan. Hannah is a great disappointment to her famous radical father and painter mother. Because instead of mounting the barricades and embracing this age of profound social change, she wants nothing more than to marry her doctor boyfriend and raise a family in a small town. Hannah gets her wish. But once installed as the doctor's wife in a nowhere corner of Maine, boredom sets in ...until an unforeseen moment of personal rebellion changes everything. Especially as Hannah is forced into breaking the law. For decades, this one transgression in an otherwise faultless life remains buried. But then, in the charged atmosphere of America after 9/11, her secret comes out and her life goes into freefall.

Hay momentos en los que nos vemos abocados a tomar una decisión. Momentos en los que elegimos, de entre todas las opciones que la vida nos ofrece, un camino y no otro. Estas decisiones, que nos ocupan a menudo tan solo unos segundos, determinan en realidad el resto de nuestra vida. Pueden cambiarlo todo en un abrir y cerrar de ojos. Esta novela es el relato de uno de esos momentos: de Berlin en 1984, de un momento que lo cambio todo y de las consecuencias y las huellas que dejo para siempre en los corazones de dos amantes. Hasta que no te descubras de madrugada pasando una pagina tras otra sin parar no comprenderas cuan profundamente te golpeaesta historia. De nada sirve contar de que trata; tu vida, despues de conocer a Petra Dussmann, nunca volvera a ser la misma.