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Lingua:Libri ItalianiAnche l’esistenza di Owen Pick è una catastrofe, soprattutto da quando lo hanno sospeso dall’insegnamento perché accusato da alcune studentesse di condotta impropria. Proprio lui che, nel quartiere benestante di Hampstead, se ne sta sempre solo nella grande casa vuota di sua zia. Lui che a trentatré anni ancora aspetta la donna con la quale perdere la verginità.
Come difendersi da quelle accuse? Cercare nella rete in cui c’è un intero mondo di gente come lui, gli incel, i celibi involontari? E chattare magari con YourLoss, che, stando a quello che scrive, potrebbe davvero diventare suo amico?
A Hampstead vivono la loro inquieta esistenza anche i Fours. Cate Fours, che è a metà della vita, non è più sicura di niente, nemmeno del suo matrimonio. Roan si occupa dei figli degli altri e la cura della famiglia grava soltanto sulle sue spalle. Una sera Georgia, la figlia adolescente, le dice che il vicino l’ha seguita dalla metropolitana fino a casa. C’è da preoccuparsi, visto che nel quartiere si sono verificate delle aggressioni e l’allarme è ormai diffuso in ogni casa. Un allarme che si muta in vero e proprio panico quando, in una gelida notte di San Valentino, Saffyre Maddox svanisce nel nulla...
Adolescenti a rischio, famiglie disfunzionali, misoginia tossica e deep web si intrecciano nel nuovo thriller di Lisa Jewell che, dopo i successi di Ellie all’improvviso e La famiglia del piano di sopra, torna a narrare delle paure del nostro tempo, penetrando nell’anima dei suoi personaggi per metterne a nudo il lato oscuro.
«Ho appena finito La ragazza invisibile, ed è stato bellissimo non riuscire a staccarmi neanche per un attimo. Ancora meglio dei suoi precedenti!». Jojo Moyes
«Ho adorato La ragazza invisibile! Lisa Jewell è davvero speciale per il modo in cui combina trame trascinanti con la caratterizzazione unica dei suoi personaggi. Soffre insieme a loro e noi arriviamo a conoscerli nel profondo». Lucy Foley
«Irresistibile e persino toccante: Lisa Jewell non delude mai». Clare Mackintosh
«L’ultimo thriller di Jewell ci fa sperimentare sulla nostra pelle come la nostra visione del mondo e delle persone può renderci ciechi davanti a ciò che accade realmente. Acuto e sorprendente». Usa Today
Cos’è accaduto davvero tra quelle mura? Che fine hanno fatto gli altri abitanti della casa di Chelsea? E, soprattutto, in che modo quei drammatici eventi hanno a che fare con gli strani rumori che Libby sente provenire dal piano di sopra, benchè sia certa di essere sola in quella strana e tetra dimora?
Avvincente, claustrofobico thriller psicologico, che, tra suspense e colpi di scena, riesce a tenere il lettore inchiodato alla pagina, La famiglia del piano di sopra costituisce una splendida conferma del talento dell’autrice di Ellie all’improvviso.
«Pochi scrittori di suspense escogitano trame così piene di trappole; meno ancora sono quelli capaci di creare personaggi tanto umani e complessi. La famiglia del piano di sopra brilla come una lama e taglia ancora più a fondo». A. J. Finn
«Ricco, oscuro rompicapo, questo avvincente thriller mescola la saga familiare con il noir domestico con effetti da brivido». Ruth Ware
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED! IT'S LISA JEWELL'S NEW THRILLER. . .
LONDON. June 2019: on the foreshore of the river Thames, a bag of bones is discovered. Human bones.
DCI Samuel Owusu is called to the scene and quickly sends the bag for forensic examination. The bones are those of a young woman, killed by a blow to the head many years ago.
Also inside the bag is a trail of clues which lead DCI Owusu back to a mansion in Chelsea where, nearly thirty years previously, three people lay dead in a kitchen, and a baby waited upstairs for someone to pick her up.
The clues point forward too to a brother and sister in Chicago searching for the only person who can make sense of their pasts.
Four deaths. An unsolved mystery. A family whose secrets can't stay buried for ever ...
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'I was ENTHRALLED. Empathetic, gripping, authentic' Gillian McAllister
'A GRIPPING read. Superb!' Shari Lapena
'Dark menace, consummate plotting. A sheer PLEASURE to read' Harriet Tyce
'Fast-paced, cleverly plotted. GRIPS from first page to last' Paula Hawkins
'Artful, slippery, HUGELY SATISFYING. A rare treat awaits!' Louise Candlish
'The story EVERYONE has been waiting for' Adele Parks
PREPARE TO BE HOOKED ...
#1 UK SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD
HOLLY WILLOUGHBY'S SUMMER READING HIGHLIGHT
'I read it all in one sitting.' COLLEEN HOOVER
'I loved The Family Upstairs!' SARAH JESSICA PARKER
'Really good, gripping. I couldn't bear for it to finish...' OLIVIA COLMAN
'A twisty and engrossing story of betrayal and redemption.' IAN RANKIN
'Rich, dark and intricately twisted, this enthralling whodunnit mixes family saga with domestic noir to brilliantly chilling effect.' RUTH WARE
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In a large house in London's fashionable Chelsea, a baby is awake in her cot. Well-fed and cared for, she is happily waiting for someone to pick her up.
In the kitchen lie three decomposing corpses. Close to them is a hastily scrawled note.
They've been dead for several days.
Who has been looking after the baby?
And where did they go?
Two entangled families.
A house with the darkest of secrets.
A compulsive thriller from Lisa Jewell.
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More love for The Family Upstairs ...
'I genuinely struggled to put this one down.' THE UNMUMSY MUM
'You don't read a Lisa Jewell book, you fall into it.' ERIN KELLY
'I swear I didn't breathe the whole time I was reading it. Gripping, pacy, brilliantly twisty.' CLARE MACKINTOSH
'Creepy, intricate and utterly immersive: an excellent holiday read.' GUARDIAN
'I had an unrelentingly pleasurable and thrilling for-God's-sake-tell-me-what-happened sensation in my stomach for the entire read ... Stupendous!' RUTH JONES
'Absolutely brilliant.' SARAH PINBOROUGH
'Lisa's Jewell's The Family Upstairs glitters like a blade and cuts even deeper.' AJ FINN
'I was hooked from the first page.' ALICE FEENEY
'Utterly compelling. Deliciously dark and twisty with characters who live on in your head. Lisa Jewell just keeps getting better and better.' JANE CORRY
'It's absolutely bloody brilliant and I can't tell you much I wish I'd written it.' TAMMY COHEN
BESTSELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL SUSPENSE, AND A TOP RICHARD & JUDY SELECTION
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OVER 1,000 5* REVIEWS – this is why readers love this book:
'Grips to the point of OBSESSION'
'My life STOPPED while I read this book'
'My heart was THUMPING in my chest'
'This is EDGE OF YOUR SEAT reading'
'This book left me BREATHLESS'
'Cancel all plans and BUY THIS BOOK'
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She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl.
She had her whole life ahead of her.
And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.
Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope of finding Ellie. And then she meets a charming and charismatic stranger who sweeps her off her feet.
But what really takes her breath away is when she meets his nine-year-old daughter.
Because his daughter is the image of Ellie.
Now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.
What really happened to Ellie? And who still has secrets to hide?
Una sera, sulla spiaggia, Alice scorge la sagoma di un uomo: seduto sulla sabbia umida, le braccia allacciate intorno alle ginocchia, l’uomo indossa solo jeans e camicia e sembra indifferente al vento che solleva spruzzi gelidi. Non è abbastanza malconcio per essere un vagabondo né abbastanza strano per essere un paziente del centro di salute mentale del paese. Ma ha un’aria talmente sperduta, uno sguardo così confuso e triste che Alice decide di avvicinarlo e di prestargli soccorso. L’uomo le rivela di non sapere nulla di sé, del perché si trova lì e di come ci è arrivato.
Tra gli sguardi increduli dei tre figli, Alice porta a casa lo sconosciuto e lo sistema nella piccola dépendance che di solito affitta, ma in quel momento è vuota. Una decisione avventata e di certo rischiosa, dato che quell’uomo in evidente stato confusionale e senza alcuna memoria del suo passato potrebbe essere chiunque.
Quella stessa sera, a Londra, Lily Monrose telefona alla polizia per denunciare la scomparsa di suo marito, Carl Monrose. Quando non lo ha visto tornare dal lavoro ha avuto la sensazione che un ghiacciolo le scivolasse lungo la schiena. Lei e Carl sono rientrati dal viaggio di nozze solo dieci giorni prima e lui si precipitava a casa tutte le sere appena finiva di lavorare, prima di svanire nel nulla lasciando dietro di sé una scia di inquietanti interrogativi, tra cui una falsa identità.
La soluzione di questi misteri sembra condurre a un evento accaduto ventitré anni prima, quando due adolescenti, Gray e Kirsty, in vacanza con i loro genitori in un pittoresco villaggio di mare, incontrarono un giovane un po’ singolare. Un giovane che aveva occhi solo per Kirsty.
Attraverso una trama capace di mantenere sempre alta la tensione, e grazie a una scrittura dal ritmo incalzante, Lisa Jewell ci consegna un romanzo dalla suspense travolgente e dagli esiti totalmente inaspettati.
«Lisa Jewell è una meravigliosa narratrice: i suoi personaggi sono credibili, la scrittura è forte e poetica e la narrazione è ricca di suspense e colpi di scena».
Library Journal
«Il modo di raccontare di Lisa Jewell è così emotivamente realistico che è impossibile non essere coinvolti… Un po’ giallo, un po’ thriller e un po’ storia d’amore, questo romanzo vi terrà incollati alla sedia».
Psychologies
Melody Browne can remember nothing before her ninth birthday. Now in her early thirties, Melody lives in the middle of London with her seventeen-year-old son. She hasn’t seen her parents since she left home at fifteen, but Melody doesn't mind. She’s better off on her own.
And then fragments of her past start to come back. At first her memories mean nothing to her but slowly, day by day, she begins to piece together the real story of her childhood.
But with every mystery she solves another one materialises, with every question she answers another appears. And Melody begins to wonder if she'll ever know the truth about her past ...
From the #1 bestselling author of The Night She Disappeared, The Family Upstairs and Then She Was Gone
AN UNFORGETTABLE STORY ABOUT A FAMILY WITH A TERRIBLE SECRET
When a tragedy breaks a family apart, what can bring it back together?
The Birds seem to be the perfect family: mother, father, four children, a picture-book cottage in the country.
But one Easter weekend, something happens - something so unexpected, so devastating, that no one can bring themselves to talk about it.
The family shatters, seemingly for good.
Until, years later, they are forced to return to the house they grew up in, and to confront what really broke the family apart . . .
YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE WATCHING
‘Page one intrigued me. Page three hooked me. By page five, I was consumed. This compulsive, propulsive novel is both a seize-you-by-the-throat thriller and a genuinely moving family drama. Stellar.’ – A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
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You’re back home after four years working abroad, new husband in tow.
You’re keen to find a place of your own. But for now you’re crashing in your big brother’s spare room.
That’s when you meet the man next door.
He’s the head teacher at the local school. Twice your age. Extraordinarily attractive. You find yourself watching him.
All the time.
But you never dreamed that your innocent crush might become a deadly obsession.
Or that someone is watching you.
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Family secrets, illicit passion and an unexplained murder? It can only be the gripping new novel from Lisa Jewell, #1 bestselling author of Then She Was Gone.
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'I was totally gripped by this excellent psychological thriller. Set in Bristol, it opens with a dead body, then moves into the head of Joey, a newly-married 27-year-old who gets a sudden crush on one of her new neighbours, which quickly becomes obsessive. Hugely enjoyable.' – Marian Keyes, author of The Break
'If you only pick one summer read this year, make it Watching You. I inhaled it in one sitting. A gripping plot, characters you love but can't trust, and a thumping emotional heart, Lisa Jewell has done it again.' – Sarah Pinborough, author of Behind Her Eyes and 13 Minutes
'If you loved The Woman in The Window and The Girl on the Train then this is for you!' – the Hotlist, U Magazine
'Then She Was Gone was my favourite thriller last year and this is even better. Brilliantly plotted and impossible to put down, it kept me guessing until the very end.' - Alice Feeney, author of Sometimes I Lie
'She's done it again! Lisa Jewell has penned the page-turner of the summer. Emotionally-engrossing and utterly compelling, with a mystery that keeps you gripped until the last heart-wrenching page.' - Tammy Cohen, author of They All Fall Down
'Jewell writes wonderfully engaging characters who weave plausibly tangled webs and the whodunit was largely incidental until the closing pages. She masterfully draws all her threads together, throwing in some cunning twists for good measure…The countdown is on for the next Lisa Jewell novel.
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'The Night She Disappeared is by far her best thriller yet.' HARLAN COBEN
'Insane suspense. I loved it.' LEE CHILD
'A gothic, multi-layered tale, deeply satisfying. We both loved it.' RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB
The Night She Disappeared is UNBELIEVABLY good. I was utterly utterly agog.' MARIAN KEYES
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A cold case. An abandoned mansion. A family hiding a terrible secret. Prepare to be hooked. Lisa Jewell's latest thriller is her best yet.
Midsummer 2017: teenage mum Tallulah heads out on a date, leaving her baby son at home with her mother, Kim.
At 11 p.m. she sends her mum a text message. At 4.30 a.m. Kim awakens to discover that Tallulah has not come home.
Friends tell her that Tallulah was last seen heading to a pool party at a house in the woods nearby called Dark Place.
Tallulah never returns.
2018: walking in the woods behind the boarding school where her boyfriend has just started as a head teacher, Sophie sees a sign nailed to a fence.
A sign that says: DIG HERE . . .
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'No one thickens a plot like Lisa Jewell. I couldn't put this book down. Jewell just keeps getting better. It's SO GOOD!' SHARI LAPENA
'Absolutely loved this one by Lisa Jewell - compelling, deep, surprising, tense, modern. Most thrillers are in black and white to me in terms of character and Lisa is blazing saturated technicolour.' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'Masterly. Gripping from start to finish.' JOANNE HARRIS
'I'm calling it early. This is Lisa's best book yet, and she always sets that bar high! Stayed up so late because I couldn't put it down.' ADELE PARKS
'Oh my God, so good. A head-scratching, heart-racing, page-turning triumph - I think this might be my favourite Lisa Jewell yet.' LOUISE CANDLISH
'I swear her books are masterclasses for authors. Every time I read one, I'm in awe. I loved this one so much - clever, slick and so intriguing. Lots of emotion and I love how all the sub-plots come together. #bowdowntoLisa' MEL SHERRATT
'Another first-class mystery . . . Totally enthralling.' HARRIET TYCE
'I predict another number one.' ERIN KELLY
'Once again Lisa Jewell has knocked it out of the park. Another masterclass in thriller writing from one of the world's most consistently brilliant authors. I was superglued to the pages.' MARK EDWARDS
'Totally absorbing. I felt as though I'd slipped into the book and lived there for a few days, heart pounding.
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