Titres dans Vie de famille

Living on her family’s gorgeous lakeside estate in Cornwall, England, Alice Edevane is a bright, clever, inquisitive, innocent, and precociously talented fourteen-year-old who loves to write stories. But the mysteries she pens are no match for the one her family is about to endure ...One midsummer’s eve, after a beautiful party drawing hundreds of guests to the estate has ended, the Edevanes discover that their youngest son, Theo, has vanished without a trace.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Deception by Roald Dahl, read by Richard Griffiths, Andrew Scott, Derek Jacobi, Mark Heap, Juliet Stevenson and Stephen Mangan. 'The cruelest lies are often told in silence . . .' Why do we lie? Why do we deceive those we love most? What do we fear...

Un roman familial, social, écologique ! Ce récit atypique mêlant histoire récente et anticipation ne se lâche pas.

After a decade apart, childhood sweethearts reconnect by chance but how many words will it take for them to figure out where it all went wrong? From the New York Times bestselling authors of the “delightful” (Shelf Awareness) The Unhoneymooners. The story of the heart can never be unwritten...

In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all - beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn.

From one of Britain's most celebrated writers of color, Girl, Woman, Other is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of black British women. Winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and short-listed for the Gordon Burn Prize, Girl, Woman, Other paints a vivid portrait of the state of post-Brexit Britain, as well as looking back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.

"Ma mère s'emmerdait, elle m'a transformée en poupée. Elle a joué avec sa poupée pendant quelques années et la poupée en a eu assez. Elle s'est vengée."

Leda, a middle-aged divorcee, is alone for the first time in years when her daughters leave home to live with their father. Her initial, unexpected sense of liberty turns to ferocious introspection following a seemingly trivial occurrence. Throughout the novel, Ferrante's language is as finely tuned and intense as ever, and she treats her theme with a fierce, candid tenacity.

« New York enflait de l’optimisme tapageur de ceux qui croient avoir pris de vitesse le futur. » Wall Street traverse l’une des pires crises de son histoire. Nous sommes dans les années 1930, la Grande Dépression frappe l’Amérique de plein fouet. Un homme, néanmoins, a su faire...

Amélia menait une vie paisible aux côtés de ses enfants et de son mari. Pourtant, tout a basculé le jour où celui-ci a brutalement disparu dans une terrible explosion... Après avoir connu la perte de celui qu’elle considérait comme l’homme de sa vie, Amélia se débat seule entre l’éducation de ses enfants et la gestion du quotidien. Son précaire équilibre est fragilisé avec l’arrivée d’un mystérieux voisin, aussi charmant que troublant.

Il bel viso della bambina Giovanna si è trasformato, sta diventando quello di una brutta adolescente. Ma è proprio così? E in quale specchio bisogna guardare per ritrovarsi e salvarsi? La ricerca di un nuovo volto oscilla tra due Napoli consanguinee che però si temono e si detestano: la Napoli di sopra, che s'è attribuita una maschera fine, e quella di sotto, che si finge smodata, triviale. Giovanna oscilla tra alto e basso, in una città che pare non offrire né risposte né scampo.

A cult classic of Italian literature published in English for the first time, with a foreword by André Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name In the late 1960s, Leo Gazzara left his family in Milan and moved to Rome for work. Soon unemployed, he has spent his time in an alcoholic haze, bouncing...

Si possono abbandonare il proprio padre e la propria madre? Si può sbattere la porta, scendere le scale e decidere che non li si vedrà più? Mettere in discussione l’origine, sfuggire alla sua stretta? Dopo dieci anni sottratti al logoramento di una violenza sottile e pervasiva tra le mura...

SOON TO BE AN ITV DRAMA STARRING AIDAN TURNER. Joseph O’Loughlin appears to have the perfect life - a beautiful wife, a loving daughter and a successful career as a clinical psychologist. But nothing can be taken for granted. Even the most flawless existence is only a loose thread away from...

Un roman de mer et de soleils étouffés. Un roman de secrets brûlants et de livres oubliés. Un roman d'amour contre la mort. Ingrid a 20 ans et des projets plein la tête quand elle rencontre Gil Coleman, professeur de littérature à l'université. Faisant fi de son âge et de sa réputation de don Juan, elle l'épouse et s'installe dans sa maison en bord de mer. Quinze ans et deux enfants plus tard, Ingrid doit faire face aux absences répétées de Gil, devenu écrivain à succès.

The story of a life. The story of the year. 'Lessons shows [McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended; young Roland Baines's life is turned upside...

Una ciudad mítica, París. Un lugar mítico, el Grand Hotel Ritz. Un barman mítico, Frank Meier, el barman del Ritz. Todos habían degustado sus célebres cócteles: Ernest Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Coco Chanel, Mistinguett, Sacha Guitry, Jean Cocteau, Arletty. Pero en julio de 1940, las tropas alemanas ocupan París y sus responsables deciden hospedarse en el Ritz, como lo harán los jerarcas nazis como Göring y Goebbels cuando visiten la capital francesa.

Une jeune fille vit mal sa différence, différence à laquelle sa famille refuse de donner un nom. Percevant que ses mots et ses actions font mal aux autres, elle décide de fuguer, de s’enfermer dans le mutisme, de prendre le temps d’explorer qui elle pourrait être si on ne lui imposait pas autant de limites.

La novela narra la historia de Tita de la Garza a manera de recetario, donde cada capítulo es una receta que relata las aventuras de la protagonista en una casa donde la tradición la obliga a quedarse a cuidar a su madre, y por lo tanto, sin poderse casar nunca.

La historia empieza en 1911, el día de la coronación del rey Jorge V en la abadía de Westminster. El destino de los Williams, una familia minera de Gales, está unido por el amor y la enemistad al de los Fitzherbert, aristócratas y propietarios de las minas.