लेखक: Emily Perkins

Von New York City nach Auckland, Neuseeland – nach einem Umzug um den halben Globus tauchen die Forrests in eine neue Welt ein. Das Leben der Geschwister Dorothy, Michael, Evelyn und Ruth ändert sich …

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies …

From one of Britains most exciting young writers comes the story of a couples emotional and complicated relationship from the husbands perspective. Novel About My Wife is narrated by Tom Stone as he …

Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is t …

________________LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013________________’Perkins is an extraordinary writer … The Forrests is a novel to be savoured’ – Daisy Goodwin, Sunday Times’Dexterou …

** AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER & WINNER OF THE OCKHAM NZ BOOK AWARDS**’The most exciting novel I’ve read in ages… I gulped it down, so readable, so EXCELLENT about people. Read it’ Marian Keyes’Thi …

‘Perkins is an extraordinary writer’ The Sunday Times You know how we say we devoured a story, and also that we were consumed by it? Eating and being eaten. It was like that with Claire, for me.From …