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Harriet Lane
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Un roman psychologique féroce, l'ascension d'une jeune femme ordinaire dans le monde des privilèges et du prestige littéraire, le suspense d'un thriller avec une héroïne à la Daphné du Maurier.
Frances Thorpe est invisible. Correctrice aux pages " Livres " d'un prestigieux journal, elle regarde briller le beau monde des lettres tandis qu'elle s'enlise dans une existence médiocre. Jusqu'au jour où un soir, elle croise une voiture accidentée sur une route de campagne et recueille les derniers mots de la conductrice, Alys Kyte. En rencontrant la famille d'Alys, Frances entrevoit la lumière et ne résiste pas à son attraction. Le mari, Laurence Kyte, le grand écrivain, les deux enfants, Polly et Teddy. Depuis l'ombre qui la protège, elle observe chacun, les analyse, imite leurs gestes et leurs manières. Dans le halo qui les entoure, la jeune femme ordinaire côtoie l'exception, les privilèges qui lui sont refusés : il lui faut goûter à cette chaleur, à cette lumière. À tout prix.Le Beau Monde est un premier roman psychologique féroce, où, suivant l'insaisissable Frances, on oscille entre le suspense d'un thriller, la peur, la fascination et l'ambition d'une héroïne troublante à la Daphné du Maurier. " Un sens de l'observation extraordinaire... Ce roman est une prouesse de suspense et de complexité psychologique, dont la plus grande réussite est le sentiment de malaise qu'il distille à chaque page. "The Telegraph " Le plus crucial : surtout ne pas tout dire, envoûter le lecteur et le capturer, Harriet Lane l'a parfaitement compris. "The Independent -
Un thriller psychologique à la perversité insidieuse. Un thriller psychologique à la perversité insidieuse. Deux femmes. Deux mondes que tout oppose. Jeune mère dépassée par ses deux enfants en bas âge, Emma a quitté son emploi à la télévision et vit mal son quotidien de femme au foyer. Nina, raffinée, indépendante, et maîtresse d'elle-même jusque dans les moindres détails, semble être la réponse parfaite aux névroses d'Emma.
Lorsqu'elles se rencontrent, c'est tout naturellement que Nina s'invite dans la vie d'Emma. Elle se rend vite indispensable, peut-être même un peu trop.
Car ce n'est pas la première fois que leurs chemins se croisent. Nina se souvient bien d'Emma, elle se souvient de ce qu'elle a fait...
Qu'attend Nina d'Emma ? Et jusqu'où ira-t-elle pour l'obtenir ? -
'A marvellous novel. I absolutely adored it ... So subtle, funny, tender and so miraculously observed ... Utterly brilliant' Jilly Cooper
'Amazing . . . chillingly brilliant' RED
'A superbly disquieting psychological thriller ... Mordantly funny, yet chilling, this tale of an ordinary woman inveigling her way into a position of power is compulsive reading' SPECTATOR
They have everything she wants...
Frances is a thirty-something lowly sub-editor, but her routine, colourless existence is disrupted one winter evening when she happens upon the aftermath of a car crash and hears the last words of the driver, Alys Kyte.
When Alys's family makes contact in an attempt to find closure, Frances is given a tantalising glimpse of a very different world: one of privilege and possibility. The relationships she builds with the Kytes will have an impact on her own life, both professionally and personally, as Frances dares to wonder whether she might now become a player in her own right ...
'A suspensful portrait of the outsider and a satisfyingly bitchy send-up of literary London' GUARDIAN
'Frances is a fascinating creation: determined, deceitful, intriguingly complex and believably drawn ... This deeply unsettling but eminently readable story is one that will linger in the memory' OBSERVER
'Lane's take on contemporary class is so sharply observed that it becomes almost satirical: the perennial theme of social climbing gets a superb new treatment in her highly entertaining, slightly chilling tale of a cuckoo in the nest' SUNDAY TIMES
'Superbly, even poetically written with an almost feverish hyper-realism, this All About Eve for our times misses no telling detail of the difference between the entitled and unentitled classes... A brilliant idea, brilliantly realised. I loved it, I loved it. I've run out of superlatives and all that remains to say is that I wish I was you; I wish I hadn't read it and had that pleasure to come' Wendy Holden DAILY MAIL -
'The ultimate frenemy thriller' [NOW MAGAZINE] The smash critical hit from the publishers that bought you GONE GIRL.
You don't remember her . . . but she remembers you.
Two women; two different worlds.
Emma is a struggling mother who has put everything on hold.
Nina is sophisticated and independent - entirely in control.
When the pair meet, Nina generously draws Emma into her life. But this isn't the first time the women's paths have crossed. Nina remembers Emma and she remembers what Emma did.
But what exactly does Nina want from her?
And how far will she go in pursuit of it?
'As seductive as it is chilling, Her is quality literary fiction meets psychological thriller, the devil of which is in the detail' OBSERVER
'Harriet Lane is a deft conjurer of menacing middle class scenarios, and her second novel, a taut revenge drama with a shattering endgame' i NEWSPAPER
'Thriller of the year' Amanda Craig
'Unlike conventional thrillers, the perverse pleasure of this compelling novel is not a big reveal but the pin-sharp unpicking of personality' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A tautly written psychological thriller ... there is forensic social observation here. Her London is recognisably real. Both Emma and Nina feel like women you might pass on a leafy Islington street ... Then the endgame, when it comes, is shattering' INDEPENDENT
'Harriet Lane keeps the reader on the edge until the last page' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'Another taut, tense psychological thriller from the author of the acclaimed 2012 debut novel Alys, Always ... A compelling revenge drama that will make you think twice about getting too chummy with the neighbours' Sebastian Shakespeare, TATLER
'A fine mistress of suspense' TLS
'This exquisitely sinister psychological thriller that is going to take us all by storm this summer, Harriet Lane's Her, has a Notes on a Scandal-type relationship between an exhausted young mother and her rich sophisticated neighbour' DAILY TELEGRAPH