Deborah Mckinlay: 4 books

When Eve Petworth writes to Jackson Cooper to praise a scene in one of his books, they discover a mutual love of cookery and food. Their friendship blossoms against the backdrop of Jackson's colorful, but ultimately unsatisfying, love life and Eve's tense relationship with her soon-to-be married daughter....

A woman in crisis remembers a summer of hedonism that changed her life, in this novel about being “caught between the wiles of youth and the wisdom of age” (Booklist).   When Frances was twenty-two, she was drifting, scraping by giving English lessons in Mexico, when she met up with a glamorous...

Tudo começa com uma carta. Eve Pethwork é uma inglesa insegura e um tanto ansiosa que está assoberbada com os preparativos para o casamento da filha. Eve tem mais de quarenta anos e vive enclausurada em sua casa, pois espaços públicos lhe provocam angústia e a interação com outras pessoas...

Isolée dans son petit village anglais, Eve décide d’écrire à son écrivain favori, un américain qui habite une propriété en bord de mer. Elle n’imagine pas que ce premier courrier est le début d’une intense correspondance.   Derrière l’anonymat procuré par la distance et par l’écriture,...