Louise Doughty: 12 books

«Come Elena Ferrante, Louise Doughty ha la capacità di narrare con straordinaria efficacia la disperazione sentimentale.» «Corriere della Sera» - Isabella Bossi Fedrigotti «Doughty è maestra nel costruire la suspense. La scrittura è intensa, visiva, potente.» «The Guardian» «Louise...

«Un romanzo avvincente e pieno di tenerezza. Louise Doughty ci costringe ad affrontare il nostro lato oscuro con una storia inquietante anche dopo la lettura dell’ultima pagina».The Observer «Un’indagine avvicente sui temi dell’amore, della perdita, della vendetta... La scrittura...

'Louise Doughty leads her unnerved readers into dark territory.' Hilary Mantel 'Utterly mesmerizing, with the pace of a thriller and a sense of profound mystery in the most ordinary of settings. I was hooked from its start to its nerve-racking, surprising finish' Deborah Moggach The...

Longlisted for the Orange Prize and Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, Louise Doughty’s hauntingly beautiful investigation of love, loss, and revenge is a literary page-turner that will linger in your mind far after the cover closes. When a hit-and-run car crash claims Laura’s daughter Betty,...

Features a prestigious list of contributors including Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy, Matt Haig, Louise Doughty and Preti Taneja among others. Charles Fernyhough is a professor of psychology at Durham University. He is also the acclaimed author of The Baby in the Mirror...

Soon To Be a STARZ Mini-Series, Starring Emily Watson Yvonne Carmichael sits in the witness box. The charge is murder. Before all of this, she was happily married, a successful scientist, a mother of two. Now she is a suspect, squirming under florescent lights and the penetrating gaze of the...

'Captivating and beautifully written.' Mirror From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes this story of three generations of one Romany family in England, as they face family life, love and marriage along with the changes and upheavals for Travelling people at the turn of the nineteenth...

Working-class stories are not always tales of the underprivileged and dispossessed. Common People is a collection of essays, poems and memoir written in celebration, not apology: these are narratives rich in barbed humour, reflecting the depth and texture of working-class life, the joy and...

From the author of Apple Tree Yard**, a masterful thriller about espionage, love, and redemption** John Harper is in hiding in a remote hut on a tropical island. As he lies awake at night, listening to the rain on the roof, he believes his life may be in danger. But he is less afraid of what...

A short from Louise Doughty to stir the heart and awaken vital conversations about love. A young woman turns off her phone and books herself into a deserted seaside hotel. In a state of shock, she starts small conversations with the staff and begins to unfurl, until someone turns up to claim her.

Quando, in un corridoio di Westminster, Yvonne Carmichael incontra lo sguardo ipnotico di un uomo elegante, sicuro di sé, non sospetta che la sua vita stia per cambiare in modo radicale. A 52 anni, Yvonne è una donna attraente, una scienziata brillante nel campo della genetica, ha una bella casa,...

'The art of writing,' Kingsley Amis said, 'is the art of applying the seat of one's trousers to the seat of one's chair.' So start now. Take up a notebook and pen, and write one sentence… Can you write a novel in a year? If you simply sit back and think about the enormity of writing a book,...