Una novela cautivadora de Liane Moriarty sobre Alice Love, quien tras un accidente se despierta sin recordar los últimos diez años de su vida. Enfrentándose a un divorcio y a un entorno desconocido, Alice debe reconstruir su pasado y descubrir si olvidar es una bendición o una maldición.
Inteligente, divertida, adictiva y con un toque de suspense. La autora de Big Little Lies vuelve con una novela que reúne lo mejor de su peculiar estilo. Nueve perfectos desconocidos. Un retiro de lujo aislado del mundo. Diez días que prometen cambiar tu vida. Pero algunas promesas, como algunas vidas, son perfectas mentiras. La escritora de novelas románticas Frances Welty llega al lujoso balneario Tranquillum House con un problema de espalda y el corazón roto y rápidamente se siente interesada por el resto de huéspedes. Algunos desean perder peso, otros buscan un nuevo comienzo y hay quienes están allí por razones que no quieren admitir ni ante sí mismos. Pero quien más le intriga es la misteriosa y carismática directora, una mujer que parece poseer respuestas a preguntas que Frances ni siquiera sabía que tenía. ¿Debería olvidarse de sus dudas y disfrutar del lugar o debería huir ahora que todavía puede? Pronto todos los clientes de Tranquillum House se harán exactamente la misma pregunta.
Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste - two women with seemingly perfect lives - and their own secrets behind closed doors. But then a small incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground causing a rift between them and the other parents of the school. Minor at first but escalating fast, until whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder.
Imagine losing the most important ten years of your life …Alice is twenty-nine. She adores sleep, chocolate, and her ramshackle new house. She’s newly engaged to the wonderful Nick and is pregnant with her first baby.There’s just one problem.All that was ten years ago …Alice has slipped in a step aerobics class, hit her head and lost a decade. Now she’s a grown-up, bossy mother of three in the middle of a nasty divorce and her beloved sister Elisabeth isn’t speaking to her. This is her life but not as she knows it.Clearly Alice has made some terrible mistakes.Just how much can happen in a decade?Can she ever get back to the woman she used to be?
Imagine your husband wrote you a letter, to be opened after his death. Imagine, too, that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret - something with the potential to destroy not just the life you built together, but the lives of others too. Imagine, then, that you stumble across that letter while your husband is still very much alive
They say trouble always comes in threes. And for sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception. Sensible Lyn is struggling to balance being a mother, wife and businesswoman without losing her mind. Cat, whose perfect marriage is the envy of all her friends, never suspects that her husband has been hiding a secret that will tear her life apart. And directionless Gemma, who changes jobs and boyfriends every few months, has just met a new man who could be the one to unlock her hidden past. Through everything, the bonds of the sisters are strong enough to withstand whatever life throws at them. That is until the night of their thirty-fourth birthday dinner, when home truths are revealed and things are said that can't be taken back ...
One luxury retreat in the middle of nowhere. Ten days in which no one can leave. Nine strangers seeking perfection. And each discovering the perfect lie...
“Riveting.” —Washington Post Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie’s house on Scribbly Gum Island—home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby Mystery. Sophie moves onto the island and begins a new life as part of an unconventional family, where it seems everyone has a secret. Grace, a beautiful young mother, is feverishly planning a shocking escape from her perfect life. Margie, a frumpy housewife, has made a pact with a stranger, while dreamy Aunt Rose wonders if maybe it’s about time she started making her own decisions. As Sophie’s life becomes increasingly complicated, she discovers that sometimes you have to stop waiting around—and come up with your own fairy-tale ending. “A stunner…[Moriarty’s] prose turns from funny through poignant to frightening in an artful snap.” —Publishers Weekly («Starred Review«)
One luxury retreat in the middle of nowhere. Ten days in which no one can leave. Nine strangers seeking perfection. And each discovering the perfect lie...
