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Sally Emerson

    Sally Emerson est l'auteur de romans captivants et une anthologiste de poésie et de prose. Son écriture explore la tapisserie complexe des relations humaines et la vie intérieure de ses personnages. Emerson est connue pour ses perspicacités psychologiques aiguës et un style de prose à la fois délicat et puissant, attirant profondément les lecteurs dans ses récits. En tant qu'anthologiste respectée, elle contribue également à enrichir le paysage littéraire.

    Listeners
    Fire Child
    The Kingfisher Nursery Library: Action Rhymes
    Separation
    Nursery Rhymes
    Second Sight
    • Perfect, Stories of the Impossible

      • 296pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Bestselling author, Sally Emerson introduces the eerie and supernatural into her keen-eyed portraits of everyday life in this wondrous collection of stories. The beguiling tales of quotidian life invaded by forces beyond our control are both uncanny and charming, and ultimately uplifting as she celebrates reality and unreality in its many forms.

      Perfect, Stories of the Impossible2022
    • Listeners

      • 268pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      Sally Emerson's compelling sophomore novel takes the reader into a dark labyrinth of physical danger and spiritual terror. Jennifer Hamilton is alone again - alone in the big house she and her husband bought together, alone after six years of marriage.

      Listeners2021
    • Second Sight

      • 288pages
      • 11 heures de lecture

      Smart, savvy and original, Sally Emerson's story about a young woman growing up with an amoral mother deftly portrays youth and its careful obsessions. When her mother brings home the young, attractive architect Paul, Jennifer becomes aware of new and unusual feelings, and before long mother and daughter are competing for Paul's attention.

      Second Sight2021
      5,0
    • Fire Child

      • 324pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Fire Child's dark heroine is young Tessa who from the age of 12 uses the power of her smile to seduce men, with damaging and dramatic consequences. Sally Emerson's hypnotic, vivid, unputdownable, blazing love story throbs with lust and black humour.

      Fire Child2021
      3,8
    • A tense romantic thriller about stolen art treasures and precarious passion, this gripping story confirms Sally Emerson's status as a preeminent novelist of the mysterious, erotic and dramatic. Patrick first sees Anne in the British Museum in front of the Elgin Marbles - both young historians are fighting to uncover secrets

      Broken Bodies2021
    • Heat

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      An intense and addictive novel about lost love and the compulsive pull of the past. Passionate, tense and menacing.This is a gripping story of obsession and love - and the difference between the two - by a formidable novelist. Newly re-issued as part of a series of six titles.

      Heat1998
    • Separation

      • 264pages
      • 10 heures de lecture

      A compelling and moving novel set in London about the pain of being separated from the children you love. Amanda is a high-flying management consultant with a loving and eccentric husband. Kate is her new baby and Sarah her mysterious nanny

      Separation1993
      3,7
    • The Kingfisher Nursery Collection

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      A selection of action rhymes, nursery rhymes, poems and traditional stories. Suggested level: preschool, junior.

      The Kingfisher Nursery Collection1993
    • In this collection of favourite action rhymes children can make Incey Wincey Spider climb up the spout, drive the big red bus, or march up and down like the Grand Old Duke of York.

      The Kingfisher Nursery Library: Action Rhymes1992
      2,0