Julie Myerson Livres

nonfiction is Julie Myerson's new novel about mothers: what it is like to have one, what it is like to be one. In it, a mother narrates the relationship with her child who is struggling with addiction.

'The most controversial book in Britain' Jeremy Paxman

Ever thought about all the people who lived in your house before you? Julie Myerson did, and set out to learn as much as she could about their fascinating lives.

Set against the backdrop of Victorian London, this gripping historical novel intertwines themes of murder and love, exploring the profound depths of loss and human need. The narrative delves into the lives of its characters as they navigate the complexities of their emotions and the societal challenges of the era, creating a poignant and compelling story.

"Ava Antipova has her reasons for running away: a failing family vineyard, a romantic betrayal, a mercurial sister, an absent father, a mother slipping into dementia. In Paris, Ava renounces her terribly practical undergraduate degree, acquires a French boyfriend and a taste for much better wine, and erases her past. Two years later, she must return to upstate New York. Her twin sister, Zelda, is dead. Even in a family of alcoholics, Zelda Antipova was the wild one, notorious for her mind games and destructive behavior. Stuck tending the vineyard and the girls' increasingly unstable mother, Zelda was allegedly burned alive when she passed out in the barn with a lit cigarette. But Ava finds the official explanation a little too neat. A little too Zelda. Then she receives a cryptic message--from her sister..."--Book jacket

A blasted world. In the wasted ruins of London, a woman pieces together fragments of her memory. As her past emerges, her own apocalypse begins.Then is a novel of singular invention and bravery. With it, Julie Myerson has created an echo chamber of the heartbreaking and the terrifying, and an enduring dystopian vision.

'Bloody brilliant' Paula Hawkins, bestselling author of The Girl on the Train A New Statesman Book of the YearSome memories are too powerful to live only in the past. Now, escaping the memories and the headlines, they have found an idyllic new home in rural Suffolk.

On a Monday night in October in a small seaside town in Suffolk, a woman is brutally murdered. Her name is Lennie and, thinks her best friend Tess, she is not the type to have something happen to her. <i>Something Might Happen</i> is not a murder mystery. There are clues, false trails, detectives, all the paraphernalia of the whodunnit, but Myerson's concern is with the effect of the murder on an ordinary community and specifically on Tess herself, her husband Mick and her three children. As the police go about their routine investigation, Tess's world of nappies, Elastoplast and fish fingers begins to unravel. Suddenly nothing is certain, the mundane becomes charged with significance, established relationships begin to crumble and places that once were safe are safe no longer. This is a novel of extraordinary skilfulness and almost unbearable tension. Julie Myerson creates a world that is recognizable in every detail, so that when it begins to fracture we feel as if it were our own lives that are under threat.

Rachel and Dan want to go somewhere hot in January. Why not turn it into a honeymoon, Dan says? Except that, for Rachel, it's not.As furniture shifts and objects fly around, as a waitress begs her to leave and a fellow guest makes her increasingly uneasy, Rachel realises everything she holds most dear is at stake and nothing is quite as it seems...

In einer kalten Oktober-Nacht wird Lennie ermordet, was die Kleinstadt an der Suffolk-Küste erschüttert. Tess, Lennies beste Freundin, beschreibt die Auswirkungen des Todes auf die Familien und das rätselhafte Verhalten von Lennies Ehemann. Als ein Polizeipsychologe auftaucht und Tess' Tochter verschwindet, bleibt der Familie nur noch ein Ausweg.