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Intermezzo [Bok / Pocket]

Parade [Bok / Pocket]

<p><b>SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2024<br/><br/>An exhilarating tale of twisted desire, histories and homes, and the unexpected shape of revenge - for readers of Patricia Highsmith, Sarah Waters and Ian McEwan's <i>Atonement</i>.</b><br/><br/>It is fifteen years after the Second World War, and Isabel has built herself a solitary life of discipline and strict routine in her late mother's country home, with not a fork or a word out of place. But all is upended when her brother Louis delivers his graceless new girlfriend, Eva, at Isabel's doorstep - as a guest, there to stay for the season...<br/><br/>In the sweltering heat of summer, Isabel's desperate need for control reaches boiling point. What happens between the two women leads to a revelation which threatens to unravel all she has ever known.<br/><br/><b>'A thrilling, razor-sharp, perfectly plotted debut novel'</b> <i>Sunday Times</i><br/><br/><b>'Moving, unnerving and deeply sexy'</b> Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of <i>GIRL WITH A PEARL EARRING</i><br/><br/><b>'A brave and thrilling debut about facing up to the truth of history, and to one's own desires... Van der Wouden brings stunning power and control to her page-turner about trauma and repression'</b> Justine Jordan, Booker Prize Judge 2024</p>

<p><b>**AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW**</b><br/><br/><b>From the multi-million copy bestselling author of <i>Call Me By Your Name<br/></i><br/></b><b>'Aciman writes with an aching sensitivity.'<br/>JOHN BOYNE<br/><br/>'You don't so much read Andre Aciman's novels as tumble breathlessly into them.'<br/><i>THE TIMES</i></b><br/><br/><i>Have you ever had the sense that maybe all lives are nothing more than the chronicle of countless stinging might-have-beens that continue to haunt us?</i><br/><br/>In the scorching New York heat, a hundred people wait to be selected as jurors. Paul is reading a newspaper. Catherine is reading a novel. So begins a whirlwind flirtation: over cappuccinos in Manhattan and gallery trips to Chelsea, Paul and Catherine escape into the illusion of an Italian getaway. Their feelings quickly evolve into something deeper, something - as mature adults with lives of their own - Paul and Catherine must carry on in secret, with the understanding that anything more than a casual crush is out of the question.<br/><br/>But as the sultry summer week draws to a close, the end of their rendezvous comes into focus, and Paul and Catherine are forced to decide whether to act on their feelings or leave the fantasy of what could have been to the annals of the past.</p>

Purple Hibiscus [Bok / Pocket]

The Heir [Bok / Häftad]

Give Me Butterflies [Bok / Häftad]