Susie Boyt Bücher
Susie Boyt schafft Erzählungen, die sich mit den komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Charakteren auseinandersetzen und Themen wie Identität und Selbstfindung erforschen. Ihr unverwechselbarer Stil bietet tiefgründige psychologische Einblicke und ist geschickt darin, das Innenleben ihrer Protagonisten zu beleuchten. Boyt nähert sich ihrem Schreiben mit einem tiefen Verständnis für die menschliche Erfahrung, und ihre Werke spiegeln oft die vielschichtige Natur des Lebens wider, in der persönliche Geschichte mit der breiteren Suche nach Sinn verknüpft ist. Ihr literarischer Beitrag liegt in ihrer offenen und doch poetischen Darstellung des alltäglichen Lebens.
Loved and Missed
- 208 Seiten
- 8 Lesestunden
The exquisite and heart-breaking exploration of love and loss, ` a gentle masterpiece' highly-praised by reviewers ranging from Philippa Perry, Richard Coles, Andrew O'Hagan, Joan Bakewell.
A wonderful and startling novel about the havoc and pain, healing and love that comes with growing up in a family. Like A.L. Kennedy and Ali Smith, Susie Boyt is an exquisite writer, thoughtful and truly original.
An irresistible mixture of memoir, biography, cultural analysis, experiment and hero-worship about one person's enduring obsession. Anniversary Edition with new preface published to coincide with the new film, Judy, starring Rene Zellweger.
The Last Hope of Girls
- 256 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
Newly installed as resident caretaker of four half-derelict West End flats, Martha Brazil can scarcely believe her luck. After years of stuffy bedsits and suburban flatshares, the future seems electric with the promise of renovation and repair. Surely, anything might happen to a girl who embraces it with gusto...But even in her new home painful memories will of a high-handed father, a mother willing to embrace only the chronically dispossessed, and a beloved brother whose antics have estranged him from the family.
The new novel from the author of The Small Hours
The Normal Man
- 184 Seiten
- 7 Lesestunden
Janey March inhabits a world where food and love are king. Worn down by starvation diets and a series of romances that have raised and dashed her hopes, she longs for domestic bliss, and all the bread and jam she can eat, but most of all for her father, dead now ten years. Spanning one eventful weekend, The Normal Man is a delightful and acute portrait of a singular psychology. Strewn with jokes and eccentricities, and peopled with characters of questionable normality, it marks the debut of a wonderful new talent.
