I stare at the photo. I try to read his gaze, each fold on his
face, the slight frown. I study the photo in the same way that a
spy might study the face of a counterpart in a rival organization.
I am calm as I make this promise: I am going to find out what you
love, then whatever it is, I am going to track it down and I am
going to take it away from you. Two police officers knock on
Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that
her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed.
When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own
revenge and begins to track down the man responsible. Laura's
grief also re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story
of her passionate love affair with Betty's father David, their
marriage and his subsequent affair with another woman. Haunted by
her past, and driven to breaking point by her desire for
retribution, Laura discovers the lengths she is willing to go to
for love. "Whatever You Love" is a heart-wrenching novel
of revenge, compulsion and desire from acclaimed novelist Louise
Doughty.
"An unflinching reckoning with sudden, unbearable loss and obsessive vengeance. . . . Both elegy and thriller. . . . Doughty's success lies in how intimately she engages readers to face, with Laura, the dailyness of tragedy and the ways in which suffering can blind us to our culpabilities."--"Boston Globe"
Louise Doughty, geb. 1963, britische Autorin und Journalistin, schreibt Romane, Hörspiele und unterrichtet Kreatives Schreiben. Sie lebt mit ihrer Familie in London.
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