Charmaine Wilkerson

Gebundenes Buch

Good Dirt

Beschreibung

A TIME MUST-READ BOOK OF 2025 A PRIMA BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS LONGLISTED FOR THE CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION 'A beautifully imagined family saga' NEW YORK TIMES 'Chapters that push your tear ducts to the limits' SCOTSMAN 'A moving multigenerational tale' WASHINGTON POST 'Remarkable . . . Lingers long after the final page' ABI DARÉ 'A novelist to watch' INDEPENDENT - 'Forget the wedding. Forget the shooting' The trouble is Ebby Freeman can never forget. Not the ex-fiancé who walked out on their wedding day. Not the death of her brother when she was a kid. Not the family whose expectations she must carry alone. Ebby's life and heartbreak have been so terribly public that now all she wants to do is hide. But fleeing her Connecticut home for France doesn't stop her running into her ex and his new girlfriend. Stuck with the last people she wants to see, Ebby faces a choice. Keep trying to forget the pain of the past, even though no one will let her... Or find her own way of remembering? Praise for Charmaine Wilkerson: 'Completely blew me away' Red 'Unputdownable. Astonishing. Twists and turns so shocking they will leave your head spinning and your heart aching' Grazia 'Beautiful, deeply resonant . . . A story that is as meaningful as it is delicious' Taylor Jenkins Reid

Autor

Charmaine Wilkerson is the author of Black Cake, a New York Times-bestselling novel. An American writer, she spent much of her childhood living in the Caribbean and is now based in Italy. She is a former television journalist and an award-winning writer of short fiction. Her debut novel Black Cake was selected as a Read With Jenna pick and was adapted for the screen as a Hulu original series airing on Disney+ and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780241529942
• ISBN-10: 0241529948
• Artikelnr.: 70772381

Rezensionen

A thoroughly researched and beautifully imagined family saga, with a moving and hopeful ending New York TImes