Bøker av Laura Barnett

Zoe, Al, Rachel, Rob, Yas and Indie. Six friends who were inseparable at university, who have all had their secret or not so secret passions for each other, their own hopes and fears.Over the years, they have gone their separate ways. Rob is a history teacher, with a string of broken relationships behind him. Yas is a surgeon and very much her own woman. Indie is married and a successful coffee entrepreneur. Rachel is a stay at home mum with two children. Al, widowed young, is about to take over his father's funeral business.When Rob's engagement party throws the gang together once more, some passions are reignited, old connections and resentments resurface. Over the next twelve months, there will, among the friends, be a birth, a marriage, and a death - but whose?Set over one year and told from multiple perspectives, BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES is an era-spanning, globe-trotting novel about love, friendship, and how to stay at least relatively sane in an ever crazier world. It's about a group of friends growing older, a pair of sometime lovers finding their way back to each other, about kindness and joy. It's about births, deaths, marriages, and everything in between.

Lolo lost someone precious in her world. Lane also lost someone precious in her world. Little Max holds the key for both. However, dark forces in each world have their own interest.

A #1 UK bestseller, The Versions of Us is a dazzling novel about the ways the smallest decisions give shape to our lives, charting a single relationship through three possible futures. What if you had said yes? Some moments can change your life forever. Have you ever wondered, what if . . .?A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling toward him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their life.Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva's then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition--but through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.The Versions of Us explores the idea that there are moments when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build our lives. It is also a story about the nature of love and how it grows, changes, and evolves as we go through the vagaries of life.

Det er er 1958. Eva og Jim er 19 år og studenter i Cambridge. Jim går langs veien da en kvinne på sykkel tar en uventet sving for å unngå å kollidere med en hund. Det som da skjer, får avgjørende betydning for Eva og Jims liv. Vi følger Eva og Jim helt fram til i dag, i tre ulike varianter av femtiden deres - sammen og hver for seg. Det er ikke å røpe for mye å si at kjærlighetsforholdet deres tar uventede veier. VERSJONER AV OSS handler om valgene vi tar, og om de ulike retningene livet kan ta.

The new novel from Laura Barnett, author of the number one bestseller The Versions of Us

A host of leading actors offer tips and advice learned from their many combined years of experience working in the performing arts.

'One Day meets Sliding Doors' (Elle).