Bøker av Mary McGarry Morris

Abandoned by his wife, a man tries to protect his family during the Great Depression, in this ';powerful' novel by the bestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time (Publishers Weekly). During the Great Depression, rural Vermont suffers along with the rest of the country, and Henry Talcott, with only occasional work as a butcher, is reduced to moving into a tent on the edge of Black Pond with his two children. Their beautiful but unreliable mother has left them, and Henry is devastated by her desertion. He hasn't told Thomas or Margaret why she leftor if she will return. Told from twelve-year-old Thomas's perspective, The Lost Mother follows this shattered family as a wealthy neighbor begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, and Henry weighs an unexpected proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything. ';A perfectly lovely story about perfectly awful things' by the New York Timesbestselling and National Book Awardnominated author of A Dangerous Woman and Light from a Distant Star, The Lost Mother is ';the quietest, subtlest novel that has ever kept [its readers] up into the small hours of the night, unable to look away' (The Washington Post).

The ';compelling, suspenseful' novel of a vulnerable misfit in a small town by the New York Timesbestselling author of Light from a Distant Star (Publishers Weekly). Named one of the five best novels of the year by Time magazine, A Dangerous Woman is the story of the damaged and emotionally unstable Martha Horgan, an outcast in her small Vermont town. She stares; she has violent crushes on people; and, perhaps most unsettling of all, she cannot stop telling the truth. After a traumatic experience during her teenage years, the thirty-two-year-old now craves love and companionship, but her relentless honesty makes her painfully vulnerable to those around her: Frances, her wealthy aunt and begrudging guardian; Birdy Dusser, who befriends her and then cruelly rejects her; and Colin Mackey, the seductive man who preys on her desires. Confused and bitter, distrusting even those with her best interests at heart, Martha is slowly propelled into a desperate attempt to gain control over her own life. The National Book Awardnominated author of Songs in Ordinary Time tells a tale of unnerving suspense and terrifying psychological insight that is ';at once thrilling and deeply affecting' (The New York Times).

National Book Award Finalist: A man, woman, and child are bound by a desperate needand a terrible secretin this suspenseful, ';astonishing' novel (Vogue). Aubrey Wallace is the kind of man no one notices. Dotty Johnson is the kind of woman no one can ignore. One afternoon, they both disappear from the small Vermont town where they live. The next day, two hundred miles away, a toddler is kidnapped from her Massachusetts home. For the next five years, Aubrey, Dotty, and the kidnapped childunited by a mix of strange love, desperate need, and the crime that brought them togetherare trapped in a nomadic existence governed by their constant fear of discovery. Canny, the little girl, becomes Aubrey's entire existence. But Dotty wants out. She is tired of being saddled with this fearful man, and when she meets a brutal ex-convict, the wheels of Canny's return to her natural parents are wrenched fatally into motion. A dark, riveting tale about the impulses and weaknesses that underlie an evil act, Vanished was nominated for both the National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award, and marked the debut of the New York Timesbestselling author of Songs in Ordinary Time and A Dangerous Woman.