Keeping Secrets - Couverture souple

Rosenheim, Andrew

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0091796792 ISBN 13 : 9780091796792

Editeur : Hutchinson, 2006

Synopsis

When an English oil consultant named Kate Palmer walks into Jack Renoir's San Francisco office, he doesn't realise she is going to turn his carefully-constructed life completely upside down. The survivor of a traumatic, violent childhood, Renoir is a master of self-control - who makes his living discovering other people's secrets while making sure he keeps his own. High-powered Kate soon changes that, and when he falls in love with her, Renoir moves to England. There, Kate's pukka family and affluent friends prove less than welcoming as he and Kate work to create a rural idyll. And, when this adult Eden turns out to be more fragile than expected, Renoir is forced to confront the horrors of his past in order to secure a future with the woman he now loves.

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture

It was his hideout, but now he did not feel safe at all.
The birds had suddenly gone quiet, and the boy was certain the man was in the woods below him. And then a voice fractured the unnatural hush.
'I know you're in there.' The voice was harsh but high-pitched, sounding strained.
It chilled the boy.

Thirty years ago, Jack Renoir's idyllic childhood on his uncle's California apple farm was shattered when he witnessed a brutal murder. With a single shot, his life changed forever.

Three decades later, Renoir is a man preoccupied with secrets and lies - a man who's forgotten how to trust. But when Kate Palmer walks into his San Francisco office, his carefully-controlled world is turned upside down. As his defences dissolve, Renoir moves to England with Kate to make a new start. But old habits die hard, and he is soon drawn into a murky world he hoped he had left behind for good. When his efforts to help Kate backfire, Renoir finds his unresolved past threatening to destroy his future...

'Rosenheim delivers some cracking prose and is a writer of discerning intelligence' Telegraph

'Gripping' Daily Mail

'A neatly shaped story written in transparent prose with occasional flashes of poetry ... there are sharp twists and turns, with shocking revelations; the pace is fast, the prose lean ... readers will not find themselves bored for a second' Guardian

Revue de presse

Praise for Stillriver:

“Updikean in its loving use of detail . . . As well as being a poignant reflection on the vicissitudes of love, the insecurities of growing up and the need to discover what is important in life, it manages some genuinely scary thrills.”
–Daily Telegraph

"Rosenheim eschews playing the plot simply for thrills, preferring to engage the reader’s emotions, but nevertheless comes up with a real page-turner.”
–Daily Mail

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hutchinson
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0091796792
• ISBN 13: 9780091796792
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible