Perkins, Emily - Perkins, Emily
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Ein spannendes und faszinierendes Porträt einer Ehe. Tom Stone und seine Frau Ann freuen sich auf ihr erstes Kind. Doch plötzlich verändert sich Ann. Sie fühlt sich von einem Stalker verfolgt und Tom stößt auf unheimliche Wahrheiten in Anns Vergangenheit in Australien.
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen.…mehr

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Ein spannendes und faszinierendes Porträt einer Ehe.
Tom Stone und seine Frau Ann freuen sich auf ihr erstes Kind. Doch plötzlich verändert sich Ann. Sie fühlt sich von einem Stalker verfolgt und Tom stößt auf unheimliche Wahrheiten in Anns Vergangenheit in Australien.
Tom Stone is madly in love with his wife Ann. Pushing forty and expecting their first child, they buy a semi-derelict house in Hackney. Despite their spiralling money troubles, they believe this is their settled future. But Ann becomes convinced she's being shadowed by a homeless man whose presence seems like a terrible omen. As their child grows, Ann's behaviour becomes increasingly erratic, feverish and disturbed. On the verge of losing everything, Tom makes a decision that he hopes will save their lives.

Novel About My Wife is a taut, sensuous and chilling portrait of a marriage beset by paranoia and obsession.

Autorenporträt
Emily Perkins is the author of a prize-winning collection of short stories, Not Her Real Name, and four novels, including Novel About My Wife (winner of the NZ Book Award and the Believer Magazine Book of the Year, The Forrests (longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction) and Lioness (winner of the Ockham NZ Prize for Fiction). Her work for stage and screen includes co-writing the film adaptation of Eleanor Catton's novel The Rehearsal (dir. Alison Maclean), an adaptation of Ibsen's A Doll's House, and the original play The Made. She lives in New Zealand.
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'Novel About My Wife is the fascinating portrait of a marriage, in all its labyrinthine complexity and tenderness. A beautiful, shocking book, it had me gripped from its very first sentence' Maggie O'Farrell