Apple Tree Yard - Hardcover

Doughty, Louise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374105677 ISBN 13: 9780374105679

Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books, 2014

Synopsis

Apple Tree Yard: A Novel by Louise Doughty

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Review:

An Amazon Best Book of the Month, January 2014: A 52-year-old woman begins an affair with a mysterious man she meets by chance, and soon both she and the lover are on trial for murder. How does such a thing happen to a married woman of maturity and gravitas, a renowned scientist whose first encounter with her lover took place in the halls of Parliament, where she had just testified before a government committee? In this masterful novel by British journalist/novelist/playwright Louise Doughty, every page builds the case that it’s often the smartest among us who invent the most unreliable stories about ourselves, and how it’s possible--likely, even--for essentially good solid people to do bad and stupid things. Less about torturous plot twists than slow, dawning revelations--and mercifully short on moralizing--this intelligent, sexy, grown-up thriller explores the power of desire and its consequences. --Sara Nelson

About the Author:

Louise Doughty's novel Whatever You Love was short-listed for the Costa Book Award and long-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She is the author of several other novels and a book of nonfiction, A Novel in a Year, based on her hugely popular newspaper column. She also writes plays and journalism and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4. Doughty lives in London.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sarah Crichton Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0374105677
• ISBN 13: 9780374105679
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336