Book news
My new novel (scarily, my eighth) is (pretty much) finished and I can now confirm that a) it won’t have as many parentheses in it per sentence as there are in this one, and b) it is published in the UK in June 2012. It’s called The Day You Saved My Life and here are some details:
On a perfect summer’s day in Paris, tourists on a river trip watch in horror as drama unfolds. A small boy has fallen overboard and disappeared below the surface of the water. As his mother stands frozen to the spot, another passenger jumps…
This is the story of how a single act of courage transforms the lives of those involved: the hero James and his wife Alexa; Holly, the young mother of the victim; and Holly’s mother Joanna, whose whole adult life has been lived in the hope that her daughter will not make the same mistakes she did.
More information to follow. Meanwhile I am about to go on holiday to the gorgeous windswept Ile de Re and I have three books in my hot little hand: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides, The Return of Captain John Emmett by Elizabeth Speller, and The Man of My Dreams by Curtis Sittenfeld. Leave me a message here if you’ve read them! x
Hi Louise,
I haven’t read the books you mentioned… but I’m going to buy your new novel, it sounds interesting and I really enjoyed Other People’s Secrets. I’ve been looking for a German translation so my friend in Germany can read it – is there one?
Many thanks,
Clare x
p.s. do you write a book a year, then? If so, how on earth do you manage it?