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We've had MOMMY DEAREST about Joan Crawford; now Delia Ephron brings us Daddy Dearest in her witty, bittersweet first novel about love, death and the telephone, based on the Ephron sisters' experiences dealing with the death of their alcoholic father.

 Hanging Up is about the three Mozell sisters, Georgia, Eve and Maddy. Georgia, the eldest, is a super-successful tough career woman, the editor of a magazine named after her. Eve, the middle sister, is just an ordinary mum. Maddy the youngest is a ditsy irresponsible soap opera star. Their father is dying. He is an alcoholic and has Alzheimers known as The Dwindles. The mother ran off with their biology teacher years ago. The father is in a home and threatening to marry one of the other inmates. He worships Georgia and talks about her endlessly which drives the other two mad since Georgia never does anything for him. He drives them all mad by telephoning them incessantly and they in turn have to phone each other to find out what he's told whom. He plays them off against each other. And in the middle, keeping the whole thing going, shouldering most of the burderns, is Eve - the middle child.

Hanging Up

Tchao l'enfance, craignos l'amour

Ils sont beaux, riches, américains. Ils ont décidé de partir ensemble découvrir Rome, puis Syracuse. Michael est écrivain, ancien lauréat du prix Pulitzer. Sa femme Lizzie est une journaliste en perte de vitesse. Finn est restaurateur et Taylor, son épouse, se dévoue entièrement à l'éducation de leur fille unique, Snow, une enfant énigmatique qui fait aussi partie du voyage. Tout est en place pour qu'ils passent des vacances de rêve dans des sites enchanteurs.Mais chacun arrive avec ses secrets, ses mensonges, ses non-dits, ses désirs inassouvis. Et petit à petit, dans les ruelles de la Sicile baroque, se noue une histoire vénéneuse, où les personnages avancent à la fois masqués et aveugles.

L'été dernier à Syracuse

Sacree salade ! ou les joies de l'autorite parentale conjointe

L'amour, la mort, le téléphone... Elles sont trois sœurs. Entre Georgia à New York, débordée par ses responsabilités de rédactrice en chef, et Maddy, l'éternel bébé de la famille, il y a Eve, la quarantaine, mariée à un doux rêveur et mère d'un adolescent difficile. C'est sur elle que les deux autres n'ont cessé de compter pour veiller sur leur père, Lou Mozell, un vieil égocentrique dépressif et alcoolique qu'il a fallu interner en catastrophe dans un service de psychogériatrie à Los Angeles.

Appelle-moi

Second novel by the author of HANGING UP about a woman's attempt to deal with passion, guilt, murder and motherhood when she moves herself and her teenage son out of Manhattan to what she assumes will be a safer life on Long Island.

 In a state of near panic because of the night-time activities of her teenage son Sam, Lily Davis decides to uproot him and herself from Manhattan to a small town on the coast of Long Island. She becomes a reporter for the weekly paper, Sam enrolls in high school, and for a while life proceeds as expected. But then through unexpected and unnerving circumstances, with a cop, in a house where she's not supposed to be, Lily spies a naked woman asleep on a bed. This is a murder. Or is it? And the cop is married, and Lily is guilt-ridden about her own divorce. Friendship and love relationships unravel or threaten to. But are people and events really as they seem, or is Lily just perceiving her small town through big city eyes?

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