L'été dernier à Syracuse

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?

Big City Eyes

Click. Sukie Jamieson takes a selfie after her tennis lesson. Click. She takes one before she has to give a presentation in class. Click. She takes one to be sure there's nothing in her teeth after eating pizza at Clementi's. And if she can't take a selfie, she checks her reflection in windows, spoons, car chrome-anything available, really. So when her mother gives her an exquisite full-length mirror that once belonged to her grandmother, Sukie is thrilled. So thrilled that she doesn't listen to her mother's warning: "This mirror will be your best friend and worst enemy." Because mirrors, as Sukie discovers, show not only the faraway truth but the truth close up. And finding out that close-up truth changes people. Often forever. Acclaimed novelist and screenwriter Delia Ephron crafts a powerful novel of truth, beauty, and the secrets about family and friends that lie beneath perfection.

The Girl with the Mermaid Hair

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

Michael et Lizzie, deux New-Yorkais respectivement écrivain et journaliste, partent pour une semaine en Italie avec Finn et sa femme Taylor accompagnés de Snow, leur fille de dix ans surprotégée et surangoissée. Lizzie l’a décidé, ils iront d’abord à Rome puis à Syracuse, sur la côte sicilienne.Tout sépare les deux couples – milieu social, idées politiques et passions –, mais le décor idyllique fait de bons vins, de gelati et de ciel bleu devrait être celui de vacances paradisiaques. Pourtant, même loin de chez eux, les secrets du passé et les infidélités du présent refont surface. Lizzie et Finn, qui ont eu une histoire des années auparavant, flirtent à nouveau ; Michael, quant à lui, cherche le courage de dire à Lizzie qu’il veut la quitter afin de vivre au grand jour sa relation avec Kath, une jeune serveuse.Dans un paysage inondé de soleil, les journées s’égrènent lentement. Entre désaccords et reproches, les deux couples sont mis à l’épreuve et, déjà fragilisés par le temps, se fissurent davantage. Dans une ambiance de plus en plus délétère, les mensonges sont mis au jour. Et la jeune Snow, plongée au cœur de ce quatuor dissonant, devient malgré elle le catalyseur d’un drame inévitable.

Comment faire l'enfant. dix-sept lecons pour ne pas grandir

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

What does you in-brain or heart? Frannie asks herself this question when, a week before she turns fifteen, her dad dies, leaving her suddenly deprived of the only human being on planet Earth she feels understands her. Frannie struggles to make sense of a world that no longer seems safe, a world in which one moment can turn things so thoroughly for the worse. She discovers an elegant wooden box with an inscription: Frances Anne 1000. Inside, Frannie finds one thousand hand-painted and -carved puzzle pieces. She wonders if her father had a premonition of his death and finished her birthday present early. Feeling broken into pieces herself, Frannie slowly puts the puzzle together, bit by bit. But as she works, something remarkable begins to happen: She is catapulted into an ancient foreign landscape, a place suspended in time where she can discover her father as he was B. F.-before Frannie. Delia Ephron makes you laugh and makes you cry-often at the same time!

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