Fabienne Duvigneau Reihenfolge der Bücher (Chronologisch)

*'Probably the best novel I'll read this year. It's about work and love and characters who ring true. By the time I was 50 pages in I couldn't put it down. Can't stop thinking about it' Stephen King* For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for him. Colleen just wants a brother or sister for Chub, but she's losing hope. There is so much that she and Rich don't talk about these days - including her suspicions that there is something very wrong at the heart of the forest on which their community is built. When Rich is offered the opportunity to buy a plot of timber which borders Damnation Grove, he leaps at the chance - without telling Colleen. Soon the Gundersens find themselves on opposite sides of a battle that threatens to rip their town apart. Can they find a way to emerge from this together?

When his estranged daughter Katherine appears on his doorstep, ex-Detective Frank Elder knows that something is wrong. Katherine has long been troubled, and Elder has always felt powerless to help her. But now she has begun to self-destruct. The breakdown of her affair with a controversial artist has sent her into a tailspin that culminates in murder. And as Elder struggles to protect his daughter and prove her innocence, the terrors of the past threaten them both once more...

'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . ..' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour with an Action Man - in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife - she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London, she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby, his perpetually naked wife Letitia, to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, they all contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .

An dem Tag, als ihre geliebten Zwillinge ausziehen, entschließt sich Eva Beaver ins Bett zu gehen und nicht mehr aufzustehen. In den 17 Jahren, in denen sie sich um ihre Kinder, ihren Mann, den Haushalt und um das tägliche Abendbrot sorgte, dachte sie immer wieder an eine Flucht aus dem täglichen Trott. Nun ist ihre Chance, der große Tag für den Streik, gekommen: Eva bleibt im Bett. Ehemann Brian, der zwischen seinem Job als Astronom und seiner Affäre hin und her eilt, ist nicht gerade begeistert. Entweder muss Eva einen Nervenzusammenbruch haben oder verrückt geworden sein. Doch die Nachricht von ihrem Ausstieg verbreitet sich wie ein Lauffeuer, vor Evas Haustür versammeln sich begeisterte Anhänger und skurrile Besucher kündigen sich an. Ein höchst komischer Roman über den Rückzug von alltäglichen Anforderungen und über die tragikomischen Absurditäten des modernen Familienlebens, der sich in England in den ersten sechs Monaten über 150.000 mal verkaufte.