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He Said/She Said de Erin Kelly

He Said/She Said

Autor Erin Kelly
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 apr 2018

O eclipsă totală de soare. Câteva secunde de întuneric în Cornwall, 1999. Un act teribil surprins de Laura în umbra lunii. Acesta este momentul în care viața ei și a lui Kit se scindează iremediabil. Descoperim aici o confruntare brutală între adevăr și percepție, unde mărturia unei singure femei devine singura armă împotriva unui negaționist convingător. Tensiunea se acumulează sufocant: victima recunoscătoare de atunci devine prezența toxică de azi. Notăm cu interes saltul temporal de 15 ani, care ne proiectează într-o realitate paranoică. Kit și Laura trăiesc ascunși, fără identitate digitală, bântuiți de consecințele acelei zile. Dacă #MeToo de Patricia Dixon v-a captivat prin explorarea dilemelor morale și a credibilității victimelor, He Said/She Said extinde experiența în direcția unei obsesii psihologice care refuză să rămână în trecut. Subliniem măiestria cu care Erin Kelly manipulează perspectivele duale, o tehnică perfecționată în lucrări precum The Skeleton Key sau Watch Her Fall. Spre deosebire de atmosfera gotică din The House of Mirrors, aici teroarea provine din cotidianul alterat de minciuni. Ritmul este alert, capitolele pendulează între entuziasmul tinerilor observatori de eclipse și izolarea prezentului, construind o atmosferă de neliniște constantă. Este un studiu despre cât de departe putem merge pentru a fi crezuți și despre prețul devastator al tăcerii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781250160546
ISBN-10: 1250160545
Pagini: 402
Dimensiuni: 139 x 211 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.55 kg
Editura: St. Martins Press-3pl

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Recomandăm acest roman cititorilor care caută un suspensie psihologic sofisticat, unde miza nu este doar „cine a făcut-o”, ci „pe cine crezi”. Veți câștiga o perspectivă fascinantă asupra fragilității memoriei și a modului în care un singur moment de indecizie poate dicta cursul unei vieți întregi. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii genului polițist care apreciază structurile narative complexe și jocurile de putere psihologice.

Despre autor

Erin Kelly este o voce de referință în literatura polițistă contemporană, fiind autoarea mai multor bestselleruri Sunday Times. Născută la Londra în 1976, Kelly s-a remarcat prin capacitatea de a scrie thrillere psihologice cu o puternică încărcătură emoțională, cum ar fi The Poison Tree, adaptat ulterior într-o dramă de succes pentru ITV. Expertiza sa în construcția tensiunii a fost confirmată și prin scrierea romanului Broadchurch, bazat pe celebrul serial TV. Deși este asociată cu mediul academic prin activitatea sa la Tufts University, succesul său comercial se datorează talentului de a crea răsturnări de situație imprevizibile și personaje profund umane.

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A tour de force - a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions, and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it. -- Ruth Ware
Haunting. Mesmerizing. Unforgettable. -- Gillian Flynn

In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they'll share. But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her word against his. The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to wonder--did she trust the wrong person? 15 years later, Kit and Laura married are living under new names and completely off the digital grid: no Facebook, only rudimentary cell phones, not in any directories. But as the truth catches up to them, they realize they can no longer keep the past in the past. From Erin Kelly, queen of the killer twist, He Said/She Said is a gripping tale of the lies we tell to save ourselves, the truths we cannot admit, and how far we will go to make others believe our side of the story.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERTHE SIMON MAYO RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICK'I'm calling it: THIS is the book I wish I'd written' Clare Mackintosh, author of I See You***********Don't be left in the dark.In the hushed aftermath of a total eclipse, Laura witnesses a brutal attack. She and her boyfriend Kit call the police, and in that moment, four lives change forever.Fifteen years on, Laura and Kit live in fear. And while Laura knows she was right to speak out, she also knows that you can never see the whole picture: something is always hidden .

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Haunting. Mesmerising. Unforgettable.
A tour de force - a gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions and keeps you guessing until the very end. I loved it.
Erin Kelly has written several good psychological thrillers, but in He Said / She Said she ascends to a new plane of ingenuity. Her ability to switch between the sordid reality of crime and juicy melodrama, the story anchored within the realm of plausibility by the care with which she brings her characters and settings to life, reminded me of Ruth Rendell at her best.
I'm calling it: THIS is the book I wish I'd written
Kelly is a master at drip-feeding us the details, keeping us guessing about the truth, and the many shades of grey it contains, right until the end.
It's SO good...I was carrying it around the house I was so gripped
A clever, compulsive read, which sinks its claws into you and won't let go
Deliciously tense and twisty.
There's so much to love here - seamless plotting, descriptive prose, characters so real they pull you in to their tangled lives - and then an absolute humdinger of a twist that will take your breath away.
A gripping, dark thriller...A thrilling tale of dangerous obsession, the book explores how far the ramifications of a single event can reach.
Not just a tense psychological drama but a meditation on the complex view. Kelly brilliantly uses the eclipse as metaphor, exploring the fact that though we long for black and white, the partial view is all we ever get. Dive in.
A taut, cleverly constructed novel about what we see, know and understand - and how they are not always the same thing. Prepare to step into the darkness...
Erin Kelly keeps you guessing to the very last page, she cleverly reminds us of our own fallibility and gullibility
Kelly is a beautiful writer who can conjure an atmosphere with exceptional skill...a fantastic psychological thriller replete with mystery and misdirection
Twisted, atmospheric and perfectly plotted. Her best yet.
A superbly dark and complex psychological thriller from a really exceptional author. Kelly' s beautiful and atmospheric writing pulls you in from the first page. I read right into the night.
It's magnificent. Stunningly twisty plot and weep-makingly brilliant writing
I devoured it...weaves such a delicate line between everyone's version of the truth, it was impossible to stop reading.
Deeply immersive... an ingeniously constructed and thrilling novel about the many different forms of betrayal
Multi-layered and stylish, with characters you feel you know, dilemmas you can imagine grappling with, and a hurtling plot that's unpatronising and clever to the last page. My admiration for Erin Kelly has just gone up another notch.
Erin Kelly speaks the language of tension fluently. HE SAID/SHE SAID will make you question everything you know and suspect everyone you think you can trust. My first response was to read it all over again, to see where the traps were set.
Superbly twisty and readable thriller; pure enjoyment
It has a twist, and a stunning one at that but there is much more to this superbly written psychological drama...Intelligent, thought provoking and utterly compelling, this book held me spell bound until the very last page.
Tense, beautifully written and with a real gut-punch of a twist
Fantastic... a real tour de force, with characters I won't forget any time soon
Kelly proves herself (once again) a mistress of the dark arts of psychological thriller writing with sinuous storytelling that beguiles and entraps the reader. Lingers in the mind long after the final page. Set to be the psych thriller of 2017
A masterclass in drip-fed suspense, beautifully written and astutely observed. This book left me extremely tense throughout - in a good way!
HE SAID/SHE SAID tantalisingly exposes the lives of beautifully drawn characters, holding them under a magnifying glass as the consequences of one terrifying moment during an eclipse ripple out over the years. With all the anticipation and tension of an actual eclipse - mysterious, breathtaking, powerful - Erin Kelly captures the essence of the 'unputdownable novel' by combining fear, breathtaking twists and turns, as well as her trademark bewitching prose.
An addictive read. The mystery and majesty of the total solar eclipses lends an eerie inevitability to the doomed and twisted attempts of Erin Kelly's all-too-human characters to control their lives.
Kept me guessing, kept me gripped and kept me thinking
A haunting and beautifully twisted tale of desire and deceit. Erin Kelly is the kind of writer whose work you read and instantly wish it were your own.
I loved this book...Exceptionally clever.
HE SAID/SHE SAID is dazzling...you simply won't be able to look away. Erin Kelly is a class act on top form.
I loved HE SAID/SHE SAID. Beautifully written, gripping and as twisty and dangerous as a 400-page-long rattlesnake, this is Erin Kelly at the absolute top of her game, and everyone else's too
A dark, incredibly atmospheric psychological thriller with a clever, elaborate plot that sucks you in step by step. An unpredictable yet always plausible story about the far-reaching consequences of actions and even lies. A gripping page-turner
Brilliant. A masterclass in how to write a gripping psychological thriller.
Love and its twisted opposite, truth and lies that shade from little white to pitch-dark. Here be images to haunt you and characters to make you doubt your own judgement.
Thought-provoking and sensitively handled
From the very first sentence, HE SAID/SHE SAID casts a shadow - how to undo what is done. The ending is as inevitable as it is dark; it swept me away and I enjoyed every minute of it.
Brilliantly plotted, packed with suspense
Expertly constructed
Erin Kelly is one of the finest stylists in British crime fiction, and this is further proof of her gift for creating tension...a compelling, very modern thriller
Gradually, with skilful pacing and growing tension, Erin Kelly reveals shocks and twists that go on until the very last page
Genuinely thrilling