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Stef Penney

    1 gennaio 1969

    Stef Penney crea narrazioni che approfondiscono la bellezza aspra e l'oscurità nascosta nella psiche umana. Il suo stile letterario, influenzato dal suo background cinematografico, è caratterizzato da descrizioni vivide e da un palpabile senso di atmosfera. Attraverso la sua narrazione, l'autrice esplora spesso le profondità psicologiche dei suoi personaggi, esaminandone le motivazioni e i conflitti interiori. Penney scrive con una profonda comprensione della condizione umana, offrendo ai lettori un'esperienza letteraria coinvolgente e stimolante.

    Stef Penney
    Was mit Rose geschah. Roman
    The Long Water
    Under A Pole Star
    The Invisible Ones
    The Tenderness of Wolves
    The Beasts of Paris
    • The Beasts of Paris

      • 496pagine
      • 18 ore di lettura

      In Paris 1870, three wandering souls find themselves in a city set to descend into war.'A historical epic that Jessie Burton fans will adore' GRAZIA'Exquisite, relevant and immersive' ANNA MAZZOLA'A triumph' GUARDIANAnne is a former patient from a women's asylum trying to carve out a new life for herself in a world that doesn't understand her. Newcomer Lawrence is desperate to develop his talent as a photographer and escape the restrictions of his puritanical upbringing. Ellis, an army surgeon, has lived through the trauma of one civil war and will do anything to avoid another bloodbath. Each keeps company with the restless beasts of Paris' Menagerie, where they meet, fight their demons, lose their hearts, and rebel in a city under siege.A dazzling historical epic of love and survival, Stef Penney carries the reader captivated through war-torn Paris. Praise for Stef Penney 'One of the best storytellers we have' The Scotsman 'Penney works hard to fill her canvas with colour and conviction' Sunday Times '[Her] prose is cinematic' Independent 'What has marked Penney out from the start is her ability to make her extensive historical research come alive' Sunday Herald'Hypnotically readable . . . Stef Penney is a mesmerising storyteller' Amanda Craig

      The Beasts of Paris
      4,0
    • The Tenderness of Wolves

      A Novel

      • 400pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      The story follows a mother’s desperate quest to find her 17-year-old son, who is on the run after a murder. As vigilantes and search teams scour the area, she is determined to bring him home safely, risking her own life in the process. This gripping debut novel explores themes of maternal love, desperation, and the lengths one will go to protect family amidst chaos and danger.

      The Tenderness of Wolves
      3,8
    • The Invisible Ones

      • 533pagine
      • 19 ore di lettura

      Set in the 1980s in rural southern England, this is a darkly compelling mystery about a gypsy family dogged by misfortune.

      The Invisible Ones
      3,6
    • Flora Mackie first crossed the Arctic Circle at the age of twelve, and fell in love with the land and people of the far north. In 1889, the whaler's daughter from Dundee sets out to become a scientist and explorer. She struggles to be taken seriously

      Under A Pole Star
      3,6
    • Author of the Costa-prizewinning, world-wide bestseller The Tenderness of Wolves, Stef Penney, returns to her snow-covered heartland in this tense mystery set in a small Scandinavian town. Nordland. A region in the Norwegian Arctic; a remote valley that stretches from the sea up to the mountains and glaciers. It is May in what was once a prosperous mining community. The snows are nearly gone and it's a time of spring and school-leavers' celebrations - until Daniel, a popular teenage boy, goes missing. Conflicting stories circulate among his friends, of parties and wild behaviour. As the search for Daniel widens, the police open a disused mine in the mountains. They find human remains, but this body has been there for decades, its identity a mystery. Everyone in this tight knit, isolated community is touched by these events: misanthropic Svea, whose long life in the area stretches back to the heyday of the mines, and beyond. She has cut all ties with her family, except for her granddaughter, Elin, an outsider like her grandmother. Elin and her friend Benny, both impacted by Daniel while he was alive, become entangled in the hunt for answers, while Svea has deep, dark secrets of her own.

      The Long Water
      3,3
    • Was mit Rose geschah. Roman

      • 448pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      Ein fesselnder Roman über Privatdetektiv Ray Lovell, der dem Rätsel um das seit über sechs Jahren verschwundene Roma-Mädchen Rose nachgeht. Während er in ein Netz aus Geheimnissen und Lügen eintaucht, wird ihm die Wahrheit fast zum Verhängnis. Nur der 14-jährige JJ scheint Antworten zu suchen.

      Was mit Rose geschah. Roman
      3,8