Books by Emma Straub

Fås i anden udgave. Isbn: 9788712053675For Franny og Jim var turen til Mallorca med deres to børn og venner oprindeligt tænkt som en slags fest. De har 35-årsbryllupsdag, og deres datter, Sylvia, er netop blevet student. Den solbeskinnede ø med de smukke bjerge, strande og tennisbaner virker da også som det perfekte sted at lægge de spændinger, der ulmende hjemme på Manhattan, bag sig. Men ikke alt går efter planen. Der er knas i Franny og Jims ægteskab, Sylvias bror, Bobby, medbringer sin noget ældre kæreste, som hans mor aldrig har brudt sig om, og Frannys bedste ven, Charles, og hans mand tumler med deres egne problemer, mens de samtidig forsøger at agere mæglere i Post-familien. I løbet af de to uger kommer en lang række hemmeligheder for en dag, ydmygelserne står i kø, og barndommens rivalisering blusser op for fuld kraft. Men heldigvis er der håb forude … Med skæv humor og kolossal kærlighed til sine karakterer leverer Emma Straub en vidunderlig ferieroman om en familie iforandring, om venskab - og ikke mindst kærlighed. Med Feriegæster leverer Emma Straub en helt uimodståelig og skarpt iagttagende roman om de hemmeligheder og glæder og den misundelse, der kommer for en dag i løbet af en newyorker-families to uger lange ferie på Mallorca. Feriegæsterneer den ultimative feel good-sommerbog, skrevet med tilstrækkelig megen kant til, at den skiller sig ud fra mængden af mainstream-ferielæsning! En roman der vil appellere til læsere af f.eks. David Nicholls Samme dag næste år.

** 'It's the beautifully drawn, vibrant characters that make this smart, compelling novel so irresistible.' Liane Moriarty **From the New York Times Bestselling author of The Vacationers, Emma Straub brings us a sharply observed tale of modern love . . . Twenty years later and they were supposed to be grown-ups...Ditmas Park, Brooklyn. Summer in the city . . . College friends Elizabeth, Zoe and Andrew had a band, grew up, settled in New York and now they were still living round the corner from one another (and in each other's pockets).One hot summer as their kids come of age, making those first hesitant steps into adulthood, it's the parents who find that the lives they've so carelessly stitched together begin to slowly unravel . . .'Has all the pleasures of Anne Tyler's compelling family portraits . . . with a Lorrie Moore-like sense of the absurdities of contemporary life' Michiko Kakutani, New York Times'Really entertaining. The characters are complex and likeable. It's one of those stories that makes you realise that life really does run away from you' Guardian'Straub's characters thrum off the page. The sort of witty and relatable summer title you'll devour with a contented smack of the lips' Independent'Funny yet tart, warm yet incisive. I adored it' Red

Pre-order the new novel from Emma Straub: a fiendishly clever, nostalgic, and tender novel about adolescence and middle age, expectation and anticipation, and how we must cherish what we have while there is still time . . .'Part-Russian Doll, part-David Nicholls, it has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD 'I just finished This Time Tomorrow and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty. And now I have to go call my mom' JODI PICOULT________If you could go back, would you do things differently? Alice Stern isn't ready to turn forty. She thought she'd have more time to figure it all out. Above all, she thought she'd have more time with her father, Leonard Stern, an eccentric novelist - but he's lying in a hospital bed and Alice isn't sure if she'll hear his voice again.When she falls asleep outside their old apartment on the night before her birthday, she's surprised to be greeted the next morning by a much younger Leonard, with a sixteenth birthday card for a teenage Alice who, far from clinging to her youth, is hurtling towards adulthood . . .Alice soon discovers how she got back here, to 1996 and her sixteenth birthday, and realises she can keep on coming, whenever she chooses. But faced each time with different versions of her life, and the consequences of her decisions, it's on her not to lose sight of what she wants most: some time back with Leonard . . .With her celebrated humour, insight, and heart, Emma Straub cleverly turns all the traditional time travel tropes on their head and delivers a different kind of love story - about the lifelong, reverberating relationship between a parent and child.________'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty'A master of the domestic ensemble drama' Time

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo weeks in a remote island villa with America's most dysfunctional family - what could possibly go wrong?It was set to be the family vacation of a lifetime.From Manhattan to Majorca, two weeks in a remote island villa, with the sort of relaxation, culture and cuisine that only Europe can offer. At least, that was Franny's plan. She wasn't counting on the extra baggage . . .Warm, wry and glowing with life, The Vacationers is a glorious novel of marriage, friendship, secrets, lies - and love.