Liza Klaussmann – författare

'Immersive, tense, seductive' – Sunday Times'Unputdownable' – Sunday ExpressScott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius, debauched parties, impeccable style and flamboyant imagination. But before long, a stranger enters into their relationship, and their marriage must accommodate an intensity that neither had forseen. When tragedy strikes, their friends reach out to them, but the golden bowl is shattered, and neither Gerald nor Sara will ever be the same.Ravishing, heart-breaking, and written with enviable poise, Villa America delivers on all the promise of Liza Klaussmann's bestselling debut, Tigers in Red Weather. It is an overwhelming, unforgettable novel.

A Sunday Times bestseller & Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.‘Immensely gripping’ – The GuardianLiza Klaussmann’s Tigers in Red Weather tells the story of Nick and her cousin Helena who have grown up together, sharing long hot summers at Tiger House. With husbands and children of their own, they keep returning. But against a background of parties, cocktails, moonlight and jazz, how long can perfection last?There is always the summer that changes everything.The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a delicious novel, a book that simmers with tension and threat; an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex, heat, boredom and beauty. Gracefully drawn and utterly intriguing, it’s the perfect summer blockbuster.‘Tragedy, betrayal and passion . . . A riveting, intelligent read’ – Stylist‘Heady, page-turning stuff’ – The Sunday TimesPart of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.

A Sunday Times bestseller & Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.‘Immensely gripping’ – The GuardianLiza Klaussmann’s Tigers in Red Weather tells the story of Nick and her cousin Helena who have grown up together, sharing long hot summers at Tiger House. With husbands and children of their own, they keep returning. But against a background of parties, cocktails, moonlight and jazz, how long can perfection last?There is always the summer that changes everything.The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a delicious novel, a book that simmers with tension and threat; an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex, heat, boredom and beauty. Gracefully drawn and utterly intriguing, it’s the perfect summer blockbuster.‘Tragedy, betrayal and passion . . . A riveting, intelligent read’ – Stylist‘Heady, page-turning stuff’ – The Sunday TimesPart of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.

'Immersive, tense, seductive' – Sunday Times'Unputdownable' – Sunday ExpressScott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso, Cole and Linda Porter, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos - all are summer guests of Gerald and Sara Murphy. Visionary, misunderstood, and from vastly different backgrounds, the Murphys met and married young, and set forth to create a beautiful world. They alight on Villa America: their coastal oasis of artistic genius, debauched parties, impeccable style and flamboyant imagination. But before long, a stranger enters into their relationship, and their marriage must accommodate an intensity that neither had forseen. When tragedy strikes, their friends reach out to them, but the golden bowl is shattered, and neither Gerald nor Sara will ever be the same.Ravishing, heart-breaking, and written with enviable poise, Villa America delivers on all the promise of Liza Klaussmann's bestselling debut, Tigers in Red Weather. It is an overwhelming, unforgettable novel.

'An evocative literary saga . . . seductive' Sunday Times'Steeped in longing and spiked with pitch perfect 80s detail . . . Gorgeous' ANNA HOPEGrowing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together like they were keeping a secret; they were successful, best friends, lovers. It was perfect - a shining life - until it fell apart. Now Miller and Ash are married and living in Wonderland, the tidal island of sugary coloured houses they ran away from.Miller feels like she's disappearing. She wears her tinted sunglasses so often sometimes she forgets the world isn't green.Ash is having an affair with a helmet-haired TV presenter.Olly lives a charmed life in LA but it's on the precipice of disaster. Over the long, hot summer of 1984, unanswered questions draw the three of them back together. They are so consumed with the possibility of a redemptive third act, they don't notice what's going on between Miller's son, his best friend and the girl who lives next door. . . Some summers are spent yearning for something to happen, others are charged with the terrifying, exhilarating feeling that everything is going to change.

Growing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together, like they were keeping a secret. They needed each other. As teenagers, they drove to LA, lived in a ramshackle place on the beach in Malibu, set up a record label. They were successful, best friends and Olly and Miller fell in love. Before it fell apart, it was beautiful. Then Olly stopped looking at Miller the way he used to. Miller spent a night with Ash, which turned into a marriage. And Miller and Ash came back to Wonderland, the tidal island of sugary painted houses they'd run away from. Now Miller's forty and she feels like she's disappearing. She wears her tinted sunglasses so often sometimes she forgets the world isn't green. Ash is having an affair with a helmet-haired tv presenter and Olly's career is over. Olly doesn't want to think about what he was going to owe, what any of them owed, to each other. But after everything that has happened, Wonderland is the only place it makes sense for him to go. Over a long, hot summer of Chardonnay and Chicken, Olly, Miller and Ash try to work out what it is that exists between them. They're so consumed with their love, losses and longing and the possibility of a redemptive third act, they barely notice what's going on between Miller's son, his best friend and the girl who lives next door. Some summers are spent yearning for something to happen, others are charged with the terrifying, exhilarating, feeling that everything is going to change. Welcome to Wonderland.

'An evocative literary saga . . . seductive' Sunday Times'Steeped in longing and spiked with pitch perfect 80s detail . . . Gorgeous' ANNA HOPEGrowing up, it was always the three of them: Miller and Olly and Ash. They stuck together like they were keeping a secret; they were successful, best friends, lovers. It was perfect - a shining life - until it fell apart. Now Miller and Ash are married and living in Wonderland, the tidal island of sugary coloured houses they ran away from.Miller feels like she's disappearing. She wears her tinted sunglasses so often sometimes she forgets the world isn't green.Ash is having an affair with a helmet-haired TV presenter.Olly lives a charmed life in LA but it's on the precipice of disaster. Over the long, hot summer of 1984, unanswered questions draw the three of them back together. They are so consumed with the possibility of a redemptive third act, they don't notice what's going on between Miller's son, his best friend and the girl who lives next door. . . Some summers are spent yearning for something to happen, others are charged with the terrifying, exhilarating feeling that everything is going to change.

Liza Klaussmanns debutroman Tigrar i rött väder utspelar sig på USA:s östkust under fyrtio-, femtio- och sextiotal. Nick och hennes kusin Helena har vuxit upp tillsammans på den gamla släktgården Tiger House själva symbolen för östkustglamour där de levt ett liv i tryckande sommarvärme, med solblekta båtbryggor och nattliga cocktailpartyn.Under tiden efter andra världskrigets slut tycks världen stå öppen. Helena ger sig i väg till Hollywood för att söka äktenskaplig lycka, medan Nick är på väg att återförenas med sin unge make Hughes, som just ska återvända från kriget. Men snart börjar den gyllene fasaden spricka. Helenas make är inte mannen han verkat vara, och Hughes kommer tillbaka från kriget sluten och distanserad.Åter i Tiger House, på 1960-talets rand, försöker Nick och Helena nu tillsammans med sina barn Daisy och Ed återerövra frihetskänslan från förr.Men allt ska komma att förändras när barnen gör en hemsk upptäckt: någon har blivit mördad i närheten av det vackra sommarstället. Släktingarna kastas ut ur sina invanda banor, hemligheter kommer i dagen, och inget i deras liv kommer någonsin att bli sig likt igen.LIZA KLAUSSMANN [f. 1976 i New York] har arbetat som journalist på New York Times i över ett decennium. Tigrar i rött väder är hennes första roman.»En enormt gripande och välberättad historia.« THE GUARDIAN»Tigrar i rött väder är en briljant roman. Underbart finurlig, isande läsning.« THE INDEPENDENT»En mycket skickligt konstruerad, spännande familjemelodram.« USA TODAY»Tigrar i rött väder är en sofistikerad sidvändare... En gammaldags roman i bästa tänkbara bemärkelse.« THE TELEGRAPH