Susanna Moore – författare

In 1938, seventeen-year-old Beatrice, an Irish Protestant lace maker, finds herself at the center of a fairy tale when she is whisked away from her dreary life to join the Berlin household of Felix and Dorothea Metzenburg. Art collectors, and friends to the most fascinating men and women in Europe, the Metzenburgs introduce Beatrice to a world in which she finds more to desire than she ever imagined. But Germany has launched its campaign of aggression across Europe, and, before long, the conflict reaches the Metzenburgs’ threshold. Retreating with Beatrice to their country estate, Felix and Dorothea do their best to preserve the traditions of the old world. But the realities of hunger and illness, as well as the even graver threats of Nazi terror, the deportation and murder of Jews, and the hordes of refugees fleeing the advancing Red Army begin to threaten their existence. When the Metzenburgs are forced to join a growing population of men and women in hiding, Beatrice, increasingly attached to the family and its unlikely wartime community, bears heartrending witness to the atrocities of the age and to the human capacity for strength in the face of irrevocable loss. In searing physical and emotional detail, The Life of Objects illuminates Beatrice’s journey from childhood to womanhood, from naïveté to wisdom, as a continent collapses into darkness around her. It is Susanna Moore’s most powerful and haunting novel yet.This eBook edition includes a Reading Group Guide. 

Winner of the 2023 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in American Historical Fiction''A breathtaking tale of love and war'' Telegraph''Moore''s voice is cool and sure, rich with detail'' Vogue''A riveting account of one woman''s journey'' GuardianSummer, 1855. Sarah Brinton sets out from Rhode Island, leaving an abusive husband and child behind to head west across the country, until her journey ends in Minnesota Territory, on lands claimed both by white settlers and Native Americans. There she finds herself another husband, a Yale-educated doctor who works on the nearby Sioux reservation, and settles into a new life.Sarah''s days on the edge of the prairie are idyllic if tough, as she befriends and works with the Sioux women. But trouble is brewing. The Sioux tribes are wary of the white settlers and resent the rampant theft of their land.When the Sioux take their fate into their own hands, Sarah''s loyalties are split between the Sioux and her fellow white settlers. As the conflict rages, she finds herself lost to both worlds.The first novel in ten years from the author of In the Cut and Miss Aluminium, this is a story about freedom and oppression, intimacy and violence, and a woman caught in the crossfire of one of the most seminal and shameful moments in American history.

* A GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR *

* A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR *

* AN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR *

''Imagine Gone Girl had it been co-written by Mary Gaitskill and Lydia Davis and you''re heading in the right direction'' Olivia Sudjic, Guardian ''Not a word is wasted in this examination of one woman''s sexual odyssey as Moore builds to a shattering climax.'' Sarah Hughes, the i''A true original ... Disturbingly dark, explosively violent, powerfully erotic and brilliantly written.'' Sunday Times

''An uncompromising excavation of the darker reaches of female desire ... one of the most devastating things I have ever read'' Irish Times

''A timely rebuke to the antiseptic quality of much of today''s crime fiction'' Telegraph''Electrifying. Essential reading'' Olivia Laing''Taut and filthy and beautifully written'' Evie Wyld

''Deep red and as hot as hell'' Preti Taneja

''Compelling, shocking, hot, scary'' Kristen Roupenian

''Horrific, the sexiest book ever, devastatingly true'' Daisy Johnson

''Extraordinary'' Lucie Whitehouse

''One of my favourite books'' Megan Hunter

Living alone in New York, Frannie teaches creative writing to a motley bunch of students, and secretly compiles a dictionary of street slang: virginia, n., vagina; snapper, n., vagina; brasole, n., vagina.

One evening at a bar, she stumbles upon a man, his face in shadow, a tattoon on his wrist, a woman kneeling between his legs. A week later a detective shows up at her door. The woman''s body has been discovered in the park across the street.

Soon Frannie is propelled into a sexual liaison that tests the limits of her safety and desires, as she begins a terrifying descent into the dark places that reside deep within her.

I was self-invented, adapting myself minute by minute, a girl on the run. And yes, built for speed.