Un voyage dans le temps poétique qui nous plonge dans l'effervescence du New York des années 1990.

Au milieu de ses voisines manucurées de l'Upper West Side, Alice Stern détonne. Elle travaille dans l'école où elle a étudié, elle est en couple mais elle vit seule, dans le même studio qu'il y a quinze ans, et elle n'a pas prévu d'arrêter de fumer.


Sa vie est passée en un clin d'œil, et la voilà à l'aube de ses quarante ans. Alice pensait qu'elle aurait eu plus de temps pour se prendre en main. Elle pensait aussi qu'elle aurait plus de temps auprès de Leonard, son père, malade.


Le soir de son anniversaire, elle s'endort devant leur ancien appartement de Manhattan. Le lendemain matin, elle se réveille en 1996, le jour de ses seize ans. Et, encore plus choquant : elle se retrouve face à un Leonard fringant.


Alice comprend vite comment passer d'une temporalité à l'autre et explorer les différentes versions de sa vie et de celle de son père. Maintenant qu'elle en a le pouvoir, changera-t-elle le cours de leur existence ?

Bons baisers de Majorque !



Pour les Posts, des vacances à Majorque, en famille et avec des amis, c'est quelque chose qui se mérite ! Cela tombe bien, Franny et Jim ont leurs 35 ans de mariage à fêter, et leur fille, Sylvia, vient d'obtenir son baccalauréat avec des résultats brillants. L'île ensoleillée, ses montagnes et ses plages, ses tapas et ses courts de tennis, promet d'échapper aux tensions latentes du quotidien à Manhattan. Pourtant, rien ne se passe comme prévu. Les soucis ne restent pas longtemps tapis dans les bagages : des secrets sont révélés, des rivalités et d'anciennes blessures refont surface...

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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 . . .

'Will make you laugh, cry, and call the people you love. Exceptional' EMILY HENRY
'Her most emotionally resonant work yet' VOGUE
'Has the makings of a dreamy, witty, contemporary classic' EVENING STANDARD
'I just finished and I'm crying at its message and its honestly and its utter beauty' JODI PICOULT
'A tender, witty David Nicholls-esque tale of familial love' i
'A tender tale of time travel. Straub strips back the layers to reveal what's important' STYLIST, 'BOOK OF THE WEEK'
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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 - 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 . . .
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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.

'An excellent time-travelling novel about adolescence and second chances from the always brilliant Emma Straub' METRO

'Clever, complex and really rather lovely' BEST

'Magical, heart-warming and insightful . . . Warm, wryly funny and melancholic' DAILY EXPRESS

'This time-travelling take on a hypothetical return to 1996 and the protagonist's 16th birthday will be enough to remind you to cherish what you have' ELLE

'Full of deftly managed plot twists, it's both fun and poignant' MAIL ON SUNDAY

'Literary sunshine' New York Times on All Adults Here

'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Liane Moriarty

'Deliciously warm and nostalgic' Gillian McAllister, bestselling auth

** '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 are 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 carefully stitched together begin slowly to come apart . . .


'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

THE IRRISISTABLE, UPLIFTING AND BIG-HEARTED STORY OF SURVIVING IN A MODERN FAMILY . . .

'A wonderful read' Elizabeth Strout
'Literary sunshine' New York Times
'A gorgeous and witty storyteller' Elizabeth Gilbert, author of City of Girls
'The world will love it' Ann Patchett

The instant New York Times BESTSELLER

THIS TIME TOMORROW, the new novel by Emma Straub, is available to pre-order now!
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After Astrid Strick - a widowed, 68-year-old mother of three living in upstate New York - witnesses an accident, she resolves to live more honestly. Starting with the mistakes she made in raising her family.

But are her kids, tangled in their own messy adult lives, really ready to be treated like grown ups?

Charming, uplifting and well-observed, All Adults Here is the delightful story about the wonders and woes of modern family life.
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Praise for All Adults Here:

'Perfectly pitched summer reading' Stylist

'Smartly observant, wryly witty, big-hearted . . . ' Sunday Times

'This beautifully written book delves deeply, perceptively and humorously into the contemporary human condition' Daily Mail

'A glorious mash-up of Elizabeth Strout and Gilmore Girls' Red

'If you're a fan of Anne Tyler's writing, you'll love this captivating well-observed family drama' Good Housekeeping

Un été pop à Brooklyn
Dans cette rue-là, certains enfants ont deux mamans, des cheveux violet, le droit de fumer des joints. Dans cette rue-là, des couples de quadra vivent encore des droits d'auteur d'un tube écrit à quatre mains pour une icône rock suicidée qui fut leur camarade et plus si affinités. Dans cette rue-là, des amitiés se bonifient depuis l'université. Car cette rue-là se trouve au coeur du plus trépidant quartier de New York : Brooklyn. Et des trépidations, il y en a, au cours de ce fol été que traversent Elizabeth, Andrew et leur ado prodige, Harry, mais aussi
Jane, sa femme Zoe et leur explosive Ruby, née d'un don de sperme. Au programme : crise de fin d'ado et crise de la quarantaine, crise de couple et crise existentielle, crise de larmes et crise de fous rires !
AprèsLes Vacanciers, Emma Straub revient avec une nouvelle chronique impertinente. Du couple, des pièges de l'âge, de l'art d'être parent... et de l'éternel retour de flamme.

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Two 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.

Typisch Emma Straub: Geschickt verbindet sie 90er-Jahre-Nostalgie mit berührenden Momenten zwischen Vater und Tochter. Perfekte Lektüre für die kluge Frau!

»Ein wahnsinnig einnehmendes, schlaues Buch über das großartige Chaos, das Familie ausmacht. Wirklich ein wunderbarer Roman!« Bestsellerautorin Elizabeth Strout