Présentation de l'éditeur
Two police officers knock on Laura's door and her life changes forever. They tell her that her nine-year old daughter Betty has been hit by a car and killed. When justice is slow to arrive, Laura decides to take her own revenge and begins to track down the man responsible. Laura's grief also re-opens old wounds and she is thrown back to the story of her passionate love affair with Betty's father David, their marriage and his subsequent affair with another woman.
Haunted by her past, and driven to breaking point by her desire for retribution, Laura discovers the lengths she is willing to go to for love.
Whatever You Love is a heart-wrenching novel of revenge, compulsion and desire from acclaimed novelist Louise Doughty.
Revue de presse
'A brilliant and brutal novel that continues to unsettle long after the final page has been turned.' --Observer
'Novels about love and loss are ten-a-penny, but this one brilliantly defies expectations to the very last page ... terrifically compelling.' --Daily Mail
'Like Zoe Heller, Doughty is masterful at combining the texture of ordinary, smugly middle-class, contemporary life with the hidden cliff edges of violence and hatred.' --Sunday Telegraph
Biographie de l'auteur
Louise Doughty is the author of five novels -
Crazy Paving,
Dance with Me,
Honey-Dew,
Fires in the Dark and
Stone Cradle - and one book of non-fiction,
A Novel in Year, based on her hugely popular
Daily Telegraph column. Doughty also writes radio plays and journalism and broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 4, as well as teaching for the Faber Academy. She lives in London.
