Les droits audiovisuels du livre THE SHADOWS ont récemment été acquis par Fruit Tree, la société de production de l’actrice Emma Stone et de son fiancé, le scénariste et réalisateur Dave McCary, en partenariat avec A24 Films. Emma Stone incarnera également le rôle principal dans le film. La date de sortie n’est pas encore annoncée. (Lire l’article de Deadline)
Dans le roman, une jeune femme semble avoir réussi à surmonter l’événement tragique qui a bouleversé sa vie vingt ans plus tôt quand, à l’âge de 12 ans, elle a joué un rôle décisif dans l’horrible affaire qui a fait condamner son propre père pour les meurtres de six adolescentes. Aujourd’hui psychologue, elle est parvenue à donner un sens à cet événement. Mais à l’approche de la date anniversaire de la condamnation, le monde d’apparence normale et heureuse qu’elle s’est construit s’écroule, et elle commence à perdre pied.
THE SHADOWS paraîtra en février 2022 chez Macmillan aux États-Unis. Un deuxième volume est prévu pour février 2023. Les droits de langue française sont toujours disponibles.
In the Before, humankind is created with a hole in its heart, the designers not realizing their mistake—if it was a mistake—until too late. Elliot Chance is just a boy, and knows nothing of this. All he knows is that he doesn’t feel at home in this world, and his desire for escape becomes more urgent as he grows into adulthood, where the turbulence of life seems to offer no cure for the emptiness. Desperate and lost, he stumbles upon a support group on the edge of Manhattan. There he meets two other drifting souls—Sasha, a young woman who leaves coded messages in the copy she writes for advertising campaigns, and Bannor, whose detailed depictions of the future make Elliot think he may have actually been there. With these two unlikely allies, Elliot launches into the business of life, determined to be happy in spite of himself. Yet the hole in the heart is not so easily filled. Profound yet playful, BEFORE YOU GO is a beautiful, imaginative journey into the ache and wonder of being human, and the quest for a meaningful life.
Martin, a market analyst, and Lily, a corporate attorney, have a life that many would envy―they share an expensive New York apartment with their twin toddlers, sample the delicacies of Manhattan’s finest restaurants, and take Caribbean vacations. But when the couple’s nanny announces her imminent departure, they panic: how will they ever find a replacement capable of managing their spirited boys? Enter Maeve, a young Irish émigré. Neither of them imagines how indispensable she will become, either to the household or to their marriage. As the family’s domestic bliss takes an unexpected turn, a different type of intimacy evolves, leading to an explosive finale.
THE FIRE IN HIS WAKE recounts the journey of Arès Sbigzenou, a Congolese refugee left for dead in the wake of ethnic violence. Arès’ fate, like the fate of millions, sends him on a kinetic flight across northern Africa with Europe as his goal. He reaches Rabat, Morocco, where he binds himself to a desperate community of exiles, and meets Simon, a young UN worker, whose journey is altogether different but no less fraught. While Arès struggles to rebuild his life and come to terms with his past, Simon grapples with the moral compromises inherent in his profession and position. Part sweeping portrait of life in the Maghreb, part epic tale of hope and perseverance, THE FIRE IN HIS WAKE carries the reader from the administrative reckonings of the UN staff to the daily hazards faced by the refugees in the streets and on their risky crossings to Europe. When a storm gathers at the UNHCR, and the ghosts of the Congo’s violence unexpectedly surface in Rabat, the two men find themselves on a collision course, setting the stage for the novel’s unforgettable and genre-busting ending.
La société de production d’Elisabeth Moss est en train de développer, en partenariat avec Blumhouse Productions, une adaptation du thriller MRS. MARCH de Virginia Feito, à paraître en août 2021 chez Liveright/W.W. Norton aux Etats-Unis. Le scénario sera écrit par l’auteure et le rôle principal sera incarné par Elisabeth Moss. (