SHE WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING de Sarah Adlakha

Sliding Doors meets Life After Life in Sarah Adlakha’s story about a wife and mother who is given the chance to start over at the risk of losing everything she loves.

SHE WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING
by Sarah Adlakha
Forge/Macmillan, August 2021
(via Levine Greenberg Rostan)

A second chance is the last thing she wants. When thirty-nine year old Maria Forssmann wakes up in her seventeen-year-old body, she doesn’t know how she got there. All she does know is she has to get back: to her home in Bienville, Mississippi, to her job as a successful psychiatrist and, most importantly, to her husband, daughters, and unborn son. But she also knows that, in only a few weeks, a devastating tragedy will strike her husband, a tragedy that will lead to their meeting each other. Can she change time and still keep what it’s given her?
Exploring the responsibilities love lays on us, the complicated burdens of motherhood, and the rippling impact of our choices, SHE WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING is a dazzling debut from a bright new voice.

Sarah Adlakha is a native of Chicago and a practicing psychiatrist who now lives along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi with her husband and their three daughters. SHE WOULDN’T CHANGE A THING is her first novel.

MADAME EXUPÉRY UND DIE STERNE DES HIMMELS de Sophie Villard

With him, her dreams learned to fly. But they came too close to the stars.

MADAME EXUPÉRY UND DIE STERNE DES HIMMELS
(Madame Exupéry and the Starry Skies)
by Sophie Villard
Penguin Germany, September 2021

Paris, 1930. When the young artist Consuelo meets Antoine de Saint-Exupéry at a party, it’s love at first sight. The temperamental Salvadorean becomes the muse of the enigmatic pilot, who would much rather be writing and drawing than flying planes.
His deep love for her inspired « The Little Prince »: Consuelo is the beloved rose that the prince protects with a glass globe, and which is always in his thoughts no matter where his travels take him.
The book made Antoine world-famous, but life by his side was not easy. Consuelo had to deal with his unfaithfulness, and fought hard to establish herself as an artist in her own right – until 1944, when Antoine took off on his fateful flight across the Mediterranean …

Sophie Villard is the pen name of a successful German author. She studied journalism and political science, and lives near Dresden with her family. Her novel about the famous art collector Peggy Guggenheim was a Spiegel bestseller, and her new book as well is about another inspiring and important female figure: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s wife and muse Consuelo, to whom we owe the story of the Little Prince.

Une série tv prochainement adaptée de THE NIGHT AGENT de Matthew Quirk

Netflix est en train de développer, en partenariat avec les Sony Pictures Television Studios, une série policière basée sur le roman THE NIGHT AGENT de Matthew Quirk. A l’origine de ce projet, le producteur et scénariste Shawn Ryan, créateur de The Shield. Les dix premiers épisodes seront réalisés par Seth Gordon (Comment tuer son boss, Arnaque à la carte) qui a également travaillé sur les séries The Office, Parks and Recreation, Modern Family ou encore Atypical. Le tournage débutera en novembre prochain. (Lire l’article de Deadline)

Dans le roman Une affaire personnelle, traduit par Jacques Martinache et publié aux Presses de la Cité en mars 2020, un jeune agent du FBI, fils d’un homme accusé d’espionnage, découvre l’existence d’une taupe russe au plus haut niveau de l’administration gouvernementale américaine. Traqué, il a six jours pour sauver sa vie, et l’avenir de son pays.

Un film de Ridley Scott adapté du roman historique THE LAST DUEL d’Eric Jager bientôt au cinéma

Watch the new trailer for « The Last Duel », a tale of betrayal & vengeance set against the brutality of 14th-century France directed by Ridley Scott and starring Jodie Comer, Adam Driver, Matt Damon and Ben Affleck.

Une nouvelle édition du livre paraîtra le 6 octobre prochain aux édition Flammarion (Le dernier duel, traduction Laurent Bury) à l’occasion de la sortie du film prévue le 13 octobre 2021.