Six years after the phenomenal success of The Time Traveler's Wife, Audrey Niffenegger has returned with a spectacularly compelling and haunting second novel set in and around Highgate Cemetery in London.
Audrey Hepburn was a ballet dancer but never danced in a ballet. She made more money than any other movie actress, but never studied acting. The world loved her but she was not always happy. The warm face she showed to the world hid the sadness she often felt inside. The star of 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' and many other films, Audrey Hepburn became one of the most famous women in the world. This is her story.
In 1997 Miss Niffenegger had an idea for a book about a time traveler and his wife. She originally imagined making it as a graphic novel, but eventually realized that it is very difficult to represent sudden time shifts with still images. She began to work on the project as a novel, and published The Time Traveler’s Wife in 2003. It was an international best seller, and has been made into a movie.
Clark's clever use of a bit of New Jersey real estate code fits perfectly into her usual formula for minting bestsellers in a novel about past deadly secrets coming to haunt the present. At One Old Mill Lane, in Mendham, N.J., 10-year-old Liza Barton wakes to find her stepfather, Ted Cartwright, attacking her mother, Audrey. Liza grabs a gun in defense, but in the ensuing melee Audrey is killed and Ted is wounded. Dubbed "Little Lizzie Borden," Liza is taken away and almost convicted of murdering her mother and attempting to kill the lying, scheming Ted.
Added by: Au_claire | Karma: 26.92 | Fiction literature | 9 January 2011
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It Had to Be You: The Gossip Girl Prequel
In this prequel to the Gossip Girl series, we learn how Serena left Constance Billard School for Girls after falling in love with Nate; Blair's obsession with Audrey Hepburn; and how Nate came in between best friends Serena and Blair.
