Новинки Эйми Моллой

Молодожены Сэм Статлер и Энни Поттер переезжают из Нью Йорка в небольшой тихий городок на севере штата.
Энни приходится большую часть времени проводить одной, пока ее муж, известный психотерапевт, работает в своем домашнем офисе.
Он не знает одного — в комнатах наверху через вентиляционное отверстие можно услышать все происходящее в его кабинете. Жена фармацевта подумывает о разводе. Парень известной художницы не удовлетворяет ее в постели.
Вы бы тоже не удержались от того, чтобы подслушать, правда?
Все идет хорошо, пока не появляется француженка на зеленом «Мини Купере». И пока Сэм не исчезает…

Молодожены Сэм Статлер и Энни Поттер переезжают из Нью Йорка в небольшой тихий городок на севере штата. Энни приходится большую часть времени проводить одной, пока ее муж, известный психотерапевт, работает в своем домашнем офисе.

Он не знает одного — в комнатах наверху через вентиляционное отверстие можно услышать все происходящее в его кабинете. Жена фармацевта подумывает о разводе. Парень известной художницы не удовлетворяет ее в постели.

Вы бы тоже не удержались от того, чтобы подслушать, правда?

Все идет хорошо, пока не появляется француженка на зеленом "Мини Купере". И пока Сэм не исчезает…

Sam Statler et Annie Potter, fraîchement mariés, viennent de quitter New York pour s'installer la petite ville natale de Sam. Annie passe la plupart de ses journées seule et désœuvrée tandis que Sam, thérapeute, reçoit ses patients –majoritairement féminins - dans son cabinet installé au rez-de chaussée de la maison. Ce que Sam ne sait pas, c'est qu'un conduit d'aération dans le plafond permet d'entendre tout ce qui se dit dans la chambre au-dessus. La femme du pharmacien qui aimerait divorcer. La peintre renommée qui n'est pas satisfaite au lit... Comment résister et ne pas écouter ? Mais un jour, juste après l'arrivée d'une nouvelle et mystérieuse patiente, Sam disparaît et la vie d'Annie s'écroule. Parviendra-t-elle à le retrouver à temps ?
Un thriller psychologique étourdissant à la construction diabolique.

From Aimee Molloy, author of the New York Times best seller The Perfect Mother, comes an irresistible psychological thriller featuring a newly married woman whose life is turned upside down when her husband goes missing.

A handsome psychotherapist, his lonely wife and in his home office a ceiling vent...you'd listen too, wouldn't you?

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are ready to begin their lives together in a small town in upstate New York. Whilst Annie spends most of her time alone, Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his home office, tending to the egos of his mostly female clientele.

Little does Sam know that through a vent in the ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn't satisfy her in bed. Who could resist eavesdropping?

Everything is fine until the French girl in the green Mini Cooper shows up and Sam disappears into thin air, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after.

This is a brilliant story of a whirlwind marriage in which untold secrets and games threaten to destroy them both.

Newlyweds Sam Statler and Annie Potter are head over heels, and excited to say good-bye to New York and start a life together in Sam's sleepy hometown in upstate New York. Or, it turns out, a life where Annie spends most of her time alone while Sam, her therapist husband, works long hours in his downstairs office, tending to the egos of his (mostly female) clientele.

Little does Sam know that through a vent in his ceiling, every word of his sessions can be heard from the room upstairs. The pharmacist's wife, contemplating a divorce. The well-known painter whose boyfriend doesn’t satisfy her in bed. Who could resist listening? Everything is fine until the French girl in the green mini Cooper shows up, and Sam decides to go to work and not come home, throwing a wrench into Sam and Annie's happily ever after.

У психологічному романі порушено проблеми сучасного материнства. У центрі уваги — долі жінок, які називають себе «травневими матусями» їхні малюки народилися саме цього місяця. Двічі на тиждень подруги збираються в парку й діляться своїми страхами та радощами. Одного вечора, поки діти перебувають із нянями, товариство зустрічається в місцевому барі, але щось іде не так немовля матері-одиначки Вінні викрадають із будинку. Поліція ставить тривожні запитання, і приватне життя молодої жінки стає принадою для ЗМI. Висловлюючи свій погляд на те, якою має бути ідеальна мати, авторка наголошує, що сучасні жінки можуть відкинути нав‘язані їм шаблони.

We all want different things. Francie wants to be the perfect mother. Nell wants to escape the past. Collette wants to spend more time with her family.
All Winnie wants is to have her baby back.
When Nell suggests a night out in Brooklyn to her new mums club, the others jump at the chance. But the evening takes a tragic turn when single mother Winnie learns that her six-week-old son Midas has been kidnapped.
As the investigation hits a dead end, Nell, Collette and Francie make it their mission to succeed where the police are failing. But as Winnie and those around her come under scrutiny from the media, damaging secrets come to light and friendships are pushed to the limit.
Because people will do almost anything to protect the ones they love...

Они просто собирались немного отдохнуть. Что плохого могло случиться? Пока матери веселились в баре, случилось страшное: ребенка одной из них похитили прямо из колыбели. Младенцам было всего несколько недель от роду, и все они появились на свет в мае – поэтому женщины называли себя Майские матери. Уинни, самая красивая и загадочная из них, очень не хотела оставлять…

They call themselves the May Mothers—a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. Twice a week, with strollers in tow, they get together in Prospect Park, seeking refuge from the isolation of new motherhood; sharing the fears, joys, and anxieties of their new child-centered lives.

When the group’s members agree to meet for drinks at a hip local bar, they have in mind a casual evening of fun, a brief break from their daily routine. But on this sultry Fourth of July night during the hottest summer in Brooklyn’s history, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is abducted from his crib. Winnie, a single mom, was reluctant to leave six-week-old Midas with a babysitter, but the May Mothers insisted that everything would be fine. Now Midas is missing, the police are asking disturbing questions, and Winnie’s very private life has become fodder for a ravenous media.

Though none of the other members in the group are close to the reserved Winnie, three of them will go to increasingly risky lengths to help her find her son. And as the police bungle the investigation and the media begin to scrutinize the mothers in the days that follow, damaging secrets are exposed, marriages are tested, and friendships are formed and fractured.

Vanity Fair calls it one of the most anticipated books of the summer. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Scandal's Kerry Washington.

An addictive psychological thriller about a group of women whose lives become unexpectedly connected when one of their newborns goes missing.

They call themselves the May Mothers—a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. Twice a week, with strollers in tow, they get together in Prospect Park, seeking refuge from the isolation of new motherhood; sharing the fears, joys, and anxieties of their new child-centered lives.

When the group’s members agree to meet for drinks at a hip local bar, they have in mind a casual evening of fun, a brief break from their daily routine. But on this sultry Fourth of July night during the hottest summer in Brooklyn’s history, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is abducted from his crib. Winnie, a single mom, was reluctant to leave six-week-old Midas with a babysitter, but the May Mothers insisted that everything would be fine. Now Midas is missing, the police are asking disturbing questions, and Winnie’s very private life has become fodder for a ravenous media.

Though none of the other members in the group are close to the reserved Winnie, three of them will go to increasingly risky lengths to help her find her son. And as the police bungle the investigation and the media begin to scrutinize the mothers in the days that follow, damaging secrets are exposed, marriages are tested, and friendships are formed and fractured.