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“The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post “A literary thriller of the highest order” (Elin Hilderbrand, New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Couple), Heartwood takes you on a gripping journey as a search and rescue team race...

De nieuwe roman van de bestsellerauteur van Schroder. Juliet heeft moeite het ouderschap te combineren met het voltooien van haar proefschrift. Dan kondigt haar echtgenoot Michael aan dat hij zijn baan gaat opzeggen en een zeilboot wil kopen om de wereld mee rond te varen. Hoewel het stel nauwelijks ervaring heeft met zeilen, vertrekken ze met hun twee kinderen, Sybil van zeven en George van twee, naar Panama. Daar ligt de Juliet, zoals Michael de boot gedoopt heeft, op hen te wachten.

Die Havarie einer Ehe, ein Segeltörn in der Karibik. Mit großem erzählerischem Geschick entfaltet Amity Gaige ein nautisches und menschliches Drama. Juliet arbeitet an ihrer Dissertation und lebt mit den beiden Kindern und ihrem Mann Michael ein Vorstadtleben. Michael gelingt es, sie für seinen großen Traum zu begeistern: ein Jahr auf hoher See auf einer Segelyacht zu verbringen. Atemlos steuern wir mit der vierköpfigen Familie in der Karibik dem dramatischen Finale entgegen.

Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their 44 foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression, and the children quickly embrace the joys of being feral children at sea.

The external lives of Clark, a high school guidance counselor, and Charlotte, a bookkeeper, are utterly ordinary, but their interior lives are as bold and complex as abstract paintings colored by imagined possibilities, childhood joys and, more darkly, by deeply buried fears. When Clark rescues a young boy from drowning, a chain of events - some comic, some harrowing - is set in motion, revealing the fault lines of the couple's marriage and individual psyches.

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily...