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Wilhelmina Upton regagne Templeton, toute malheureuse. Elle est enceinte de son directeur de thèse, un homme marié. Ses retrouvailles avec sa mère sont houleuses, car cette dernière révèle à sa fille que son père appartient à la prestigieuse lignée de Marmaduke Temple, comme elles deux. Au même moment un monstre refait surface sur les eaux du lac à Templeton. Premier roman.

En 1991, Lotto et Mathilde ont 22 ans. Séduisants et amoureux, ils se sont rencontrés à l'université et se marient rapidement. Dix ans plus tard, Lotto est devenu un dramaturge reconnu et son épouse le soutient dans toutes ses entreprises. Archétype du couple réussi, ils suscitent des jalousies. Mais leur union pourrait avoir une raison d'être peu avouable.

Every story has two sides. Every relationship has two perspectives. And sometimes, it turns out, the key to a great marriage is not its truths but its secrets. At age twenty-two, Lotto and Mathilde are tall, glamorous, madly in love and destined for greatness. A decade later, their marriage is still the envy of their friends, but behind closed doors things are even more complicated and remarkable than they have seemed.

A remarkable historical novel by the bestselling author of Fates and Furies Cast out of the royal court by Eleanor of Aquitaine, deemed too coarse and rough-hewn for marriage or courtly life, seventeen-year-old Marie de France is sent to England to be the new prioress of an impoverished abbey, its nuns on the brink of starvation and beset by disease. At first taken aback by the severity of her new life, Marie finds focus and love in collective life with her singular and mercurial sisters. In this crucible, Marie steadily supplants her desire for family, for her homeland, for the passions of her youth with something new to her: devotion to her sisters, and a conviction in her own divine visions. Marie, born the last in a long line of women warriors and crusaders, is determined to chart a bold new course for the women she now leads and protects. But in a world that is shifting and corroding in frightening ways, one that can never reconcile itself with her existence, will the sheer force of Marie''s vision be bulwark enough? Equally alive to the sacred and the profane, Matrix gathers currents of violence, sensuality and religious ecstasy in a mesmerising portrait of consuming passion, aberrant faith and a woman that history moves both through and around.

Un roman biographique sur Marie de France, poétesse de la Renaissance. Expulsée de la cour par Aliénor d'Aquitaine, elle s'exile dans une abbaye d'Angleterre. Cet isolement est une révélation. Elle se voue alors à la poursuite de ses idéaux et à sa passion des mots. ©Electre 2023