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The Secret Life of Writers

The Secret Life of Writers

Author(s): Guillaume Musso

Location(s): Îles d'Hyères

Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

Era(s): Contemporary

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In 1999, after publishing three cult novels, celebrated author Nathan Fawles announces the end of his writing career and withdraws to Beaumont, a wild and beautiful island off the Mediterranean coast.

Autumn 2018. As Fawles’ novels continue to captivate readers, Mathilde Monney, a young Swiss journalist, arrives on the island, determined to unlock the writer’s secrets and secure his first interview in twenty years.

That same day, a woman’s body is discovered on the beach and the island is cordoned off by the authorities.

And so, begins a dangerous face off between Mathilde and Nathan, in which the line between truth and fiction becomes increasingly blurred…

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Author: Tina Hartas

I do like a good map at the start of the novel. I was looking at a map of the Var coastline in Southern France and was struck how one of the Îles d’Hyères,...

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