"...la famille de Stevenson a tout mis en oeuvre pour faire de lui un pur idéaliste, un être immatériel et aérien et, selon le mot cruel de son ami le poète Henley, « un séraphin en chocolat ». Il convient d'en finir avec cette hagiographie. Stevenson n'est pas qu'un délicat et charmant rêveur, à l'imagination précieuse et brillante, qui traversa la vie comme un sylphe, écrivit de belles histoires pour enfants, et s'en alla évangeliser les Canaques sans emporter à ses sandales ailées la moindre poussière terrestre. Ce fut, certes, un esprit rayonnant de grâce et de charme, mais aussi un bohême, presqu'un aventurier, un homme pétri de limon qui connut les passions et les faiblesses d'ici-bas." Pour nous tracer le portrait de cet auteur illustre, Jean-Marie Carré s'est inspiré des biographies de Hellman et Stewart et, grâce à Lloyd Osbourne, beau-fils de Stevenson, nous dévoile des extraits tirés d'oeuvres et des lettres de Stevenson,

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A wife, a mother, a killer. One wrong decision, one terrifying night, leaves student Elizabeth with a stark choice - kill or be killed. And the consequences of that choice will shape her whole life. Now a wife, a mother, and a lawyer, she must find a way to out run her past, protect her family and live with her secret. But is it really possible to live a happy life with such a huge shadow cast by the past? And as it becomes clear that someone else knows her secret and is hunting her down, time is running out for Elizabeth to keep her family safe. In the bestselling tradition of Clare Mackintosh and Jenny Blackhurst, Cynthia Clark has written a heart-stopping story about the choices we make and how far we'd go to protect our families. Even if it means deceiving the people we love most... 'If You Only Knew' is a tense, vividly written story that had me captivated right till the very end. Amazing!' -Adele O'Neill Cynthia Clark was born and brought up in Malta, where she graduated in Communications and went to work for a daily newspaper. She has since lived in the US, where she worked as a writer in online business journals. She and her husband now live in the States with their twin daughters.