Without Mercy

Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. Reprint.

Literature & Fiction

Dorrestein,Renate

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

For ten-year-old Christine, home is a hostile, troubling place. Her mother reserves her affection for her younger, live-in-lover, and for Waldo, Christine's teenage brother. Christine viciously takes out her angry feelings on her Barbies and on a weaker girl in her class. Then on a family holiday in Scotland, a tragic accident occurs for which Christine blames herself, and panic-stricken, she runs away with her four-year-old brother, and hides in the back of a stranger's car. Agnes Stam is an elderly Dutch spinster, making her annual summer pilgrimage to her family's holiday cottage on Mull. When she discover the little stowaways in her car, she fails to report the missing children and allows them to stay. And so a little girl with a big, guilty secret becomes a lonely old woman's salvation - and also her nemesis.

A Crying Shame

Black Swan.

Their ideal family life shattered by the senseless murder of their beloved and promising teenage son, Phinus and Franka Vermeer find their marriage increasingly strained in the ensuing emotional turmoil. 25,000 first printing.

Literary

Viking Adult

A Dutch girl living in suburban Amsterdam, Ellen Van Bemmel begins to delve into her own past when a traumatic event shakes her idyllic family life. 25,000 first printing.

A Heart of Stone

Velmans, Hester

Genre Fiction

Thorndike Pr

“Just a remarkable book. Haunting characters, amazing voice, propulsive plot. I hope we see a lot more from Dorrestein. Count me among her fans.”―Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club
“Dorrestein knows how to chill her readers with tragedy and then melt their hearts with forgiveness.” ―Susan Vreeland on A Heart of Stone
Lucy is the most popular girl in the local elementary school of an idyllic Dutch housing estate. When a bizarre crime rocks her world and sends her mother to prison, Lucy is turned into an outcast and her childhood becomes an ordeal of constant, vicious bullying. After her mother’s release, Lucy’s family decides to escape and make a clean start on a rugged Scottish island. But even here, in this remote corner of the world, Lucy’s past holds a firm grip on her. Told in the alternating voices of the bullies and Lucy, this darkly atmospheric and emotionally gripping story is part family drama and part mystery.
Renate Dorrestein (1954–2018) was an internationally bestselling author who occupies a unique position within Dutch literature. An extraordinary storyteller, known for her unsentimental depiction of children and their flawed families, Dorrestein’s wicked humor offsets the darkness of her subjects. Her novels have been made into films and translated into fifteen languages.

The Darkness that Divides Us

World Editions

Een hart van steen

Contact

Het hemelse gerecht (Dutch Edition)

Want dit is mijn lichaam (Dutch Edition)

Verborgen achter de statige Amsterdamse grachtengevels heersen het groen en de stilte. Bij de aanleg van de grachtengordel in de zeventiende eeuw, golden voor de tuinen strenge regels, keuren genoemd, die bebouwing en opsplitsing verboden. Na een periode van verwaarlozing, staat de grachtentuin de laatste jaren weer volop in de belangstelling. Dit monument in boekvorm is een initiatief van de Stichting de Amsterdamse Grachten-tuin. Fotograaf Harold Strak heeft de grachten-tuinen een jaar lang in alle seizoenen op beeld vastgelegd. Het essay is van kunsthistoricus Koen Kleijn en auteur Renate Dorrestein zorgt voor een puntig en vermakelijk capriccio.

Behind the Facades: Gardens of Canal Houses in Amsterdam

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Kleijn, Koen

Gardening & Landscape Design

Architectura&Natura Press

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