Books by Valerie Martin

From the acclaimed author of Orange Prize winning PROPERTY comes a fresh twist on the classic Jekyll and Hyde story, a novel told from the ... More

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Manon Gaudet is unhappily married to the owner of a Louisiana sugar plantation. She misses her family and longs for the vibrant lifestyle of her ... More

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Toby and Salome are a young, modern couple living in New York, but their backgrounds are world apart. He is a middle-class all-American boy from a ... More

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In the seamy theatre world of 1970s New York, where rents are cheap and love is free, aspiring actor Edward Day joins his friends for a summer ... More

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Every woman holds the power to enchant or to destroy. In New Orleans, three women from completely different backgrounds face a turning point in their ... More

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In the six stories that make up The Unfinished Novel, Valerie Martin turns an unflinching eye upon artists - driven and blocked, desired and detested ... More

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'Taut, honed and surprising' Frances Mayes, author of Under the Tuscan Sun Thirtysomething New Yorker Lucy Stark leads a quiet, solitary life working ... More

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Inspired by the great frescoes of St Francis of Assisi, the highly-praised author of PROPERTY has written a new and wholly original biography. ... More

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Part romance, part suspense, and wholly entertaining, "Italian Fever" tells the story of the awakening of Lucy Stark, an American pragmatist. Martin ... More

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Claude is a middle-aged man unwillingly attached to Mona, a woman obsessed with marriage and respectability. Then one night he meets the exotic ... More

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This alternative version of Robert Louis Stevenson's THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is seen through the eyes of Dr. Jekyll's maid, Mary ... More

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'An impressive writer'I admire her straightforward style and the intelligence and strength of her heroine' Ann Tyler Helene is a woman constantly on ... More

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Set in New Orleans, this is a novel about a love triangle. Married mother, Emma Miller, is bored with her husband, her job and her life so she begins ... More

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Emma is the mistress of Pascal, in an affair which is quickly spiralling towards violence. Pascal, however, is increasingly attracted to Claire, a ... More

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In strikingly powerful prose, spare and immediately accessible, Ms. Martin draws readers into the lives of people who crave fulfillment and the paths ... More

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Ms. Martin's trademarks: a preoccupation with the dark underside of life, a taste for disturbing, even macabre imagery excursions into an unseen ... More

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Helene Thatcher, a social worker who helps the hungry and homeless by day, is in her private life the perfect victim. Helene's need to satisfy her ... More

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This book is a true story about a lady who experienced rejection at 4 years old and not by a stranger but by her mother. She grew up feeling ... More

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A collection of inspirational poems by Valerie Bailey, a widely-read poet whose work is appreciated for its ability to impart deep spiritual concepts ... More

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