Bøger af Diana Evans

I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She's wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. 'You can lie down if you want,' she says. 'I mean it's fine, be comfortable.' So I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being comfortable.As a young magazine intern, Diana Evans was catapulted overnight into the role of culture editor, and so began her career as a journalist, writing about musicians, dancers and artists, interviewing the likes of Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful.In these portraits of contemporary icons, the author herself remains distant - always the observer. Alongside them, in essays and pieces collected here for the first time, we see her turning the lens on herself. We watch as she dances across stages in London and travels through Cuba. We sit beside her desk as she develops her voice as a writer, shaped by her love for Jean Rhys, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. We walk by her side as she navigates the world - her family and the midlife sandwich, reflections on fashion, yoga, the British monarchy and lockdowns, and the lasting impact of George Floyd and Grenfell.Crafted over twenty-five years, with the intelligence and sensitivity for which Diana Evans is celebrated, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art, identity, and everything in between.

I am sitting in bed next to Mariah Carey. She's wearing a pair of tiny boxer shorts and a belly-airing vest. "You can lie down if you want", she says. "I mean it's fine, be comfortable, " so I lean further back into the pillows, feigning being comfortable.As a young intern at Pride magazine, Diana Evans was catapulted into the role of culture editor, and so began her career as a journalist, writing about musicians, dancers and artists, interviewing the likes of Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful.In these portraits of contemporary icons, the author herself remains distant - always the observer. Alongside them, in essays and pieces collected here for the first time, we see her turning the lens to the personal. We watch as she dances across stages in London and travels through Cuba. We sit beside her desk as she develops her voice as a writer, shaped by her love for Jean Rhys, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. We walk by her side as she captures herself in the world - her family and the midlife sandwich, reflections on fashion, yoga, the British monarchy and lockdowns, and the lasting impact of George Floyd and Grenfell.Crafted over twenty-five years, with the intelligence and sensitivity that Diana Evans is known for, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art, identity, and everything in between.

'Heart and humour in abundance... exquisite' The TimesAfter fifty years in London, Alice wants to live out her days in the land of her birth. Her children are divided on whether she stays or goes, and in the wake of their father's death, the imagined stability of the family begins to fray. Meanwhile youngest daughter Melissa has never let go of a love she lost, and Michael in return, now married to Nicole, is haunted by the failed perfection of the past. As Alice's final decision draws closer, all that is hidden between them rises to the surface . . .Set against the shadows of a city and a country in turmoil, Diana Evans's ordinary people confront fundamental questions. How should we raise our children? How to do right by our parents? And how, in the midst of everything, can we satisfy ourselves?'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' Bernardine Evaristo'Diana Evans is fast proving herself a novelist to rank alongside Anne Tyler' Daily Mail'A warm but devastating narrative... Like any Evans novel, it is unputdownable' Harper's BazaarA New York Times *100 Notable Books of 2023*Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionSelected in Best Reads of 2023 by The Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, Harper's Bazaar, New Statesman and Good HousekeepingA Waterstones Book of the YearThe Bookseller Editor's ChoiceThe New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceStarred Kirkus ReviewGuardian Book of the Day

FROM THE AUTHOR OF ORDINARY PEOPLEAs a child Lucas thought that all children who'd lost their parents lived on water. Now a restless young man still living with his sister Denise on their West London narrowboat, he determines to find out more about the unexplained disappearance of his father, the charismatic Jamaican dancer, Antoney Matheus.Thus unfolds a journey from fifties Kingston to sixties Notting Hill and the host of unforgettable characters who peopled Antoney's theatrical world, most importantly Carla, Lucas's mother. The result is a haunting family mystery of absence and inheritance, the battle between love and creativity, and what drives a young man to take flight...

A hauntingly beautiful, wickedly funny, and devastatingly moving novel of innocence and dreams that announces the arrival of a major new talent to the literary sceneIn the attic room at 26 Waifer Avenue, identical twins Georgia and Bessi Hunter share nectarines and forge their identities, while escaping from the sadness and danger that inhabit the floors below. But innocence lasts for only so long--and dreams, no matter how vivid and powerful, cannot slow the relentless incursion of the real world.

Es ist nicht lange her, dass Melissa und Michael, von ihren Freunden liebevoll M & M genannt, das allseits bewunderte Paar waren. Doch jetzt ist ihre Ehe so einsturzgefährdet wie ihr Einfamilienhaus im Süden Londons. Melissa ist gerade Mutter geworden, aber statt Erfüllung empfindet sie Überforderung und sucht Trost bei den nigerianischen Eintöpfen und Zaubern ihrer Mutter. Das macht Michael, der sich ein aufregendes Leben ohne Kinder zurückwünscht, nur noch unzufriedener. Und da gibt es noch ein anderes Paar: Damian und Stephanie – und ihre drei Kinder. Damian kommt mit dem Verlust seines Vaters nicht zurecht und Melissa fand er immer schon recht anziehend ...»Ich muss einfach jedem von diesem Buch erzählen – es ist so gut, dass es mir den Atem geraubt hat.« Dolly AldertonDiana Evans, geboren 1973 in London, war Tänzerin, Journalistin und Magazinredakteurin. Für ihren Debütroman erhielt sie den Orange Award for New Writers. Leute wie wir war ein großer Kritikererfolg in Großbritannien, wurde für den Women’s Prize for Fiction nominiert und mit dem South Bank Sky Award ausgezeichnet. Diana Evans lebt mit ihrer Familie in London.

One ofThe Millions' "Most Anticipated" Books of 2018 Evoking the sharp insight of Little Fires Everywhere and the sweep of NW, an incisive portrait of the bliss and torment of domestic love.

Identical twins, Georgia and Bessi, live in the loft of 26 Waifer Avenue. It is a place of beanbags, nectarines and secrets, and visitors must always knock before entering. Forced to create their own identities, the Hunter children build a separate universe. It is when the reality comes knocking that the fantasies of childhood start to give way.

VINDER AF ORANGE PRISEN og flere andre litterære priser.Kåret til årets debutant i England. Kåret til en af årets bedste bøger i ALT for damerne (2010). Den danske presse skrev:"Vidunderlig" 6 F'er i Femina"En poetisk og intens fortælling" 5 stjerner i LIME5 hjerter i Politiken Bøger 26a på Waifer Avenue i London. Et sted med hemmeligheder, nektariner og jordbærduftende sækkestole. Nedenunder er der ikke meget harmoni. Deres nigerianske mor forsøger på mystisk vis at lindre længslen efter sit hjemland. Og deres britiske far strammer grebet om fjernbetjeningen, når han ikke vandrer vredt op og ned af Neasdens gader i et forsøg på at komme sine indre dæmoner til livs. Tvunget til at skabe deres egen identitet, opbygger Hunter-tvillingerne et univers med særlige regler og ritualer. Da virkeligheden banker på, må de give slip på barndommens fantasier. Hvordan vil Georgia og Bessie klare sig, når deres liv fører dem forskellige veje og hvem vil klare sig bedst?

SPRINGET er historien om drengen Lucas, der som barn troede, at alle forældreløse børn boede på en husbåd. Nu som en ung mand bor han stadig på den samme husbåd med sin søster, Denise, og undersøger i hemmelighed indholdet af et gammelt træskab. Her finder han rekvisitter fra Midnatsballetten, en dansetrup fra 60’erne med hans far, den karismatiske Antoney, som kunstnerisk leder. I Lucas’ søgen efter historien bag Midnatsballetten hører han om danseprøver, kunstneriske uoverensstemmelser, forræderier og den store turné. Vigtigst af alt får Lucas kendskab til Antoneys lidenskabelige og stormfulde forhold til Carla, Lucas’ mor. Og hvad der fik Antoney til at forsvinde.En enestående fortælling om dansens inderste væsen og kampen mellem kærlighed og kreativitet. Finder Lucas det, han leder efter? Ønsker han dybest set at kende sin families historie?