Journaliste Indigo Hartt heeft ogenschijnlijk een succesvol en gelukkig leven. Maar ze eet haar lunch alleen in de kelder van het kantoorgebouw, haar beste vriendin is een Disneyprinses en ze is er ook stilletjes van overtuigd dat ze alleen zal sterven — omringd door 30 katten. Wanneer een therapeut haar leert dat ze autisme en ADHD heeft, begint Indigo's zoektocht naar haar plaats in een wereld die niet voor haar gemaakt lijkt. En dan ontmoet ze Owen, een knappe, intelligente man waar ze het goed mee kan vinden. Naarmate hun relatie serieuzer wordt, vindt Indigo het lastiger om haar eigen demonen te trotseren. Ze beseft dat ze haar diagnose moet aanvaarden als ze haar relatie — en zichzelf wil redden. Maar zal ze ooit ten volle kunnen omarmen wie ze is? Roxanne Wellens is auteur, journalist en illustrator. Eerder won ze met De dingen die ik nooit kon zeggen een Bronzen Griffel in Nederland. Ze probeert met al haar werk, zowel journalistiek als literair, onbespreekbare dingen bespreekbaar te maken en mensen te verbinden met hun innerlijke kracht.

Can two broken boys find their perfect home? Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he's caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing - each teenager assuming Sam is a friend of another sibling. Sam finds himself inextricably caught up in their life, and falling for the beautiful Moxie. But Sam has a secret, and his past is about to catch up with him.

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love. Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together. Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since. Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees. Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?

Journaliste Indigo Hartt heeft ogenschijnlijk een succesvol en gelukkig leven. Maar ze eet haar lunch alleen in de kelder van het kantoorgebouw, haar beste vriendin is een Disneyprinses en ze is er ook stilletjes van overtuigd dat ze alleen zal sterven — omringd door 30 katten. Wanneer een therapeut haar leert dat ze autisme en ADHD heeft, begint Indigo's zoektocht naar haar plaats in een wereld die niet voor haar gemaakt lijkt. En dan ontmoet ze Owen, een knappe, intelligente man waar ze het goed mee kan vinden. Naarmate hun relatie serieuzer wordt, vindt Indigo het lastiger om haar eigen demonen te trotseren. Ze beseft dat ze haar diagnose moet aanvaarden als ze haar relatie — en zichzelf wil redden. Maar zal ze ooit ten volle kunnen omarmen wie ze is? Roxanne Wellens is auteur, journalist en illustrator. Eerder won ze met De dingen die ik nooit kon zeggen een Bronzen Griffel in Nederland. Ze probeert met al haar werk, zowel journalistiek als literair, onbespreekbare dingen bespreekbaar te maken en mensen te verbinden met hun innerlijke kracht.

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.

No one’s ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine. Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office. When she and Raymond together save Sammy, an elderly gentleman who has fallen on the sidewalk, the three become the kinds of friends who rescue one another from the lives of isolation they have each been living. And it is Raymond’s big heart that will ultimately help Eleanor find the way to repair her own profoundly damaged one. Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese Witherspoon, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine is the smart, warm, and uplifting story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. . . The only way to survive is to open your heart.

What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people? Does technology draw us closer together or trap us behind screens? When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between works and lives -- from Edward Hopper's Nighthawks to Andy Warhol's Time Capsules, from Henry Darger's hoarding to the depredations of the AIDS crisis -- Laing conducts an electric, dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone, illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted and redeemed.