Laura Bloom: 4 books

Robert was surprised when he saw the atom blast on film, the mushroom cloud billowing up to the sky, so peaceful and final-looking. So natural-seeming that this was what would end it. … …Home was her, Catherine, in her blue cotton dress, dancing to the radio in the living room, the furniture pushed...

I needed someone I could trust. Someone others would trust. Someone with no criminal record. With no previous involvement. A cleanskin. Someone to come over, do the job, and go home … Some days, even Halley can’t find the person she once was. She’s changed her name and no one – least of all...

Summer Hill, une banlieue de Sydney, dans les années 1940. Pour les femmes restées au pays, la guerre est aussi une épreuve. Sans nouvelles de son mari, mobilisé dans le Pacifique, Catherine est persuadée qu'il est mort. Ne supportant plus la solitude, elle finit par trouver du réconfort...

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...