A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell and more, in a project inspired by Boccaccio’s The Decameron....

From the internationally bestselling author of Lullaby, The Country of Others is perfect for fans of Elena Ferrante, Tracy Chevalier, and Maggie O’Farrell. 1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here is unrecognisable to this brave and passionate young woman....

The baby is dead. It took only a few seconds. When Myriam, a brilliant lawyer, decides to return to work, she and her husband look for a nanny for their two young children....

Her obsessions devour her. She is helpless to stop them… Adele has a seemingly enviable life. She is a respected journalist, living in a flawless Paris apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of \"having it all\", Adele is bored....

\\\"Une semaine qu\"elle tient. Une semaine qu\"elle n\"a pas cede. Mais cette nuit, elle en a reve et n\"a pas pu se rendormir. Un reve moite, interminable, qui s\"est introduit en elle comme un souffle d\"air chaud. Adele ne peut plus penser qu\"a ca.\\\" Adele semble heureuse avec Richard, le medecin qu\"elle a epouse....