Everything You Know

Everything You Know is the first novel from the bestselling author of Notes on a Scandal, Zoe Heller. 
 
The women in Willy Muller's life are trouble. 
 
His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his other, even dopier, girlfriend, just wants more sex. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Sophie, wants him to finance her husband's drug habit. 
 
But it's his youngest daughter, Sadie, who's giving him the biggest headache. Just before committing suicide three months ago, she sent Willy her diaries. Poring over the record of her empty life, he feels pangs of something unexpected . . . remorse. But isn't it a bit late for such sentimental guff? 
 
Set in London, Hollywood and Mexico, Everything You Know is a supremely witty take on love, death and the age-old battle of the sexes. 
 
'Instantly ranks her among the most interesting and exciting of British writers' Will Self 
 
'Sharp and feisty, a riotous read' Tatler 
 
'Fast paced and finely timed, veering from tragedy to farce to back again . . . full of brilliant observations' Harpers and Queen 
 
'Seamlessly blends the sarcastic and the sincere, the comic and the tragic . . . stylish and spirited' New York Times 
 
 
Zoë Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers. The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York.

Instantly ranks her among the most interesting and exciting of British writers

Fast paced and finely timed...ambitious and satisfying

Seamlessly blends the sarcastic and the sincere, the comic and the tragic . . . stylish and spirited

Zoë Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers. She lives in New York.

The women in Willy Muller's life are trouble. 
 
His mother insists he eat tofu. His dopey girlfriend, Penny, wants him to overcome his personal space issues - while Karen, his other, even dopier, girlfriend, just wants more sex. Meanwhile, his oldest daughter, Sophie, wants him to finance her husband's drug habit. 
 
But it's his youngest daughter, Sadie, who's giving him the biggest headache. Just before committing suicide three months ago, she sent Willy her diaries. Poring over the record of her empty life, he feels pangs of something unexpected . . . remorse. But isn't it a bit late for such sentimental guff? 
 
Set in London, Hollywood and Mexico, Everything You Know is a supremely witty take on love, death and the age-old battle of the sexes.

The Believers

Zoë Heller's darkly comic third novel, The Believers explores a family pushed to its limits. 
 
When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radial lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will soon have to come to terms with this unsettling secret themselves, but for the meantime, they are trying tot cope with their own dilemmas. 
 
Rosa, a disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Karla, an unhappily married social worker, is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. 
 
In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in. 
 
'Profoundly satisfying. No other novel would readily stand in its stead . . . pulses with thematic and intellectual content . . . Heller's prose is clean, warm and smart' Lionel Shriver, Daily Telegraph 
 
'Astonishingly well-observed and stunningly written, a subtle, funny family farce . . . in its thundering confidence, The Believers is the work of a writer at the top of her game' Guardian 
 
 
Zoë Heller is the author of three novels, Everything You Know, Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003 and The Believers. The 2006 film adaptation of Notes on a Scandal, starring Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench, received four Oscar nominations. She lives in New York.

Zoë Heller is the author of two previous novels, Everything You Know and Notes on a Scandal, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2003.

When Audrey makes a devastating discovery about her husband, New York radical lawyer Joel Litvinoff, she is forced to re-examine everything she thought she knew about their forty-year marriage. Joel's children will have to deal with this unsettling secret themselves, but meanwhile, they are trying to cope with their own dilemmas. Rosa, beautiful, disillusioned revolutionary, is grappling with a new-found attachment to Orthodox Judaism. Unhappily married Karla is falling in love with an unlikely suitor at the hospital where she works. Adopted brother Lenny is back on drugs again. 
 
In the course of battling their own demons and each other, every member of the family is called upon to decide what - if anything - they still believe in.

Zoë Heller

Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages

Excellent. An undercurrent of subtle malice, cleverly controlled by Heller

Reads like a nose through someone else's bathroom cabinet: full of guilty insights and delicious snobbery

A subtle study in obsession and loneliness ... my take-it-to-the-beach recommendation

'We don't have secrets, Sheba and I' 
 
From the first day that the beguiling Sheba Hart joins the staff of St George's, history teacher Barbara Covett is convinced that she has found a kindred spirit. Barbara's loyalty to her new friend is passionate and unstinting and when Sheba is discovered having an illicit affair with one of her young pupils, Barbara quickly elects herself as Sheba's chief defender. But all is not as at first it seems in this dark story and, as Sheba will soon discover, a friend can be just as treacherous as any lover.

Zoë Heller

Praise for Notes on a Scandal

Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages

Deliciously sinister

Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages

Deliciously sinister

Fascinating, brilliant, horribly addictive

Superbly gripping. One of the most compelling books I've read in ages

Deliciously sinister

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