All patients have problems, and Doctor Alexander Williams knows it: thatβs why they come back every week, they sit on a sofa in his psychoanalysis practice and they tell him their stories. But what is it about Sylvia Fischer that he has never been able to quite grasp? Maybe the way she never mentions her life before deciding to marry her husband: a boring, cheating, rich New York boy. Or the way she talks, with a deep voice and a British accent, even if she was born in Texas. Or maybe Dr. Williams can feel the pale halo of depression that surrounds her.
One day, Sylvia Fischer tells Dr. Williams a new story: thereβs a man sheβs been in love with for many years, who now wants her to run away with him. And away she goes.
Sylvia Fischer doesnβt simply leave, though, she disappears: no words are left for her husband, her two-year-old daughter, her parents. No one knows anything about that man from Sylviaβs past, but Alexander Williams wants to believe that she has found her happiness.
Until everything collapses.
New York is the host and the beating heart of this novel: the city will guide the reader through its streets, rivers and parks, inhabited by living souls and roaming ghosts of the past.
Reviewers off ALL THE PEOPLE say βyou cannot put it downβ, it is βcapturing readerβs attention since the very first linesβ, and it has a βvery deep and accurate psychological perspectiveβ.
Annalisa Conti lives and writes in New York City, where she has been spending the last few years of her life. She is a woman who writes about women, real human beings facing drama and challenges, finding happiness and rewards, succeeding and failing. Normal people.If you like Jane Austen for her honest humor, Gillian Flynn for her descent into human darkness, and Elena Ferrante for her focus on storytelling, you will find Annalisaβs tales wildly entertaining.
She recently published her third novel, NINE.Β It is a modern tale on motherhood, a unique story about pregnancy, its hidden fears, and its untold truths.
Her second novel, AFRICA, was an Amazon Kindle #1 in its category. Reviewers say it is a βfascinatingβ βastonishingβ story of a life-changing journey to the end of the world, βpowerful and dramatic, and well integrated into this incredible βdecorumββ.
Annalisa is also the author of ALL THE PEOPLE, a novel built around a womanβs secrets. Reviewers say βyou cannot put it downβ, it is βcapturing readerβs attention since the very first linesβ, and it has a βvery deep and accurate psychological perspectiveβ.
She publishes quarterly episodes in the collection of short stories THE W SERIES, which describe the world of W, a superhero like no other. Reviewers say it is "a classic action story but somehow very different from anything else", with a "writing style packed of action and visual clues as if it was taken right out of a Marvel comic strip".
The first ten episodes of THE W SERIES have been collected in W IS FOR WONDER.