Joy Fielding

Joy Fielding at a book signing in Hagen

Joy Fielding (née Tepperman) (born March 18, 1945 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer and actress. She lives in Toronto and Palm Beach with her husband Warren and has two daughters, Shannon and Annie.

Life

Joy Fielding began writing stories at the age of eight and soon afterwards also small plays which she acted out with friends. At twelve, she wrote a screenplay for a television film in which a twelve-year-old murdered her parents. As a teenager, she continued to write stories. However, all of them were rejected by magazines and publishers.

She completed her studies of English literature at the University of Toronto in 1966 with a bachelor's degree . While still a student she had abandoned her plan to become a writer and instead starred in around 20 student films, including the internationally acclaimed film Winter kept us warm (1965) by David Secter. This was the first English-language Canadian film to be shown at the Cannes Film Festival . Fielding wanted to be an actress and moved to Los Angeles after graduating . She lived there for almost three years and starred in an episode of the western series Smoking Colts . After personal and professional disappointments, she rediscovered writing.

She returned to Toronto in the early 1970s and concentrated on writing novels. For a living she mainly played in TV commercials until she earned enough money by writing. Her international breakthrough came in 1991 with the thriller run, Jane, run ("See Jane Run"), of which 1.8 million copies were sold. Her other works also became international bestsellers .

Joy Fielding writes thrillers and psychological thrillers , but they always depict different abysses of society in different ways. The topics reflect the full range of violence: rape, psychological terror, violence in marriage, child abduction and the like. Most of the stories are set in major American cities. The main characters are always women, who are often well-educated and good-looking, who “have achieved something” in life, live in a seemingly perfect relationship and have children. But they often carry secrets, unrealized wishes or unrealized longings that come to light through random occurrences, nervous breakdowns or creeping processes.

Editions of books and audio books

In Germany, 20 titles by Joy Fielding have been published as book editions so far . The Goldmann Verlag moved since 1981 ( Sag Mami Goodbye ) all her books up to two ( I want her husband and Kinky conditions ) as paperback editions . These two were published between 1985 and 2003 in different editions by Droemer-Knaur-Verlag , which also published the three titles Sag Mami Goodbye , Lifelong Is Not Enough and A Murderous Summer both in paperback and as a paperback.

In addition to the paperback, Schlaf does not appear when it gets dark and Only if you love me as a hardback, the latter is also available as an e-book at PeP. The books were mainly translated by Christa E. Seibicke, Mechtild Sandberg-Ciletti and Kristian Lutze . Both publishers also brought out double novel editions, each of which contained two novels in one volume, and a number of special editions. In addition, the Petersen publishing house in Oststeinbek has published three titles in English in Germany ( See, Jane, Run , Missing Pieces and The First Time ). Until 2004, the English originals were published alternately by Doubleday and Morrow, since 2004 by Atria Books. Joy Fielding's books have been translated into 23 languages. They are sold in 25 countries, in Germany over five million times. Various works in abridged versions were published as audio book editions on CD by Random House Audio Verlag, mostly spoken by Hansi Jochmann . Do not count the hours (2001) was read by Katharina Palm and published by BMG Wort , which was renamed Random House Audio Verlag in 2001.

bibliography

• The Best of Friends - 1972
• The Transformation - 1976
• Trance - 1979
• Sag Mami Goodbye , 1981 ( Kiss Mommy Goodbye , 1981)
• I Want Your Man , 1985 ( The Other Woman , 1983)
• Life is not enough , 1986 ( Life Penalty , 1984)
• A Murderous Summer , 1988 ( The Deep End , 1986)
• Confused Relationships , 1991 ( Good Intentions , 1989)
• Run, jane, run! , 1991 ( See Jane Run , 1991)
• Don't Look Around , 1993 ( Tell Me No Secrets , 1993)
• Flee If You Can , 1995 ( Don't Cry Now , 1995)
• On a silk thread , 1997 ( Missing Pieces , 1997)
• Don't count the hours , 2000 ( The First Time , 2000)
• Only if you love me , 2002 ( Grand Avenue , 2001)
• Don't Sleep When It Gets Dark , 2004 ( Whispers and Lies , 2002)
• Before the evening comes , 2004 ( Lost , 2004)
• Dance, Doll, Dance , 2005 ( Puppet , 2005)
• Sweet Dreams My Girl , 2006, ( Mad River Road , 2006)
• Only Death Can Save You , 2007, ( Heartstopper , 2007)
• The Cat , 2008, ( Charley's Webb , 2008)
• In a coma , 2009 ( Still Life , 2009)
• Doom , 2010 ( The Wild Zone , 2010)
• Herzschlag , Goldmann , Munich 2011 ( Now you see her , 2011), ISBN 978-3-442-31206-1 .
• The heart of evil , Goldmann, Munich 2012 ( Shadow Creek , 2012), ISBN 978-3-442-31270-2 .
• Say that you love me , Goldmann, Munich 2014 ( Someone Is Watching , 2015), ISBN 978-3-442-31271-9 .
• The sister , Goldmann, Munich 2016 ( She's not there , 2016), ISBN 978-3-442-31272-6 .
• As long as you breathe , Goldmann, Munich 2017 ( Bleeding Hearts , 2017), ISBN 978-3-442-31434-8 .
• Blind Date , Goldmann, Munich 2019 ( All The Wrong Places , 2019), ISBN 978-3-442-31435-5 .

reception

In Reclam's Krimi-Lexikon , the characterization of her substantive style was short and to the point, but drastic between the lines: “In Fieldings thrillers popular with a female audience, a heroine who is naive to the limit of her pain usually gets into a plot by her husband. Their secretive tendencies prevented a quick resolution of the drama for three to four hundred pages. "

Audio books

• 2004: Don't sleep when it gets dark , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3898307949 , (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann , 415 min.)
• 2006: Tanz, Püppchen, Tanz , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866040045 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 360 min.)
• 2006: Sweet dreams, my girl , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3828990579 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 447 min.)
• 2007: Only death can save you , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866047020 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 420 min.)
• 2008: Don't count the hours , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866049581 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Katharina Palm , 450 min.)
• 2008: Lauf, Jane, Lauf, Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866049598 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 420 min.)
• 2008: The Cat , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866048799 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 422 min.)
• 2008: Don't sleep when it gets dark , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3866049574 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 420 min.)
• 2009: Am seidenen Faden , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837100921 (abridged, 4 CDs read by Simone Thomalla , 280 min.)
• 2009: Im Koma , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837101317 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 438 min.)
• 2010: The Destiny , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3837104721 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 423 min.)
• 2011: Herzschlag , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3867177801 (abridged, 6 CDs read by Hansi Jochmann, 460 min.)
• 2012: The Heart of Evil , Random House Audio Cologne, ISBN 978-3867178815 , (abridged, 6 CDs read by Anneke Kim Sarnau , 6h 58 min.)
• 2015: Say that you love me , Der Hörverlag , Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8445-1776-7 , (abridged, 6 CDs read by Petra Schmidt-Schaller , 419 min.)
• 2016: Die Sister , Der Hörverlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-8445-2169-6 , (abridged, 1 CD read by Petra Schmidt-Schaller, 579 min.)
• 2017: As long as you breathe , Der Hörverlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8445-2691-2 , (abbreviated, 1 CD read by Petra Schmidt-Schaller, 552 min.)

Web links

• Literature by and about Joy Fielding in the catalog of the German National Library
• Joy Fieldings Official Website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Biography on Joy Fielding's website, accessed March 12, 2018.
2. ↑ Interview with Joy Fielding [1]
3. ↑ Klaus-Peter Walter (Ed.): Reclams Krimi-Lexikon . Authors and works. Philipp Reclam Jun., Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-150-10509-9 , p. 132.