Марина Левицкая3.6 "Краткая история тракторов по-украински" - первая книга британской писательницы украинского происхождения Марины Левицкой, роман об украинцах, написанный по-английски. Эта история из жизни эмигрантов с Украины произвела настоящий фурор в Великобритании, затем - в Европе и в США, на целый год возглавив список бестселлеров. Книгу купили и прочли более одного миллиона англичан, она была признана самой смешной книгой года, за что получила престижную премию Вудхауза.
Роман действительно очень смешной и одновременно - очень грустный. И никто лучше, чем сам автор, не скажет, о чем эта история. "Через два года после смерти моей мамы отец влюбился в шикарную украинскую блондинку-разведенку. Ему было восемьдесят четыре, ей - тридцать шесть. Она взорвала нашу жизнь, словно пушистая розовая граната, взболтав мутную воду вытолкнув на поверхность осевшие на дно воспоминания и наподдав под зад нашим семейным призракам".
Кэрол Кадвалладр0.0 When Rebecca Monroe—married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition—discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history will play a role in her future.For Rebecca, the wry and observant narrator of The Family Tree, simple things said over breakfast take on greater meaning: a home-improvement project foreshadows darker things to come; the color of one’s eyes, the slope of a forehead are all missing pieces to the truth behind the family tree.
At once nostalgic and refreshingly original, The Family Tree is a sophisticated story of one woman and the generations of women who came before her and whose legacy shaped her life and its emotional landscape.
Linda Gillard0.0 A passionate, off-beat love story set on the bleak and beautiful island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Haunted by her turbulent past, she takes refuge in a remote Hebridean island community where she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. A new life and new love are offered by friends, her estranged daughter and most of all by Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own demons to exorcise. But does Rose, with her tenuous hold on sanity, have the courage to say “Yes” to life and put her past behind her?
REVIEWS
“The emotional power makes this reviewer reflect on how Charlotte and Emily Bronte might have written if they were living and writing now.”
Northwords Now
“Complex and important issues are played out in the windswept beauty of a Hebridean island setting, with a hero who is definitely in the Mr Darcy league!”
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Julia Gregson3.0 Growing up in Wales, Catherine Carreg has been allowed to run wild, spending her childhood racing ponies along the beach with her friend Deio, the cattle-driver’s son. But Catherine is consumed by a longing to escape the monotony of village life and runs away to London with Deio’s help. Alone in the unfamiliar city, Catherine secures a position in Florence Nightingale’s home for sick governesses. As the nation is gripped by reports of war in the Crimea, Catherine volunteers as a nurse—and her life changes beyond all recognition. Arriving in Scutari, she is immediately thrown into a living nightmare. Amid the madness and chaos, Catherine is forced to grow up quickly, learning the hardest lessons of love and war.
Гарри Томпсон0.0 1828 - Brilliant young naval officer Robert FitzRoy is given the captaincy of HMS Beagle, surveying the wilds of Tierra del Fuego, aged just twenty-three. He takes a passenger: a young trainee cleric and amateur geologist named Charles Darwin. This is the story of a deep friendship between two men, and the twin obsessions that tore it apart, leading one to triumph and the other to disaster...
