Новинки Клэр Фуллер

Выживальщик Джеймс Хиллкоут готовится к концу света — строит убежище в подвале своего лондонского дома и делает запасы. Однако со временем подвал начинает казаться ему ненадежным, и после размолвки с женой он без ее ведома увозит восьмилетнюю дочь Пегги в заброшенную хижину посреди глухого леса где-то в Германии. Так начинается история их выживания. История последних двух людей на земле, как думает Пегги, — ведь отец убедил ее, что во всем мире больше никого не осталось … Девять лет спустя Пегги возвращается домой, к матери, но попытки выяснить, что произошло в лесу, приводят к новым загадкам.

When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracks
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.
But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake.
Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness.

From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Unsettled Ground comes a beautiful and searing novel of memory, love, survival―and octopuses.

In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease’s devastating symptoms: sensory damage, memory loss, death. Neffy, a disgraced and desperately indebted twenty-seven-year-old marine biologist, registers for an experimental vaccine trial in London―perhaps humanity’s last hope for a cure. Though isolated from the chaos outside, she and the other volunteers―Rachel, Leon, Yahiko, and Piper―cannot hide from the mistakes that led them there.

As London descends into chaos outside the hospital windows, Neffy befriends Leon, who before the pandemic had been working on a controversial technology that allows users to revisit their memories. She withdraws into projections of her past―a childhood bisected by divorce; a recent love affair; her obsessive research with octopuses and the one mistake that ended her career. The lines between past, present, and future begin to blur, and Neffy is left with defining questions: Who can she trust? Why can’t she forgive herself? How should she live, if she survives?

The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness, that asks what truly defines us―and the lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love.

Новый американский владелец старинного английского поместья нанимает сорокалетнюю Фрэнсис Джеллико для составления описи садовой архитектуры. В поместье она знакомится с красивой и притягательной парой - Карой и Питером, которые быстро становятся ее лучшими друзьями. Почти все время они проводят втроем: обедают, доставая из погребов редкие вина, курят, слушают музыку, разговаривают о жизни. Они засиживаются допоздна, затем расходятся по своим комнатам, и Фрэнсис в случайно обнаруженный потайной глазок подглядывает за друзьями. Оказывается, все не совсем так, как ей рассказывают. Или совсем не так...

At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home.

But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they’ve so carefully created begins to fall apart. The cottage they love, and the security it offered, is taken back by their landlord, exposing the twins to harsh truths and even harsher realities. Seeing a new future, Julius becomes torn between the loyalty he feels towards his sister and his desire for independence, while Jeanie struggles to find work and a home for them both. And just when it seems there might be a way forward, a series of startling secrets from their mother’s past come to the surface, forcing the twins to question who they are, and everything they know of their family’s history.

In Unsettled Ground, award-winning author Claire Fuller masterfully builds a tale of sacrifice and hope, of homelessness and hardship, of love and survival, in which two marginalized and remarkable people uncover long-held family secrets and, in their own way, repair, recover, and begin again.

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?
What would you do to get it back?
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for

What if the life you have always known is taken from you in an instant?
What would you do to get it back?
Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for

Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple.

Were the signs there right from the beginning?

Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?

Новый американский владелец старинного английского поместья нанимает сорокалетнюю Фрэнсис Джеллико для составления описи садовой архитектуры. В поместье она знакомится с красивой и притягательной парой — Карой и Питером, которые быстро становятся ее лучшими друзьями. Почти все время они проводят втроем: обедают, доставая из погребов редкие вина, курят, слушают музыку, разговаривают о жизни. Они засиживаются допоздна, затем расходятся по своим комнатам, и Фрэнсис в случайно обнаруженный потайной глазок подглядывает за друзьями. Оказывается, все не совсем так, как ей рассказывают. Или совсем не так...

Новый американский владелец старинного английского поместья нанимает сорокалетнюю Фрэнсис Джеллико для составления описи садовой архитектуры. В поместье она знакомится с красивой и притягательной парой – Карой и Питером, которые быстро становятся ее лучшими друзьями. Почти все время они проводят втроем: обедают, доставая из погребов редкие вина, курят, слушают музыку, разговаривают о жизни. Они засиживаются допоздна, затем расходятся по своим комнатам, и Фрэнсис в случайно обнаруженный потайной глазок подглядывает за друзьями. Оказывается, все не совсем так, как ей рассказывают. Или совсем не так…
Claire Fuller 2018
Издание на русском языке, перевод на русский язык, оформление.
Издательство «Синдбад», 2019.
Запись произведена Аудио Издательством ВИМБО
&℗ ООО «Вимбо», 2019
Продюсеры: Вадим Бух, Михаил Литваков

Новый американский владелец старинного английского поместья нанимает сорокалетнюю Фрэнсис Джеллико для составления описи садовой архитектуры. В поместье она знакомится с красивой и притягательной парой – Карой и Питером, которые быстро становятся ее лучшими друзьями. Почти все время они проводят втроем: обедают, доставая из погребов редкие вина, курят, слушают музыку, разговаривают о жизни. Они засиживаются допоздна, затем расходятся по своим комнатам, и Фрэнсис в случайно обнаруженный потайной глазок подглядывает за друзьями. Оказывается, все не совсем так, как ей рассказывают.
Или совсем не так…

Frances Jellico is dying, her memory clouded by illness. A man who calls himself a vicar visits her often, determined to extract a confession from her. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances, tasked with surveying the Lyntons' garden architecture for the absent owner, first set eyes on the glamorous, bohemian Cara and Peter. He will want to know how she tumbled into their dazzling lives: the wine-drenched dinners, the skies hot and hazy with cigarettes

***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2018***

The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.

'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.'

Gil's wife, Ingrid has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years.

A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?

From the attic of Lyntons, a dilapidated English country mansion, Frances Jellico sees them—Cara first: dark and beautiful, then Peter: striking and serious. The couple is spending the summer of 1969 in the rooms below hers while Frances is researching the architecture in the surrounding gardens. But she's distracted. Beneath a floorboard in her bathroom, she finds a peephole that gives her access to her neighbors’ private lives.

To Frances' surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to get to know her. It is the first occasion she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes until the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled.

But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don’t quite add up, and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand their lives forever.

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From the author of the award-winning and word-of-mouth sensation Our Endless Numbered Days comes an exhilarating literary mystery that will keep readers guessing until the final page.
Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their marriage, but instead of giving them to him, she hides them in the thousands of books he has collected over the years. When Ingrid has written her final letter she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her beautiful but dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan.

Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he’s getting older and this unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her father and to try to finally discover what happened to Ingrid. But what Flora doesn’t realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and whip-smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a passionate and troubled marriage.

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything.

Выживальщик Джеймс Хиллкоут готовится к концу света – строит убежище в подвале своего лондонского дома и делает запасы. Однако со временем подвал начинает казаться ему ненадежным, и после размолвки с женой он без ее ведома увозит восьмилетнюю дочь Пегги в заброшенную хижину посреди глухого леса г­де-то в Германии. Так начинается история их выживания. История последних двух людей на земле, как думает Пегги, – ведь отец убедил ее, что во всем мире больше никого не осталось…
Девять лет спустя Пегги возвращается домой, к матери, но попытки выяснить, что произошло в лесу, приводят к новым загадкам.

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.

Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. And so her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is Everything.

Peggy is not seen again for another nine years.

1985: Peggy has returned to the family home. But what happened to her in the forest? And why has she come back now?

Peggy Hillcoat is eight years old when her survivalist father, James, takes her from their home in London to a remote hut in the woods and tells her that the rest of the world has been destroyed. Deep in the wilderness, Peggy and James make a life for themselves. They repair the hut, bathe in water from the river, hunt and gather food in the summers and almost starve in the harsh winters. They mark their days only by the sun and the seasons.

When Peggy finds a pair of boots in the forest and begins a search for their owner, she unwittingly begins to unravel the series of events that brought her to the woods and, in doing so, discovers the strength she needs to go back to the home and mother she thought she’d lost.

After Peggy's return to civilization, her mother learns the truth of her escape, of what happened to James on the last night out in the woods, and of the secret that Peggy has carried with her ever since.