Лучшие книги Клэр Фуллер

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...

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.

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.

Elle's Most Anticipated Books by Women A Most Anticipated Book at Buzzfeed, Goodreads, NYLON, Bustle, and Reader's Digest 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…

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.