Издания и произведения

Когда перед юной Лекси словно из ниоткуда возникает загадочный и легкомысленный Кент Иннес, она осознает, что больше не выдержит унылого существования в английской глуши. Для Лекси начинается новая жизнь в лондонском Сохо. На дворе 1950-е — годы перемен. Лекси мечтает о бурной, полной великих дел жизни, но поначалу ее ждет ужасная комнатенка и работа лифтерши в шикарном универмаге. Но вскоре все изменится... В жизни Элины, живущей на полвека позже Лекси, тоже все меняется. Художница Элина изо всех сил пытается совместить творчество с материнством, но все чаще на нее накатывает отчаяние... В памяти Теда то и дело всплывает женщина, красивая…

Dans le Soho bouillonnant des sixties, Lexie, apprentie journaliste, comble sa soif d’indépendance et ses rêves de gloire. Quarante ans plus tard, la jeune Elena s’efforce de surmonter un accouchement difficile tandis que son mari voit malgré lui ressurgir les zones d’ombre de son enfance. Deux destins bouleversants, unis par...

When the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep, Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin, and leaves for London. There, at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene, she carves out a new life. In the present day, Elina and Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child. Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with her sense of herself as an artist, and Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don't tally with his parents' version of events. As Ted begins to search for answers, an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed, separated by fifty years, but…

Frustrated with her parents' genteel country life, Lexie Sinclair plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, postwar Soho. She learns to be a reporter, comes to know art and artists, and embraces her freedom fully. So when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily navigates the first weeks of motherhood and finds she can't remember giving birth, while her boyfriend Ted is flooded with memories and images he cannot place. As their…

Lexie Sinclair is plotting an extraordinary life for herself. Hedged in by her parents' genteel country life, she plans her escape to London. There, she takes up with Innes Kent, a magazine editor who wears duck-egg blue ties and introduces her to the thrilling, underground world of bohemian, post-war Soho. She learns to be a reporter, to know art and artists, to embrace her life fully and with a deep love at the center of it. She creates many lives--all of them unconventional. And when she finds herself pregnant, she doesn't hesitate to have the baby on her own terms. Later, in present-day London, a young painter named Elina dizzily…