Susanna Jones Ordre des livres

Aan het begin van de 20e eeuw odernemen vier jonge Engelse vrouwen klimexpedities in Schotland en in de Alpen met tragische gevolgen voor enkele van hen.

As Queen Victoria’s reign reaches its end, Grace Farringdon dreams of polar explorations and of escape from her stifling home. But when Grace secretly applies to Candlin, a women’s college filled with intelligent, like-minded women, she finally feels her ambitions beginning to be take shape. There she forms an Antarctic Exploration Society with the gregarious suffragette Locke, the reserved and studious Hooper and the strange, enigmatic Parr, and before long the group are defying their times and their families by climbing the peaks of Snowdonia and planning an ambitious trip to the perilous Alps. Fifteen years later, trapped in her Dulwich home, Grace is haunted by the terrible events that took place out on the mountains. She is the society’s only survivor and for years people have demanded the truth of what happened, the group’s horrible legacy a millstone around her neck. Now, as the eve of the Second World War approaches, Grace is finally ready to remember and to confess... From one of the finest writers of the psychological thriller comes this beautifully woven, deeply unsettling historical novel; powerfully atmospheric, shivering with menace and reminiscent of the very best of Sarah Waters.

Isabel, Owen and Julia were childhood friends. But when they were fifteen, Julia disappeared without a trace—an event that had a devastating impact on the others. Years later, Isabel returns to her home town in the north of England for Owen’s funeral. She hadn’t seen him since they recklessly burned down the local supermarket together; he was sent to prison and she, just shy of her 18th birthday, to a young offenders’ centre. Isabel suspects that Owen was responsible for Julia’s murder, and she’s hoping finally to find some kind of resolution . Feeling cut off from her husband and child in Turkey, and awash with unexpected memories, Isabel ventures further into the murky depths of her past. But nothing is as it seems—either past or present—and as Isabel’s world unravels we finally realise the stunning, shattering truth . . .

Psychologický příběh osamělého Angličana, muže, který hledá ideální a pokornou ženu, s níž by strávil zbytek svého života. Ralp je typický Angličan, který se nechal omámit kouzlem asijských žen. Jeho první žena byla Thajka, po krátkém soužití za záhadných okolností zmizela. Nový objekt jeho zájmu je mladičká Japonka, která má problémy se zákonem. Ralp si představuje tichou, empatickou bytost bez vlastních názorů, která by plula po jeho boku pokud možno do smrti. Jeho představy o ženách jsou však velmi naivní, a jak se brzy přesvědčí, naprosto nereálné.

Runa is a young Japanese high school teacher leaving the country to avoid the scandal she has created by sleeping with one of her students. She steals her sister's passport and boards the ferry to Shanghai. Then, careful to impersonate her sister, she is quiet, docile and discreet.

Mladá Angličanka Lucy Flyová žije a pracuje v Tokiu jako překladatelka. Jednoho dne se stane hlavní podezřelou z vraždy své nejlepší přítelkyně Lily. Byla poslední osobou, která viděla oběť naživu – tak proč si nepamatuje okolnosti jejich setkání? Jaká tajemství obklopují život Lucy Flyové? A byla by kvůli nim schopna spáchat vraždu?

Early this morning, several hours before my arrest, I was woken by an earth tremor. I mention the incident not to suggest that there was a connection - that somehow the fault lines in my life came crashing together in a form of a couple of policemen - for in Tokyo we have a quake like this every month. I am simply relating the sequence of events as it happened. It has been an unusual day and I would hate to forget anything . . . So begins The Earthquake Bird, a haunting novel set in Japan which reveals a murder on its first page and takes its readers into the mind of the chief suspect, Lucy Fly - a young, vulnerable English girl living and working in Tokyo as a translator. As Lucy is interrogated by the police she reveals her past to the reader, and it is a past which is dangerously ambiguous and compromising . . .Why did Lucy leave England for the foreign anonymity of Japan ten years before, and what exactly had prompted her to sever all links with her family back home? She was the last person to see the murdered girl alive, so why was she not more forthcoming about the circumstances of their last meeting? As Lucy's story unfolds, it emerges that secrets, both past and present, obsess her waking life . . .