This novel is inspired by the life of E.M. Forster and his relationship with his long-term companion Bob Buckingham and his wife - but transposed to late 1950s Brighton. The book tells a tragic tale of thwarted love.
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Bethan Roberts élabore des récits qui explorent les complexités des relations humaines et la subtilité des émotions cachées. Sa prose se distingue par une représentation sensible de la psyché humaine et par les ambiguïtés morales de ses personnages. Roberts aborde des thèmes tels que l'identité, la mémoire et les attentes sociales, souvent dans des décors évocateurs. Son style distinctif est à la fois précis et suggestif, invitant les lecteurs à une exploration approfondie de la vie intérieure de ses personnages.
It's summer 1936, and the world is on the cusp of change, but there's little sign of this in rural Sussex. So when Kitty Allen answers an advert looking for 'a good plain cook', she has no idea what she's in for. For starters, her employer is an American called Ellen Steinberg who believes in having the staff call her by her first name and sunbathing in the nude. Then there's Ellen's eleven-year-old daughter, Geenie, a bright, unhappy little thing, and Mrs Steinberg's gentleman friend, Mr Crane, who's said to be a poet - even though he doesn't have a beard and doesn't actually write much poetry. Rich bohemians imagining themselves as communists, Steinberg and Crane see themselves as champions of 'the people' - not that they know the first thing about how the people actually live. Kitty is in no position to criticise - after all she claimed to be a good plain cook, despite hardly knowing how to boil an egg. Utterly out of her depth, she is relieved to have the gardener, Arthur, to talk to. Otherwise she'd never last a summer in this madhouse. Ellen Steinberg wants life to run as smoothly as the love story she imagines her lover George Crane to be writing. But as Kitty arrives, the dream is on the edge of falling apart.
Es ist ein ganz gewöhnlicher Morgen, an dem Maggie den zweijährigen Samuel entführt. Die junge Frau wurde von ihrer Cousine Nula als Nanny angestellt. Nun bricht sie ohne deren Wissen mit dem Kind zur walisischen Insel Anglesay auf. Zu jenem Bootshaus, in dem Maggie und Nula sechzehn Jahre zuvor einen gemeinsamen Sommer voller Verstrickungen verbrachten, der alles veränderte. Während Nula um das Leben ihres Sohnes bangt, muss sie sich den Erinnerungen stellen, die sie so lange aus ihrem Leben verbannte…