Claire Fuller
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her husband, and her two daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window. Flora, who has never believed her mother drowned, returns home to care for her...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"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"--Dust jacket flap....
Author
Language
Español
Description
Con sensibilidad e inteligencia, Claire Fuller compone un relato desgarrador sobre la pobreza rural en el siglo XXI. Sus personajes luchan por salir adelante en una sociedad que no es del todo consciente de haberlos dejado atrás.
Los mellizos Jeanie y Julius tienen 51 años y viven con su madre, Dot, en una casa antigua en mitad de la campiña inglesa. Julius sobrevive gracias a empleos ocasionales; Jeanie apenas sabe leer ni escribir. No tienen...
Author
Language
Español
Description
La aclamada autora de Tierra inestable firma una novela inquietante y emotiva en la que reflexiona sobre la libertad, la vulnerabilidad, el sacrificio y, ante todo, la necesidad de aferrarse a la vida mientras quede algo por lo que vivir.
Una pandemia arrasa un mundo desprevenido. Neffy, una joven bióloga torturada por los errores que han hundido su carrera, decide participar en los ensayos remunerados de una vacuna. Pero, tras una mutación repentina...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the face of a pandemic, an unprepared world scrambles to escape the mysterious disease causing sensory damage, nerve loss, and, in most cases, 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...
