Inhalt: Penelope Wilton wurde in ihrem Leben nichts geschenkt. Jahrzehntelang hat sie in dem kleinen Lebensmittelladen geschuftet, den sie von ihrem früh verstorbenen Vater übernommen hatte. Die Konkurrenz der großen Supermärkte machte es ihr schwer, sich durchzusetzen. Dennoch fand sie immer noch die Zeit, sich in der Gemeindearbeit und in einem Tierheim zu engagieren. Über all der harten Arbeit und den Entbehrungen hat sie es jedoch versäumt, auf sich selbst zu achten, und so wird ihr Krebsleiden erst entdeckt, als sich bereits Metastasen gebildet haben. Penelope wendet sich allen nur denkbaren Therapieformen zu und wird schließlich eines Tages von ihrem Arzt in eine neue medizinische Einrichtung in London überwiesen. Der Leiter des Labors, Mr. Bone, arbeitet an einem neuen Forschungszweig: Er möchte den Menschen die Angst vor dem Tod nehmen und führt daher neurologische Versuche an Testprobanden - vor allem Bettlern, Drogenabhängigen und Obdachlosen - durch. Eine dieser Testpersonen ist Sa m Caine. Als Sam, der stets ziemlich abgerissen wirkt, eines Abends mit seiner Lebensgefährtin Rebecca und einigen Freunden zu einer Party unterwegs ist, verschwindet er plötzlich spurlos. Alle Nachforschungen Rebeccas, die von Sam schwanger ist, bleiben ergebnislos. Denn Sam wurde von Mr. Bones Assistenten entführt und ist schließlich im Labor ums Leben gekommen. Penelope, die zu dieser Zeit stationär in der Klinik behandelt wird, meint später, Sam dort sogar noch gesehen zu haben... Systematik: $L Umfang: 566 S. Standort: $L Pear ISBN: 978-3-7645-0097-9
Inhalt: From the prize-winning author of In the Place of Fallen Leaves comes a beautiful, hypnotic pastoral novel reminiscent of Thomas Hardy, about an unexpected friendship between two children, set in Devon in 1911 1911. In a forgotten valley on the Devonâ?"Somerset border, the seasons unfold, marked only by the rituals of the farming calendar. Twelve-year-old Leopold Sercombe skips school to help his father, a carter. Skinny and pale, Leo dreams of a job on the estate's stud farm. He is breaking a colt for his father when a boy dressed in a Homburg, breeches and riding boots appears. Peering under the stranger's hat, he discovers Miss Charlotte, the Master's daughter. And so begins a friendship between the children, bound by a deep love of horses, but divided by rigid social boundaries â?" boundaries that become increasingly difficult to navigate as they approach adolescence. Umfang: 320 S. ISBN: 978-1-4088-7689-3
Inhalt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE 2020 A stirring, exquisitely rendered tale of homecoming; the final instalment in Tim Pears's epic West Country Trilogy Selected as a book of 2019 by the Guardian, Scotsman and The Times It is 1916. The world has gone to war, and young Leo Sercombe, hauling coal aboard the HMS Queen Mary, is a long way from home. The wild, unchanging West Country roads of his boyhood seem very far away from life aboard a battlecruiser, a universe of well-oiled steel, of smoke and spray and sweat, where death seems never more than a heartbeat away. Skimming through those West Country roads on her motorcycle, Lottie Prideaux defies the expectations of her class and sex as she covertly studies to be a vet. But the steady rhythms of Lottie's practice, her comings and goings between her neighbours and their animals, will be blown apart by a violent act of betrayal, and a devastating loss. In a world torn asunder by war, everything dances in flux: how can the old ways life survive, and how can the future be imagined, in the face of such unimaginable change? How can Leo, lost and wandering in the strange and brave new world, ever hope to find his way home? The final instalment in Tim Pears's exquisite West Country Trilogy, The Redeemed is a timeless, stirring and exquisitely wrought story of love, loss and destiny fulfilled, and a bittersweet elegy to a lost world. Umfang: 400 S. ISBN: 978-1-5266-0104-9
Inhalt: The beautiful, questing second novel in Tim Pears' acclaimed West Country trilogy. Two teenagers, bound by love yet divided by fate, forge separate paths in pre-First World War Devon and Cornwall 1912. Leo is on a journey. Aged thirteen and banished from the secluded farm of his childhood, he travels through Devon, grazing on berries and sleeping in copses. Behind him lies the past, and before him the West Country, spread out like a tapestry. But a wanderer is never alone for long, try as he might â?" and soon Leo is taken in by gypsies, with their waggons, horses and vivid attire. Yet he knows he cannot linger, and must forge on to Penzance, towards the western horizonâ?¦ Lottie is at home. Life on the estate continues as usual, yet nothing is as it was. Her father is distracted by the promise of new love and Lottie is increasingly absorbed in the natural world: the profusion of wild flowers in the meadow, the habits of predators, and the mysteries of anatomy. And of course, Leo is absent. How will the two young people ever find each other again? In The Wanderers, Tim Pears's writing, both transcendental and sharply focused, reaches new heights, revealing the beauty and brutality that coexist in nature. Timeless, searching, charged with raw energy and gentle humour, this is a delicately wrought tale of adolescence; of survival; of longing, loneliness and love. Umfang: 384 S. ISBN: 978-1-4088-9232-9
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