Claire Fuller Livres

Ingrid a 20 ans et des projets plein la tête quand elle rencontre Gil Coleman, professeur de littérature à l’université. Faisant fi de son âge et de sa réputation de don Juan, elle l’épouse et s’installe dans sa maison en bord de mer. Quinze ans et deux enfants plus tard, Ingrid doit faire face aux absences répétées de Gil, devenu écrivain à succès. Un soir, elle décide d’écrire ce qu’elle n’arrive plus à lui dire, puis cache sa lettre dans un livre. Ainsi commence une correspondance à sens unique où elle dévoile la vérité sur leur mariage, jusqu’à cette dernière lettre rédigée quelques heures à peine avant qu’elle ne disparaisse sans laisser de trace.

Twins Jeanie and Julius have always been different from other people. At 51 years old, they still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation and proverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the grden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance. But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julis would do anything to preserve their small snactuary against the perils of the outside world, even as their mother's secrets begin to unravel, putting everything they thought they knew about their lives at stake

1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of 'The Railway Children' and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change. Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which is surely coming soon, takes her from London to a cabin in a remote European forest. There he tells Peggy the rest of the world has disappeared. Her life is reduced to a piano which makes music but no sound, a forest where all that grows is a means of survival. And a tiny wooden hut that is everything. She is not seen again for another nine years.

Frances Jellico is dying. A man who calls himself the vicar visits, hoping to extract a deathbed confession. He wants to know what really happened that fateful summer of 1969, when Frances - tasked with surveying a dilapidated country house - first set eyes on the glamorous bohemian couple, Cara and Peter. She recalls the relationship they forged through sweltering days, lavish dinners and elaborate lies, and the Judas hole through which she would spy on the couple. Were the signs there right from the beginning? Or was it impossible to avoid the crime that split their lives open like rotten fruit?

Neffy is a young woman running away from grief and guilt and the one big mistake that has cost her her career. When she answers the call to volunteer in a controlled vaccine trial, it offers her a way to pay off her many debts and, perhaps, to make up for the past. But when the London streets below her window fall silent, and all external communications cease, only Neffy and four other volunteers remain in the unit. With food running out, and a growing sense that the strangers she is with may be holding back secrets, Neffy has questions that no-one can answer. Does safety lie inside or beyond the unit? And who, or what is out there? While she weighs up her choices, she is introduced to a pioneering and controversial technology which allows her to revisit memories from her life before- a childhood divided between her enigmatic mother and her father in his small hotel in Greece. Intoxicated by the freedom of the past and the chance to reunite with those she loves, she increasingly turns away from her perilous present. But in this new world where survival rests on the bonds between strangers, is she jeopardising any chance of a future? The Memory of Animals is a taut and emotionally charged novel about freedom and captivity, survival and sacrifice and whether you can save anyone before you save yourself.

Wiltshire, im Südwesten Englands: Die Zwillinge Jeanie und Julius leben mit ihrer Mutter Dot am Rande der Gesellschaft in einem windschiefen Cottage. Jeanie kann nicht lesen und nicht schreiben, im Dorf verkauft sie, was sie in ihrem wilden Garten anbaut.Julius kämpft sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs durch. Ihr Leben ist einfach, sie haben nicht viel, aber was sie haben, gehört ihnen. Doch dann stirbt Dot und es kommen Geheimnisse über das Cottage, den Vater und Jeanies schwaches Herz ans Licht, die das Leben der Zwillinge seiner Einfachheit berauben.

Новый американский владелец старинного английского поместья нанимает сорокалетнюю Фрэнсис Джеллико для составления описи садовой архитектуры. В поместье она знакомится с красивой и притягательной парой — Карой и Питером, которые быстро становятся ее лучшими друзьями. Почти все время они проводят втроем: обедают, доставая из погребов редкие вина, курят, слушают музыку, разговаривают о жизни. Они засиживаются допоздна, затем расходятся по своим комнатам, и Фрэнсис в случайно обнаруженный потайной глазок подглядывает за друзьями. Оказывается, все не совсем так, как ей рассказывают. Или совсем не так...