It is 1922, and London is tense. Ex-servicemen are disillusioned, the out-of-work and the hungry are demanding change. And in South London, in a genteel Camberwell villa, a large silent house now bereft of brothers, husband and even servants, life is about to be transformed, as impoverished widow Mrs Wray and her spinster daughter, Frances, are obliged to take in lodgers.
For with the arrival of Lilian and Leonard Barber, a modern young couple of the 'clerk class', the routines of the house will be shaken up in unexpected ways. And as passions mount and frustration gathers, no one can foresee just how far-reaching, and how devastating, the disturbances will be...
This is vintage Sarah Waters: beautifully described with excruciating tension, real tenderness, believable characters, and surprises. It is above all, a wonderful, compelling story.
Sarah Waters was born in Wales in 1966 and lives in London. Author of Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, Fingersmith and The Night Watch, her most recent book is The Little Stranger. All of her books have attracted prizes: she won a Betty Trask Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and was twice shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Fingersmith and The Night Watch were both shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange prizes, and Fingersmith won the CWA Ellis Peters Dagger Award for Historical Crime Fiction and the South Bank Show Award for Literature. Tipping the Velvet, Affinity and Fingersmith have all been adapted for television.
The Little Stranger was a bestselling hardback and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
“你已经勇敢了,那就再勇敢一点”,书里的主角之一这样说,而且一而再,再而三的这样说。这样说的意思,你知道,就是勇敢已经在打折扣了。她对自己面临的状况有这样的描述:我看见眼前有两条路,可它们都是黑暗的。怎么选,仿佛都是绝路。 这话出自法兰西斯,她是《房客》的...
評分熟悉华老师作品的人一定知道,她的书,常常是抓马非凡----所以这次也是不例外。 不同于维多利亚三部曲,这本书是在一战后的英国。熟悉西方历史的便知道,一战过后,虽然英国算是战赢,但战争带来的,总是伤痕累累,无论输赢。这本书的设定是20世纪20年代,也就是说,不久西方...
評分出于对她前几部书的热爱,尤其是直追狄更斯”荒凉山庄”的”轻舔丝绒”, 直接在第一时间买了她这本最新作品。 整部小说虽然以第三人称Frances来写,但视角实际上是第一人称视角,处处都是描述Frances的经历和感觉。题材仍然和同性恋有关,但故事简单了很多,没有前几部作品中...
評分这本书和华老师前几本相比,意外的容易读,不过我还是惯性的以不着调的节奏,今天看一点,明天看一点,直到30%才进入状态,而看到50%的时候就进入秉烛夜读的模式一晚上看完了,虽然最后10%看得有点痛苦。 不知道是不是这一部看得格外带入的关系,中间虽然情节并没有太出乎意料...
評分《房客》的故事始于一个谎言——将租客称作“付房租的客人”(THE PAYING GUESTS),家道中落不得不靠出租房屋维持生计的弗朗西丝一家以此挽回一点面子。这个谎言道出了那些教养良好、养尊处优的人们虚伪的本质,他们拒绝承认钱和工作是生活的重心,明明生活拮据却更关心那些无...
sw就喜歡對女主進行非人的精神摺磨 短則一個月長則小半年 雖然這本書裏頭最多也就摺磨瞭一個月 但是篇幅占瞭一半 到結局還是無盡的痛苦 你媽啊...看瘋瞭....
评分這不是一個關於勇敢的故事 本書的每個人物都很自私
评分一如既往豐富和細膩,被情節牽引著拉扯著,compeltely hooked.
评分坐瞭n次長途飛機都沒有看完,part3真是把我逼瘋瞭(但還是很好脾氣地沒有直接去翻結局)。人物設定讓我總懷疑華老師是把前幾部的研究素材拿來重復利用。
评分1.Oakura LBR第一讀。文盲一個月看完500頁原來也是可能的。2.真的是喜歡不起兩位主角哦,討人厭的懦弱跟我一樣一樣的。
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