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Erscheinungsdatum: 29.01.15
Verlag: Penguin UK
Preis: € 13,95 [D]
ISBN: 9780241185865
Seiten: 274
Sprache: Englisch










Inhalt:

Etta's greatest unfulfilled wish, living in the rolling farmland of Saskatchewan, is to see the sea. And so, at the age of eighty-two, she gets up very early one morning, takes a rifle, some chocolate and her best boots, and begins walking the 2,000 miles to the water.
But Etta is starting to forget things. Her husband, Otto, remembers everything, and he loves her: surely they can balance things out?
Their neighbour Russell remembers too, but differently - and he still loves Etta as much as he did more than fifty years ago, before she married Otto.
Rocking back and forth with the pull of the waves, Etta and Otto and Russell and James moves from the present of a too-quiet-for-too-long Canadian farm to a dusty past of hunger, war, passion and hope, from trying to remember to trying to forget as, from prairie to forest to mountain to sand, Etta walks.

Erscheinungsdatum: 31.07.2014
Verlag: PENGUIN GROUP
ISBN: 9781405918466
Seiten: 464 Seiten
Sprache: Englisch
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Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. She has friends in the feisty Madeline and the incredibly beautiful Celeste - two women with seemingly perfect lives . . . and their own secrets behind closed doors. But then a small incident involving the children of all three women occurs in the playground causing a rift between them and the other parents of the school. Minor at first but escalating fast, until whispers and rumours become vicious and spiteful. It was always going to end in tears, but no one thought it would end in murder . . .

Jane hat nie als sechs Monate irgendwo gelebt seit ihr Sohn vor fünf Jahren auf die Welt kam, sie flieht vor ihrer Vergangenheit. Im idyllischen Pirriwee am Meer fühlt sie sich endlich zu Hause. Sie findet Freunde, Madline und Celeste - zwei Frauen mit scheinbar perfekten Leben . . . und ihren eigenen Geheimnissen hinter verschlossenen Türen. Doch dann führt ein kleiner Zwischenfall im Kindergarten zum Zerwürfniss mit den anderen Müttern. Niemand dachte es würde in einem Mord enden . . .