Resultaten voor 'claire fuller'
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The Memory of Animals
FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUND'A stunning piece of speculative fiction' The i'A haunting novel about love, survival and everything in between ... One to get excited about' Stylist, Best Modern Dystopia---Humans are useless at learning from their mistakes. We just have to keep making new plans.When Neffy wakes up from an uneasy sleep in a hospital bed, nothing is as it should be. There is no food, and nobody to tend to her. The city streets outside her window have fallen silent. She doesn't know it yet, but a debilitating new virus is sweeping the globe, and the world will never be the same again.Feverish, confused, and wary of the strangers trapped inside with her, Neffy finds solace in her own memories of the past - even the memories of the mistakes that led her here.But as the days turn into weeks, it is clear that Neffy will have to make a choice. How do you choose between a past that has already disappeared forever, and a future you can't begin to imagine?---'Unsettling, moving and thoughtful, with horror lurking at the edges, this is a subtle, elegant novel. Claire Fuller is a huge talent' Lucy Atkins, author of Magpie Lane'Compulsive and thoroughly convincing. Terrific!' Clare Chambers, author of Small Pleasures
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Dengesiz Zemin
Ya bir anda her zaman bildiginiz hayatiniz elinizden alinsaydiOnu geri almak icin ne kadar ileri giderdinizIkiz kardesler Jeanie ve Julius, her zaman diger insanlardan farkli olmustur. 51 yasinda olmalarina ragmen hala anneleri Dot ile birlikte, kirsalda izole bir yasam sürmekte ve yoksulluk icinde hayatlarini devam ettirmektedirler. Eski evlerinin dört duvari arasinda müzik yapar, bahcelerinde hayatlarini sürdürebilmek icin gereken her seyi yetistirir ve zaman zaman avlanirlar.Ancak anneleri Dotun ani ölümü, onlari derin bir belirsizlige sürükler. Gecim kaynaklarina yönelik tehditler birbiri ardina ortaya cikarken, Jeanie ve Julius her seylerini kaybetme riskiyle karsi karsiya kalir. Üstelik, annelerinin sakladigi sirlar bir bir gün yüzüne ciktikca, hayatlarina dair bildiklerini sandiklari her sey altüst olur. Simdi, giderek daha tehlikeli hale gelen bir dünyada hayatta kalmak icin her seyi riske atmak zorunda kalirlar.2021 Costa Roman Ödülünü kazanan Dengesiz Zemin, aldatilma, dayaniklilik, sevgi ve hayatta kalma üzerine etkileyici bir roman. Toplumun kiyisindaki yasamin carpici bir portresini cizen bu eser, hayatlarimizi kirilgan temeller üzerine nasil insa ettigimizi ve karanliktan nasil isik yaratabilecegimizi büyüleyici bir duygusal gücle ele aliyor.
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Aci Portakal
Köprüye ulastigimda balyozun sapini en ucundan iki elimle kavradim, kaldirip tasa dogru salladim. Ne kadar hasar verdigimi bilmiyorum fakat istedigim gibi, her seyin göle düsmesi icin yeterli degildi. Balyozu bir kez daha kaldiramayinca orada biraktim; eve, sütunlu girisin altina, yolun karsisina dogru, iki yani agaclarla kapli genis yol boyunca kiliseye yürüdüm. Hatirlamiyorum ama bana, Victorin beni kanli ellerimle burada buldugu söylendi. Frances Jellico, Bay Liebermannin satin aldigi Lyntons malikanesinin mimarisiyle ilgili rapor yazmak üzere, 1969 yazinda bir Ingiliz kasabasi olan Lyntonsa gelir. Kasvetli ve harap oldugu kadar büyüleyici bir atmosfere de sahip kir evinin cati katindaki banyosunda bir gözetleme deligi oldugunu kesfeden Frances, alt katta yasayan Cara ve Peteri gözetlemeye baslar, fakat onun icin asil sürpriz, bu ciftin kendisini tanimak istemesi olur. Hayatinda ilk kez bir evi ve arkadaslari oldugunu düsünen Frances, Cara ve Peterla unutulmaz bir yaz gecirecektir. Ancak zamanla, bir seylerin yolunda gitmedigini; gercek ile yalanin, dogru ile yanlisin sinirlarinin bulanik oldugunu fark eder Caranin anlattigi hikayelerin ne kadari dogrudur Peterin bu hikayelerdeki yeri nedir Francesin Caranin hayatindaki rolü nedir Ve en nihayetinde gercekler gün yüzüne cikacak midir Her sey gitgide karmasik bir hal alirken, kücük yalanlara korkunc bir suc da eklenir; hepsinin hayatini derinden etkileyecek, dehset verici bir günah Aci Portakal, harap bir kir evinde tanistigi cifti saplantili bir merakla izleyip hayatlarinda yer edinen Frances Jelliconun tuhaf ve karanlik hikayesini modern zamanlarin gizemli masallarindan biri haline getirerek aktariyor.
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The Memory of Animals
A Boston Globe, Philadelphia Inquirer, Gizmodo, Shondaland, LitHub & Tor.com Best Book of Summer and Good Housekeeping Best Book of 2023 So Far. "A haunting novel of second chances."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review From the award-winning author of Our Endless Numbered Days, Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange, and Unsettled Ground comes a beautiful and searing novel of memory, love, survival--and octopuses. 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 the mistakes that led them there. As London descends into chaos outside the hospital windows, Neffy befriends Leon, who before the pandemic had been working on a controversial technology that allows users to revisit their memories. She withdraws into projections of her past--a childhood bisected by divorce, a recent love affair, her obsessive research with octopuses, and the one mistake that ended her career. The lines between past, present, and future begin to blur, and Neffy is left with defining questions: Who can she trust? Why can't she forgive herself? How should she live, if she survives? Claire Fuller's The Memory of Animals is an ambitious, deeply imagined work of survival and suspense, grief and hope, consequences and connectedness that asks what truly defines us--and to what lengths we will go to rescue ourselves and those we love.
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Unsettled Ground
WINNER OF THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2021'Her strongest yet... a powerful, beautiful novel that shows us our land as it really is: a place of shelter and cruelty, innocence and experience' THE TIMES__________________________________________________________________________When you live on the edge of society, it only takes one step to fall between the cracksTwins 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 poverty. Inside the walls of their old cottage they make music, and in the garden they grow (and sometimes kill) everything they need for sustenance.But when Dot dies suddenly, threats to their livelihood start raining down. Jeanie and Julius would do anything to preserve their small sanctuary 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.Unsettled Ground is a powerful novel of betrayal and resilience, love and survival. It is a portrait of life on the fringes of society that explores with dazzling emotional power how we can build our lives on broken foundations, and spin light from darkness.____________________________________________________________________'The way she writes (with empathy but never sentimentality) moves my heart' ELIZABETH DAY, author of Magpie'A relevant and powerful exploration of isolation and life on the fringes of society' CLARE MACKINTOSH, author of Hostage'An atmospheric thriller that's both heartbreaking and heartwarming' RED
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Bitter Orange
An NPR Best Book of the Year"Unsettling and eerie, Bitter Orange is an ideal chiller." ―Time MagazineFrom the author of Our Endless Numbered Days and Swimming Lessons, Bitter Orange is a seductive psychological portrait, a keyhole into the dangers of longing and how far a woman might go to escape her past. 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. To Frances's surprise, Cara and Peter are keen to get to know her. It is the first occasion she has had anybody to call a friend, and before long they are spending every day together: eating lavish dinners, drinking bottle after bottle of wine, and smoking cigarettes until the ash piles up on the crumbling furniture. Frances is dazzled. But as the hot summer rolls lazily on, it becomes clear that not everything is right between Cara and Peter. The stories that Cara tells don't quite add up, and as Frances becomes increasingly entangled in the lives of the glamorous, hedonistic couple, the boundaries between truth and lies, right and wrong, begin to blur. Amid the decadence, a small crime brings on a bigger one: a crime so terrible that it will brand their lives forever.
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Bitter Orange
Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. Bitter Orange is her third novel. Her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.
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Swimming Lessons
An exhilarating literary mystery, Swimming Lessons keeps readers guessing until the final page. Disenchanted by the life in which she's found herself, Ingrid Coleman writes letters to her husband, Gil, about the truth of their passionate and troubled marriage. She hides them, unread, in the thousands of books Gil has collected over the years. Then she disappears from a Dorset beach, leaving behind her dilapidated house by the sea, her husband, and her two young daughters, Flora and Nan. Twelve years later, Gil thinks he sees Ingrid from a bookshop window, but he's getting older and his unlikely sighting is chalked up to senility. Flora, who has never believed Ingrid drowned, returns home to care for her father and investigate her mother's disappearance. But what Flora doesn't realize is that the answers to her questions are hidden in the books that surround her. Scandalous and smart, Swimming Lessons holds the Coleman family up to the light, exposing the mysterious truths of a turbulent marriage and the dangerous fault lines that remain.
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Swimming Lessons
FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN'S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUNDTwelve years ago Flora's mother Ingrid disappeared, vanishing from a Dorset beach, presumed drowned. Everyone - especially her sister and father Gil - believes Ingrid is long dead. Everyone, except Flora. So when she hears that her father has had an accident, and is insisting that he saw his wife, Floral rushes home.But the answers she seeks are nowhere to be found - only further questions.Who did Flora's father actually see that day? Why is his house filled with towering piles of books? And might the letters hidden within them hold the truth behind her parents' extraordinary marriage? 'Thrilling and transporting' Sunday Times'An eloquent tale of squandered love and seething secrets' Sunday Express'A compelling portrait of a complicated, unconventional marriage, and of flawed humanity, with all its secrets, silences and deceits. Excellent' Mail on Sunday'A beautifully told story of motherhood, marriage, and infidelity' Good Housekeeping
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Our Endless Numbered Days
Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. Swimming Lessons is her second novel. Her first novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children.
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Rusteloze grond
E-book'Rusteloze grond' van Claire Fuller is een indringende roman over twee mensen die ten onder gaan aan de bureaucratie en systemen van de maatschappij. De tweeling Jeanie en Julius zijn altijd anders geweest. Ze zijn de vijftig al gepasseerd en wonen nog steeds bij hun moeder Dot op het platteland, in afzondering en armoede. Er is een ‘afspraak’ met de eigenaar dat ze nooit huur hoeven te betalen en ze verbouwen (en doden soms) alles wat ze nodig hebben voor hun levensonderhoud in hun grote tuin. In het huisje is het vredig en wordt er muziek gemaakt. Maar dan sterft Dot plotseling en stort hun wereld in. Stukje bij beetje komen de geheimen van hun moeder aan het licht, waardoor alles wat Jeanie en Julius dachten te weten over hun leven op losse schroeven komt te staan. 'Een ontroerende, schrijnende roman.' - Jaap Robben, auteur van Birk ‘Zo scherp, zo buitengewoon briljant dat ik de roman met ingehouden adem heb gelezen, verbluft door Fullers meesterschap en precisie.’ - Lauren Groff, auteur van Furie en fortuin
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Our Endless Numbered Days
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