Written In The Stars, Brooks Ruth

Автор: Brooks, Ruth
Название: Slow passion
ISBN: 1526640821 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526640826
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 19800.00 T
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Описание: A captivating dual-time novel of love, loss and secrets. It`s hard to run away from your darkest secrets... When Phoebe`s married lover dies in a car accident, she dare not openly express her grief for fear of their affair being found out. Heartbroken, she leaves her life in England to search out the old boathouse bequeathed to her by her Irish grandmother. When she discovers a collection of her grandmother`s old diaries hidden beneath the boat house floorboards, she becomes immersed in a story of family scandal, repressed sexuality and a passionate affair between her grandmother and a young Irish artist...

Автор: Brooks Linda Ruth
Название: The day the war ended
ISBN: 0645081701 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780645081701
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Цена: 13790.00 T
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The day the war ended is the day that I began. It was the day people danced in the streets of Sydney. Nanna Ennis tells me over and over that I interrupted the Prime Minister's speech on the radio about Japan giving up and the war had ended. She said no one heard me cry because everyone in the whole hospital was making a dreadful racket celebrating.

Nine year old Lucy Meredith Carter has lost stories. In order to work things out she writes things in her Book of Known Facts, hoping to unravel the secrets of war and family. Post World War II in a small country town is a confusing place for Lucy. She dreams of her dead mother, Sylvia, and worries about where the world begins and ends. She visits her aunt, Fliss, who suffered a stroke at the end of the war. George Carter, a single father, a diffident man who steadfastly refuses to delegate Lucy's care, resisting help and advice from his mother-in-law Ethel, the Ennis family matriarch. George adores his curious daughter. Ethel, a stoic widow doesn't agree with her son-in-law. Some things are best left in the past. Trapped in a partly paralysed body, Fliss struggles with everyday life in a convalescent home, haunted by memories of lost love and the secret locked in her mind. When she utters a word after years of being silent, Lucy tries to find the meaning of the strange word. Harry, the digger living in the shack at the Ennis boarding house remembers the trauma of war and weaves stories for Lucy. Old Pat, a shell-shocked veteran of WWI wanders, lost and living off the land.

Автор: Brooks Linda Ruth
Название: The Crummy War of Henrietta Eloise Parsons Age 9
ISBN: 0648473244 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648473244
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It's 1914 and nine year old Henrietta Eloise Parsons is sick of a war that's only just getting started. Father, a senior editor at the Sydney Morning Herald is hardly ever seen without a newspaper in front of his frowning face, and Mother has suddenly taken an interest in activities she haughtily refers to as The War Effort. As far as Henrietta can see, this involves a lot of high teas, committees about cake, how to motivate housewives to knit socks for soldiers and make care packages for the troops.

The war has been called The Great War as if it was an event like the Olympic Games, with parades, medals and ribbons. As far as Henrietta is concerned, it's a crummy war. It's just like a schoolyard brawl where all the boys join in, with torn shirts, bloody noses and filthy uniforms from rolling in the dirt, then, when they're lined up in the principal's office none of them can remember why they were fighting or what stupid thing started the whole mess.

Henrietta's parents have decided that she will spend the duration of war far away in the country in South Australia with her grandparents, who she hardly remembers. To be sent away with her mother's silly maid, Daisy, is enough to push Henrietta to the end of her puny patience. But go she must. To a small country town where nothing is as she expected.

Автор: Brooks Linda Ruth
Название: The Wall Is Blue: A Song of the Inner Child: On Child Carers
ISBN: 0648190218 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780648190219
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 11650.00 T
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Where's your mother?

Not well today. Said carefully and neutrally, as if pretending things were normal would make them so. Transform life into a manageable thing. As if ten year olds everywhere were the ladies of the house, the caretakers of the family.

I see.

Mrs Blakehurst, their babysitter from up the road was on the stoop. She had brought the youngest two. Kate knew it was important to use her grown up voice, through a narrow slit in the door.

Thank you, Mrs Blakehurst. Here is your pay.

Father didn't change the rhythm, so that helped make it normal. Though deep inside a much younger Kate screamed that it was not. But Emily, Daniel and Sara's voices were louder. Some inner sense stopped Kate from calling them 'the children' as was her mother's custom. She was even particular that she called them in order of their age, oldest to youngest, as if by this precision she could push back the chaos that hovered like a patient bird of prey.

Brooks explores the internal dilemma of a child compelled to become parent to a mentally unstable mother, as well as the guardian of her three younger siblings. With fearless candour, Linda peels back the layers of a child with adult responsibilities. What becomes of Kate when the years fall by and she reaches adulthood? Can the child within be denied voice?