Bloomsbury Ghost Lover Таддео Лиза

Джоан провела всю жизнь, терпя жестокость мужчин. Но когда один из них совершает шокирующий акт насилия у нее на глазах, она бежит из Нью-Йорка в поисках Элис, единственного живого человека, который может помочь ей разобраться в своем прошлом. В душных холмах над Лос-Анджелесом Джоан распутывает ужасное событие, свидетелем которого она была в детстве и которое преследовало ее каждую минуту бодрствования, одновременно набираясь сил, чтобы наконец нанести ответный удар • "Животное. У каждого есть выбор стать добычей или хищником" Лизы Таддео - это история про материнство, про взаимоотношения родителей и детей. И чем ближе читатель к концу романа, тем отчетливее вырисовываются перед ним эти идеи • Книга на английском языке • I drove myself out of New York City where a man shot himself in front of me

Funny, moving & sharply observed, these stories are confirmation of Boyd's status as one of English fiction's finest writers. Here are 24 gripping tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood

От автора бестселлера № 1 The New York Times и феномена "Три женщины" • Более 2500 отзывов на Амазон • Джоан провела всю жизнь, терпя жестокость мужчин. Но когда один из них совершает шокирующий акт насилия у нее на глазах, она бежит из Нью-Йорка в поисках Элис, единственного живого человека, который может помочь ей разобраться в своем прошлом. В душных холмах над Лос-Анджелесом Джоан распутывает ужасное событие, свидетелем которого она была в детстве и которое преследовало ее каждую минуту бодрствования, одновременно набираясь сил, чтобы наконец нанести ответный удар

Lover, mother, murderer, Tsarina • 1699: Illegitimate, destitute and strikingly beautiful, Marta is sold into labour at the age of fifteen - where in desperation she commits a crime that will force her to go on the run. Cheating death at every turn, she is swept into the current of the Great Northern War. Working as a washer woman at a battle camp, she catches the eye of none other than Peter the Great. Passionate and iron-willed, Peter has a vision for transforming the traditionalist Tsardom of Russia into a modern, Western empire • With nothing but wits, courage and formidable ambition, Marta will rise from nothing to become Catherine I of Russia. But it comes at a steep price and is tied to the destiny of Russia itself

Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985 • The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby • Matriarch Nedra presides over the household, which bustles with activity as she prepares the welcome feast for her grandson Kelly's return from prison • Her grieving daughter-in-law Carol is visited by both the welcome, intimate ghost of her murdered lover, and by Mac, an ageing criminal enforcer, a man who may just offer her a real and possible future • And then there is Jan - the teenage tearaway running as fast as she can from her mother, her grandmother, and her own unnamed baby • Over the course of a few days, the Dodds women must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good

Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985 • The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby • Matriarch Nedra presides over the household, which bustles with activity as she prepares the welcome feast for her grandson Kelly's return from prison • Her grieving daughter-in-law Carol is visited by both the welcome, intimate ghost of her murdered lover, and by Mac, an ageing criminal enforcer, a man who may just offer her a real and possible future • And then there is Jan – the teenage tearaway running as fast as she can from her mother, her grandmother, and her own unnamed baby • Over the course of a few days, the Dodds women must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good

Wythenshawe, South Manchester. 1985. The Dodds family once ruled Manchester's underworld; now the men are dead, leaving three generations of women trapped in a house haunted by violence, harbouring an unregistered baby and the ghost of a murdered lover • Over the course of a few days, Nedra, Carol and Jan must each confront the true legacy of the men who have defined their lives; and seize the opportunity to break the cycle for good

Snow Ghost came whispering out of the air, "Oh, for a home to be happy - but where?" Flying through the swirling, snow-filled skies, Snow Ghost searches for a place to call home, swooping gracefully over the whirling traffic of town, winding her way through the dense, tangled wood and to the top of the blustery hill. Then on the quiet calm of the moors, she sees a girl and a boy playing. She breathes magic and sparkle into their play until it's time for them to stumble back home to bed. And while shimmers of moonlight cast their glittering light, Snow Ghost curls herself round the roof of the farmhouse. She has found her happy home at last. A timeless story of hope and belonging, perfect for sharing with loved ones this winter

Flying through the swirling, snow-filled skies, "Snow Ghost" searches for a place to call home, swooping gracefully over the whirling traffic of town, winding her way through the dense, tangled wood and to the top of the blustery hill. Then on the quiet calm of the moors, she sees a girl and a boy playing. She breathes magic and sparkle into their play until it's time for them to stumble back home to bed. And while shimmers of moonlight cast their glittering light, "Snow Ghost" curls herself round the roof of the farmhouse. She has found her happy home at last • A timeless story of hope and belonging, perfect for sharing with loved ones this winter

On a rooftop in Elizabethan London two worlds collide. Shay is a messenger-girl and trainer of hawks who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled child theatre scene, as famous as royalty yet lowly as a beggar • Together they create The Ghost Theatre: a troupe staging magical plays in London's hidden corners. As their hallucinatory performances incite rebellion among the city's outcasts, the pair's relationship sparks and burns against a backdrop of the plague and a London in flames. Their growing fame sweeps them up into the black web of the Elizabethan court, where Shay and Nonesuch discover that if they fly too high, a fall is sure to come… • Fantastical and captivating, The Ghost Theatre charts the rise and dramatic destruction of a dream born from love and torn apart by betrayal

London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home • Nandor Fodor – a Jewish-Hungarian refugee and chief ghost hunter for the International Institute for Psychical research – begins to investigate. In doing so he discovers a different and darker type of haunting: trauma, alienation, loss – and the foreshadowing of a nation's worst fears. As the spectre of Fascism lengthens over Europe, and as Fodor's obsession with the case deepens, Alma becomes ever more disturbed • With rigour, daring and insight, the award-winning pioneer of historical narrative non-fiction Kate Summerscale shadows Fodor's enquiry, delving into long-hidden archives to find the human story behind a very modern haunting

A farm in Norfolk in the 1970s. A Japanese girl comes to visit her English lover in the house where he was born. She arrives on a day of perfect summer, stands with his mother in a garden filled with roses, watches as his brother walks fields of ripening wheat • But between the two brothers lies the shadow of their father's violent death almost twenty years before, the unresolved narrative of their childhood – a story that has gone untold, a story that began in the last war. In the presence of the girl, the old trauma begins to surface as the work of the harvest begins