Albion

Autor Anna Hope

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATIONAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama'… Přejít na celý popis

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FROM THE AUTHOR OF EXPECTATIONAS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4'Hope breathes fresh thinking into the dusty corners and overgrown hedges of the English country house dilemma' The Times'Superb Anna Hope engages, head-on, with some of the most urgent and challenging issues facing the world today, and transforms them into spellbinding family drama' Jonathan Coe Beautiful . . . As provocative as it is tender Miranda Cowley Heller, author of The Paper PalaceThe Brooke family are gathering in their eighteenth-century ancestral home twenty bedrooms of carved Sussex sandstone to bury Philip: husband, father and the blinding sun around which they have all orbited for as long as they can remember.Frannie, inheritor of a thousand acres of English countryside, has dreams of rewilding and returning the estate to nature: a last line of defence against the coming climate catastrophe. Milo envisages a treetop haven for the super-rich where, under the influence of psychedelic drugs, a new ruling class will be reborn. Each believes their father has given them his blessing, setting them on a collision course with each other.Isa has long suspected that her father thought only of himself, and hopes to seek out her childhood love, who still lives on the estate, to discover whether it is her feelings for him that are creating the fault lines in her marriage.And then there is Clara, who arrives in their midst from America, shrouded in secrets and bearing a truth that will fracture all the dreams on which they ve built their lives. The English country house novel reimagined for our times ... Exceptionally well-drawn Claire Fuller, author of Unsettled Ground A book that asks important questions about legacy familial, historical and global and which seeks to answer them with delicate insight and beautiful prose Elizabeth Day'Wise and beautiful, with amazing nature writing to boot' India Knight Albion balances the reality of who the English were against the hope of who we might become Richard Beard, author of The Day That Went Missing

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Penguin
Hmotnost
456 g
isbn
978-0-241-69843-3
Vazba
měkká vazba
datum vydání
17.04.2025
ean
9780241698433
Rozměr
153 x 232 x 31
jazyk
angličtina

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