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Название: Home Fires

Автор: Elizabeth Day

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Книги о войне

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isbn: 9780008221744

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       Copyright

      4th Estate

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

       www.4thEstate.co.uk

      First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc in 2013

      This eBook edition published by 4th Estate in 2017

      Copyright © Elizabeth Day, 2013

      Elizabeth Day asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

      This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

      All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins

      Source ISBN: 9780008221737

      Ebook Edition © July 2017 ISBN: 9780008221744

      Version: 2018-03-06

       Praise for Home Fires

      ‘Elizabeth Day writes with unflinching, responsible honesty’ Sadie Jones

      ‘It’s to Elizabeth Day’s credit that she turns her back on the conventional narrative to explore the realistic consequences of war and violence on the women who, to cite the song to which the novel’s title alludes, keep the home fires burning. Day chooses the tough option at every turn, with the result that the novel becomes a powerful and, at times, heartbreaking account of Caroline and Elsa’s inability to deal with their crises. The prose is crisp and forthright, particularly when Day is describing the variations of violence, although she has a piercing eye for a telling phrase or a poetic flourish’ Irish Examiner

      ‘Brilliant’ Viv Groskop, Red

      ‘Day is an empathetic observer. She is meticulous in teaching and dissecting each sentence her characters experience … Home Fires conveys a broader version of life with the claustrophobia of emotional repression’ Eileen Battersby, Irish Times

      ‘Day has created a compelling study of grief, not least the conflicting ways in which the bereaved may wish to remember the dead … A bold novel, shocking in what it confronts and also in its suggestion that love will, ultimately, survive trauma’ Daily Telegraph

      For my grandparents, who wanted me to write stories.

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Praise

       Dedication

       Prologue

      

       Part I

       Elsa, 1920

       Caroline, 2010

       Elsa, 2010

       Andrew, 1989

      

       Part II

       Caroline

      

       Part III

       Andrew

       Elsa

       Elsa, 1919

       Caroline

       Elsa

       Caroline

       Andrew

       Elsa, 1923

       Caroline

       Elsa

       Caroline

       Max

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