Lena knows she hasn't got long left. While a nurse administers morphine to ease her pain, she relives her life. Growing up in a small town in Poland, she was an earnest young girl determined to become a doctor who found her dreams put on hold as she became the reluctant wife of an army officer and then again by becoming a mother, in which she finds a fierce and surprising joy. As war approaches, she returns home. But when Russia invades her mi...
De vijftienjarige Calamity Leek mag zich niet buiten de Tuinmuur begeven. Ze woont al haar hele leven met vijftien meisjes, haar Zusters, op een afgelegen landgoed in Wales. Overdag werken ze voor hun Moeder en Tante in de rozentuin, en oefenen ze voor de Oorlog tegen de duivelmannen.
Op een nacht kijkt een van de Zusters over de Tuinmuur. Maar de gevaren daarbuiten waarvoor ze altijd zijn gewaarschuwd, zijn nergens te bekennen. En vanaf die n...
To see that borrowing money for your daughter's marriage to a local bigwig will lead to the kidnap of a footballer from Scunthorpe, the downfall of a global soft drinks empire, incidents of attempted matricide, public murder, re-arranged marriage, hypnotic malpractice, and one unfortunate act of geriatric perversion.
WONDERFULLY STRANGE." --Mark Haddon"A MASH-UP OF MARGARET ATWOOD AND ROALD DAHL." --Lady Magazine A beguiling, irresistibly immersive debut novel about sixteen sisters in a walled garden, and what happens to their carefully constructed world when one girl starts asking questions about life outside.Fourteen-year-old Calamity Leek and her sisters spend their days tending white roses and memorizing the lessons in Aunty's Appendix, a multi-volume ...
