THE GUNNER GIRL

Book ID/图书代码： 12691015B81830

English Summary/英文概要： Three women, one shared ambition: to join the ATS and do their bit for King and country. Bea has grown up part of a large, boisterous East End family. But her sweetheart is missing in action, and her mother is controlling her life. She needs to escape. Edie inhabits a world of wealth and privilege, but knows only too well that money can’t buy happiness. She wants to be like Mary Churchill, to make a difference. Joan can’t remember much of her past or her family, and her home has been bombed in the Blitz. Desperate, she needs a refuge. Each one is a Gunner Girl: three very different women, one remarkable wartime friendship of shared hopes, lost loves and terrible danger.

Her debut novel The Gunner Girl (winner of the 2014 Exeter Novel Prize) was inspired by her mother-in-law, who saw action as a teenage soldier on the anti-aircraft units in London in WW2. The first few chapters of the novel were also written as a welcome distraction from worrying about her husband, who was away on a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan at the time.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 三个女人，一个共同的愿望：加入ATS为国王和国家效力。Bea在一个热闹的东区大家庭中长大。她的恋人在一次行动中失踪，而她的母亲一直在控制她的人生。她需要逃离。Edie生活在富裕的特权世界，但她明白金钱无法买到幸福。她渴望像玛丽•丘吉尔那样有所作为。Joan已经记不清自己的过去和家人了，她的家在闪电战中被炸毁了。绝望的她渴望一处避难所。三个不同的女人都成为了女枪手。失去了爱人她们怀抱着共同的希望，在危难之中建立了深厚的战时友情。

这部处女作的灵感来自于作者的婆婆，她作为一名十多岁的士兵亲历了二战中伦敦防空部队的军事行动。小说的前几个章节是她在丈夫前往阿富汗服役六个月期间为分散注意力而开始进行的创作。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：2014年埃克塞特小说奖得主

winner of the 2014 Exeter Novel Prize

THE GUNNER GIRL (Simon & Schuster), Clare Harvey’s stunning debut, is out now in supermarkets and bookshops nationwide.

Here you are with Clare in The Bookseller: http://www.thebookseller.com/news/clare-harvey-wins-joan-hessayon-award-gunner-girl-330240

About the Author/作者介绍： Clare Harvey在德文郡出生，童年时在毛里求斯待过一段时间。她在英国莱斯特大学学习法学专业。成年后，她在尼泊尔、德国、北爱尔兰和英国各地从事自由撰稿人和英语家教工作。

她已经当了17年的军嫂，这使她非常关注女兵们的故事。她的作品深入刻画了二战至最近中东地区冲突中的现役及后方女兵们所面临的个人困境。

目前，Clare Harvey正在创作一部有关法国战时秘密女特工的小说。她有三个孩子，现在住在诺丁汉。

Clare Harvey was born in Devon, and spent part of her childhood living in Mauritius. She studied Law at Leicester University, and has had an itinerant adulthood, working as a freelance journalist and English tutor in Nepal, Germany and Northern Ireland, as well as various parts of England.

Seventeen years as a military wife, as well as a brief stint in the army reserves, have given her a fascination with the largely untold story of women soldiers. Her writing delves into the personal dilemmas of women both on active service, and on the home front, from WW2 through to the recent conflicts in the Middle East.

Her debut novel The Gunner Girl (winner of the 2014 Exeter Novel Prize) was inspired by her mother-in-law, who saw action as a teenage soldier on the anti-aircraft units in London in WW2. The first few chapters of the novel were also written as a welcome distraction from worrying about her husband, who was away on a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan at the time.

Clare Harvey is currently working on a novel about women secret operations executive (SOE) agents in wartime France. She has three children and lives in Nottingham.

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