THE LIBRARY AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLD

Book ID/图书代码： 12100015B83983

English Summary/英文概要： Hanna Casey is a librarian in the small Irish town of Lissbeg. Once upon a time, she was the soignée wife of a London barrister, with a life of dinner parties and country houses. Until she discovered her husband’s longstanding affair and moved back with her daughter to the Finfarran Peninsula, where she was born and grew up, and her irascible widowed mother’s spare room. That was six years ago. When the library is threatened with closure, Hanna is jolted out of complacency, and finds herself leading a battle to restore the heart and soul of Finfarran’s fragmented, neglected community. As her former personality begins to resurface, and relationships are forged across generations with neighbours she has previously ignored, Hanna finds she has a new outlook on life - and the men around her. There is shy Brian Morton the local planner, gruff, infuriating builder ’Fury’ O’Shea and still, at the back of her mind, her manipulative ex-husband Malcolm. Should Hanna ignore the sparks, or take them seriously? And could her plans to save the library she has begun to love unravel just when she thinks she’s won?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Hanna Casey是爱尔兰小镇Lissbeg的一个图书管理员。曾经，她是一位伦敦律师的妻子，生活考究，充斥着各种晚宴和乡间别墅。直到她发现了自己丈夫的婚外情，并决定搬回自己出生长大的Finfarran半岛与女儿同住，住在自己暴躁寡居的母亲的空房里。那已经是6年前的事了。当时，图书馆正面临倒闭的威胁，Hanna肩负起了修复finfarran支离破碎的社区的责任。随着她过去人格的苏醒以及同周围邻居关系的修复，她发现自己对生活，以及身边的男人有了全新的认识，包括当地的规划师Brian Morton、暴躁易怒的建筑工人O’Shea和她控制欲旺盛的前夫Malcolm。Hanna应该忽略这些火花还是认真对待他们呢？拯救图书馆的计划最终能够取得成功吗？（LYR）

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About the Author/作者介绍： Felicity Hayes-McCoy，出生在爱尔兰的都柏林。在爱尔兰国立都柏林大学学习英语和爱尔兰语言文学，20世纪70年代搬去英格兰在伦敦的戏剧工作室接受训练。她的创作涵盖电视剧、广播剧、专题片、纪录片、编剧、改编、剧本、音乐剧、童书、交互式多媒体产品。她和丈夫、歌剧导演Wilfred Judd住在丁格尔半岛和伦敦的伯蒙齐。她会在自己的网站www.felicityhayesmccoy.co.uk上记录两地的生活。

Felicity Hayes-McCoy was born in Dublin, Ireland. She read English and Irish language and literature at UCD before moving to England in the 1970s to train at The Drama Studio, London. Her work as a writer includes television and radio drama, features, documentaries, dramatisations and adaptations; screenplays; music theatre; children’s books, and interactive multimedia products.
She and her husband, opera director Wilfred Judd, live in Corca Dhuibhne and in Bermondsey, London. She blogs about life in both places on her website www.felicityhayesmccoy.co.uk

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：The sales so far are: Ireland: Hachette Australia: Hachette US: HarperPerennial Germany: Rowohlt Italy: Tre60 (Mauri Spagnol)

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