THE OTHER MRS WALKER
Book ID/图书代码： 00200015B86529
English Summary/英文概要： Christmas 2010 and Edinburgh is gripped by the second worst winter on record. People are dropping like flies and the mortuary is full. In a flat on the outskirts of the city an unknown woman dies, unnoticed and alone. She leaves behind a green dress bearing a last few remaining sequins, a brazil nut with the Ten Commandments etched into its shell and a single orange.
The story follows Margaret Penny as she attempts to unravel the secrets of her client (deceased). Margaret has a job finding families for dead people: the disreputable, the neglected, the abandoned, the lost. Or at least those who have died with no one else to take them on. Her instructions are to uncover paperwork, but all the woman has left behind are objects.
And the real story of the life of the deceased doesn’t lie in paperwork. It lies in an orange that accompanies the birth of twins in 1929, a brazil nut that appears in 1937 and disappears in 1953, a green dress that is the star of the show in 1960 and a photograph of a new baby called Margaret, born in 1962.
As Margaret attempts to discover the identity of the dead woman, every object tells a rather different story that takes us back in time. These are stories Margaret’s estranged mother, Barbara, has never wanted told and by the end of the novel the reader will know the identity of the deceased, although Margaret will never truly understand how closely the dead woman’s story is entwined with her own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 2010年圣诞节和爱丁堡被深陷于第二个最为严酷的寒冬。人们相继而亡，而停尸房以人满为患。在该市郊区的一座公寓中一名不知名的女人悄无声息地死了。她留下了一条带着些许亮片的绿色连衣裙，一只巴西坚果，一本封皮已经受到侵蚀的《十诫》，和一只橘子。
故事从Margaret Penny试图解开她那些(已故)客户的秘密开始。Margaret的工作，就是要为这位名声不好、被世人所忽略了的、被遗弃、迷失的妇人找到家人。或者是为那些无人认领的尸体，找到家人。她接受到的指令就是要去从文案中找到头绪，但目前手头只有这位死去妇人所留下的所有遗物。
死者的真实生活并非存档於文案中。秘密隐藏在1929年双胞胎的诞生之日起的一只橙子里，一个在1937年出现，在1953年消亡的巴西坚果中，一条1960年当时演出的明星所穿的绿色裙子里，一张拍摄于1962年，一个名叫Margaret新生婴儿的照片中。当Margaret试图去解开这个女人的真实身份时，每一件遗物却向人们叙述了一段截然不同的往事。在小说故事结尾处，Margaret的这位陌生的母亲，Barbara的故事恐怕读者还未必能从中知晓，尽管Margaret从未真正体会到这个死去女人和自己的命运是多么地紧密交织在一起。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 本书是Mary Paulson-Ellis的小说处女作。她在格拉斯哥大学进修创意写作并拥有文学硕士学位。她的短篇小说以及纪实文学作品曾发表在多个文集和杂志上，包括《New Writing Scotland》，《Gutter》以及《The Herald newspaper》。
This is the debut novel by Mary Paulson-Ellis. She has an MLitt in Creative Writing from the University of Glasgow and her short stories and non-fiction have been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines including New Writing Scotland, Gutter and The Herald newspaper.
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