WEATHERING

Book ID/图书代码： 02000016B87317

English Summary/英文概要： Pearl doesn’t know how she’s ended up in the river - the same messy, cacophonous river in the same rain-soaked valley she’d been stuck in for years. Or why, for that matter, she’d been stupid enough to fall down those rickety stairs.

Ada, Pearl’s daughter, doesn’t know how she’s ended up back in the house she left thirteen years ago - with no heating apart from a fire she can’t light, no way of getting around apart from an old car she’s scared to drive, and no company apart from echoing footsteps on the damp floorboards. With her daughter Pepper, she starts to sort through Pearl’s things, clearing the house so she can leave and not look back. Pepper has grown used to following her restless mother from place to place, but this house, with its faded photographs, its boxes of cameras and its stuffed jackdaw, is something new. Fascinated by the scattering of people she meets, by the river that unfurls through the valley, and by the strange old woman who sits on the bank with her feet in the cold, coppery water, Pepper doesn’t know why anyone would ever want to leave.

As the first frosts of autumn herald the coming of a long winter and Pepper and Ada find themselves irresistibly entangled with the life of the valley, each will discover the ways that places can take root inside us and bind us together.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Pearl 不知道怎么就跌到了河里——同样阴雨连绵的山谷，同样污秽的河流……又或者，为何如此不小心从摇晃的楼梯上跌了下来。

Pearl的女儿Ada不知道怎么又回到了13年前离开的那个房子——屋里除了一堆生不起来的火，没有任何取暖设备，除了一辆老爷车，没有任何交通工具，除了潮湿的地板上响起的脚步声，没有任何伙伴。Ada开始与女儿Pepper一起整理Pearl的物品、打扫房间，开始新的生活。Pepper已经习惯于和母亲一起东奔西走，到处搬家，但眼前这个房子：退色的照片、照相机盒子……一切对她来说都是那么新奇。Pepper喜欢上了这个地方，她并不明白为什么有人要离开这里。

随着秋霜的降临，漫长的冬季即将来临，Pepper和Ada发现自己与山谷的生命紧紧纠缠在一起……（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：作者Wood细致地描绘了阴雨连绵、白雪皑皑的景色，同时营造出一种紧张的氛围，令这本处女作小说充满了悬疑色彩。《星期日泰晤士报》五星评论。

本书文笔细腻，注重细节。作者Wood创造了一个世界，而发生在这座溪谷的故事值得我们仔细品味。《每日电讯报》

对于母亲与女儿、失去与重获的观察入微的小说。Sarah Waters，《卫报》，2015最佳读物

Lucy Wood的处女作品《雨蚀》将神秘、幻象与日常生活紧密地编织在一起。《每日邮报》

非常优美的作品。小溪与房屋被刻画地栩栩如生，人物的心声令人难忘。《泰晤士报》

不管从哪个层面来说，《雨蚀》都是一部优美的小说。首先是作者清晰生动的文笔，我感觉当读到有关阴冷潮湿的屋子的描述时，我真个工人都在发抖。****《文体家》

Wood的小说成功地将创新的描述与普遍性相结合。小说深入地刻画了母女间的关系。Pepper有趣而有说服力的对话为叙述增添了亮点。《爱尔兰时报》

Wood的处女作品取得了非常高的成就……小说安静、但却引人入胜。《星期日泰晤士报》

Wood beautifully renders a landscape by turns rain-soaked and snow-laden, using it to suffuse her debut novel with a tense atmosphere of impending disaster. The author has a gift for capturing how humans are bound to and moulded by places (Sunday Times)

Five stars . Wood has created a work as intricately detailed as one of the delicate pieces of jewellery that Pearl used to restore . Wood is a creator of worlds. This sodden river valley is one to savour (Daily Telegraph)

A beautifully observed study of mothers and daughters, loss and recovery, that never puts a foot wrong (Sarah Waters, Guardian, Best Reads of 2015)

Prize-winning Lucy Wood’s Diving Belles and Other Stories introduced a lyrical and distinctive voice and received rave reviews. Weathering, her first novel, weaves ever deeper connections between myth, fantasy and the everyday (Daily Mail)

Beautiful . The river and the house are wonderfully drawn and the voices of the characters, unforgettable (The Times)

No bald description of Wood’s extraordinary novel can do justice to its lyrical prose and bold storytelling. An imaginative tour de force (Mail on Sunday)

Weathering is a beautiful novel on every level. Firstly in the writing with Wood’s clear and wonderfully descriptive prose. I swear I felt shivery when reading about the cold damp house . A joy to read, the story strikes a chord, not just because of the relationships between the women, but for anyone who has ever escaped a small town, only to find themselves inexplicably pulled back **** (Stylist)

Wood’s novel manages to bring inventive descriptions to the universal . The mother-daughter relationships are brilliantly described . Pepper brings light to the narrative, with dialogue that is convincing and funny (Irish Times)

Wood interweaves the ordinary and surreal to terrific effect (Independent on Sunday)

Superlatives abound for Wood’s debut novel ... Powerful ... Quietly absorbing (Sunday Times)

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