THOSE FARADAY GIRLS

Book ID/图书代码： 03540007B19104

English Summary/英文概要： Sometimes the memories that bind us together can also keep us apart . . . From the bestselling author of Family Baggage and The Alphabet Sisters comes a warm and captivating story of family secrets, traditions and ties.
As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts and her eccentric grandfather.
With her mother often away, her aunts took turns to look after her - until, just weeks before Maggie’s sixth birthday, a shocking event changed everything.
Twenty years on, Maggie is living alone in New York City when a surprise visit from her grandfather brings a revelation and a proposition to reunite the family. As the Faradays gather in Ireland, Maggie begins to realize that the women she thought she knew so intimately all have something to hide . . .
You’ll be laughing out loud one minute and crying the next’ Cosmopolitan

Chinese Summary/中文概要： Maggie Faraday在一個充滿朝氣及非傳統的家庭長大，非常年輕的母親、四個性格分別不同的阿姨及古怪的外公。由於她媽媽經常不在，四個阿姨便輪流照顧她，直到她六歲生日的那週發了一件改變所有的大事.
二十年後，Maggie獨自在紐約生活，有天她外公突然的來訪，向她透露一些事情的真相並希望她能回家。Maggie 開始瞭解到原來在她心目中最親密的人，其實內心都隱藏了一些秘密…
這一本充滿溫情、人性及令人難忘的女性小說，描述秘密及謊言是如何牽絆著我們，卻也是打開彼此心房的唯一鑰匙。

Awards/获奖情况：2007年澳洲最暢銷的女性小說
2008年澳大利亞圖書業小說獎得獎作品

About the Author/作者介绍： 莫妮卡出生於南澳克雷兒谷(Clare Valley, South Australia)，父親為火車站長，家中有六個兄弟姊妹，曾經在兒童節目、藝廊、音樂工作室、公關公司及出版社任職過，目前所出版的五部作品：A Taste for It, Upside Down Inside Out, Spin the Bottle, The Alphabet Sisters及Family Baggage都被翻譯成多國語言出版及暢銷。2006年時更以短篇小說(Odd One Out)榮獲澳洲政府設立的Books Alive閱讀俱樂部所頒贈的形象大使。http://www.booksalive.com.au/
MONICA MCINERNEY grew up in a family of seven children in the Clare Valley wine region of South Australia. She has worked in children’s television, arts marketing, the music industry, public relations and book publishing and lived all around Australia, and in Ireland and England. She is the author of five previous novels, including, most recently, The Alphabet Sisters and Family Baggage, which were international bestsellers and have been published in translation in Europe. She now lives in Dublin with her husband.

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