TOLD IN SILENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 11701209B33132
English Summary/英文概要： Violet seems like an ordinary young woman - single, working in a shop, and living with her parents in rural Kent - but things are not always as they first appear. At 22, Violet is already a widow, and the couple she lives with, Harvey and Laura Blackwood, are not her parents at all, but those of her late husband Jonathan, who died a year and a half earlier when he and Violet had been married for just six months. The three exist in an uncomfortable state of co-dependence. Violet, in the absence of a family of her own and still rocked by grief, needs the stability that they provide her, but this stability is becoming stifling. She provides them in turn with the daughter they never had, the closest available substitute for their dead son.
Since her husband’s death, Violet has existed in a glass bubble, able to see the world around her, but never to reach out and engage with it, but now cracks are appearing in the glass. The mystery surrounding Jonathan’s death nags at her; she suspects that Harvey and Laura are hiding something from her; and the re-appearance of Max Croft, an old friend of Jonathan’s, into their lives threatens to shake the foundations of everything she thought she knew. Violet is powerfully attracted to Max, but it isn’t long before she realises that he has a dark side, and he wants her to help him achieve a sinister aim - to avenge Jonathan’s death, whatever the cost.
TOLD IN SILENCE is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel of desire, deception, and the lengths that we will go to for love.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 慾望、欺騙、愛，一部令人難忘的小說。
在別人眼裡，Violet只是一個平凡的單身女子，她在一家店鋪打工，與父母住在肯特村。然而故事總比表面上錯綜複雜得多。事實上，22歲的Violet是一個寡婦，而Harvey和Laura Blackwood也並非她的雙親，他們是她已故丈夫Jonathan的父母。
Jonathan在一年半前去世，當時他和Violet結婚僅6個月。住在同一屋簷下的這三人維持著一種奇怪的關係：Violet在Harvey和Laura身上尋找精神慰藉，可這份關懷也漸漸變得令人窒息…
自從Jonathan死後，Violet似乎一直生活在真空中，她只能看到周圍的世界，卻無法感受它，然而這份平靜被突如其來的疑慮所打破。她開始懷疑Jonathan的真正死因，Harvey和Laura似乎有事瞞著她，而Jonathan老友Max Croft的出現更讓Violet覺得所發生的一切都是個天大的謊言…
Violet雖然被Max深深吸引，但她很快發現了他不為人知的一面…而Max也需要Violet幫他實現自己的野心——為Jonathan報仇，不計任何代價。(Ruby & Vincent)
Awards/获奖情况：Rights sold:
Italy: Einaudi; UK: Fourth Estate
About the Author/作者介绍： Rebecca Connell is 30 years old and lives in south London. She graduated from Oxford University, where she read English, in 2001. After working in television for several years, devising and researching factual entertainment programming, she moved to market research in 2005. She currently works as a researcher，writing articles and reports on aspects of youth culture and lifestyle. THE ART OF LOSING is her first novel.
Rebecca Connell，30歲，畢業於牛津大學，現居倫敦南部。她在電視台工作數年，負責娛樂節目的製作。2005年Rebecca著手市場研究。現在Rebecca青年文化與生活方式的研究。《THE ART OF LOSING》是她的第一部小說。
Format:电子手稿
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