THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT: A NOVEL
Book ID/图书代码： 02630509B33325
English Summary/英文概要： 1920. The Great War has been over for two years, and it has left a very different world from the Edwardian certainties of 1914. Following the death of his wife and baby and his experiences on the Western Front, Laurence Bartram has become something of a recluse. Yet death and the aftermath of the conflict continue to cast a pall over peacetime England, and when a young woman he once knew persuades him to look into events that apparently led her brother, John Emmett, to kill himself, Laurence is forced to revisit the darkest parts of the war. As Laurence unravels the connections between Captain Emmett’s suicide, a group of war poets, a bitter regimental feud and a hidden love affair, more disquieting deaths are exposed. Even at the moment Laurence begins to live again, it dawns on him that nothing is as it seems, and that even those closest to him have their secrets....
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 1920年，在第一次世界大戰結束後兩年，世界仍面目全非。痛失家人的英國軍人Laurence Bartram也從前線返回家鄉，過著隱居的生活。
然而，即使英國暫時回歸平靜，戰爭造成的創傷仍揮之不去，一個女子帶來的消息也攪亂Laurence好不容易恢復平靜的生活。
這位女子是Laurence的同學John Emmett的妹妹，John Emmett是一位總是充滿活力、無畏又正義感強烈的人，卻在戰爭結束後自殺。她覺得哥哥的死因疑點重重…因此希望Laurence可以調查原因。接下委託後，Laurence不得不重新面對那段黑暗時期，也帶出更多與此相關的死亡事件及秘密…。(Ruby & Eva)
Awards/获奖情况：榮獲瓦威頓好讀獎(Waverton Good Reads Award)決選
英國Waterstone’s書店選為Orange New Writers Book of the Month ’The new BIRDSONG - only better’---Independent
’War poets! The Bloomsbury Group! OMG! If you like to kick back with some very high-class literary wallowing, this fabulously enjoyable novel has absolutely everything. Speller’s writing is gorgeous, her research immaculate and very lightly worn. Sheer bliss’ ---Kate Saunders, The Times
’With its portrait of a war-blighted nation, Elizabeth Speller’s gripping first novel shares territory with Pat Barker’s Regeneration trilogy. . . Speller offers a fast-paced literary thriller . . . This is a remarkable piece of storytelling . . . Equally impressive is Speller’s portrait of a fearful and class-ridden England after the armistice’ ---Adrian Turpin, Financial Times
About the Author/作者介绍： Elizabeth Speller lived in Berlin, Rome and Paris before reading Classics at Cambridge. She has written for publications as varied as the Independent, Big Issue, TLS and Vogue and has taught at the universities of Cambridge, Birmingham and Bristol. She currently has a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at Warwick and divides her life between Gloucestershire and Greece. Her first novel was THE RETURN OF CAPTAIN JOHN EMMETT which was followed by THE STRANGE FATE OF KITTY EASTON.
Elizabeth Speller曾於劍橋大學研究古典文學，取得古代歷史post-graduate學位，現在身兼四職，是位作家、老師、記者以及詩人。她在劍橋、伯明罕以及布里斯托大學教書，文章常刊登於《獨立報》(the Independent)、《大誌雜誌》(Big Issue)、《泰晤士報文學增刊》(TLS)以及《Vogue》。同時她也是皇家文藝基金會(Royal Literary Fund)成員，作品除了此書訊介紹的兩本小說之外，非小說著作有《Following Hadrian》以及個人回憶錄《Sunlight on the Garden》。
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