THE BUTTERFLY CABINET
Book ID/图书代码： 00200010B35141
English Summary/英文概要： An unforgettable story of two women linked by their roles in a tragedy at the end of the Victorian era.
When Anna, the young woman she cared for as a child, announces her intention to visit the elderly Maddie, Maddie recognises her last chance to unburden herself of a story that has gnawed at her for sixty years. For Maddie, rather like the butterfly cabinet she keeps safely under lock and key, has for too long guarded a secret: that of the day a four-year-old girl died at the big house where she worked as a nanny. Finally, Maddie knows, Anna is ready to hear what happened. As Maddie’s mind drifts back through the years, so too is revealed the story of Charlotte’s mother, Harriet Ormond. Proud and uncompromising, Harriet’s great passion is collecting butterflies and pinning them under glass; motherhood comes no easier to her than her role as mistress of her remote Irish estate. When her daughter dies, her community is quick to judge her, and Harriet will not stoop to defend herself. But her journals reveal a more complex truth.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 所有過去最悲傷的記憶，全都埋藏在一個塵封多年的「蝴蝶匣」。而故事圍繞在Maddie與Anna，兩個女人之間過去所曾經歷牽扯不清的悲劇。 當Maddie年輕時擔任保母一職，照顧女主人Charlotte的孩子Anna時，Maddie就對Anna有著特殊的好感。因為Maddie與Anna年齡相仿，兩人之間建立起超越Anna親生母親的深厚情誼。但在Anna的內心深處，其實一直不明白為何其他家族成員會一直與自己疏離，而60年過後，所有縈繞的心塵往事卻一一浮現。
轉眼間60年，當Anna透露要來探訪Maddie的時候，Maddie決心抓住這最後機會吐露困擾了她多年的回憶。這個秘密壓在心裡很久，就像蝴蝶匣一樣密不透風；那是當年Maddie作為保母時候發生的一件命案…
當Maddie沉浸在時間的長廊，試著對Anna說出家族的真相，她腦海中慢慢浮現了Charlotte的母親Harriet的回憶。
Harriet是一位驕縱蠻橫的女人，最大的嗜好就是收集蝴蝶，然後將它們固定在玻璃匣子裡，彷彿她是為了某種原因留住片刻記憶。然而當她的另一位四歲小女兒，被發現陳屍在她們的宅底，Harriet根本不為自己作任何辯護，卻將一切真相隱藏在她其中的一個蝴蝶匣…
究竟死去的女孩和Anna有著什麼樣的關聯??
埋藏於蝴蝶匣裡的秘密是什麼??
為何Maddie要守護這個家族如此多年??
本書作者Bernie McGill以真實事件為她的故事背景，如同《第十三個故事》將迷霧般的撲朔迷離一一揭開。
Awards/获奖情况：Publisher Weekly-Based loosely on a late-19th-century Irish murder case, McGill turns her gothic debut about the death of a young girl tied up alone in a room as punishment into an exquisite series of painful revelations. In the late 1960s, the pregnant Anna visits her old nurse, Maddie, who four decades before was a housemaid at the Castle at Oranmore. As Maddie reminisces, the viewpoint shifts between Maddie and her harsh employer, butterfly-collector Harriet Ormond, imprisoned in 1892 for the murder (accidental death, she claimed) of her four-year-old daughter, Charlotte, and later pregnant again with a daughter who would become Anna’s mother. With the butterflies, pinned and displayed, serving as metaphor for the constricted lives of both Harriet’s tightly disciplined children and Harriet herself, trapped in motherhood and frustrated by the unruly young Charlotte, McGill easily recreates the lives of the Castle’s owners and servants and the intricate connections between them. As both Harriet and Maddie’s stories emerge, the tale becomes a powder keg of domestic suspense that threatens to explode as long-kept secrets surrounding Charlotte’s death are teased out. (July)
About the Author/作者介绍： Bernie McGill是一位在英國經營知名劇院的藝術工作者，身為劇院經理的她，也創作許多知名舞台劇本。她的許多短編故事獲得英國文學界的肯定，2008年小說《夢遊者》（Sleepwalkers）榮獲短篇小說最佳成就獎（the Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest）。本書《The Butterfly Cabinet》是她所創作第一本最受矚目，讀後令人難以忘懷的長篇故事。
Bernie McGill has pursued a varied career in the arts, as a theatre manager, and most recently as a playwright. Her short stories have been shortlisted for numerous awards, and in 2008 her story ’Sleepwalkers’ won the Zoetrope All-Story Short Fiction Contest. THE BUTTERFLY CABINET is her first novel. Bernie lives in Portstewart, Nothern Ireland, with her family.
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