TIES THAT BIND

Book ID/图书代码： 06580010B37851

English Summary/英文概要： What would you do if you were invisible to your husband and your teenage son? How would you feel if they no longer spoke to you; if you knew your husband had had an affair? And what if your mother, a life-long alcoholic, had just suffered a stroke and become completely dependent on you? Above all, what if you were nurturing a secret grief so bitter and painful that it was consuming you from within?
Now imagine that one day you won £30,000.
Would you take the money and walk away?
When Carol Ann disappears without trace from her middle-class life in Scotland, she leaves behind a troubled family struggling to come to terms with their past. But the secrets that drove them apart follow her to a new life in Ireland, where she is pursued by memories, particularly of the mysterious Josie. But who was Josie and why does she have such power over the family?
In this stunning debut, award-winning journalist Catherine Deveney explores the loneliness, secrets and silences that can haunt even the most loving of families -- and shows how some bonds, against all odds, can never be broken.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 如果某天你的丈夫与孩子忽然对你变得视而不见、形如路人；
如果某天你的家人不再与你有任何的沟通和交流；
如果某天你的丈夫居然背着你有所不忠；
如果某天你嗜酒如命的母亲突发中风，自此彻底沦为你生活的负担；
如果你背负着无法吐露的难言之隐，纠结困苦、备受煎熬；
再如果某天三万英镑忽然从天而降；
你是否会选择就此告别眼前的生活，彻底远走高飞？
本书主人公卡罗尔.安，便做出了她的选择。离开了苏格兰，离开了家庭生活的支离破碎，孤身一人的她来到了爱尔兰，期盼开始全新的生活。不过她所背负着的那些秘密，却象梦魇一样，自始至终久久挥之不去，它们是安的噩梦，理不断、剪还乱，尤其那些有关于乔希的记忆... 究竟乔希是谁，她的背后又隐匿着怎样的故事？
此次，获奖记者凯瑟琳.迪夫尼将带来她的处女之作，在这里，凯瑟琳将向我们展示，在种种艰难的困苦面前，人性间所激迸出的坚韧且无法斩断的力量。(ANDY)

Awards/获奖情况：’Very good indeed . . . I was driven to the end’--Melvyn Bragg
’Catherine Deveney’s terrific first novel brings together two women driven by a need for change that goes to the heart of relationship, family, commitment and self’ --Carl MacDougall --...

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