THE SOLDIER’S WIFE

Book ID/图书代码： 00500010B40790

English Summary/英文概要： This new novel begins in June 1940, just before the start of the Occupation. Vivienne lives at Le Colombier, an old farmhouse, with her two daughters - Blanche, fourteen, and Millie, four, and her acerbic mother-in-law, Evelyn, who suffers from dementia. Vivienne’s husband, Eugene, is away in the army. The marriage is an unhappy one, and Vivienne has tried to close her mind to his extra-marital affairs. France has fallen, and Vivienne is trying to decide whether to take her daughters on the last boat to the mainland. She chooses to go, but at the last moment, afraid, she pulls her daughters away and takes them back home. A few days later, Vivienne, who has gone to St. Peter Port to meet her best friend Gwen, sees German planes bombing the waterfront. Vivienne rushes down to the harbour: a line of tomato trucks have been hit, and blood mingled with tomato juice flows across the pier. She comes upon Frank le Brocq, the husband of her friend Angie; he is badly injured, and she kneels beside him as he dies. The Germans arrive. The house next door to Le Colombier is requisitioned, and German officers move in. Vivienne’s initial fear dissipates, and she’s shocked to find herself attracted to one of the men. Their ensuing love affair against the background of the foreign slave workers and the discovering of rotting bodies in the Alderney harbour begins to tear her world apart. Then her daughter Millie keeps talking about a ghost and Vivienne is at first afraid that her little girl can’t distinguish between truth and fantasy, because of all the fairytales she reads to her. But it comes to light that the man Millie has seen is white with cement dust and wearing an old cement sack. His name is Kirill and comes from Belarus, where he and his fellow villagers were used as human mine-detectors by the Germans before they were sent to labour camps in occupied Europe. He is dying on her doorstep and Vivienne has to make a life and death decision about whether she will put her family’s lives at risk for this desperate stranger, while her affair with the German officer carries on.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 这本小说讲述的故事开始于1949年的6月，就在大规模的侵占开始之前。维维恩和她的两个女儿——14岁的布兰琪和四岁的米莉，以及患有痴呆症的刻薄婆婆伊夫林一起居住在乐科隆比耶一个破旧的农舍里。维维恩的丈夫尤金常年待在军队里。他们的婚姻事实上有名无实，而且维维恩还必须对他的不忠睁一只眼，闭一只眼。法国陷落后，维维恩曾犹豫要不要带着女儿们一起坐上最后一艘去大陆的船只。她原本选择离开，却在最后一刻感到了恐惧，因此又带着女儿们重新回到了家。几天以后，维维恩在圣彼得普托见到了她的好朋友格温，此时，德国的轰炸机正不断地袭击沿海地区。维维恩躲到了避难所里：她看到一个运送西红柿的卡车车队被炮火击中，鲜血混合着西红柿碾出的汁液一起流到了码头边。在这里，她遇到了朋友安吉的丈夫弗兰克·里·布洛克，他受伤十分严重，在他死后，安吉在丈夫的尸体前长跪不起。德国军队攻进乐科隆比耶后，维维恩居住的房子被征用，当做德国的指挥部。维维恩最初的恐惧渐渐消散，她惊讶地发现自己居然爱上了其中的一个指挥官。就在两人想要进一步发展感情的时候，国恨家仇的背景以及陈列在奥尔德尼海港上的尸体，让她不得不忍痛决定离开他。而此时，米莉觉得自己能够与鬼魂交流，维维恩认为这个小女儿已经沉迷在故事书中不能自拔，分不清现实和幻想的世界。但事实上，米莉看见的是一个灰尘形成的白色魂魄，他穿着像水泥袋子一样的粗布衣，名字叫做基里尔，来自白俄罗斯，在被送去欧洲的劳改营之前，他和他的乡亲们曾经是矿工。基里尔就死在维维恩家的门阶上，现在维维恩要做出一个生死决定，好好考虑一下自己究竟要不要以全家的生命和爱情压在这个铤而走险的陌生人身上。(兼职翻译-PXD)

Awards/获奖情况： “玛格丽特·勒罗伊撰写的恐怖爱情小说《是的，我亲爱的女儿》是一本罕有的著作，读这本书的时候会让你一直坐到连骨头都疼起来。”——Oprah.com

“喜爱歌德体的读者们一定会欢迎这本充满爱情，背叛和死亡的故事。浓重的氛围，丰富的情节，勒罗伊的文章把读者引入了一个毛骨悚然的死亡之谜中。她书中的主人公十分真实，更耐人寻味的是，故事的背景设定在英国和爱尔兰。”——《出版人周刊》[精彩回顾]板块。

“这是一个关于”前世“的黑色记忆，玛格丽特·勒罗伊具有代表性的鬼魂故事中，一个小女孩恢复了自己前世的记忆，同时，周围存在的危险让爱女心切的母亲担心不已。勒罗伊夫人的著作总是能让人不断回味，读书的时候好像都能感受到那个母亲心中腾起的恐惧，她挣扎着想要保护自己的孩子，却发现事情开始变得越来越深不可测......这是一个让人难忘的故事。”——《华盛顿时报》

“这个哥德式的故事讲述了一个小女孩在恢复了前世的记忆后，开始惧怕碰到水。写作手法很巧妙，玛格丽特·勒罗伊完美地诠释出了母爱的力量......这本关于母爱的著作很不错，内容吸引人，具有启发性......是哥德式小说的最高表现。”——《大都会之星论坛报》

“一个引人入胜，毛骨悚然，却也很具娱乐性的故事，文学读者们应该很喜欢在自己阅读的书中看到这样一个关于前生今世的故事。”——《远见卓识杂志》

“勒罗伊流畅的故事情节抓住了无心奋斗的格蕾丝和封闭内心的希尔维的思想，从而让这个神秘的故事更加引人入胜。作者运用生动，细致的手笔让我们重新回到了伦敦那些黑暗的岁月中，在海港的龙虾船上看到的风景中“能够闻到烟和汽油的味道”，还有“咸湿的海风和防洪堤，以及广阔的视野。”格蕾丝倾述了内心的坎坷心境，希尔维也道出了自己积累已久的感情问题，对过去生活的烦乱感受，用文字可以化作空气，广阔的地域，天空和大海，然后一切都会变得释然，生活也会归于平淡。“——《枕着好书入眠》

the New York Times bestselling author of THOSE WHO SAVE US and THE STORMCHASERS, who has been named one of Oprah’s 30 Favorite Women Writers, has said this about the book: "Lush, sensual and evocative as a dream but governed by the rhythms of wartime life, THE SOLDIER’S WIFE is the best kind of time travel. I was riveted by Margaret Leroy’s story of a mother on German-occupied Guernsey Island during WWII, trying to raise her daughters while struggling with questions no mother should have to face--including a secret love for a man forbidden to her."

About the Author/作者介绍： Margaret worked as a social worker and counsellor, specialising in marital therapy and child protection for fifteen years, before becoming a full-time writer.
Margaret曾是一名社会工作者和辅导员，从事婚姻治疗和儿童保护工作长达15年，之后开始潜心写作。她注目于当代社会生活，笔下的世界，并非仅仅是恐惧,亦非常美丽。她的写作手法直接而知性,捕捉危险的瞬间,向你展现一个你从未发现的世界。

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