THE GLASS LAKE

Book ID/图书代码： 04B07186

English Summary/英文概要： Kit McMahon lives in the small Irish town of Lough Glass, where everyone knows everyone; children who walk to school together grow up and become sweethearts and marry, people gossip and grumble and dream their lives away. For it is a place where change comes slowly. Until one day, beautiful, mysterious Helen McMahon disappears, presumed drowned in the lake, and then the gossip runs wild. The consequences for Helen’s husband, her son, but above all for her daughter, Kit, are unimaginable and will leave not one of their lives unchanged.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 基特•麥克馬洪從小生活在愛爾蘭鏡湖邊的小鎮上，鏡湖鎮是她的家鄉，但對她迷人的媽媽海倫來說卻不是——海倫原是都柏林人，像電影明星般漂亮，嫁給和藹可親的藥店店主馬丁•麥克馬洪為妻，但兩人“註定”無法白頭偕老。在一個可怕的夜晚，基特的媽媽突然失蹤了，有人說她在湖中淹死了，流言傳遍了鎮子……那一夜，基特在馬丁的枕頭上發現了一封她媽媽的信，但她沒有拆開就將這信投入火爐燒毀了。那一夜，一切都永遠發生了改變。而小說從這裡才真正獲得了開始。 這封信的燒毀，毀掉了另一種可能的生活，同時使基特陷於不可言說、不可磨滅的罪疚感。只有生活在湖邊的獨居修道士瑪德琳修女，才能使基特從這種罪疚感中解脫出來。在《鏡湖》這部小說中，梅芙•賓奇講述了一個奇特的故事：母親的秘密、女兒的勇氣，以及無論欺騙和死亡都無法摧毀的、潛藏在母女之間的紐帶。混亂，支配著梅芙。賓奇牧歌世界的平靜之水；但天堂、地獄和希望，卻根植在人們心中。

Awards/获奖情况："A grand storyteller in the finest Irish tradition....She writes from the heart"--- The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

Lough Glass ("green lake" in Gaelic) is the one-street Irish village to which pharmacist Martin McMahon brought his lovely bride, Mary Helena Healy, before World War II. Dubliner Helen loved a man who had deserted her, but promised she would be honest with Martin and would do her best to love him. When Helen leaves in 1952, she writes Martin a note, but her 12-year-old daughter, Kit, knowing Helen was unhappy and fearing she has drowned herself, burns the note. Weeks later, a body is found and identified as Helen McMahon. Binchy follows the McMahons and their friends through the next 10 years: Helen (now Lena) poses as the wife of her feckless lover, Louis Gray, and builds up a successful employment agency in London; Kit, her brother Emmet, her friend Clio, and other young villagers pass through adolescence to university and professional schools; and Martin McMahon finally discovers a more comfortable sort of marital love with Clio’s aunt, Maura. Weaving through these years are Helen/Lena’s efforts to help her daughter and maintain some sort of contact, which spunky Kit first welcomes, then rejects, and finally learns to cherish. Another satisfying if sentimental read from the best-selling author of Circle of Friends (1991) and The Copper Beech (1992).---Mary Carroll, From Booklist

Fans of Binchy’s novels (e.g., Circle of Friends, LJ 12/90) won’t be dissatisfied with her latest effort. Once again, she focuses on the inhabitants of a small town in Ireland. Helen, wife and mother of the McMahon household, is presumed to have drowned in a nearby lake. Actually, she shook off her dull, staid life and fled to London with her lover. Successful at business, she yearns for some communication with her now teenaged daughter, Kit. She begins a casual correspondence with Kit under the guise of being an old friend of her mother. The story continues with readers wondering if and when Kit will discover the truth about her mother and what impact that realization will have on their lives. Binchy writes a good tale, demanding that her readers accept the improbable and appreciate a well-timed coincidence. Suitable if not necessary for public libraries.---Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., Mich, From Library Journal

About the Author/作者介绍： 梅芙•賓奇於1940年生於都柏林，獲都柏林大學歷史學位。先在幾所女子學校任教，後進入《愛爾蘭時報》供職，開始撰寫專欄。自1982年她的長篇小說處女作《點燃一支小蠟燭》出版以來，梅芙-賓奇已經出版了近二十部長篇小說和短篇小說集，每一本都成為英語世界人人爭讀的暢銷書，她遂成為整個英語世界最受追捧的頂級暢銷書女王。其作品中的《丁香公車》（1984）、《回音》（1985）、《朋友圈》（1990）被改編成轟動一時的影視作品；早起力作《螢火蟲的夏天》（1987）、《庫柏海灘》(1992)《鏡湖》（1994）等皆為大受追捧的超級暢銷書。1997年問世的《晚間課程》蟬聯《星期日泰晤士報》暢銷書第一名十七周，之後的《塔拉路》（1998）被美國著名電視訪談節目主持人奧普拉選為每月推薦好書，是梅芙•賓奇在美國聲望大增，並贏得突破百萬的全球銷量，1999年獲英國圖書獎的終身成就獎。1999年，作為愛爾蘭國寶級暢銷書作家的她榮獲英國圖書獎的終身成就獎。 《山楂林的故事》（2006）使其目前的新作。

Maeve Binchy was born in Dublin and came to fame first as London Correspondent for the IRISH TIMES. Her first novel, LIGHT A PENNY CANDLE, made her famous in the UK and USA. She lives in Dublin with her husband, Gordon Snell.

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