ACE, KING, KNAVE
Book ID/图书代码： 11197513B60729
English Summary/英文概要： Behind doors is another story. Behind doors you can do what you like.
A powerful, gripping novel about the dark underside of eighteenth-century England, from acclaimed historical novelist Maria McCann.
Sophia - rational, demure, and hiding a ’little weakness’ - has recently married the charismatic Mr Zedland. But Zedland has secrets of his own and Sophia comes to suspect that her marriage is not what it seems.
In cramped rooms in Covent Garden, Betsy-Ann shuffles a pack of cards. A gambler, dealer in second-hand goods, and living with a grave robber, her life could not be more different to Sophia’s - but she too discovers that she has been lied to.
As both women take steps to discover the truth, their lives come together through a dramatic series of events, taking the reader through the streets of 1760s London: a city wearing a genteel civility on its surface and rife with hypocrisy, oppression and violence lurking underneath.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 门背后又是另一个故事。因为关了门，你爱做什么都可以。
一本强有力的、充满吸引力的关于18世纪英国黑暗面的小说，来自于著名历史小说家玛丽亚．麦肯(Maria McCann)。
索菲娅(Sophia)-理性的、端庄的,但心里却藏着一丝“小小的不安”——她最近嫁给了富有魅力的杰德兰(Zedland)先生。但杰德兰暗藏的秘密使得索菲亚开始怀疑她的婚姻并不如想象中的那样美满。
在科芬园一个狭小的房间里, 贝琪．安(Betsy-Ann)在洗牌。她是一个赌棍，专门从事二手商品的买卖，也与一个盗墓贼住在一起。她和索菲娅过着完全不一样的生活——但她也发现她被欺骗了。
两个女人开始着手去发现事实的真相，然而一系列戏剧性的事件让他们的生命走到了一起，让读者了解到1760年代的伦敦:一个在光鲜外表下充斥着虚伪、压迫和暴力的城市。(LNL & CK)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 玛丽亚．麦肯(Maria McCann)的第一部小说《当肉爱上盐》(As Meat Loves Salt)，2000年在火烈鸟出版，获巨大好评。安德鲁．马尔(Andrew Marr)称赞它“出众的……包含其里面的下流、污秽、刺耳的语言及对时光的体会“，莱昂内尔·史沃瑞(Lionel Shriver)称它“吸引人”。玛丽亚的小说发表在各种文选上。除在法国教学的一年，从1986年起玛丽亚一直生活和工作在萨默塞特(Somerset)。她把教学跟写作通她的个人兴趣结合，比如说志愿者活动及分发活动。她的第二部小说，The Wilding, 是2009年在费伯出版的。
她过去的作品在德国的戈德曼，挪威的达姆，以及美国的HBJ出版社发行。
MARIA MCCANN’s first novel, As Meat Loves Salt, was published by Flamingo in 2000 to huge acclaim: Andrew Marr praised it as ’outstanding...with all the dirt, stink, rasp and flavour of the time’ and Lionel Shriver called it ’riveting’. Maria’s fiction has also been published in various anthologies. Since 1986 Maria has been living and working in Somerset, apart from one year spent teaching in France. She combines teaching and writing with other interests such as voluntary communities and the allotments movement. Her second novel, The Wilding, was published by Faber in 2009.
Her past sales are Goldmann in Germany, Cappelen Damm in Norway and HBJ in the US.
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